GMoromisato

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by GMoromisato 1mo ago
Lotus 1-2-3, et al, were killed by MS Office. But Lotus Notes was still selling 20+ million seats a year in 2000. The web killed Notes, not Microsoft.
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by GMoromisato 1mo ago
I was a developer on versions 2 through 4.5. I agree with the main point of the article: Lotus Notes was breaking new ground, and we sometimes landed on suboptimal designs because we didn't have a prior example. And once we had a desig
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by GMoromisato 1mo ago
> Has it been imprinted with Dario's engrams? I understood that reference!
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by GMoromisato 1mo ago
I don't get that. If I sometimes decline and sometimes accept, then I'm picking. Unless you're saying that they should have declined the Denali change, but then does that mean they can never accept a change? Names are locked
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by GMoromisato 1mo ago
I personally would rather have a democratically-elected government--no matter how awful--pick names rather than have corporations pick names. Also, I was curious, so I looked it up: Congress passed a law (Public Law 80-242) in 1947 that all
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by GMoromisato 1mo ago
My hope as an American is that China's growing power will bring Europe and the US closer together. It's true that MAGA craziness has pushed Europe aways from us. But, ironically, Europe increasing defense spending and standing up
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by GMoromisato 1mo ago
Try the main site for yourself: https://starcraft.blizzard.com/ This site has captures of most of the "glitches": https://scannersweep.replit.app/
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by GMoromisato 1mo ago
Try the main site: https://starcraft.blizzard.com/ This has captures of most of it: https://scannersweep.replit.app/
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Starcraft website "glitching" foreshadows announcement(twitter.com)
7 points by GMoromisato 1mo ago|4 comments
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
I disagree. We're in a multiplayer game, so we're all player characters. I certainly try not to treat others as NPCs in my story.
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
I do agree with this attitude, but the epithet of "being an NPC" is about having someone else--the media, your tribe, your church--governing your behavior without you thinking about it. It's not about being a main character i
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
Everyone is playing hardball. No one wants to be IBM in an IBM-Microsoft dance. But this is kind of like banning GPU exports to China. It will encourage them to develop their own technology. Yes, it will take them longer, but in the long-ru
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
Okay, I admit I underestimated the container ship benefits. 80+ MW is a lot of power and you get easy cooling to boot. Fuel cost is a problem (relative to solar), and you can't do inference on it, but it might make sense for training.
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
I get your point, but there are voluminous primary sources about the moon landings, and yet here we are.
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
Sure, but it's like someone saying, "I could care less" or "I literally died". I understand the meaning, but it's still ugly. And, of course, I should say that this is just how it struck me. Other people may no
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
> How inspiring founders are to students is a function roughly of how rich and famous they are divided by how much older they are than the students. I'm not fond of this kind of math metaphor. "roughly" is doing a lot of w
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
You can't deploy enough solar panels on a container ship to feed the datacenter, and a nuclear reactor, while not impossible, is far more expensive than solar panels. Solar panels are 4x more efficient in space. 2x because of lack of a
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
First time talking to humans? We distinguish murder from killing because the latter is sometimes justified (e.g., in war or self-defense). We justify everything we do.
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
My wife stopped eating octopus after seeing the giant Pacific octopus in the Monterey aquarium. The way it stares at you hints at a real intelligence. Maybe the smaller species aren't that smart, but why take the chance?
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
Are you saying that if space datacenters fail then SpaceX stock will go up ? Then it sounds like you should invest a lot of money in them. ETA: If you had invested $1,000 in 2016 when Tesla Roof was announced, you'd have $25,000 today
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
Anger is useless in this situation. Even if you can identify someone to blame (sama? Elon Musk?) what's your anger going to do to them? How is that going to help you? Feeling angry is drinking poison to hurt the other guy. Uncertainty
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
I meant that weird is different, and different is unaligned. If I have a team and each team member is pushing in a different direction, then we're going to get outcompeted by an aligned team. Of course, often weird/different is ho
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
No. Cooling is probably the easiest problem to solve, easier than power. And in both cases, the problem is solved by mass to orbit. All you need for cooling is a big f-ing radiator. Solar panels are chips, and not trivial to manufacture. Bu
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
Yours is the only valid argument. If space datacenters are not competitive with terrestrial (in terms of megatokens/$ or whatever), then they will never work and SpaceX will fail. That's the whole ball game. But anyone who thinks
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
"Who knows" is the right answer, I think. If (a) demand for AI continues to increase, and (b) SpaceX can get to ~$100/kg to orbit, then they will have a ridiculously deep moat. Probably more like 10 years, though. But as you
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
It's not about being weird--it's about change vs. stasis. The problem with weird is that not everyone can be weird, almost by definition. Moreover, people get things done collectively, and for that to work, the group (at whatever
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
The thing about having children is that you absolutely cannot know what it's like until you actually have them. And then, of course, it's too late. I'm convinced that I would have been happy without children. I would have liv
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
As near as I can tell, their logic is basically: 1. Imagine AI replaces all jobs. 2. Since AI is controlled by a very small number of people, they will be the ones that get all the money, since they are doing all the work. 3. Since there ar
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by GMoromisato 2mo ago
See also: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/tesla-self-drivi...
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Tesla drivers are letting their cars take over(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by GMoromisato 2mo ago|2 comments

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