ARandumGuy

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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Kind of, but they can't do any business with a US based company. Many specialized products are only produced by a small handful of companies, and if all (or most) of those are US based, Cuba's SOL. They've also had problems w
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
It'd be more accurate to call it a logarithmic relationship, since compute time is our input variable. Which itself is a bit concerning, as that implies that modest gains in accuracy require exponentially more compute time. In either c
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
One thing that makes me skeptical is the lack of specific labels on the first two accuracy graphs. They just say it's a "log scale", without giving even a ballpark on the amount of time it took. Did the 80% accuracy test resu
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Despite living in Minneapolis for 5 years, I never understood the street grid until reading this article. The fact that streets and avenues are opposite in Northeast vs South Minneapolis (and how North Minneapolis only has avenues) is a con
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Maybe I should have clarified a little bit: It's easy to spot hate speech if your moral framework starts with the idea that everyone is entitled to a base level of life and human dignity. I acknowledge that that's not a universal
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Hate speech is one of those things that's hard to nail down a perfect academic definition, but is often easy to spot in practice. I may not be able to tell you exactly where the line is, but I can tell you that (for example) a Nazi say
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
I'd describe Steam as a monolith, not a monopoly. There are several competing storefronts, and many games have been successful without releasing on Steam. That said, the PC gaming landscape has completely warped around Steam. Epic had
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
If you want some more insight into what working at Valve is actually like, People Make Games released a great video last year [1] where they talked to a bunch of current and former employees. While there are people who can thrive at Valve,
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
I think designing a system like that that gave the control necessary and worked predictably would be difficult. I'm not a navy person (the closest experience I have is driving fishing boats on a lake), but I do know that steering a big
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
That's a good argument for independent throttle control being possible , but it's not a good argument for that being the default. When working with safety critical systems (which throttle control absolutely is), it's importa
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Steam has a daily peak userbase of around 33 million users[1]. I haven't been able to find a recent monthly user count, but it's certainly a lot of users. The Steam hardware survey reports over 96% of surveyed users use Windows[2]
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
> The iPod was nice because of the storage, but competitors (like Zune) had more storage and were cheaper. It took a while for iPod to get "good" and gain adoption. What are you talking about? When the first Zune launched, ther
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
I understand why that seems like an appealing solution, but there are some pitfalls with creating multiple distinct UIs: The most obvious pitfall is that more UIs = more work. There's the initial development, but it also increases the
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
This is the reason I don't envy the UI designers on products like MS Office. There are professionals who use products in the MS Office suite every day, but there are other users who only need to create the occasional spreadsheet or pow
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
Yes, this could have been done with CGI, but that seems unlikely. As others mentioned, doing this level of CGI destruction is super expensive, and destroying stuff is pretty cheap. But there's also the bigger factor that, if Apple didn
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by ARandumGuy 2y ago
What's this going to do to content that expects or incentivizes the user to pause the video? Some youtubers put little gags that you only get when you pause the video (Jay Forman does this frequently). Others put "info blasts,&quo
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
Realistically, the US government would nationalize Boeing before they let Boeing outright fail (and they'd probably only do that if bailouts didn't work). Boeing is a huge strategic asset for the US, and I don't think the US
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
I'm not really disputing your broader point, but this: > Porn is what got VHS to succeed over Beta. Is just not true. For one, porn absolutely existed on Beta. But more broadly, by the time the content available on each format matte
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
I own 2 VR headsets, primarily for gaming. I've had a lot of fun with stuff like Beat Saber or Superhot VR, and Half Life Alyx is an incredible experience that could only exit with VR. Despite that, VR is pretty much just a cool toy. Y
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
A better example would be Conrail, the US owned railroad that took over the Penn Central. Although in this case Penn Central was completely bankrupt, and I'm not sure if the US government actually paid anything to Penn Central's s
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
While there were absolutely people who thought the iPhone would fail, the idea that most people were skeptical about the iPhone is simply ahistorical. The iPhone had a huge amount of hype from the moment it was announced, and it was pretty
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
I'm kinda surprised it took this long. On a broad level, there's nothing that Apple really brings to the table that would help them build a successful car. They don't have the internal expertise necessary to help with the pra
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
Probably the biggest barrier to a new creating a new commercial airline manufacturer is that there just aren't that many new planes sold each year. There aren't that many customers for commercial airplanes, and existing airplanes
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
> It took ~5 years from when people in the NLP literature noticed BERT and knew the powerful applications that were coming, until the public at large was aware of the developments via ChatGPT. It may take another 5 before the public sees
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
The problem is that (in the US) an overwhelming majority of car journeys (and traffic) occur during rush hour. And it's difficult to see how autonomous vehicles could reduce the amount of cars used during rush hour. Rush hour traffic i
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
Both Google and Epic are large for-profit companies, and are primarily concerned with maximizing investor returns. Neither company should be considered "the good guy." Despite that, I'm still glad that Epic won this case, as
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
Part of it is the ubiquity of advertising, and the ability to gamble from anywhere using your phone. Both of which make it much easier to develop a gambling addiction, and much harder for and addict to stop gambling. Sports betting also has
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
The Wikipedia page on "Criticism of Israel" [1] has an extensive section on critics of Israel accused of antisemitism, if you'd like a good starting point. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
Israel and pro-Israel commentators have spent a lot of time and effort trying to ingrain the idea that Israel == Jews. Of course, not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Israelis are Jews. And there are many Jewish Israelis who are critical o
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by ARandumGuy 3y ago
It's certainly possible. Company financials can get very complicated very quickly, and it's possible that Altman was the only person (or one of a small number of people) who had the complete picture. To be clear, this is only one

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