Miraste

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by Miraste 3y ago
That's why I say ruined the school system instead of specifying remote schooling/closures. I think the damage was holistic. Certainly it was at the post-secondary level. Standards were dropped, instructors quit, students stopped c
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by Miraste 3y ago
From what I've seen, significant loss of brain function is restricted to severe cases, which did not happen at scale in children. It's much more likely that ruining the school system for two years caused reduced educational outcom
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by Miraste 3y ago
I don't follow. Could you expand on that?
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>if they cheat they are only cheating themselves anyways. I've heard people say this a lot. It's a very old-school liberal arts perspective that doesn't fit with the modern world. In practice, for most students, education
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by Miraste 3y ago
>it’ll be great when llms have, by default, a bit of persistent memory to remember things like this ChatGPT already has this (not sure if it's Plus-only). In your user profile, there's a "Custom Instructions" entry wh
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by Miraste 3y ago
No one would want that in a flight sim unless real planes start working that way, which we should all hope they don't.
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by Miraste 3y ago
I think it is a hardware limitation--the monitor operates at a fixed frequency, and adjustments to the image only change the amplitude of the signal.
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by Miraste 3y ago
Being wary of large corporate engines is a good piece of advice. "Make a game engine from scratch" is a terrible recommendation and shouldn't be linked to the first one. Every dollar and hour spent on a custom engine isn&#x27
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by Miraste 3y ago
The war in Iraq was quick and decisive. The occupation afterwards was a mess in every way possible, but the organized war between states went exactly as planned.
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by Miraste 3y ago
The German military prior to WWI had far, far more political power than the US military in 2003. Voltaire's famous line "Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state" didn't change in the intervening c
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by Miraste 3y ago
The idea is that the company normally prices their products at the intersection of supply and demand, where there is maximum profit. When supply is artificially constrained, they raise prices to the corresponding spot on the curve. This is
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by Miraste 3y ago
The rather soulless economics answer is that the companies want to make the same profit as before the inflation, so they need higher margins on individual sales to make up for the reduction in volume. Since demand doesn't drop, this is
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by Miraste 3y ago
The user won't leave simply because the product doesn't work; they'll leave if they believe it won't work. For dating apps, tricking users is more profitable than trying to match them. Hence all the psychological warfa
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by Miraste 3y ago
There are plenty of vaccines and treatments you can't get because they're not profitable to manufacture.
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by Miraste 3y ago
Right, and Zen (I'm assuming you mean Zen) was great--but it succeeded only because Intel did nothing for years and put themselves in a position to fail. If Intel had tried to improve their products instead of firing their senior engin
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by Miraste 3y ago
At the risk of eating my words later: AMD will never be competitive with Nvidia. They don't have the money, the talent, or the strategy. They haven't had a competitive architecture at the top end (i.e. enterprise level) since the
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by Miraste 3y ago
There isn't one, that's what's so annoying. There are a lot of Pi-likes, but nothing with the same level of support and enthusiasm the Pi used to have. The community has just withered.
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by Miraste 3y ago
I blame it on Nvidia's product segmentation falling apart. Only a few years ago, the 1060, 1070, 1080, and Titan Xp had price differences that matched their performance differences. In their current lineup, buying anything that isn&#x2
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by Miraste 3y ago
Why don't they? The current market price is 3 or 4 times the MSRP and has been for years--the Raspberry Pi has lost its place as the affordable hobbyist board. I suppose it would be admitting defeat, but if they'd actually pay for
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by Miraste 3y ago
I'm surprised languages aren't more of a focus in the LLM hype. They're like if Rosetta Stone ads were true. They translate at state of the art levels, but you can also give and ask for context, and they're trained on na
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by Miraste 3y ago
22 years later, and the only one of those problems I haven't seen on Linux recently is broken wifi.
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by Miraste 3y ago
>the simplification to 4 computer types was later attributed to Jobs once Gil was out. Amelio simplified the product categories down to four. They were still full of garbage--Jobs made the real difference there. He got rid of all the tra
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by Miraste 3y ago
There's a distinction missing here. Rumsfeld's Transformation idea was correct with regard to the invasion, which was one of the most successful invasions in history, period. No one has ever taken over such a large country, so fa
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by Miraste 3y ago
There's no bullet to dodge. Minus human intervention, the next ice age would be in 50,000 years. Humanity will be either some unrecognizable scifi trope or, more likely, long gone by then. Planning for it is pointless. The time scales
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by Miraste 3y ago
I don't think USB-C is as bad as its reputation. Yes, it's tough to find a cable that will carry data and video signals and high voltage charging. But how does that compare with the alternatives? You can't do it with Lightnin
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by Miraste 3y ago
Notably, Lightning is designed to do the opposite. Whoops, the 1 cent connector broke, time for a new iPhone.
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by Miraste 3y ago
So does Bing, but somehow giving it network access made it worse than ChatGPT at everything.
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by Miraste 3y ago
I don't trust the zero-click results at all any more. I recently had to fill out a form for the DMV that required my county code. To find out, I of course googled it, and wrote down the knowledge box result. This turned out to be the w
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On jumping in, you can get cold water shock, which can cause involuntary gasping and loss of muscle control, leading to immediate drowning. The water doesn't even have to be that cold.
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by Miraste 3y ago
iCloud backup is not E2E encrypted anywhere by default, although it does now have the option to turn it on in non-China countries.

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