DannyBee

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by DannyBee 2y ago
The "weaponization of complexity" as you call it is simply "work is done by those who show up". Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, etc took the horribly dastardly approach of "participating" and then "doin
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Eh, no. More chips won't save this right now, or probably in the near future (IE barring someone sitting on a breakthrough right now). It just means either A. Lots and lots of hard work that get you a few percent at a time, but add up
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by DannyBee 2y ago
So uh, how is that not a variation, exactly? Dirac's solution was also arbitrarily restricted by the problem definition. Do you believe that if you asked someone familiar with the solution to come up with a bit efficient variant they w
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Sure, but that was because that was an arbitrary restriction on the problem dirac solved. Still seems a fairly simple variation once you remove the arbitrary restriction. To the point: I don't believe for a second that anyone familiar
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by DannyBee 2y ago
It was. It's a variant of Dirac's solution to representing any number using sqrt, log, and the number 2.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Isn't this just a variant of Dirac's solution for representing any number using sqrt, log, and the number 2?
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Actually, a number of them did. Even Google did.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
They paused the last one they announced, so it's an infinite increase if it happens. But i expect, once the media cycle dies down, it'll get paused too, and then ignored because can't admit that something didn't work out
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by DannyBee 2y ago
They already did it once in the previous administration, so i guess that argument is out the window. Got any others?
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by DannyBee 2y ago
This seems 100% irrelevant to the question of "what more can be done". I'm totally unsure why this is directed at me.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
If you aren't willing to move to conflict (or whatever the next step is) at some point, then you are, in fact, just bluffing, and you are being called out on that bluff. You can choose what that point is, but it's weird not to ex
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by DannyBee 2y ago
The whales already signed an international treaty on this, and it's really unlikely they are going to violate their treaty obligations by destroying fiber optic cables. Also, you know, whales not having sharp teeth and the ability to c
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by DannyBee 2y ago
I also (like nullc ) agree with his take that the OIRA part is more important. But I’m sort of not sure I agree with his argument about their independence. Walter is brilliant so I may just be missing something that is in his brain and lef
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Agreed. It doesn't even have to be direct. Maybe somebody committed their shell history, or something.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Lawyer here. So i think this is all insane, and a power grab, to start out. But not because of these parts of this EO I think people are trying to assume this says "the president gets to ignore the courts and congress", but it
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by DannyBee 2y ago
There's a bunch of assumptions here. The main one i think is probably wrong is that there was 15 lawyers worth of work being done before (when measured by some average lawyer standard). For example, it's possible there was only re
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by DannyBee 2y ago
I mean, it's usually not that adversarial, but lawyers miss this stuff too sometimes. Like anything else, it's a question of performance - if the AI misses it at the same or less rate than the lawyers, ... If not, it's a ques
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Highly doubtful it is either negligence, or something they will get sued over. I don't even quite understand what you think they will get sued over. Most of the policing would happen by courts and bar associations.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Lawyer here - there are fields, and law is definitely one of them, where labor is the major cost. That labor is not often used sanely. It is common to use lawyers costing hundreds per hour to do fairly basic document review and summarizatio
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by DannyBee 2y ago
I'm not a fan of patents, but i'm not sure this is fair. That phrase had a fairly specific meaning back when it was written, and they seem to be hewing to it. It does not match today's colloquial understanding for sure, but t
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Unfortunately, patent rights are quite literally the right to exclude others from doing things. That's it. Patent owners don't even have the right to make the invention themselves (because it may infringe on other patents). So you
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by DannyBee 2y ago
"I think it was somewhat reasonable for the author to assume it would be a 10-minute job when it had been that way in the previous places he lived." I don't - in all of those, the author knew someone else had done the work
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Because someone else had done the work for them. They knew nobody else had done it for them here the second they hit a single issue. Why not step back at that point and try to understand the entire problem you may be facing? This like peopl
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by DannyBee 2y ago
100% agree This was painful, because like software development, he didn't bother to read the manual at all first before estimating how long it would take :) It's like saying "i'm going to use the following pieces of soft
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by DannyBee 2y ago
It is hard to believe how true this is until you start to get to really esoteric stuff. Example: I have electronic mortise locks (historic house with very custom doors that used mortise locks, replacing doors would be ... remarkably expensi
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Nah - they look like they are too busy having the n billionth argument over telemetry in packages, and the n billionth argument over monorepos. So this will probably get placed into the drama backlog for a month or so
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Anyone who cares about speed is using nailers or screw guns. Or has a drill and an impact driver. This really just turns one problem into a bunch. I'll point out the significant ones haven't seen so far 1. It has no self-centeri
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by DannyBee 2y ago
A few things - First, What's your end goal here? Is it to not forfeit the RSU's? Is it to not pay the taxes upfront? etc You ask a lot of "is this normal questions", but it sort of doesn't matter if it's normal
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Um, the airspeed analogy used up front is remarkably silly. Nobody would shrug at being able to fly 2x faster. The reason it stopped is because it made lots of noise and was expensive. Not because it was not needed. I think you'd be ha
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Python2-3 is a worst case example where the benefits were small or negative compared to cost. There are also plenty of very successful languages used for large complex problems and have broken compatibility in various ways over the years. Y

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