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by acdha 2mo ago
> Gangster rap has inspired a lot of murders and other violent crime world wide, I don't think anybody would deny that anymore Citation needed here. I haven’t known anyone to do that despite it being pretty mainstream and U.S. crime
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by acdha 2mo ago
Definitely not just seniors but I saw a bus full of them unload and it was like watching a switch flip off as everyone stopped socializing and focused on the machines. So eerie.
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by acdha 2mo ago
I remember going to Las Vegas once after I turned 21, realizing that it totally wasn’t my thing, and especially being scared by the expressions on the zombie seniors sitting in front of the slot machines shoveling quarters in. I see that ba
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by acdha 2mo ago
There’s a big difference between fiction when the viewer knows it’s make believe and when it’s presented as factual. Nobody is committing genocide because they saw a violent movie whereas Facebook shares responsibility for at least one reco
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by acdha 2mo ago
> But people have been saying this about CUDA for twenty years, and we are not any closer to a replacement GPGPU paradigm today. How much money was in it for the first decade or so? I think AMD was asleep at the switch but e.g. Apple jus
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by acdha 2mo ago
Nobody is saying they’re outright failing, but that they’re not going to be printing money the way they have been recently. Think about Intel circa 2010: most of their competitors like POWER or MIPS were marginalized, they owned the desktop
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by acdha 2mo ago
I think they’re hoping that the people in the community they like will follow. I agree that it that the odds seem daunting - the best example which comes to mind is MariaDB and that took a company as hated as Oracle, but who knows. It also
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by acdha 2mo ago
Shouldn’t that be enough? Lots of people worked together to build Rails before DHH revealed his extreme political views. It’s only natural that many of them want to go back to the way things were when they could just focus on Rails and not
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by acdha 2mo ago
> If you have a hood and or good indoor airflow to a window then this is all propaganda. In other words, it’s not propaganda. Since the researchers specifically called for prioritizing ventilation improvements in smaller / worse ven
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by acdha 2mo ago
Those are either artifacts of a bad stove or using extremely thin pans. We have a fairly low-mid range model and the low mode doesn’t burn anything and the coils match the sizes of the pans we use. I agree it’s not great to get rid of a pur
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by acdha 2mo ago
People are attacked for low quality. There are counter examples but it is definitely striking how infrequently you see a PR which doesn’t stand out for being turgid or flawed, and whose author clearly expects a cookie for their “contributio
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by acdha 2mo ago
> They are surrounded by lawyers and thinktanks to work through this, which is far from lawless This is so naive I struggle to believe you can possibly believe it. For example, there is a legal requirement that Congress authorize militar
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by acdha 2mo ago
I’m basing it on things like https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2026.121752 finding that it’s going to be hard both to scale up and get past 90% unless we have massive amounts of clean energy available. To me that mean
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by acdha 2mo ago
> The right to bear arms is critical. That is a form of power and self defense which can save your life, your neighbors life, or millions of lives from some kind of tyranny. The governmental structure of the US is so good, there is no co
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by acdha 2mo ago
I believe the labs unit was setup specifically to change that reputation but it doesn’t appear to have shipped anything substantial.
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by acdha 2mo ago
That’s the cost of doing it too cheaply: I’ve never had an Apple device fail but multiple cheap PCs were obviously designed by some MBA who overrode the mechanical engineers to save $0.10.
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by acdha 2mo ago
Carbon capture gets downvotes because it’s not working anywhere at scale. The fossil fuel industry loves it because it’s saying they get paid now and maybe someone else gets paid later, and their industry doesn’t have profits cut, but anyon
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by acdha 2mo ago
Yes, but those are a priority below massive solar and wind deployment because nuclear is another way to say emissions will rise for decades before the plants come online and start displacing fossil fuels. There are a few edge cases where nu
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by acdha 2mo ago
Even long-haul trucking can shrink rapidly between electric trucks (Australia is using those successfully - they’re cheaper and faster on hilly routes) on the shorter routes and electric trains (mature technology for a century) for many lon
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by acdha 2mo ago
This is great to see but also reveals some failures around patents: Intellectual Ventures patented the idea a couple decades ago, did a TED Talk, decided it wasn’t as cost-effective for malaria prevention as bednets and apparently sat on it
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by acdha 2mo ago
I think you’d have some statistical complications around stress: beyond the inherent pressure of the job itself, it’s highly likely that they were understaffed even before losing a lot of support when the DOGE chainsaws were in “cut first,
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by acdha 2mo ago
Drive around Southern California and you’ll see everything from oil derricks to refineries in places which would otherwise be full of housing if they weren’t so polluting.
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by acdha 2mo ago
I’ve yet to see it claimed here not in error. AI writing has other tells which are far more reliable, use them.
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by acdha 2mo ago
> This smells like a bandaid over an underfunded system, and a way to sneak in further cost-cutting in the future where the real calls will be actually answered by AI. I think there’s also an aspect of accountability-washing: when regula
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by acdha 2mo ago
Sadly we’re at the point where it’s a controversial position to argue that they shouldn’t receive tax cuts. It’s impressive how successfully faux-libertarian propaganda has been at breaking support for the idea that companies should pay for
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by acdha 2mo ago
China isn’t trying to crash the global economy but they’re letting prices rise to the point that their EV, solar, and battery companies are seeing huge demand. They don’t want a depression, just acceleration of that trend.
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by acdha 2mo ago
They used to bring lots of jobs which didn’t require specialization. That’s not saying they didn’t have real negative impacts but that people were more willing to accept that as a tradeoff when it was a middle-class living for an entire nei
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by acdha 2mo ago
You’re misunderstanding the problem: LLMs using emdashes more than the average human still doesn’t tell you that the poster you’re interacting with now is an LLM and not one of the many humans who used emdashes before LLMs existed and are t
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by acdha 2mo ago
The error rate is what’s wrong. A heuristic which has a high false positive rate is worse than nothing because it trains people to ignore all reports.
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by acdha 2mo ago
> ADHD wins over autism in the immediate future. It was balanced in the past for development to need both but now it’s a total hyperactive victory of general knowledge, master of none. That’s an interesting framing. I’m not sure I agree

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