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by K0balt 1y ago
TBF the amount of gas used in old style pilots is really tiny. I’m sure it’s possible to accumulate dangerous quantities somehow, perhaps in a sealed subterranean basement if using propane instead of natural gas. Natural gas is mostly metha
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by K0balt 1y ago
Except it -wasn’t- designed that way. Citizens United made that change, prioritizing capital over people and creating the incentive alignment that precipitated a soft coup that we are witnessing the results of now, both in the USA and abroa
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’m curious, how so?
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by K0balt 1y ago
>> they give incorrect but plausible answers about 5-10% of the time. This describes most of the human population as well. Why do we expect machines to be more accurate and perfect in their correctness than humans before we say they a
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by K0balt 1y ago
If you’re hiring dumb senior engineers you’re holding it wrong lol. Using LLMs is a lot like delegating to a team from a skills perspective, so it favors extensive domain knowledge. You don’t just commit whatever it writes, just like you w
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’ve had good results with jlcpcb and I push their manufacturing limits a little bit now and then to get the miniaturization I need. 0402, 5mills, tight vias, small BGA no bad boards yet (n~1000). Tried pcba too, worked, but a small sample
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by K0balt 1y ago
It would need to be ported, but the Talkie library for the AVR / STM / SAMD / ESP, with its roots dating back to the TI speak and spell toy, gets a phenome engine with a good vocabulary into less than 8k. It’s not musical th
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by K0balt 1y ago
It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t unbearable to read.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Depends on the length of the key vs the message, but if the pad is 100 percent and has something approaching a random distribution, and the message length is suitably padded, and the results roll over in a modulo that is close to the inform
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by K0balt 1y ago
Off topic, but the idea that the “violence” of ideas, where the only thing in play is your point of view, is somehow equatable to physical violence, where physical integrity is at risk, is one of the least endearing features of the 21st cen
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by K0balt 1y ago
That’s a lot of confidence with a vanishingly small amount of evidence. I am constantly accused of being an AI for articles I blogged more than 20 years ago. I use—still—em dashes whenever I feel like they are better than commas, parenthese
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by K0balt 1y ago
The remote controls for Apple TV are among the all time worst peripherals I have ever used. Remotes aren’t hard. They reinvented the wheel by making it rectangular.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Exactly this. I often feel plagiarized by AI.
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by K0balt 1y ago
If you were talking about some essays I wrote in the early 2000s, you’d be buttering your Stetson. It’s hilarious to me that several of my blog posts from 20 years ago have been called out as AI generated lol.
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s becoming a trend to buy a Blu-ray drive and buy movies on eBay. You can get collections for a buck a movie, and most top movies can be bought for 6 dollars. People are waking up to the ripoff cycle of “ owning” digital media where thin
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by K0balt 1y ago
Long form engineering tasks aren’t doable yet without supervision. But I can say in our shop, we won’t be hiring any more junior devs, ever, except as (in my region, free) interns or because of some extraordinary capabilities, insights, or
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by K0balt 1y ago
I may have missed the target of this reference, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The CD definitely seems to be gaining traction in the last decade.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, it’s definitely some kind of new chapter. It’s reducing hiring, and will drive unemployment, no matter what people are saying. It’s a poison pill in a way, since no one will hire junior staff anymore. The reliance on AI will skyrocke
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’m with you on the energy and limitations, and even on the moving of goalposts. I’d like to add that I think limit definition of AGI has jumped the shark though and is already at ASI, since we expect our machine to exhibit professional lev
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by K0balt 1y ago
We will never achieve AGI, because we keep moving the goalposts. SOTA models are already capable of outperforming any human on earth in a dizzying array of ways, especially when you consider scale. Humans also produce nonsensical, useless o
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by K0balt 1y ago
You’re right that my generalization was overly broad when taken out of context, as you have, but I don’t think that anything I was saying can be interpreted in good faith to mean that I assert that things were better in pre history or even
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by K0balt 1y ago
If we are just going to be serious here, the morphology of females differs significantly from males, and there are well documented behavioral biases that have been shown to predate or even defy socialization time and time again. Just becaus
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by K0balt 1y ago
Depends on the funding level.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Pretty sure moby dick is fictional, but yeah, sort of. Stories often embellish on IRL accounts.
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by K0balt 1y ago
“Geologists sufficiently paid to afford both their typically substantial weed intake and still afford a home”
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by K0balt 1y ago
Only source is that I’ve been a sometimes-mariner and cruising family captain since the 80s, hearing about the reports on the cruiser HF nets, and gradually witnessing a change from often aggressive , sometimes disastrous encounters to most
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by K0balt 1y ago
Governments are universally based in having a relative monopoly of coercive force. It would be fascinating to explore alternatives, where the coercion was based in algorithms, AI, or other systems relatively free from perverse incentives. P
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by K0balt 1y ago
Perhaps they heard about orcas attacking boats (again), and are working on maintaining good relations with a species that they can’t help but notice impacts their wellbeing. Orcas (and whales in general) attacking boats died off steeply aft
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by K0balt 1y ago
While I’m down with the spirit of your idea, What keeps your app from being banned on the App Store as well? As an unbannable alternative, Make the web app trivially hostable, and use IPFS as a data backend maybe?
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by K0balt 1y ago
Unfortunately, somebody figured out that if they put cocaine in boot polish, people kneel and lick easily.

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