Lonestar1440

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by Lonestar1440 6mo ago
>I'm not keen on new nuclear (time and cost as much as anything else), but it's a terrible idea to phase out operating nuclear plants which are still safe and within their planned lifetime. Time and Cost seem like excellent rea
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by Lonestar1440 6mo ago
In the case of many teachers, there is no "company". The union fights valiantly against the State, and against the pay structure Voters democratically select for their public servants. Further, I posit that existence of such Union
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by Lonestar1440 6mo ago
> If you have to join a union isn't that essentially a racket? Yes, this is a big part of my critique. I'm no lawyer and can't provide a useful explanation of the "why", but literally every educator I know is in
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by Lonestar1440 6mo ago
The big assumption here is that the Union's interests are, in fact, aligned with You, the Worker. If they're not, then you're just caught between two powerful, unaccountable entities. You have to join the Union, after all.
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by Lonestar1440 6mo ago
Those other companies wouldn't also toss in a purchase option. But I agree that it's hard to articulate what Cursor services you could blow this much money on. Maybe it is all just an option! Or maybe they get a bunch of IP either
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by Lonestar1440 6mo ago
Tokens. Tokens spawning sub agents using more tokens. Maybe some training too. I didn't say it was Wise. I said it seems within possibility for this, very particular, corporation.
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by Lonestar1440 6mo ago
But they also get a whole bunch of AI Services from Cursor. Other comments have noted that xAI has fallen on bad times (idk one way or the other) so perhaps they were going to spend $5B on getting these services elsewhere, anyway. SpaceX sp
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by Lonestar1440 6mo ago
So SpaceX bought a $60B Option on Cursor, plus a bunch of services, for $10B. If strike date comes and Cursor is in fact worth less than $60B... they can move to acquire it for that price. Or just let it "expire". And if it's
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by Lonestar1440 1y ago
There are a great many assumptions in this argument, and I'm not sure they stand up well to examination. 1) "We're out of easily extractable oil" maybe, but I've heard it before and technology does have a way of mar
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by Lonestar1440 1y ago
Overall US Energy production has been expanding, faster, each recent year. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ . This is all before you factor in the recent attention to Nuclear, which could come o
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
> One thing I (in general) miss from those days, was how easy it was to get into modding. I'm generally skeptical about the use cases for current-gen AI, but very hopeful that it can help us get back to this golden age of game Moddi
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
No, we have not even scratched the surface of what current-gen LLMs can do for an organization which puts the correct data into them . If indeed the "GPT 5!" Arms race has calmed down, it should help everyone focus on the possibl
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
I took about 60 credits - ~8 hours per week each school semester - of Computer Science courses back in the mid 00's at a top state school. Besides the 101 Course, heavy on Java syntax; and Software Architecture where one learns the dar
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
I did not hear this, and neither did the median voter. Perhaps that is down to our choice of media diets, but we should take such things as constants when considering political outcomes. I did hear Trump loudly, constantly, inaccurately tal
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
Trump talked about inflation, and his desire to fix it, constantly. Harris did not. Once again, Republicans Show Up and they win by default. Yes, his "plans" are nonsensical, but the opponents decided to forfeit the match!
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
Eye color, unlike Race or Gender, is pretty evenly distributed over the obvious confounding variables like "Age" or "Preference of staying home with children". I'd expect it to be +/- 10%, though probably not &
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
Yes. Do you agree that my point is also correct? Different groups want different things, and have different demographics, and excel in different areas. If we defined the "groups" in a less historically informed way, we'd stil
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
What if Women, on average, prefer to take more time away from work due to having a child than their male partners? And what if "Black" people are, on average, younger than other groups and so are more likely to be in early-career
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
"Patching" is the fundamental reason airgapping isn't a sound solution, IMO. If you're a TLA you can probably find some secure, verifiable, write-only way to transfer patches to your air gapped machines. But for any norm
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
For sure, and I'm glad that the Government's powers don't go any further to truly "censoring" the content regardless of the platform. Even this current order is borderline, hence why I dance around the morality of i
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
Right or wrong, the USG can do more stuff to inhibit foreign corporations operating here than it can to domestically owned ones. I expect we will see that play out as the deadline approaches here.
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
The TikTok ban story deserves more coverage than it's gotten so far, though today might be a turning point. I strongly expect that they will disappear from the main US App stores on 19th January 2025; whether or not I think this is jus
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
Legitimately great product idea, I think? Just the idea of a personalized (truly! by you! Not by MSN or whomever), off-screen news feed every morning is cool. The idea that I could *also replace my alarm clock with a dot matrix printer* is
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
A big reason for my imminent-AGI Skepticism is the fact that our understanding of the currently existing, Biological intelligence is so, so shallow. We're here at "Systems level sketch of a fruit fly brain". It's incredi
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
I didn't write "Democrat Party", I wrote "Democrat-Dominated". I am a registered Democrat. The broader partisan group I belong to are "Democrats" even if the organization formally calls itself the "De
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
I'm a pretty pedantic person, but even I just use one or the other at random. I don't think it's a good idea to read into things like this.
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
This is no way to run a state. The Democrat-dominated legislature passes everything that comes before it (and rejects anything that the GOP touches, in committee) and then the Governor needs to veto the looniest 20% of them to keep us from
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
Sure, you can't make a perfect checklist. But you can, as an organization, choose to follow one and be "Secure by default", with exceptions e.g. "Open a port other than 443 to the Internet" being understood and risk
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
There's an "Ancient Hunters Overlook" in the badlands National Park, where the natives would hunt Buffalo by, well, running them off the overlook. Definitely beats trying your luck with a thrown spear. https://www.
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by Lonestar1440 2y ago
The objection to Regulations, checklists, etc seems to stem from the idea that the Checklist will include 100 useless or worse items (405.i.18: Passwords MUST BE rotated by the user every 30 days) for every good one like "close the dam

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