Arn_Thor

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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Didn’t better pedestrian maps come as a result of the size of the market, really? Suddenly everyone in the world had a smart GPS device in their pocket and adding some more routes onto existing maps would have made sense for any map maker,
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
If you have this kind of money to throw around the risk is probably fairly described as “negligible”. What, is the housing market going to crash and not recover in the 35 years until you kick the bucket, in this hypothetical?
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I agree I should learn to do it from scratch. And I’ve been given an added motivation to do so by seeing how useful just a few lines of code can be. And you’re not wrong. I’ve learned the benefit of versioning when working with LLMs because
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I know jack squat about programming. I could at one point do “hello world” in Python, if I recall correctly. Thanks to ChatGPT I now have scripts to make my life easier in a bunch of ways and a growing high-level understanding of how they w
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
The only sensible choice. Glad to see NASA make the right call. Putting the lives of the crew over expedience is the correct priority.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Right. So the story of how Intel lost the world’s single biggest customer goes as far back as that and raises the question of why the world’s leading, at the time, chip maker couldn’t or wouldn’t make mobile chips. Also, when Apple switched
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
You say Intel’s semiconductor fabbing was leading when Apple started to do their mobile processors on ARM. In wafer tech that is probably true, I don’t know. But clearly Intel wasn’t making power efficient mobile chips. Either because they
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Citations, lots of them, needed
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Apple was an Intel customer. Talking about Apple’s role in the semiconductor sector MUST include Intel because one must explain how and why Apple decided to develop their own (first mobile, then computer) chips in the first place instead of
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
It is amazing. And essential. And has gigantic external costs that either nobody is paying right now or that the government is picking up the bill for. I.e. the true cost is not being priced in
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
You’re just being taken advantage of. At every step and every service level they are fleecing you, because they can. Think the non-warranty option saves you money? It may on the margin but your easily parted money subsidizes those that do g
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Except listed companies are sociopathic. They have no empathy. And their only goal is shareholder value. There’s no appealing to their conscience, so carrots and sticks it is
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
So? You’re stuck with a warrantied product that you know has the same defect, unless they’ve changed things since last I saw it. What’s a two-year warranty on a product that breaks after three? The market is not fixing this particular issue
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
How many half eaten cakes would you have to return to monetarily make up for, say, a PC or washing machine that stops working after 4 ½ years? Because you can get that device replaced or repaired in much of Europe, for free. I'm not aw
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
The government can not "screw the business and the end user" because tax rates are public. VAT changes don't just happen in secret. Tax changes to specific product categories (such as extra taxes for alcohol in some countries
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I don’t understand how this is a surprise to so many people. The thing can’t reason. If you point out an error, even if it’s real, the GPT doesn’t suddenly “see” the error. It constructs a reply of the likeliest series of words in a convers
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
So what? My point is that the two processes were interlinked and fed off each other. The industrial revolution was helped by empire. But the fact that it took place in the UK helped it expand and deepen that very empire faster than the comp
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
> rich people either a. spend a lower percentage of their income (in which case, what's the point in having money) The point in having money is indeed NOT to spend it. It is to build a hoard so large you can live comfortably off the
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Britain has the world’s biggest empire… in part it did so because it industrialized first, but also it was able to industrialize first because of the empire. The two are deeply interlinked
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
This has heightened my concerns, not allayed them. They have said perpetual licenses will always be an option but 1) I don’t trust corporate promises and 2) they could easily just price that out of reach to push people onto a subscription m
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Ah, Russia/the Soviet Union, land of “but wait, it gets worse”.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I’d venture that Mormons (and SDAs, with which I’m more familiar) have more close knit (Caucasian) communities for generations that support each other and have elevated their collective socioeconomic status. So perhaps they’re less likely t
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
For me it’s not that clear cut. Caffeine is a motivating booster each day but if I stick to my rhythm, one in the morning and one at lunch, then it doesn’t affect my sleep at all. It’s only when I’m pressured to go beyond that I suffer
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
What reputational damage? I follow tech news very closely and it’s the first I’ve heard of it. A listed corporation’s first instinct (unless it has a conscientious board) is always to try their luck and see what they get away with. You don’
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
We really have no idea what the training data is, or how the black box of training integrated that data. Perhaps a subreddit or other forum with hiring managers encouraging each others’ biases ended up weighing heavily. The problem is we do
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I’m not the person you answered but SSD: boot disk, cache, video files you’re working off of. HDD: data you don’t mind waiting for such as video and audio storage, backups, or just cases where you have a lot of data and the SSD isn’t yet co
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
> The more productive workers are, the more free time they’ll have to do whatever it is they want to do to make themselves happy. Just patently untrue. The more productive you are the more work your boss will send your way, while walking
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Productivity is not a goal in itself. It is a means to a healthy and happy populace. Europe doesn’t have record breaking GDP but features many of the happiest people in the world. Different values result in different measures of success, I
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
To each their own I guess. Every human-centric development in tech over the past decade which puts people before the interests of corporations seems to have been pushed by the EU. I applaud it all. And it’s making the whole world a more pri
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
What’s the mistake? Putting on the “Captain Obvious” cape and summarizing news clippings?

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