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by __loam 2y ago
You don't have to maintain the shifting cables that actuate the derailleur or run them through the frame. Decoupling the shifting force and mechanism from the actual physical actuation of the shifter also means your can have an extreme
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by __loam 2y ago
The app is better for viewing the content you paid for. Patreon is not just for subscribing to creators. They also deliver content. This isn't hard to understand.
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by __loam 2y ago
DoJ agrees with you lol.
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by __loam 2y ago
Apple is currently facing anti-trust action so it's not like regulators are sleeping on it.
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by __loam 2y ago
Unfortunately sometimes the best way to advance, salarywise or otherwise, is to leave. The industry should do a better job at retention.
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by __loam 2y ago
This is a really complicated (and more expensive) setup that doesn't fundamentally fix any of the problems with these systems.
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by __loam 2y ago
https://cap.csail.mit.edu/death-moores-law-what-it-means-and...
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by __loam 2y ago
Strong chance Moores law stops this decade due to the physical limits on the size of atoms lol.
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by __loam 2y ago
It doesn't until it does. Productivity isn't the only or even the most important metric, at least in software dev.
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by __loam 2y ago
Been shouting this for over a year now. We're training AI to be convincing, not to be actually helpful. We're sampling the wrong distributions.
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by __loam 2y ago
Dick would hate these guys lol.
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by __loam 2y ago
The second half of your comment is right. Russia has limited options for trade partners. That has put India and especially China in a position of strength with respect to trade relations with Russia. Russia has lost a lot of their pricing p
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by __loam 2y ago
A free alternative to their product has no impact to their business model?
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by __loam 2y ago
It should be transparently clear that this move was taken by Meta to drive their competitors out of business in a capital intensive space.
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by __loam 2y ago
The brain is not a computer. Continued insistence that it is will result in heartbreak for the computer scientists involved.
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by __loam 2y ago
The problem with this take is that you're conflating different software systems under the same vague AI umbrella. Waymo is a completely different technology than generative AI. Talking about how over a decade and billions of dollars in
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by __loam 2y ago
It's cool to hear about something substantial that isn't just an api call to the "God" machine. This sounds like a pretty sophisticated and well considered approach, but it does call in to question whether a system that
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by __loam 2y ago
Doing one run of a stochastic system and holding it up like "see it works fine" is basically just citing an anecdote.
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by __loam 2y ago
The classic humans do it too fallacy.
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by __loam 2y ago
Private equity people need to start getting multiple life sentences for fucking around with shit like this. It's unironically a national security issue.
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by __loam 2y ago
I've heard it postulated that the industrial revolution was only possible because of fossil fuels (obviously), but also they if we use too much easily accessible fuel, whether that's coal or oil, and had some kind of dark age, we
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by __loam 2y ago
> you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you Yes, "satisfaction"
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by __loam 2y ago
Not sure what this means. Obviously we're comparing apples and oranges between different projects, but it's weird to suggest that foreign contractors aren't doing the same work as domestic employees. I'm pretty sure FAAN
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by __loam 2y ago
The under hiring of junior employees and the unwillingness to invest in training is a problem across the economy. It's a kind of tragedy if the commons but also the unfortunate result of insisting we need more software engineers for 10
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by __loam 2y ago
This guy is definitely giving delulu vibes but I think there's some truth to the idea that there are inequities in the market. People who work at FAANGs will often make more money and do less work than the foreign contractors in places
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by __loam 2y ago
We're talking about changing the entire trajectory of someone's life when they're a child because they find school boring when they're 8 years old. Talking about ROI and hard numbers about this makes your look like a gho
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by __loam 2y ago
It's better to be egalitarian. The clientele of hackernews is predominantly people working in high paying industries, who were lucky enough to get the resources and opportunities to get there, in addition to a considerable amount of ha
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by __loam 2y ago
They often don't have the same opportunity but I'm glad we as grown adults are sitting here and judging a child on their dedication to academic rigor.
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by __loam 2y ago
You're right lets divert millions if not billions of dollars that could be used on known working solutions for these problems to an unproven technological bullet that is famously capital intensive.
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by __loam 2y ago
The biggest predictor of whether or not a child is "gifted" is the amount of attention they receive as children from their parents and from the education system. Actual genetically driven genius is rare. The kids that gifted child

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