FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
The SSD space is indeed expensive, but: - top-end SSDs from other vendors are also pricey, though probably less so than Apple - everything else about that machine is going to be a much better deal than just the drive in isolation
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by FredPret 2y ago
I think just like traditional engineers have to learn physics, computer people should learn these fundamentals for exactly the reason you outline. Then, when you hit the job market, you learn the ecosystem of what other engineers have built
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by FredPret 2y ago
This happens all the time. Once it was spices. Then poppies. Modern art. The .com craze. Those blockchain ape images. Blockchain. Now LLM. All of these had a bit of true value and a whole load of bullshit. Eventually the bullshit disappears
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by FredPret 2y ago
Apple only sells high-end hardware, but I wouldn't call it exorbitantly expensive. It's even kind of a good deal if you compare it to equivalent Wintel-ware / Android (if you can even a true equivalent). This also depends on
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by FredPret 2y ago
The name is even worse than that. The original meaning is a slur for someone mentally or physically disabled. The subsequent, sexualized meanings were derived from that. Pretty much one of the worst things I can imagine, and certainly the w
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by FredPret 2y ago
… until Qantas deploys AI bots that can keep your AI going indefinitely!
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by FredPret 2y ago
Like a scam caller who then genuinely helps you somehow
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by FredPret 2y ago
It makes building and deploying a shop and integrating a payment processor a snap, rather than a massive project. It’s a great choice for a vast number of small companies with other things to do.
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by FredPret 2y ago
It doesn't dismiss the issue because it doesn't perfectly solve the problem for all people everywhere. But that fact doesn't mean it's a real solution many can and should try (or threaten to try).
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by FredPret 2y ago
Be that as it may, it's a real solution for many. Calling out a solution as "privileged" adds nothing to this site. You have a job at all? You have the brain and attention span to read this far? You can use computers to solve
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by FredPret 2y ago
This is so tiresome. If you’re reading this you’re privileged. Somewhere on this planet is a single individual human who is the very unluckiest and most unfortunate. Everyone else is privileged. Even that guy is lucky to be alive now and no
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by FredPret 2y ago
I saw, but have not yet read, a Greg Egan novel where light has a mass. That'd be interesting
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by FredPret 2y ago
> "The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, would dismantle vital safeguards that prohibit software patents on overly broad concepts" I'm submitting a patent for showing colors on the internet
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by FredPret 2y ago
Seconded. This is awesome
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by FredPret 2y ago
I think Google Earth has that option
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by FredPret 2y ago
I like that too but the benefit of the answer model is near-zero spam. Perplexity gives an answer with references, effectively combining search with the answer.
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by FredPret 2y ago
This is somehow not about Perplexity. Like many, I tried many other search engines, starting with DuckDuckGo way back when. I always ended up Googling (or !g… -ing). Perplexity is the first one that consistently works for both code question
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by FredPret 2y ago
The easier it is to fire or retrench someone, the easier it is to hire them. And if it's easy for me to hire... then it's easier for the next entrepreneur to hire... paradoxically driving wages up and forcing businesses to keep
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by FredPret 2y ago
> “They knew what they were doing” Maybe it was ancient anatomists doing research
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by FredPret 2y ago
That’s why it’ll be a proxy that will get better over time as AI architectures converge towards optimality.
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by FredPret 2y ago
A difference in 1 IQ point in the 100-101 range might be a difference in absolute problem-solving ability of x units, while than the difference between 170-171 is y units.
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by FredPret 2y ago
If we test every living human, we can figure out who is the very smartest one. That person has a 1-in-<current_pop> intelligence, from which we can calculate their IQ. That IQ is nowhere near 200. It would be handy to have standardize
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by FredPret 2y ago
Sure, but we can’t say someone has a 1-in-12B intelligence when we only have 8B (or whatever) people. We can only go as high as 1-in-<current_pop>
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by FredPret 2y ago
A 200 IQ is not possible at current population levels. It’s a statistical measure comparing the test taker against the average, much like percentiles. At a certain IQ score, somewhere in the 170’s I think, the expected number of individuals
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by FredPret 2y ago
(I'm not a US voter, but we have the same dynamic up here in Canada) I think it's absolutely horrendous to: - make fun of a disabled person - make fun of someone for having an immigrant surname, though less so - cancel someone bec
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by FredPret 2y ago
Perhaps not, but this attitude is absolutely endemic on the left. “Party of kindness” until you step out of line. Then… vitriol, threats, getting canceled.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Trump’s election odds took a huge and sustained dip to below 50% after that debate and his “concepts of a plan” line. Kamala then fumbled that lead.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I remember John Oliver making endless amounts of fun of Trump’s original family name Drumpf.
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by FredPret 2y ago
If your spoken English is 10% as good as your comment, you're way ahead of the average English speaker. That said, I can't wait for AI earbud / smartglasses Babel Fish [0] to become a reality. [0] https://hitchhike
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by FredPret 2y ago
The Electoral College was established during the Constitutional Convention… in 1787. Sure, there have been changes since then, but it’s probably always been optimal to go for many states as opposed to the handful of biggest ones.

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