Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Not true for aviation, where weight and volume are both constraints.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Someone should have told Intel when they started work on Netburst. Some optimization required...
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
There is immorality, there is amorality, and then there is architecting systems intentionally so that none of the actors within the system are constrained by their personal mortality. "We were only obeying orders" all the way up.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's not a terrible idea for high-value assets. There are already national registries of land, residential/commercial buildings and most types of vehicle. Business ownership and shareholding is also a matter of public record in
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I was writing from a US-aligned perspective. If you view the US as a hostile power, then yes the same - to some degree - applies to Tesla. Although I think they're not as good at covering their tracks for something like that.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Because Tesla isn't owned and controlled by a foreign government and military rival. (OK, Elon is a little too cosy with Putin for my liking, but not to that extent). I think it's reasonable to be sceptical about whether a state t
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
As you've brought China into this, which is the greater scandal? 1) VW Group collects data on its customers. 2) Chinese-made vehicles have potential two-way telemetry and control (we don't know, it's closed-source), and we&#x
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I don't know about watches, jewellery or paintings, but if any one class of personal possession _should_ be subject to this kind of totalitarian control, it's cars. They literally cause more harm to non-participating bystanders th
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Exec., meet exec.?
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Financial companies figured out how to do this in the run-up to the GFC, and everyone else learned it from them in the immediate aftermath. "They did all that, and literally none of them went to jail? We got to get us some..." Pos
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Depends what you're doing. For "stay in your lane" stuff, I agree, it relatively sucks. For "today I need do stuff two lanes over", well it still needs the babysitting, and I still wouldn't put it on tasks wher
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
A more informative question is: _Who_ would you let manage your financial affairs, and under what circumstances? To which my answer would be something like: a qualified financial adviser with a good track record, who can be trusted to do th
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
This. Tech still acts like it's the scrappy underdog, the computer in the broom cupboard where "the net" is a third space separate from reality, nerds and punks writing 16-bit games. That ceased to be materially true around t
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
If it's coalescing learning in realtime across all user/sessions, that's more constant than you're maybe giving it credit for. I'm not sure if GPT4o and friends are actually built that way though.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The point is that the wall-clock measuring the test-taker's performance should be in the same context as the test-taker. They will still complete the task in 70 local minutes, even if that's eighty of an outside observer's.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
"enough" is a value judgment, it depends what field of endeavour we're talking about (and whether the types of bug that proliferate in large firms are preferable to those that proliferate in small ones). Uber, for example? Dr
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Fire must surely have a role to play there? Too much O2 and plants burn easily, too little and fires won't take hold. And we don't know AFAIK that it's been entirely stable. There's some debate over what the level was in
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
There are two possible outcomes: - The Julii infiltrate and take over, - A company run by Julii from the outset comes to dominate the market. This is because "what we actually make" is a specialist skill, whereas business, sales,
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
No, because intelligence is relative to your local context.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
True. But the small outfits tend to get their supplies from big ones, lead is something that can probably be dealt with at supply-chain level.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Maybe, but there are mammals that can survive deep hibernation and near-total suspension. In pure biological/biochemical terms I don't see any reason to think we're much more than 100 times more complex than a rodent, or 1000
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
This is eminently sensible, should happen everywhere. It almost always doesn't, because the big guys have lobbyists and the small guys don't. The big guys would rather not have to comply with these rules, but typically their take
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
We can freeze and reanimate living things only five or so orders of magnitude removed from humans; if we're just talking hibernation, it's as little as two.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
There's whether or not you can make friends at all, and how choosy you are about who to make friends with, which aren't really the same thing. As a moderate introvert (handle social situations OK but need the down time to balance)
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I don't entirely buy that, I'd suggest there's a fair sized chunk of sampling bias in that statement. Simply because the sample of people we encounter socially is skewed towards the pro-social, and the ones we notice and reme
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Doing the math - even a conservative estimate for 1983 to 2003 is eight doublings. That would give us a hypothetical Pentium 4 at 768GHz today. Which, Netburst or no, would wipe the floor with the fastest available multi-core chip. While al
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Depends on your appetite of course. But I think it's safe to say that if you're not satisfied at $10m net worth, you're never going to be, and you'll just keep on chasing til circumstances force you to stop.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The problem with Netburst was the clock speed wall. They designed it with a view to continued doubling which has been a trend up until then. It turns out once you go past 3GHz improvements are much, much slower. We hit 3GHz in 2003. If you
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's also, weirdly, not going to make a lot of difference to the person earning it. If you're next in line to that, you can already afford literally everything. Or stop working tomorrow and still afford _almost_ everything. So it&
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Sure, but then they're competing with everyone else in a fair fight. Which means either taking a huge hit on margins, or having a product with enough of a performance delta to justify prices somewhere near today's. The problem isn

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