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by FredPret 1y ago
Noted. > Im going to wait till a system with true spatial anchoring and 4k come to market. On that day, I'm taking my iPhone, a keyboard, and those future glasses and will work from under a tree.
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It's a great book! The question of what "works" will probably never be settled since any decision, even a globally optimal one, will probably leave some of the agents worse off than they could have been under some other reg
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This is a great way to compare ultra-precise clocks! Also, I'm looking forward to Einsteinian altimeters everywhere.
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Can you read text for long periods on those?
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The mentality of “content creation” plus A/B testing is how we got to Spandex Man #500
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I agree with this line of thinking, but I also think it's impossible to have a complex system that is universally acknowledged to "work". In Minsky's Society of Mind, he describes a mind made up of layers of agents. The
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There's no simple system that will work on the scale of half a continent and 300M people, and a simple way to prove this is to look at large corporations. There's many of them, they compete with one another tooth and nail, (so the
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by FredPret 1y ago
Genuine question, and with due regard to some of the valid concerns you have: what would your opinion on this have been in 1940-1945? What about the Cold War?
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I wish this was true. But, there's a lot of business software that's locked into the MS ecosystem with Active Directory. Office365 is de rigeur. Then there's everything built on SQL Server. Excel is the "bicycle for the
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That guy goes as hard as a math class. For example, here's a page on his site explaining a concept in one of his books: https://www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/02/02.html
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by FredPret 1y ago
I built bridges like this all the time in the level editor of the ancient racing game Stunts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)
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by FredPret 1y ago
If ARR grows enough, there should be plenty of room in there to pay the founders. For extreme examples of ARR growth at 0% profit paying off, look at Uber, Amazon, and ServiceNow. I know these are very much outliers. All three had rapid rev
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by FredPret 1y ago
I’m an ex-gamer, but I remember games in the 90’s and earlier 00’s being much more respecting of one’s time. You could still sink a ton of time into it if you wanted do, but you could also crank out a decent amount of fun in 5-15 minutes. R
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by FredPret 1y ago
I set up a deep learning station probably 5-10 years ago and ran into the exact same issue. After a week of pulling out my hair, I just bought an Nvidia card.
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There's no need for me to prove that this can happen because, as I pointed out, it already has happened many times, from Xerox to HP to Dell to IBM. It's happening right now at Oracle. You can see the very earliest stages at Apple
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Civilization-as-a-service
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The problem with this is in the very definition of what it means to be an "app" developer. You say "app" and most people immediately understand you mean the iPhone or Android kind, with all that entails. These companies
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by FredPret 1y ago
No, I just wouldn't buy that house. But you're right, maybe we should invent a new word for a purchase that is encumbered by legal agreements or subscriptions.
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by FredPret 1y ago
If this happened tomorrow, you'd have every right to be outraged. But if someone then bought a Tesla the day after, they'd have far less right to be outraged. And if the new tires & paint were integral to fundamental value-add
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by FredPret 1y ago
- You don't need to have an iPhone - You agree to the letter of the ToS when you click "I Agree" when you set up the iPhone, - You also already agree to the spirit of the App Store when you buy it. After all, it's not so
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by FredPret 1y ago
You must be joking. Yes, Henry Ford had Nazi sympathies. But VW was literally founded by the Nazis : > "Volkswagen was established in 1937 by the German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront) as part of the Strength Through J
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by FredPret 1y ago
I was snarkily echoing my parent comment’s criticism (sorry!). Of course there’s lots of regulation especially once these companies grow large. My point is it’s capitalism that grew them from $0 to $3T, and it’s capitalism that’ll take them
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by FredPret 1y ago
How's it a scam to charge people getting onto a plane for the extra weight and volume and time taken up by the carry-on? Unless you're saying the EU is trying to boost rail by making air travel more expensive with the carry-on rul
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by FredPret 1y ago
You can't just ban all unpopular or unpleasant things without incurring some side-effects. This particular regulation will simply raise the price floor for the cheapest flights. What about students flying somewhere for the weekend on R
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by FredPret 1y ago
I once worked for a large consumer goods company. We had a conference about scents. We saw a clear correlation between richer consumers and a preference for subtler scents or even no scent. This even applied across countries: third-world co
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by FredPret 1y ago
The minimum amount needed to ensure the basic spirit of the law actually happens. The less regulation and tax you have, the quicker the wheel of innovation above turns. OTOH, there are some cheap and easy regulations with a large societal r
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by FredPret 1y ago
It would be so cool, and so much cheaper, if I could route all my non-critical websites to my homelab instead of cloud services. I can’t guarantee five nines but my power almost never goes out, and that’s plenty for a blog and even many onl
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by FredPret 1y ago
It's rampant unregulated capitalism that feeds the whole lifecycle: - company started in garage - makes first sales - gets popular - gets investors - becomes huge , changing the world of computing - enshittifies - gets replaced by the
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Maybe it’s the pacing of the article that’s off. Feels like it’s wasting one’s time with self-indulgent prose. The short story in your comment, OTOH, is very much better. I can see the scene, my mind has filled in some details, and it took
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by FredPret 1y ago
By that logic, politicians around the world would make it illegal for themselves to trade stock on their insider knowledge. I'm not holding my breath. See: https://unusualwhales.com/politics . Some of these politicians

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