BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
I think that notion is mostly meaningless to actual humans.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Exactly. That is what is missing in this discussion. If you want to cut down the trees, fine, but those people who profited should pay for it.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
This is sort of like Microsoft saying they're making Windows better. It's just undoing a change that should never have been made in the first place, because it made things worse.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
It's been a joke for years that "Win32 is the most stable API on Linux".
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> Merchants face fines of $10,000 for running afoul of the law, and penalties of $25,000 for repeat offenses. Another limp-wristed penalty. Why not something like "$1,000 per dollar that you received as payment for prices in violat
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
I think jail time for executives should be table stakes. Another thing would be fines well in excess of $10 million. The fines should be defined as percentages of gross revenue, or maybe even (to target VC-funded operations that operate a
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Not everything starts that way but these days it sure seems like everything ends that way.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
By "the worst possible filter" do you mean "hitting enter when claude tells you to"?
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> The document markup language of LaTeX is pretty good. Yes, it’s not as lightweight as Markdown, but the cost is paid back in expressiveness. This is sort of true, but the huge caveat it's a very leaky abstraction. There is no LaT
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
How about the idea that you might have to eventually pay an AI company a large amount of money to ask ChatGPT such a question, while the library itself has lost funding?
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Ironically it is largely because of private actors (those NIMBYs) that such things wind up being slow and expensive.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
In California specifically there are also environmental regulations like CEQA that provide another avenue for blocking such things, independent of eminent domain issues. Even if someone is building on their own land, lots of environmental
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
One can only hope that as people get tired of Github and move to other services, we'll see better Mercurial options. I feel like git itself mainly gained in popularity because of Github. Either way, the thing that irks me about the Gi
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
I've bought Motorola phones that cost less than half of that and still last for 3-5 years and I've been able to install far more than "a few" apps. Having an SD card slot is great for offloading the big storage uses lik
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Spoiler: they want as much money as possible.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Interesting game. I like the concept but I feel like it could do with some tweaks. I think the instructions should be expanded a bit. The details of how the added tiles would affect the train's path were not at all clear to me. It a
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> After spending an additional $69 million and years of reverse engineering, they finally produced viable Fogbank. Then discovered the new batch was too pure. The original had contained an unintentional impurity that was critical to its
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
There is another critique that is not specific to AI but I think is bigger than all of these: that a relatively small number of large companies, and the small number of very wealthy people who control those companies, have an outsize influe
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> If Altman, Amodei, and their Big Tech peers want to rebuild public trust and create a genuine technology that benefits the public, then the path forward isn’t another white paper or postulating about the existential risks of their tech
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
An article with this title needs only three words in the body: Too much money.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> And they put it succinctly: buying from a small innovative company is brave while buying from a big, well recognised name is an insurance policy and the risk-averse buyer must have the insurance. As the article notes, the alternatives
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
But if that stuff is stuff the bottom 90% wouldn't be competing for, it's even worse in a way, because it means that portion of the market is entirely focused on stuff that's entirely out of reach for that 90%. If there are
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Another case where "starting" is the ha-ha-sob part. There's never been anything good about Palantir.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
As usual, "empowering" the FTC to issue fines, or even allowing private suits, is ineffective on its own. The fines need to be required , their levels set by law in a manner proportional to the size of the companies involved, an
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Just eyeballing those graphs, the striking thing is the difference from the beginning (early 70s) to the peak in 2012. During that period, reading scores only increased by 8 points while math increased by 19 points. I'm definitely in
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
One thing I notice is there seem to be far more students who finish elementary school unable to comfortably do basic math in their head (stuff like 17+36 or 14 4 or even basic multiplication tables like 3 8).
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
It's also not possible to carry around enough books with you to allow you to jump from one to another whenever you get bored, while it is possible to effectively carry around a device that lets you watch YouTube/TikTok at all
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
I don't think that is necessarily true. I believe there are, for instance, many reasonably wealthy people who live somewhere outside California and would not move into a dumpy old apartment in LA or SF but might move into a fancy new
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
The question is whether the well-off person moved in from the same market, or from elsewhere. (Also, whether they vacate their previous unit or, e.g., keep it as a vacation home.)
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
"In 2026"? It's been clear for at least a decade that the Kindle was just another attempt by Amazon to gain more control over everything.

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