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by Slartie 3y ago
Yeah, sure, if we had been forced to continue remote teaching for a few more years, we'd probably still do it. But that's not exactly the definition of "earn its place": if you do something just because the alternative t
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by Slartie 3y ago
Here's my prediction: 2025 predictions by the Amazon CTO will not be written by the Amazon CTO, but by an LLM.
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by Slartie 3y ago
Well, he promoted remote learning in 2021 to "earn its place" in schools. Reality: absolutely everywhere, remote learning has been a shit-show which no one, not the parents, nor the kids, nor the teachers, wants to ever repeat. Al
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by Slartie 3y ago
That's not the fundamental problem of all AI research. That's the fundamental problem of all software engineering! Especially integration complexity is todays' biggest complexity in any significantly complex product. And you
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by Slartie 3y ago
The silicon whip, which is the main pain-inducing device (the heat is laughable, and the electric shocks are painful but don't do permanent damage) was changed against a new one and disinfected before being re-used by the next player.
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by Slartie 3y ago
I would agree with this comment, except for the last part. Antitrust law enforcement is not the critical part. Uniform market size is. The US has a lead on software mostly due to an inherent advantage of having a large domestic market with
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by Slartie 3y ago
None of these companies except Nokia and Skype were even bought out by US companies. And those two are not exactly huge losses for Europe. The entire comment is BS. The US doesn't have that much of a lead when it comes to hardware, esp
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by Slartie 3y ago
It is also not a US company. Where it's listed doesn't matter much. It matters where a) headquarters and other significant physical presences are located and b) where the majority shareholders reside. In that regard it is largely
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by Slartie 3y ago
Browsers are just a window to display web apps and pages, though. And these display identically in Chrome as they do in Firefox. Hence the interactions, which 95% of the time are with the web app, not the browser, are practically identical
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by Slartie 3y ago
GPUs (and AI chips) are highly parallel, containing thousands upon thousands of the same compute units. The performance of these chips is very much dependent on having a sheer number of transistors to form into as many compute units as pos
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by Slartie 3y ago
Let me guess: you are not regularly playing multiplayer computer games? I totally feel hgs3's confusion when reading the discussion here or that website. I always confuse the use cases - "are they now talking about computer games,
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by Slartie 3y ago
True. Where is this crazy habit of American consumers winning absurd amounts of money in court for big corp faults of extremely varying severity when you need it just once to stop an actually severe practice?
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by Slartie 3y ago
One is monitoring my trash bins in the backyard and generating visual output of emptying times, current location of the bins, alerts if they are still in the backyard but are scheduled to be emptied tomorrow (in which case I need to move th
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by Slartie 3y ago
I would definitely add Star Trek - The Next Generation to that list as well. One of the great classics in my opinion.
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by Slartie 3y ago
Lots of moving, mechanical parts, all handcrafted and hand-wired, machines built in small production runs (only a few thousand machines of a specific type usually) - there's just not too much room for the typical optimization approache
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by Slartie 3y ago
I've implemented some sort of "poor man's Docker" using LD_PRELOAD, back then in 2011 when Docker wasn't a thing. It works by overriding getaddrinfo (IIRC) and capturing name lookups of "localhost", which
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by Slartie 3y ago
As far as I know, Dart was created beforehand in order to "replace" Javascript. That did never work out, it never got any real traction, so Dart eventually stumbled around without any real purpose. Then Flutter came, used Dart (be
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by Slartie 3y ago
In the grand scheme you are correct - there is enough US corporations' tech in ASML machines so that the US government has enough leverage to force ASML to comply with its export restrictions. But your details aren't exactly right
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by Slartie 3y ago
A domain is not a trademark. If you own a trademark, you can sue the holder of the corresponding domain to get it. The domain grabbing business works not by trademark grabbing, but by offering the domain a little cheaper (and quicker) than
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by Slartie 3y ago
Just not using a trademark is not possible. You must use and actively defend it in order to keep it. An unused trademark can be reported for deletion by competitors. Otherwise anyone with money could just trademark billions of auto-generate
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by Slartie 3y ago
Then wait until Musk's minions have removed every occurrence. They will act quickly, because Musk fires them if he finds Twitter anywhere on X's site in a week or so. The thing is: Zuckerberg just has to act faster than the collec
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by Slartie 3y ago
If I was Zuckerberg, I'd rename Threads into Twitter tomorrow. Get the Twitter brand deregistered because of inactivity now that Musk officially abandoned it, then immediately register it for himself. Sue Musk for the domain right afte
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by Slartie 3y ago
Musk xed [axed] Twitter. Sounds plausible to me.
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by Slartie 3y ago
That's not exactly the complexity of typical software that must solve an actual, difficult, business problem. Wake me up when ChatGPT is able to write and maintain a POS system, or an online store with attached fulfillment management.
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by Slartie 3y ago
The rationale behind buying PC monitors for gaming purposes is very different from the rationale behind buying TVs. As a PC gamer, you take your GPU into account when choosing a monitor. Doesn't help to buy a huge screen, even if it‘s
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by Slartie 3y ago
Until someone asks the first model to pretend to be a user asking another LLM for its secret prompt ;-)
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by Slartie 3y ago
This. People are perfectly able to install and run their own PostgreSQL databases, or Kafka brokers. The software is free and doesn't need much resources. Still, MSFT is selling its PostgreSQL-as-a-service and Not-quite-Kafka-but-simil
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by Slartie 3y ago
I have glued BLE beacons onto my trash cans in the backyard and written a Python program for a Raspberry Pi that uses its Bluetooth interface to detect the beacons and keep track of whether they are present or not. It also downloads the tra
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by Slartie 3y ago
I did a similar thing, trying to shortcut finding some rather obscure information in the Java JNI specs, which is a similarly "readable" huge bunch of documents as the USB 2.0 spec (which I also happen to have touched a few times,
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by Slartie 4y ago
Nuking the country right next to your country sure seems like a great idea. Cause everyone knows that radiation stops at the border!

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