HighGoldstein

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by HighGoldstein 10mo ago
> Countries like Singapore already figured out that if you pay public servants very well you can attract high quality people to government jobs. I see this argument a lot, but I think it treats people as uniform input-output machines. Si
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by HighGoldstein 10mo ago
> Is a 10" screen that fits in your pocket really useless? Yes, at that point you're better off carrying a small laptop.
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by HighGoldstein 10mo ago
Was there one at the time? My impression is that back then you could either have a language/framework combo that's easy to work with _or_ one that solved all these technical problems, but not both.
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by HighGoldstein 11mo ago
Yes, but the 3rd party dependencies tend to be conveniences rather than foundational. Easier mapping, easier mocking, easier test assertions, so a more security minded company can very easily just disallow their use without major impact. If
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by HighGoldstein 11mo ago
5,995,849.16 m/s
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by HighGoldstein 11mo ago
> They might sell more Windows 11 if it ran on more hardware. How does this make them money? Given the free Win 7/8->10->11 upgrade path, almost every end user who'd want a Windows license probably already has one. This l
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by HighGoldstein 11mo ago
What test would be better correlated with intelligence and why?
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by HighGoldstein 11mo ago
> now that their main revenue source is Azure, not Windows, Visual Studio, and SQL Server licenses. Funnily enough, opening their stack to Linux probably made it easier to sell licenses for everything except Windows, since now you don&#x
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by HighGoldstein 11mo ago
> Everyone also uses Google, YouTube or Instagram. No one would ever pay for any of it though and it is financed through ads. A lot of people already pay for YouTube since the introduction of Premium. Google/Facebook don't push
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
This is an apt comparison since nobody except fringe enthusiasts came back to vinyl.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
I wonder why a package locker needs connectivity to give you a package. Since your package can't be withdrawn again from a different location, partitioning shouldn't be an issue.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
> I read your comment and it strikes me as a cautionary tale that can be used by bad people to justify or push for eugenics: "they took him; they said he developed Alzheimer's". Isn't the point of eugenics to influenc
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
Nvidia might have a secondary crash if cheap GPUs flood the market. Or we get a resurgence of crypto mining, who knows.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
It's a dark pattern. Would you also call it "sensitive" to want to be able to cancel a subscription without going through 3 pages, filling out a form, and convincing a call center worker?
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
The caveat with the Unlicense is that it doesn't work in some jurisdictions, and the work may be considered literally unlicensed, as in nobody except the copyright owner can use it. In practical terms, of course, I doubt anyone using t
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
> The problem, of course, is that it's not possible. But for those politicians, cryptography is pretty much magic. Why wouldn't it be possible? Few, if any, politicians are nuclear physicists, and I'd argue nuclear physics
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
> There is very little practical difference between "understanding" and "reasoning" implemented in human mind and that implemented in LLMs. Source?
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
Violence is not always physical. The likes of Meta have subjected the world to unfathomable violence, but we give them a pass because we can't see the scars with our eyes.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
Given the policies of the current US administration, neither will Anduril.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
> The first three months of childcare are practically memoryless for the child. Source? The fact that you can't remember this period _now_ does not mean it has no impact on a child's development.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
Conceptually no, unless you specifically target end-of-life fatal ailments for some reason. Extending the healthy lifespan is a pretty reliable way to extend overall lifespan.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
Keeping a person _technically_ alive is not that difficult with modern technology. We can circulate blood without hearts, keep the brain-dead "alive", "feed" people intravenously. I don't know the absolute limits of
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
There's always another CoPilot
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
> but in what world would the drives, and not the NAS itself, be stolen? Not to defend Synology, but popping a drive out of the NAS so that it won't be noticed (or noticed much later) is a much easier way to steal data than carrying
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
I wonder if, conversely, authentic media can be falsely watermarked as AI-generated.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
Video evidence of you committing a crime, for example, should be identifiable as AI-generated.
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
To disrupt Valve's business you'd need an offering as good if not better than Steam, something several companies already tried and failed, and on top of that you need to convince everyone with buy-in to switch to your business, an
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
>Her parents also believe that watch circles contributed to Liu’s increasingly unstable emotional state in the run-up to China’s high school entrance exams. With just three months to go, teachers advised that she take a leave of absence
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
Does this mean moving fastest would break infinitely many things?
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by HighGoldstein 1y ago
The problem with fields like IT is that the people who can make unions effective are also already employed and likely making decent money, so they have little or not enough incentive to unionize. The worst thing that can usually happen to t

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