abraxas

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by abraxas 8mo ago
In a way the story of nanofabrication seems like a tale of disappointment. Many decades after Feynman's "Plenty of room at the bottom" or Drexler's "Engines of creation" and we have very little to show in a way
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by abraxas 8mo ago
I have had no issues with any of my Pixel phones overheating and I've had many. Maybe you have an issue with a specific app that misbehaved in the background? I don't think there is any inherent flaw in the design of the pixels th
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by abraxas 8mo ago
Looks like Pixel 9a is supported by LieneageOS. No phone jack but otherwise a very competent modern device. Instead of trying to shop locally from such a small pool of devices I'd advise the OP to pick a protective case and a screen pr
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by abraxas 8mo ago
> You can’t survive a steady erosion of mastery. That sounds like an onset of a certain type of dark age. Eventually the shiny bits will too fall off when the underlying foundation crumbles. It would be massively ironic if the age of the
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by abraxas 8mo ago
The swamp has always been him and his buddies. Pure projection. Everything he spouts is always pure projection.
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by abraxas 8mo ago
Wasn't Rust developed specifically for Mozilla? Isn't mozilla written in Rust?
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by abraxas 8mo ago
A few more nazi salutes by the CEO and those declines will approach 100%. But the optimus stormtroopers will make up the lost revenue no doubt.
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by abraxas 8mo ago
What if LLMs are optimizing the average office worker's productivity but the work itself simply has no discernable economic value? This is argued at length in Grebber's Bullshit Jobs essay and book.
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by abraxas 8mo ago
And even then it would point to a heavy skew towards American culture with the implicit assumption that there must be multiple cars in the household
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by abraxas 8mo ago
I get the Anthropic models to screw up consistently. Change the prefix. Say in the preamble that you are going after supper or something. Change the scenario eveey time. They are caching something across requests. Once you correct it, it fi
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by abraxas 8mo ago
Which models did you try?
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by abraxas 8mo ago
Mass extermination through famine, genocide or plague is another outcome. An Elysium earth worked by robots is a vision tech bro billionaires are rooting for and building towards. As for your idea, I see no signs of their striving for redis
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by abraxas 8mo ago
Yeah, sort of. Autonomous cars will clog up existing cities by cruisnig around looking to pick up rides or deliver shit and mill around endlessly or occupy every piece of parking in prime real estate to make sure they are quickly available
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by abraxas 8mo ago
But it makes it worse. Once Waymo cars start clogging streets, cruising around waiting for passengers it will amplify the issue. It will be cheap enough to just have them mill around to be quickly available when requested. In time, human dr
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by abraxas 8mo ago
You exemplify the defeatism that the auto makers are counting on.
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by abraxas 8mo ago
I thought it was a far superior UI to facebook when it launched. I tried to use it but the gravity of the network effect was too strong on facebook's side. In the end I'd rather if both had failed. Although one can argue that they
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by abraxas 8mo ago
No, it's orthogonal. But cars that can drive everywhere will show up everywhere, all of the time. Watch the video in its entirety. It makes very strong arguments for why this is a dystopia in the making.
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by abraxas 8mo ago
I actually hope that they do not succeed in the end. Ubiquitous self driving cars will spell the end of what's left of walkable areas in North America and bring about (in time) similar destruction of the urban fabric to Europe and else
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by abraxas 8mo ago
English is my second language so I'm not well tuned to picking up on the phrases that expose writing as AI generated. Even so it doesn't really change the sentiment being conveyed nor the fact that it's better writing than I
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by abraxas 8mo ago
Was he entirely wrong? Have you tried to dump the stored proc into a frontier model and ask it to refactor? You'd probably have neat 20 stored procs with well laid out logic in minutes. I wouldn't keep a ball of mud just because L
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by abraxas 8mo ago
The issue is that AI will be creating software at whatever abstraction layer it is asked to produce. Right down to ASM maybe even machine code if someone actually wanted or needed that. Perhaps not the AI of today but given a few years I&#x
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by abraxas 8mo ago
> For example wood carvers, blacksmiths, butchers, bakers, candlestickmakers etc etc. Very, very few of those professions are thriving. Especially if we are talking true craftsmanship and not stuffing the oven with frozen pastries to cre
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by abraxas 8mo ago
What do you do for living now (if anything)?
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by abraxas 8mo ago
I'm the exact age as the author and this post could have been written by me (if I could write). It echoes my story and sentiment exactly right down to cutting my literal baby teeth on a rubber key ZX Spectrum. The anxiety I have that t
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by abraxas 8mo ago
I really don't understand the demise of usenet as a way to have a public message board. It worked perfectly well for decades and then died off all at once when the bigtechs did everything in their power to squelch it and instead replac
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by abraxas 8mo ago
I see what you did there.
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by abraxas 8mo ago
This guy has completely lost the plot. Too bad he holds the entire regime in Washington by the short hairs so they're all too happy to comply with his delusions.
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by abraxas 8mo ago
What the fuck is this? Purest Linkedin bullshit I've come across in a while. Almost a parody.
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by abraxas 8mo ago
Great, this is 'Manna' portrayed future coming to us.
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by abraxas 9mo ago
Before the dystopian black and gray fad arrived most buildings that went up were sort of OK. And I didn't mind the pastel paint on commie blocks either. But a decade ago someone decided that gray cuboids with asymmetric windows were an

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