Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>Yeah, but if your intent is to support industry by having cheap energy costs that works out for you Short-term perhaps, but pretending that something expensive is cheap doesn't really work in the long run. Investments are supposed
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>Nuclear seems to only work if nation-states build and operate it directly - no private firm can build them profitably and on time. Nation states are not able to run the plants profitably either, they just don't run out of money. Lo
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>I'm actually not so sure. If the gradient is so steep that the vehicle is struggling to move at all The problem isn't overloading the engine when you go up, it's overheating the brakes when you go down. The reasoning here
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
TSMC can only make about as many Nvidia chips as OpenAI and the other AI guys wants to buy. Nvidia releases gpus made from basically the shaving leftovers from the OpenAI products, which makes them limited in supply and expensive. So gamers
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>How is it ever wrong, though? Whenever you edit something existing that already has the ), ] or } further down and you end up with a ()), []] or {}}. Or when you select some text that you want to replace and start with a quote only to
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>> There are almost 20 million more jobs in the US now than there were 20 years ago >There are 40 million more people in the USA than 20 years ago. Makes sense, 20 million more workers should mean about 40 million more people in to
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
I assure you I have no relentless focus on anything but trying to understand what's going on! There are many problems for sure but I don't understand how they can be solved with faulty explanations! Many people seem convinced that
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>much of the increased productivity has ended up in the hands of a select few. I do agree that wealth is not distributed particularly fairly but I don't understand the idea that it's mostly going to a select few. There are almo
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I think the article is satirizing a strawman. Most of the people being ridiculed are not homeowners looking down their nose at the homeless, they are basically renting from the banks and chained to mortgages. They will become homeless thems
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
Poor phrasing perhaps, my point is that you the human should spend time and effort on the challenging and interesting things, and learning things that have lasting value. Not the boring, tedious and quickly irrelevant things. Remember knock
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
Losing Vue, React, Laravel, Rails, and a myriad of ORM's and other flash-in-the-pan implementations of larger ideas is fine. Lots of empty knowledge calories in IT.
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>The problem is that in too many cases, the LLM will only get so far and you will still have to switch to doing actual programming to get the task finished The LLM makes mistakes sure and isn't a slam dunk tool like a compiler, but
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>Code without AI - sharp skills, your brain works and you come up with better solutions etc. That train of thought leads to writing assembly language in ed. ;-) I think developers as a group have a tendency to spend too much time "i
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
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>If you are saying there is no difference then how do you explain the vast difference in capability between humans and LLM models? No I completely agree that they are different, like swimming and propulsion by propellers - my point is th
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
The point here (which is from a quote by Dijkstra) is that if the desired result is achieved (movement through water) it doesn't matter if it happens in a different way than we are used to. So if an LLM generates working code, correct
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>They have no wit. They do not think or reason. Computers can't think and submarines can't swim.
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
Andor + Rogue one are my favourites from the franchise. It tells a story that the 50 year olds that grew up with SW can appreciate for its depth and intrigue as well as connection to the original films, but leaving the hallowed originals mo
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
Bad times are named "bad" for a reason of course, but there are many sayings - sayings being based on human observations throughout history - along the lines of "every cloud has a silver lining". One that conceptually rh
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
It's a metaphor, "strong" and "weak" refers to the ability to overcome the "hard times", whatever that may be. Basically if you experienced the direct consequences of a "hard time" (a demagogue,
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
>Most people who earn a decent salary are generally against CBI because of their own values around their own working ethic. There is nothing written anywhere that says that work is beneficial to a human being. I'm not against UBI, I
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
It's a poor analogy. Dragons take the gold from the people and kept it from them so it can't be used. The 200 billion that Bezos is assumed to be "worth" is currently in the hands of the people, being used by us. If we w
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
I don't understand arguments against UBI that rest on people not working anymore if they get UBI. A society where UBI is possible surely has to be one where humans no longer have to work. Otherwise it's impossible to finance. I&#x
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
>The only reason we don't have nice things like this: universal housing, healthcare, income, food security, is because a handful of dragons sit on and hoard unfathomably sized mountains of gold This is simply not true. Barring patho
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
>I still wonder what would have happened had Jean-Louis Gassée been less greedy and Apple acquired BeOs instead of Next. I'm pretty sure Apple would have been bankrupt a few months later if they didn't buy back Steve.
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
I can't believe Nike spends 25 dollars on the actual making of the shoes, it just doesn't add up. Nike sneakers regularly sell to consumers for ~25 dollars, in brick-and-mortar stores, in countries that have 20% VAT. Naturally Nik
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
I didn't vote but I guess the downvotes are because it calls the parent claim a "myth" and then goes on to agree with it. The scarcity that made food and housing not free in practice is why monetization (capitalism) ended up
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>I think the core misunderstanding is what is being discussed. I see your point and it's valid for sure, and certainly the prevailing one, but I think it's worth thinking about the absolute values from time to time even in this
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>You seem to be completely confused about why absolute vs relative matters. [..] >This is literally a relative measurement. You cannot reason about Moore's Law in absolute changes. This is exactly my point. I said exactly the sam
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>It was exactly the point I said at the start should be the point of focus. Maybe we're talking past one another, I don't know. I think we do - we agree that the symptom is that we don't experience the same gains now as we

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