AdamN

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by AdamN 4mo ago
Burnham being PM is already pretty well priced in. When he walked back comments a few weeks ago they corrected and my sense is that the market understands that unless there until actual laws or budgets are promulgated, what is said by Burn
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by AdamN 4mo ago
Two things need to change and this would be a hit: 1/ Find My support or similar (for parents who would give this to kids) 2/ WhatsApp?????? That is the ultimate social network so it should definitely not be there by default.
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by AdamN 4mo ago
Generally don't do this but this is apropos my recent comment about externalities here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527158
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by AdamN 4mo ago
If I had said 'exploitation' there would not have been engagement. At some point certain words and phrases become too much of a lightning rod to constructively use any more (Marxism, critical race theory, exploitation, etc...)
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by AdamN 4mo ago
No I got off that trainwreck a long time ago
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by AdamN 4mo ago
I doubt he listened to what she said - just a soundbite on Fox News or worse Facebook.
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by AdamN 4mo ago
It's depressing really - lost alot of respect for pg over time. Based on his writings it honestly appears that he isn't engaged with any critical writing in any of the social or political (or economic) domains.
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by AdamN 4mo ago
She meant impossible in that one doesn't earn a billion dollars through work alone. The only way to get there is to set up a structure that extracts a billion dollars from a market (usually by building a structure that's more eff
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by AdamN 4mo ago
The really scary thing now is that these models are totally controlled by private companies. With encryption the smartest people in the room worked in academia and open source tooling quickly caught up with commercial offerings. We need
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by AdamN 4mo ago
The machine is no big deal - it's the authn/authz that matters. What can the agents do with the credentials available to them?
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by AdamN 4mo ago
Also context - there's alot of context out there and it's faster to get it from servers. It doesn't matter how good the model is if it doesn't have context from data sources.
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by AdamN 4mo ago
What do you mean 'we'? :-)
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by AdamN 4mo ago
The only problem with that nowadays might be that AI can do all the incantations that formerly acted as gates to contributors.
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by AdamN 4mo ago
It's the very definition of a culture war and in addition sadly evidence of limited intelligence. Even the most red blooded oil man wouldn't do this because this data is also useful for petroleum drilling and logistics - it'
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by AdamN 4mo ago
In this day and age I suspect many environmental and health NGOs are going silent to mitigate backlash.
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by AdamN 4mo ago
In Down and Out in Paris and London he is very clear that he comes from some privilege and also that he actually lived the experiences he wrote about. He can't write it from the pov of somebody doing it for decades with no other optio
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by AdamN 4mo ago
1984 in particular is well worth a read right now. I read it at age 47 and it's not in the same vein as On the Road.
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by AdamN 4mo ago
Kind of is. The point of fiction is to speculate. Judging the characters is fine but the commenter above almost seems to take it personally that the characters are morally ambiguous people - but that's what fiction is meant to explor
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by AdamN 4mo ago
Sort of - if it's determined that somebody bypassed a safety control they can just make the control firmer and fire that person and move onto other things. If it's some fundamental flaw in the engine design that could set them ba
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by AdamN 4mo ago
> trying to do as best they could There's another comment that it wasn't the weld but even if it was the welders would build to spec and "better" (if it's known what better is) only if it's straightforward.
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by AdamN 4mo ago
Rockets are hard for sure but also almost nobody notices if there's a minor bug in your delivery app that causes it to crash every once in a while - but it can matter alot if there's a microscopic crack in a rocket engine that mak
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by AdamN 4mo ago
minified is fewer tokens than the human-readable version that we would write. It only really makes sense to write in minified js - it's also where alot of code in the wild is since every production site minifies their js which is then
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by AdamN 4mo ago
It's worth noting that if each developer is 20% more productive with AI (let's take that as a premise and not dispute it), then it makes sense to go even further and reduce human headcount by more since the communication overhead
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by AdamN 5mo ago
We still go to our local toy store - which is quite nice and only about 5 blocks away (in Berlin).
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by AdamN 5mo ago
It's probably not so much the AI thing as the latent disgust at the social media landscape and the toxicity driven by Meta and others.
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by AdamN 5mo ago
Yeah there are good accounts of this in Down and Out in Paris and London and also one of Hemingway's books - forgot which one.
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by AdamN 5mo ago
The case I would make is that some of the libraries in Python are very fast and written in other languages (C, C++, etc...). With other languages that's more rare. For instance a Java application will probably use libraries that are
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by AdamN 5mo ago
two is the right minimum number for a high availability dataplane but three is the right minimum number for a HA control plane. With that said, if high availability is not a concern then 1 can be just fine.
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by AdamN 5mo ago
That's still a man in the middle coordinating the payments (mpesa, etc...) and essentially holding both sides of the transaction. When you send money to somebody with mobile money you're sending it to the mobile network operator
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by AdamN 5mo ago
Maybe. A bad programmer is unlikely to get something even working so in that world nobody will depend on it because they can't even use it. A bad AI programmer (or non-programmer) can get the thing working so people will depend on it

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