Herring

7 ms·

91.
by Herring 8mo ago
That’s true of every criminal org. Enforcers are usually a small percentage of the population, because they are fundamentally businesses. Violence is "expensive" in terms of heat from law enforcement, lost revenue, lower internal
92.
by Herring 8mo ago
You don't know. You just have marketing materials, not independent analysis. Maybe it actually takes 2 years to design and manufacture the hardware, so anything that comes out will be badly out of date. Wouldn't be the first time
93.
by Herring 8mo ago
Ok then I look forward to seeing DeepSeek running instantly at the end of April.
94.
by Herring 8mo ago
If it's so easy to do custom silicon for any model (they say only 2 months), why didn't they demo one of the newer DeepSeek models instead? Using a 2-year model is so bad. I'm not buying it.
95.
by Herring 8mo ago
A recognizable trusted brand is a moat, look it up. OpenAI has that in spades.
96.
by Herring 8mo ago
> The question is why European/Arabs/Africans aren't moving to China. China is terrible at diversity. They don't look like it because they don't have a history of foreign colonialism or slavery like the West. I
97.
by Herring 8mo ago
I think it’s more than that. Surveys show the whole US is gradually becoming more and more unhappy. https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart It’s mainly because income isn’t keeping up with rent/mortgages/healthca
98.
by Herring 8mo ago
Hurting yourself to hurt others is a well-established political practice in America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_in_swimming
99.
by Herring 8mo ago
It's been ~10 years. Everything has been hashed and rehashed to death. America knew exactly who he was on day 1. He came down the stairs calling Mexicans rapists.
100.
by Herring 8mo ago
Yes, the US spends by far the most on healthcare per capita, and still gets the worst outcomes. It's not about throwing money at problems. You have to actually solve them (and want to solve them).
101.
by Herring 8mo ago
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/03/most-peop... Dude everybody knows what happened to your country. It's actually sad/horrific, not hateful.
102.
by Herring 8mo ago
Unfortunately speed often matters when it comes to outcomes. Eg if you get a cancer diagnosis like Jobs, you probably shouldn’t waste a year drinking juices and doing acupuncture.
103.
by Herring 8mo ago
I don’t know which country you’re in, but in the US Trump won the popular vote. Plenty of people here are perfectly happy with Stormfront.
104.
by Herring 8mo ago
> 4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20%+ of all daily commits by the end of 2026. https://newsletter.semianalysis.com&#x2F
105.
by Herring 8mo ago
My compsci brain suggests large orgs are a distributed system running on faulty hardware (humans) with high network latency (communication). The individual people (CPUs) are plenty fast, we just waste time in meetings, or waiting for approv
106.
by Herring 8mo ago
This is the problem with a 2-party system. There's an implicit bias that the truth is democratically in the middle. But in this case, the right wing doesn't know how to solve its own problems. Since the end of WW2, Democratic admi
107.
by Herring 8mo ago
FDR was hugely successful, but part of the reason we still don't have universal healthcare is conservative southern democrats decided it was a threat to segregation. FDR tried to take them out, but couldn't. In contrast the right
108.
by Herring 8mo ago
Obvious question: How is she going to get anything past the gridlocked Congress and hostile Supreme Court? Obama often couldn't after the midterms, and it's much worse this time.
109.
by Herring 8mo ago
Last time it took a huge depression to get people to start working together (FDR's socialism lite). I think part of the problem is capitalism itself. Most US companies are run like tiny little fascist dictatorships, which is a great tr
110.
by Herring 8mo ago
Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (welfare, healthcare, unionization, high taxes
111.
by Herring 8mo ago
Software bloat is not a failure for Apple. It is a mechanism that drives the hardware upgrade cycle.
112.
by Herring 8mo ago
I get what you’re saying, I’m saying you don’t know if the keyboard problems are affecting 0.3% or 30%. The internet makes both of those look the same, and yes Apple can’t be trusted. If we’re doing anecdotes I have no issues with my keyboa
113.
by Herring 8mo ago
I think it’s like Amazon reviews. Nobody has a 100% rating, there’s always something, and that’s what gets the attention.
114.
by Herring 8mo ago
Cheers, mate.
115.
by Herring 8mo ago
I'm not sure. Most of it is not even on the logs, it's followed up elsewhere. You can try something like this on Gemini 3 Pro: > Break down aspects of the economy by amenability to state control high/medium/low, base
116.
by Herring 8mo ago
I think that's obvious from the discussion so far? It broadens my horizons. YMMV. Ask the bot for supporting evidence, and follow up on google/wikipedia.
117.
by Herring 8mo ago
Don't assume everyone is like you. I'm an early adopter and I know how to scaffold it. I generally love the bleeding edge in all things, and I'm increasingly sure it's an actual talent to be able to quickly adapt to unfa
118.
by Herring 8mo ago
Not that guy, but for me it's something like Tensorflow/Pytorch. A domain-specific language for a scientific application, Python API with a Rust core for very fast/safe calculations. It has all kinds of bells & whistles y
119.
by Herring 8mo ago
Don't be so sure about that. These days I'm already finding it 100x easier/informative to have complicated charged discussions (eg immigration) with Gemini than with actual people. It's day and night. Accountability migh
120.
by Herring 8mo ago
> That means there is never time to integrate, leading to cultural clashes and second class labor. That's a far-right talking point. It's not true. The US has been wholesale importing immigrants for a long time and benefiting

More ›