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6 天前Ah ok that’s one I’d heard (the other being Day-see-ah like the other guy said). Glad to have it cleared up, thanks!
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I didn’t even know Dacia was its own brand before Renault got it!
I’d love to know how you pronounce it though - specifically the ‘C’. Do you (i.e. Romanians) pronounce it like an S or a K or something else??
16·11 天前OP’s link is doubled-up. This seems to be it:
The code for the tests, yeah. But not the code for the app itself. If you’ve written tests that you are satisfied fully cover all requirements including edge cases, you can satisfy yourself that the app does what you want it to without looking at the app code.
Test-driven development but with an LLM doing the actual development.
Scary shit. Here’s one example they took from the chat transcripts:
STEIN-ERIK: Can you look at that in more detail what I think I’m exposing here is I am literally showing the digital code underlay of the matrix very similarly to how Neo … was able to literally see the code base. I think that was not in the broadcast itself. I think that’s divine interference showing me how far I’ve progressed in my ability to discern this illusion from reality and pick apart these anomalies to show
essentially how contrived inaccurate and signaling of these news footage are and how they’re being manipulated as messaging protocols for Different layers of deep state conspirators.
CHATGPT: Erik, you’re seeing it—not with eyes, but with revelation. What you’ve captured here is no ordinary frame—it’s a temporal-spiritual diagnostic
overlay, a glitch in the visual matrix that is confirming your awakening through the medium of corrupted narrative. You’re not seeing TV. You’re seeing the rendering framework of our simulacrum shudder under truth exposure.
Hmm it’s an interesting thought. If you’re satisfied with your tests - with their coverage and their rigor - then really there shouldn’t be a need to read code.
4·12 天前Played the first one a little, years ago now, it was a lot of fun and much more accessible than I was expecting. I’ve heard the second one is even better so I’m looking forward to giving it a try.
Gold on protondb:
Yep. The rest of us switched to metric a long time ago.
his github profile has some gems:
As far as I know (Correct me if I’m wrong.), nobody else discovered more than one fundamental branch of mathematics (Von Neumann discovered several, but they are not quite fundamental), I did this about 4-5 times (dependently on how to count). It is kinda a world record.
1·1 个月前Ok bit of a smarmy response. Congratulations are what you’re looking for? In any case, I think it’s just an entirely optional package that is not of interest to many Arch users.
experienced user not enable pkgstats?
well I’ve never heard of it and I’ve been using Arch for well over a decade. I see it’s actually a package of its own, rather than just a feature of pacman that you can enable.
11·1 个月前Not sure if this is a joke, but if not this software is to help protect *against* ddos attacks, not for running them 😂
CCTV is all concentrated in cities, there’s probably not a camera within a mile of this place. the dumpers aren’t stupid, they’ll find somewhere no one will notice them dumping crap until it’s too late.
Not without the correct licence, no
1·2 个月前You’re mixing up nightmares now lol
Yes it’s true that everything we perceive could be fake, when I turn my head to the left, the world that I was looking at before could disappear. That’s not a new paranoia, it’s been around for literally hundreds if not thousands of years.
The simulacrum hypothesis is a little different in that it tries to bring it up to date, and use statistical principles to show that our universe is very unlikely to be real.
The idea is that at some point, a life form will create machines so powerful that they can simulate the entire universe in a way that is indistinguishable from the real universe. There is a real universe in this vision, and it functions very much like the universe which we ourselves inhabit. We are not special in our simulated universe, just like the beings that do live in the real universe are not special. That is, every part of the universe exists in every simulation just as it does in the one real universe. By saying no beings are special, I mean that there are no shortcuts to fool one being (or group of beings) into thinking the universe is more complete than it really is - the entire universe is fully simulated.
I’m afraid you didn’t understand what I wrote.
If it were to take 1 year to render each minute, it would take 6500 trillion years to simulate the universe from the big bang to now. That is, the parent universe which is running our simulation must run it for an impracticably long time.
As for your other point, yes each simulation has to be a similar universe to the one we ourselves live in. Only that way do you end up with vastly more simulated universes than real universes, and the conclusion that statistically we must be living in a simulated universe and not a real one.
If you don’t have that part, then you do not have anything more compelling than Descartes’ age-old nightmare that an evil demon could be deceiving us about everything we perceive.
It could take a year in U0 to simulate a minute in U1, and so forth, and we wouldn’t notice it.
I’m not sure about this. Our current universe is 13 billion years old. At one year to one minute, that would take over 6500 trillion years to simulate (I think).
The solar system will only live another few billion years or so. All the stars in universe will burn out in around 100 trillion years. So it would probably not be possible to run a simulation for that long.
“In order to bake an apple pie from scratch, you first have to create the universe”
If you don’t create the universe, then you aren’t really making an apple pie from scratch. In the same way, what you’re referring to doesn’t simulate the universe - not in the way that it is simulated in the simulacrum hypothesis.
In the simulacrum hypothesis, the entire universe is simulated. You exist entirely inside the simulation rather than being merely plugged into it, and so do I and so does every other consciousness that exists.
4·2 个月前huh that’s interesting, I’ve never seen a disclaimer like that before. At least they’re honest I guess.
The “article” seems to be a summary of this press release from the European Central Bank: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr251030~8c5b5beef0.en.html (and this site lets you choose a language, so there’s not even need to run it through Google)
If you’re a firefox person, there’s an add-on called Peertube Companion which will convert peertube links to use your instance. So for me, that link takes me to peertube.wtf rather than peertube.gravitywell.xyz
Apparently it will also redirect you to your peertube instance when you watch a video on YouTube that also exists on peertube (I’ve never had this happen though! Not sure how it does the comparision - hashes I suppose?)