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by Joeri 3y ago
https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-04/twitter-complying-mo...
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Does that also hold up for the bottom quintile?
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Just because we can’t imagine the jobs that would exist in an AI future doesn’t mean they won’t be there. And there are many ways this thing plays out where we don’t get a world of cheap AI abundance where the AI provides without limit. If
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Yours is a pretty common take I see among climate skeptics, and it's getting downvoted without serious rebuttals, so I'll try a serious rebuttal. 1. If you're not seeing how it's already happening, maybe you don't w
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And in even more fairness, privacy was not the reason Threads didn’t launch in the EU. It is in violation of the digital markers act, not GDPR. The leveraging of market power in one platform to boost another platform is what is at fault, an
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I love it, wouldn’t want to program without it. The small quirks in editing are vastly outweighed by the improved readability of the code. Luckily we can each have our own way and still work on the same code.
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The inflection point was later. Significant client-side logic in javascript was not a thing until gmail and google maps showed the way in 2004/2005. Even then it wasn’t until jquery in 2006 that the ball really started rolling. The bro
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by Joeri 3y ago
The best place to start is the localllama subreddit. The install guide describes text generation webui, a generic frontend for multiple ways of running models locally, and llama.cpp, a way of running llama-derived models locally on CPU from
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We just did the lightweight version of that, moved from a major city to the beach, but still in a beach town. It came about due to my wife’s midlife crisis induced by major (now solved) health problems. We’ve lived at the beach for three we
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Refugees have a selection mechanism as well because you have to be enterprising and resourceful to travel all the way to the EU. The US became big by taking in the unwashed masses fleeing Europe, and I think much of its entrepreneurial spir
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China and Russia do not build and run nuclear power plants at dramatically lower costs, despite having none of those handicaps. Edit: Hmm, actually, I find wildly diverging LCOE numbers in different locations online. Some indicate they buil
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As long as other satellites keep being launched into higher but not geosync orbits doesn't that provide a steady supply of junk to navigate around?
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So basically we’re inventing the holodeck, and people are freaking out as if it is the end of acting. The holodeck does characters better than humans, but they still go to plays on the enterprise. There will always be humans willing to act
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You’re not watching Harrison Ford, you’re watching Indiana Jones in a purer form than today’s Harrison Ford is able to play him. In a universe without digital trickery they would have recast the character and rebooted the series. For an act
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Germany would have lost to Russia, they were already being beaten back when D-day happened. Europe would have become a communist dictatorship, not a german one.
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Everyone here seems to be missing an important detail and that is ppi. That 800x600 screen was probably running on a 14 inch monitor at an effective ppi of 70, with much larger text and clearly visible pixels. Take a 14 inch laptop and maxi
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You can slow things down, but not by more than a few years, because of the gradual democratization of training foundation models. Right now training a model competitive with chatgpt can be done for $150K (microsoft orca 13b). In a few years
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I’m wondering about the failure rate for technology companies. It may be higher or lower than restaurants, I have no intuitions.
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That soldered ram is indeed a killer, and the transition can be quite sudden. We have a 2014 macbook air with 4gb of soldered ram, and my kid was fine using it for office and browsing, until at one point he suddenly wasn’t. The ram footprin
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Windows pro managed through intune should give you that control, though it is a bit of an awkward path for a single user.
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Fundamentally defects are deviations between a user’s expected behavior and actual system behavior. That presumes there is an understanding of what users expect, and while a spec can model that, a spec can also bake rules in stone that brea
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I’ve been burned by this often enough that the more investment a new product takes on the less likely I am to use it. Take notion, 300 million in funding at a 10 billion valuation. At an average $10 a month they need a billion user months t
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It is hard to take those town square remarks seriously when his actions have pushed so many people off of the platform. Twitter was always a harsh place for moderate voices, and the lack of moderation has made it even less hospitable. Killi
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Taking your question seriously, I would say mike masnick has the definitive answer: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you... By the way, Twitter under Elon supposedly obeys more governm
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I still don’t understand what Elon is trying to do. If you had asked me before he bought it what twitter’s core problems were I would have said “poorly moderated toxicity”, “lack of conversational depth”, “high friction onboarding”, and “ex
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Generally apple picks the optimal ppi and they don’t market the ppi value, only that it’s “retina”. They will prefer odd resolutions over suboptimal ppi. For example, the m2 macbook air is 2560 by 1664 at 224 ppi. The maximum ppi you can ge
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Uber and doordash yes, they operate a physical business with large costs per customer transaction. Twitter and reddit? No, I disagree. Those businesses should be relatively cheap to host (compared to ad revenue) with focused management and
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So the article claims that the housing construction boom that ended at the second WW led to a massive stock of housing, which has since declined due to planning issues, leading to a shortage of housing and therefore a rise in prices. This d
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The magic keyboard is ok. The layout is subpar and it lacks a tiny bit of travel for a thin-style keyboard (.2 mm extra would do it I think), but overall it is nicely built, reliable and easy to clean. Going to that from a thinkpad keyboard
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With inflation install costs staying flat is actually a price decrease.

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