Barrin92

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by Barrin92 3mo ago
If Meta is selling their compute and Twitter is selling their compute and the stuff doesn't do anything you don't need an economics degree to figure out what's going to happen to the price of compute. In particular because &#
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
not to pile on the particular software but the example just stuck in my memory, two years ago or so I tried out Logseq for note taking, and I still remember that it put a five page file (not even Moby Dick) into 'read only' mode b
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>like you are getting caught up on the watch form-factor. I'm getting caught up by the full fledged surveillance kit. Give them some independence and freedom instead of this a watch with an SOS button, we survived before ~2010
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
"Without the app we won't be able to text back and forth, see where they are, or add new contacts (the watch blocks calls except to/from contacts)." "Our older two kids, Lily and Anna, are ten and eight, and are mat
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
please stop crying about bad faith every time someone disagrees with you. If you think everyone talks with you in bad faith maybe you didn't articulate your points very well. What I said isn't bad faith, that's literally not
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
what I want doesn't matter for an encyclopedia. Encyclopedias rely on secondary and not primary sources because they must be authoritative. The CEO of Kelloggs doesn't get to write the wikipedia article for kelloggs even if millio
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>an outdated and archaic relic of a bygone time this isn't a meaningful criticism. An encyclopedia is a reference for established and public knowledge. It's by definition archaic, not an archive for whatever trends on social me
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
No it's an indication that notoriety in Discord servers isn't a basis for relevance in an encyclopedia. Which is a good choice. A streamer mentioned a language? Wikipedia isn't Twitter. As a reader thank god not everything t
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
the structural disadvantages that the article points to, long iteration times, weird inside baseball materials science and tacit knowledge in manufacturing are real but the author is wrong to dismiss the scale. Scale doesn't help them
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>I love how confidently you say this, it's not that difficult to say it confidently if you use any of their services and applications because exactly nothing has changed. For reference most labor productivity increases for the last
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
doesn't clear up your ram. One big security reason for regular reboots is that you simply get rid of any potential non-persistent crap on your machine. Also performance obviously, with a full shutdown you get back to a known, clean sta
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
maybe another angle to this that I observed: my working class dad who had little education happily taught himself a bit of programming with computer magazines in the 80s an 90s. He actually could figure out his way around a command prompt.
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>Aging populations need help, They're pretty good at helping themselves. Close to where I used to live in Bavaria we had a pilot project of communal living for the elderly in a community of about a hundred people that included peop
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>if you are boycotting the company despite living on the opposite side of the world If I'm living at the opposite side of the world and my money was indirectly influencing Swedish politics then I'm doing Sweden a service by dis
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>If you want to vote for or against Örebropartiet, then just do it at the booth. I'm kinda confused here. The context of this is that a rich tech bro uses his money to fund and promote a political party, with our money, but we can&#
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
The party he's donating money to ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party ) is an advocate of "remigration" that is a policy of forced deportation including of citizens on the basis of ethnicity
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
> or a Ukrainian soldier who has to deal with drones built with Chinese components man you're gonna be disappointed when you learn where the components for Ukrainian drones come from (spoiler alert, it's China 95% of Ukrainian
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
All these over-complicated "solutions" are incredibly funny. At my uni in Germany education worked in a very straight forward way. There is no graded homework (you're in a university not an elementary school), at the end of t
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>That’s just an echo of a religious-age idea that one’s life “must” include suffering it's not a religious idea. You find it in Nietzsche as much as in anyone else, maybe the most atheist philosopher to ever live. And the point isn&
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>If we are moved emotionally by slop, does it matter? Yes, because that's not what matters. That kind of sentimentality is deficient because it's as Wilde said wanting to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. It&
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
> the "underlying issue" is fundamentally just being too hungry for how they live operative phrase in that sentence "how they live". They need to live more active lives. And that's better than a weight loss drug
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>But again I don't think that's the crux of the issue. Yes it is the crux of the issue. Software executing other software is how computers work , they'd be useless if that wasn't the case, that's the premise of
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>I’m tempted to get one just to free up the floor space used by my ATX case if you're willing to spend a grand just to free up a few inches of floor space I don't think you're going to understand the reaction of the averag
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>but don't lose sight of what LLMs can do off the leash. there is no such thing as an LLM "off the leash", it's not a dog, and even if it was a dog the person responsible is the owner. What is this bizarre attitude to
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
> Is the child going to inform on themselves? No. Is the adult, when they don't even know about it? In the context of social media, if they want to actively participate they have to given that it's the entire point. It's
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
IBM has been the company with the most patent registrations in the US for I think 29 of the last 30 years. They're one of the largest industrial research organizations in the world. They're doing more hard science research than al
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>But also back then you could buy a house and support a family with one salary as a trash truck driver you still can. Truck drivers, electricians and a lot of vocational work pays good salaries. The people who are broke with a masters d
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>What’s preventing tech companies from the UK, Germany, etc. from distilling Claude literally nothing but given that the Chinese already did it and the models are published what's the point. You can thank the Chinese taxpayer for su
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
He isn't difficult but I always thought Nabokov (in his fairly incendiary reviews http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations ) was on point that he was sentimental, preachy and mediocre as an artist. I found Dos
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
>I wonder if it is possible to both be politically “unbiased” and maximally truth seeking. In principle yes if you're in a polity where the entire political spectrum broadly accepts scientific base consensus, idk in practice maybe i

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