PittleyDunkin

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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
...if AGI is even a meaningful concept. I'm deeply skeptical.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
>This comment makes it seem like all this company does is take, which feels unfair to me Profit isn't far removed from theft, so maybe this shouldn't feel so unfair.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> I really chuckled about how the blog post opens with how great Rusts open-source ecosystem is, and ends with an "anyway, we made our software private and proprietary" I mean that's been the prevalent attitude for the ent
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Took like 5 minutes to compile it all TBF this has nothing to do with dependency complexity and everything to do with semantic complexity. You could easily do this without using any dependencies at all. unless you're downloading d
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
What are you comparing this to? Do you have positive examples? This seems to be a general dependancy management issue unrelated to rust—the reason C++ has this is that C++ also lacks any concept of dependencies, so people kind of just make
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Zed seems to be a gui-oriented editor here: https://zed.dev/
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> To build an embedding for a human means to build an approximate map of entities within a metric space. We do this all the time, for example unsupervised clustering of related entities (for example species classification based on visibl
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> I can trace my entire career to reading a single paper by doing this very tediously (it gets easier; eventually, you build an embedding and every paper is really just another point in hypothesis space). Tangential, but it really annoys
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> sleep is when you clear out waste products in your brain. It's unfortunately more complicated than this: we also clear out the same waste products in our brain during wakefulness. Mostly at a higher rate, too. Perhaps there'
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Who cares? the situation is the same regardless: china wants taiwan, taiwan doesn't want to be a part of china, and the single largest factor blocking china from taking taiwan is TSMC. Not the american navy, not sanctions, not anything
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Yea, this definitely explains the comment.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Their bring-to-market strategy for products is basically "Spend billions a year on developing random things" and then "OK, it's been a year, cancel 1/2 of them". This evidently doesn't apply to their
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Bruh, you're never gonna be a good trad wife as a man. You're just not that pretty.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Yes, google workspace has never been worth it. The difference is that people can easily understand the value of the products they aren't using.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
It's also worth noting that TikTok has the "TikTok Shop" that allows people to sell directly through the app. Perhaps this allows them to rely less heavily on advertising. I certainly see virtually zero ads on the app. Ideall
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
This is honestly kind of shocking. Do you just avoid looking up any kind of political video?
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Why not compete with microsoft by not pushing AI? This allows costs to stay low while making customers happier.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Forcing you to pay for features you never asked for and won't use. I'm sure this will work out great for google in the long term.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
What Europe wants is not necessarily profitability but rather resilience. You can't leave this kind of decision up to the irrationality of market forces. So—you're correct, germany (or the EU) should subsidize chips if they want
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
There's also the fact that every single fab opened outside of Taiwan reduces Taiwan's national security.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
What a ridiculous thing to say about the home of ASML.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I really wish they would have identified Gaia as some kind of satellite. Gaia is also a name for Earth itself.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> I'm skeptical that the algorithm is actually "better" and it's not just that the end users have fed TikTok a ton more data points about their personal likes and dislikes. I've watched probably 1000s of hours of
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> The UI is better than TikTok ever was I cannot disagree more. I just scroll on tiktok and tiktok populates the scrolling with videos I want to see, and it takes about ten minutes to signal to tiktok what content you like and don't
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
At least in my neighborhood these aren't dedicated turning lanes. Most people do pull into the bike lane to make the turn. Instead, the traffic shifts between straight (which leaves open an opportunity to cross) and right turns (which
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> In my experience, it's because they didn't actually see you Are we supposed to simply assume that nobody ever reads any application we send in? I don't see how this works out anyway but negatively for the company. If I d
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Where do you go if you're a talented American and your own country continually does not want to pay for your talent? China is the only country that pays even remotely competitively. Yes, even including all the nice benefits of liv
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Right, but free models you run on your local computer are just as good for 99% of use cases and don't cost an arm and a leg.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Well, what's the alternative? Live in some poor country with a happy and contented existence? Fuck no, I want money: happiness is for suckers

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