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Git exposes a lot of internals through odd commands, so I suspect you could manage synchronization by sending changes over email or something.

Bonus fun fact: there’s a git bundle command that “dumps” the repository into a single file, that can be interacted with as a remote. So if you’re ever working with a local repository and want to put it on a server over ssh or something like that, you can just create a bundle, scp it over, and clone from that on the server.

Fundamentally, the repository you have on GitHub is the same thing as the repository you have on your computer when you clone it. Pulling and pushing are shorthands for synchronizing commits between the two repositories, but you could also synchronize them directly with somebody else who cloned the repository. As somebody mentioned, you can also just host the same repository on two servers, and push to both of them.

The issue is that git doesn’t include convenient features like issues, pull requests, CI, wikis, etc., and by extensions, those aren’t included in your local repository, so if GitHub takes them down, you don’t have a copy.

An extra fun fact is that git can be considered a blockchain. It’s a distributed ledger of immutable commits, each one representing a change in state relative to the previous one. Everybody who clones a repository gets a copy of its entire history and fast forwards through the changes to calculate the current state.

Looking at wiktionary, apparently the two words have completely separate etymologies - but “pal” is borrowed from “brother” in one language, while “gal” is borrowed from “girl” in a different language (which itself derived it from English, I think?)

Language can be funky

Isn’t “pal” masculine, with “gal” being the feminine version?

Not sure about other languages, but in polish the thumb is “kciuk”, while the rest are variants on finger - “palec wskazujący”, “palec środkowy”

Edit: checking google translate, German seems to be the same, with the thumb being a distinct word, and the rest being compound words of “finger”

I don’t think that’s right? I know polish has a separate word, and sampling in Google translate seems to show separate words in German, french and Spanish. Maybe I got lucky and hit the exceptions, but it seems to commonly be a separate word.

Not if you don’t use windows, or if you want a more modern looking and less busy interface, or integration with what I consider the best git GUI. I used to use N++ long ago, but after trying ST I realized it just feels clunky.

Also, why would you want such a machine anyways?

People seem to be assuming that… But no, it’s not that I want it, it’s that, as far as I can tell, there’s no going back. The first iterations of the technology are here, and it’s only going to progress from here. The whole thing might flop, our models might turn out useless in the long run, but people will continue developing things and improving it. It doesn’t matter what I want, somebody is gonna do that.

I know neurons in neural networks aren’t like real neurons, don’t worry, though it’s also not literally just “holds a number from 0 to 1”, that’s oversimplifying a bit - it is inspired by actual neurons, in the way that they have a lot of connections that are tweaked bit by bit to match patterns. No idea if we might need a more advanced fundamental model to build on soon, but so far they’re already doing incredible things.

That is the reason why I hate the term “AI”.

I don’t quite share the hatred, but I agree. The meaning stretches all the way to NPC behavior in games. Not long ago things like neural network face and text recognition were exciting “AI”, but now that’s been dropped and the word has new meanings.

Yeah… you know not every problem is compute-able right?

Yup, but that applies to our brains same as it does for computers. We can’t know if a program will halt any more than a computer can - we just have good heuristics based on understanding of code. This isn’t a problem of computer design or fuzzy logic or something, it’s a universal mathematical incomputability, so I don’t think it matters here.

In this sense, anything that a human can think up could be reproduced by a computer, since if we can compute it, so could a program.

At that point we might as well be talking about Unicorns

Sure, we absolutely could talk about unicorns, and could make unicorns, if we ignore the whole whimsical magical side they tend to have in stories 😛

I don’t think anything I’m saying is far off in the realm of science fiction, I feel like we don’t need anything unrealistic, like new superconductors or amazing power supplies, just time to refine the hardware and software on par with current technology. It’s scary, but I do hope either the law catches up before things progress too far or, frankly, a major breakthrough doesn’t happen in my lifetime.

Edit: Right, I also didn’t fit that in my reply - thanks for being civil, some people seem to go straight to mocking me for believing things they made up because I’m not sitting in the bandwagon of “it’ll never happen”, it’s pretty depressing how the discourse is divided into complete extremes

Tell me you don’t understand how generative AI works.

Current generation generative AI is mapping patterns in images to tokens in text description, creating a model that reproduces those patterns given different combinations of input tokens. I don’t know the finer details of how the actual models are structured… But it doesn’t really matter, because if human brains can create something, there’s nothing stopping a sufficiently advanced computer and program from recreating the same process.

We’re not there, not by a long shot, but if we continue developing more computational power, it seems inevitable that we will reach that point one day.

The tech you speak of, that will surpass humans, does not exist. You are making up a Sci-Fi fantasy and acting like it is real.

The difference is, this isn’t a warp drive or a hologram, relying on physical principles that straight up don’t exist. This is a matter of coding a good enough neuron simulation, running it on a powerful enough computer, with a brain scan we would somehow have to get - and I feel like the brain scan is the part that is farthest off from reality.

You are advocating for the creation of synthetic slaves…

That’s an unnecessary insult - I’m not advocating for that, I’m stating it’s theoretically possible according to our knowledge, and would be an example of a computer surpassing a human in art creation. Whether the simulation is a person with rights or not would be a hell of a discussion indeed.

I do also want to clarify that I’m not claiming the current model architectures will scale to that, or that it will happen within my lifetime. It just seems ridiculous for people to claim that “AI will never be better than a human”, because that’s a ridiculous claim to have about what is, to our current understanding, just a computation problem.

And if humans, with our evolved fleshy brains that do all kinds of other things can make art, it’s ridiculous to claim that a specially designed powerful computation unit cannot surpass that.

As long as progress continues and humanity survives, computer generated art will eventually outperform humans. It’s pretty obvious, as far as science knows you could just simulate a full human consciousness and pull images out of that somehow, but able to run that in parallel, never deteriorating, never tiring. It’s not a matter of if “AI” can outperform humans, it’s a matter of if humanity will survive to see that and how long it might take.

If it brings people comfort to not use the same towel, it’s probably not worth trying to push them away from that habit. It’s one thing to know it intellectually, and another to feel off-put by the idea.

As for android games… If you like puzzles like sudoku, check out Simon Tatham’s Puzzle collection. Simple ad-free online experience with a varied collection of puzzle games.

At some point, I think people will pray for nuclear war, because life will be so miserable.

Reminds me of Roll out the Fallout by The Chalkeaters

it’s barely a language

Maybe barely, but I imagine most assembly variants have conveniences like labels for jumps, labels for referencing data included in the executable, and at least some also have things like simple macros or calculating mathematical expressions at compiletime.

Getting a bit ahead of yourself, we’re only on 3070 so far!

I will point out, I don’t think “peer review” means repeating the test, it means more generally pointing out issues with the science, right? By that definition, sounds like that’s what they’re doing. That doesn’t make the criticisms inherently valid, but to dismiss it as “they’re free to do their own tests” because “that is how science works” seems dishonest.

big words from the DSM

Ah yes, the big word derived from the mythical Narcissus, who we learned about in school… If anything, the issue seems to be the opposite, where the word is too widely known and used without knowing the overlapping medical term.

Don’t use G2A even if you wish harm on the company making the game, it’s still supporting scammers and thieves, just pirate the game.

I can tell you that the attitude in Poland is along the lines of “we had a defensive pact, but when we actually got attacked, France just refused to come and help, then promptly surrendered”.