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by _w1tm 1y ago
How many technological innovations do you remember from the past 20 years and from which areas did they come from?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> In reality the culture and circumstances of parliament members is too far removed from the voters. I also cannot know the other representatives, so my voting decision will always be restricted to a shallow popularity contest. But as ex
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> No it's not (like OP's article says). With a calculator you punch in 10 + 9 and get 2 immediately, and this was 50+ years ago. Your calculator is broken. > With an LLM you type in "what is 10 + 9" and get three p
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by _w1tm 1y ago
That’s not measurable either. Your opinion on someone is not data.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> Parents and guardians should definitely be aware of and concerned about what internet filters are in place at schools. Neither of the words you used give parents any control over the situation. Legislation is the circumspect way pa
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> The reason we haven't is because in reality we don't care much about that risk relative to the costs of addressing it (even with the cheapest possible solutions, which are not "colonize another planet"). You’re maki
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by _w1tm 1y ago
We have to figure out interplanetary travel first. Crawl before you walk.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Why do Java developers still have to tune stuff like that?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
What makes the economics better in space? Are there any unique use-cases waiting to be unleashed?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Desktops probably will stop existing before we’re gone.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Doesn’t this also mean that if you transform the work created by Midjourney, you now have a copyright on the transformed work? I wonder what counts for transformed, is a filter enough or does it have to be more than that?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
That’s silly, ice isn’t cold enough. Carbon ice might work better.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> Take Canonical's microK8s distribution. Do a snap install to get a Kubernetes node up and running, and run a command to register it in a cluster. Does this pass nowadays as rocket science? That’s only after you compile your Ubuntu
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by _w1tm 1y ago
If the supply line is blown up at the beginning of the war then what was the point of switching gauges.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Someone needs to have data to validate a feature has value. Otherwise the company is just operating on the GIGO principle. I’ll admit, companies like that do exist and somehow survive!
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Then how can you know if building the feature made any sense?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> There may be drastic differences in syntax and semantics between the massive matrix of terraform version + provider version(s) and they've shown to be absolutely terrible at navigating that, even if you specify versions specifical
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by _w1tm 1y ago
If reviewing and merging your PR puts me on the hook for fixing anything that breaks, I just won’t review your PR. If I had time to write it myself I wouldn’t need your PR in the first place.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> vs the opportunity to license the content to an aggregator Isn’t this what Netflix used to be
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> But in politics it does, which is that the right says yes and the left says no. That’s not accurate, tax deductions for the poor is an obvious example. How many on the left would oppose expanding the EITC and how many on the right woul
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> Because the federal government was meant to be extremely limited and mostly serve to mediate _actual_ interstate commerce and foreign affairs. The oft ignored 10th amendment left most everything else to states or the people. What some
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> Personally, I think we should simply fine the heck out of all websites until they all feature a "Reject all" button. Personally I’m tired of cookie pop-ups on websites, a reject all button does nothing to solve the actual pro
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by _w1tm 2y ago
When has capitalism been about maintaining key infrastructure? That’s what government is for!
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> We are reliant on the US as only 2 companies can make the x86/64 chips. The x86-64 architecture is on its way out globally thanks to Arm. RISC V is not needed for decoupling from the US.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> it's not actually possible without destroying the internet as we know it Looking around at all the neo nazis, Russian disinformation and just the general populace turning more and more insane I’m getting pretty tired of the intern
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by _w1tm 2y ago
Maybe it does but the poster was still engaging in behavior similar to someone who has stolen the phone. That said, Apple should add some controls that prevent legitimate users from triggering security checks by accident.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> What workflow can have occasional catastrophic lapses of reasoning, non factuality, no memory and hallucinations etc? LLMs might enable some completely new things to be automated that made no sense to automate before, even if it’s nece
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> There is certainly some merit to that Any source for that? The profit margin has to come from somewhere.
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by _w1tm 2y ago
> Also DI, which is arguably not necessary at all in Go given how elegantly interfaces work. > I spent quite a lot of time using wire for DI in go only to really study the code it was generating and realizing it truly is code I would
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by _w1tm 2y ago
In a way you were a bad culture fit even if that’s not a culture anyone should want to fit.

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