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by Sabinus 1mo ago
It all comes down to how aligned the benchmarks are with what you want the model to do. If it's close, good performance. If it's not, unpredictable performance.
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by Sabinus 1mo ago
No it isn't. The 3k goes to the consumer to buy the battery from their preferred/cheapest global supplier, not to Australian manufacturing.
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by Sabinus 1mo ago
Why are power plants considered centralised but the extraction, transport and refining of oil isn't? With the renewable power revolution, do you think solar panels and batteries are going to be more or less centralised than oil extract
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by Sabinus 1mo ago
The other thing to keep in mind is the Chinese, quite reasonably, don't have a lot of faith that the Russian government they make deals with and invest in now will be the same one honouring those deals and investments next decade. Russ
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
dangs moderation here is pretty good and I think that helps.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
I don't think it's fair to characterise the Cold War was an ego thing. Global authoritarian communism wouldn't have been a good time for the vast majority.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
I've seen it here on HN (it's particularly noticeable via the /active page) multiple times. If Google, OpenAI or Anthropic release something significant, odds are good you'll see a headline from one of the others.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
The problem with that is, eventually the conspiracy people think that there's no good answer to what they're saying. That, and all the undecided lurkers reading pages of unchallenged conspiracy.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
No, I'm explaining to you that accidental civilian casualties in a war is a normal part of the terrible activity that is war. Good soldiers with the best of intentions will kill civilians in a war, because war is chaotic and very dange
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
It actually is a bad experience to live under a totalitarian regime in fear of disappearing forever if you said the wrong thing to the wrong person. And it's kinda weird you're minimising that.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Why would they need due process? They weren't the targets and their deaths were accidental collateral damage.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Why are you citing these as cases of terrorism and murder when the American citizen wasn't the target? Collateral damage happens in missile strikes.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Does Israel actually have the capacity to target the whole of Hamas with those small accurate bombs, as they get intelligence on them? If Hamas is in the basement can the small bomb get them? And if they forgo the opportunity will it be pos
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
A firm belief that one is doing the right thing is incredibly protective of mental health in war. Ukrainian drone pilots have few doubts about what future they're working towards and what one they're preventing when they kill Russ
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Should the whole of the military quit because the American people were x enough to elect Trump?
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Civilians die in wars, and that's with the best intentions of all parties to the conflict. If one or both has got radicalised, then a lot of civilians die in war.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
"Reporter commissions a (successful) penetration test (of cheap Chinese hardware)" isn't quite as catchy I guess
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
From the perspective of the data centre guys, efficiency gains make (over)spend on data centres even more worthwhile. The more efficiency gains there are the more work the datacentres can do, and the more money they make.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
"massive bombing" is irrelevant. They either have the capacity to achieve their war goals or they don't and the bombing is not achieving US goals. We're apparently up to "asking around for creative solutions"[1
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Well I was assured by his supporters that he was a smart and successful businessman and 'very stable genius' so I'm sure this won't end in economic disaster and national humiliation.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
If this had been a Democrat admin, can you imagine the derision from the Republicans of 10 years ago? To start a war, get 6 months in, and start asking around for ways to win? Seriously? I can taste the outrage it would have been. But now
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
I remember reading here about the viruses that would uninstall themselves if they detected a Cyrillic language configured on the OS.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
The only two people here still defending Trump's Iran war are doing it from fresh throwaway accounts. It's not looking good.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Security concerns aside, it's a big part of why the Chinese don't like it so much. Same with the Russians and Ukraine. It's embarrassing for nationalist narratives if there's a group of your people that prosper under the
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
And what happens to the loyalty system Xi created after he dies? It will have been in power for decades by then.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
>But I don’t really care who wins anyway, I’m not sure why I’m even engaging here. The democrats are so far from the 2008 version that you don't care if they lose? That Trump's activities are as bad as Biden's?
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
I wonder how well they would go if you could target your donation. Humble bundle did this and I appreciated it.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Donate to both but archive.org has a higher priority.
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
It's more subtle than that. Trump says so many varied and contradicting things with extremely varying levels of seriousness that any voter could squint at what he said and done, read their hopes and dreams into it and then think he&#x2
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by Sabinus 2mo ago
Remember this is the internet, obvious sarcasm doesn't necessarily come across, and the understanding ingroup may be a fraction of the people that read it.

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