WarmWash

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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Nobody does a 6 month bootcamp so they can get into a fastener engineering career making $85k/yr.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
I own paper money that is pretty easy to copy and worth far more than the paper it's on...
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
It's rare that judge's overturn jury verdicts, compared to other judge's verdicts. The constitution leans a lot on jury verdicts, and judges tend to respect that.
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
AI aside, if we just look at other engineering disciplines in mature sectors, the future is not bright(er). No fully paid golden cadillac benefits packages (for your dog too!), no twice daily uber eats comps, no $150k entry level, no unlimi
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
I'm sensing in reality that behind the scenes there is a difficult trade-off between quantization and usage limits. You can have a "smart" model but poor limits, or good limits and a "dumb" model. This seems very si
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
I remember getting wound up about latency and server issues playing counter-strike in the early '00s. At the same time though, it was hard to justify being angry because playing a multiplayer game with friends who were scattered all ov
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by WarmWash 5mo ago
Look at a picture of the Pantheon, the dome isn't as dome-like as you would imagine. It's more like a hump shape.
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
Its funny because (at least years ago) accidents would get posted on /r/idiotsincars , and like clockwork everyone would pile on the idiot in the car. However sometimes the dashcam would be from a motorcyclist, and the video would
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
One of the biggest challenges with self driving cars is that the cars must be substantially safer than human driven cars. Human driven cars kill tons of people. Everyday in the US 115 people wake up who will be dead from a car accident by
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
The irony in this is that the image of exploited labor is always minimum wage workers, or dead end job workers, generally the lowest rungs of the labor ladder. However the reality is that the most economically exploited labor is generally t
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
I don't think Google does, they are way too massive, disorganized, and "by the book" for something like that. Also AI isn't life or death for them. Besides they own 15% of Anthropic and cutting massive compute deals with
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
>The problem is that the ad vendors couldn't keep it in their pants. You might not know, many people don't, that ad vendors came to the table little over a decade ago to make a truce with Ad Block Plus. ABP and advendors both s
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
Europe is in a borderline catastrophic economic situation. I wouldn't use them as an example, because it ultimately just illustrates my point more. Lots of people are aware of Europes excellent quaility of life, far far fewer (but than
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
>It seems to me a case that echoes “better to let 9 guilty men go free than to execute an innocent man”. Of course, in this case, the ratios are actually reversed. Should we execute 9 innocent men to make sure that 1 guilty guy gets puni
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
The answer is to simply pay for stuff. There is no viable model where "have stuff but not pay for it" works out.
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
This website is an ad for Ycombinator. It's in no way, shape, or form a charity place for devs to hang out. It's a feeding ground to lure tech people into a mega VCs pastures. When you click "news.ycombinator.com" you
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
If there is one thing free riders are generally skilled at, it's hiding the fact they are free riding. There is then an internal decay where as others learn the tricks, they realize that they can start coasting too, and they should, be
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
The conversion from viewer to donator is around 1%. This is true from wikipedia, to twitch, to podcasts. The number of people who will not ever load your ads is around 30%. I can tell you that creators talk about this a lot in private, bu
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
On the whole, about 35% of internet users are ad-blocking. In the tech space it's upwards of 70%. It's in no way, shape, or form "small scale", and has fundamentally changed the the very nature of the internet for the wo
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
Choosing not to look at an ad, and blocking it are different things. One is totally ok, the other incurs a monetary loss on the creator. Those services aren't free to run, and the content doesn't take zero time to create. It also
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
>But US unions seem to exist nearly exclusively to protect people who don’t want to work. They don't exist for that reason, but their inevitable ground state is that. The fundamental and intractable problem with any form of socializ
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
It's never been a problem with people ad-blocking for the last 20 years, why is it suddenly a problem now? We've been celebrating denying creators revenue for decades... Maybe this is just the internet hypocricy of "When I do
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
Any person on earth with internet can use google's standard suite of products with no money necessary. I'm not aware of any other company that did it before them, on the scale that they did it. That is straight out of the progress
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
Upload all the needed forms, upload the forms to be filled, but output instead to a spreadsheet instead of trying to get the model to fill out the .pdfs. I then manually filled out the forms from the spreadsheets.
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
In an alternate universe Google is like the Apple of the internet, where it has a bunch of premium services with the customer at the center. The flip side is that having a Google account is a status symbol, and very few people on Earth can
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
Efficiency gains have been so intense that old hardware is still viable for serving brand new mid size models.
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
Gemini and GPT did my (non-trivial) taxes this year. They're going to be laying off way more than 3k people.
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
Google made an egalitarian web, where money doesn't matter and attention does. A currency that everyone on Earth richest to poorest has a roughly equal amount of. I think almost everyone takes that for granted, and focuses purely on th
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
It is rock solid. There is no way to reconcile an internet where the suckers who cannot figure out ad-block carry the overhead costs for those who do. It costs money to create the content you consume, it costs money to serve the content you
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by WarmWash 6mo ago
No, my actual framing is that people don't want to pay for what they use, and ad-block created this generational illusion that you can have things of value made by others for free, and it's a good thing. The system would topple ra

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