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by acdha 4mo ago
I can’t say I’ve ever had that problem. Multitouch still works great on the one I bought in 2010 after near daily usage. You’re not required to like it, of course, but I think it’s a question of personal preferences more than an objective g
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by acdha 4mo ago
What counts as “done” has a time component, so I think we’re going to see more of a spectrum where some businesses try to skimp as much as their market will allow but others will recognize that racking up technical debt is a long-term loss.
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by acdha 4mo ago
This is off-topic and it’s especially a waste of attention because it’s a social media meme, not a real problem. People who actually use them don’t spend time talking about it because it means every few months you plug it in long enough for
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by acdha 4mo ago
I think that assumption is very dangerous: if your editor only prompts when you first open the project, it won’t help when that project is compromised later or if you checkout a merge request from someone untrustworthy/compromised and
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by acdha 4mo ago
One thing to remember is that “heavily pushing subsidies” needs to be more comprehensive than it tends to be when you look at the details: people decide to delay kids for many reasons and societies often fail to address all of them – e.g. i
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by acdha 4mo ago
That’s the part I keep thinking about with this story: they have spent over $200 billion dollars on AI and achieved this.
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by acdha 4mo ago
It does have real hardware, but it’s not in wild growth areas. They’re making their most consistent money from Starlink, which is a solid product but has growth limited by competitors from conventional ISPs with far-superior fiber networks,
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by acdha 4mo ago
I find it endlessly frustrating that this doesn’t get more prominence - there are studies from the early 20th century showing that the biggest factors in performance were things like housing and food stability, dentistry and glasses, etc. b
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by acdha 4mo ago
It varies from task to task, and operating system support is a confound, but basically it comes down to how often you have to scroll or switch windows to do whatever you are working on. For example, a print designer might do best with a sin
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by acdha 4mo ago
The difference is that bitcoin is the purest form of fiat currency: it has no value beyond social consensus — nobody has aesthetic or industrial uses for random hash digests — whereas silver and gold have innate value. Even though precious
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by acdha 4mo ago
We also have decade of studies showing that one of the best ways to boost productivity is to give people more screen real estate. This was true in the 80s, it was true in the 90s, and it didn’t really seem to plateau until something like 5-
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by acdha 4mo ago
It shows that the idea can work in a somewhat realistic scenario. That doesn’t mean we’re all doomed but it’s a good wake up call for anyone who’s been slacking on internal controls or patching.
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by acdha 5mo ago
> Gaining billions more doesn't mean shit. The guy really has nothing to lose and the utility of what he gains contribute little to his life style. You don’t become a billionaire because you aren’t committed to making a number go up
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by acdha 5mo ago
Yes, not having QA is one of the ways unscrupulous businesses boost profits. The answer isn't to say “everyone in China is like that” any more than it was to say “every meat packer in the United States will serve you dog meat and pink
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by acdha 5mo ago
Here are a couple of things I’d worry about, especially with an administration willing to use its power in ways previously considered off limits: 1. Any company which doesn’t is banned from federal contracts 2. Any company which doesn’t is
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by acdha 5mo ago
Yes - I remember one time hearing someone from a big consulting company make the argument that even the top Indian graduates would work for peanuts (even by local standards) and asking them how likely it was that they’d be that smart but un
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by acdha 5mo ago
There’s a difference between speculation and measurement, especially since you’d have people making arguments like saying that open models aren’t powerful/fast enough to work. Demonstrating this is a useful warning to everyone (most of
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by acdha 5mo ago
> The reason most people still believe that Chinese-made stuff is poor quality is because they will do what they are told and they are usually told “make this as cheap as possible” by whoever is paying the bills. I’m reminded of all the
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by acdha 5mo ago
It’s just the legal term. If you have a relative die with a bit of stuff and an ancient car, they have an estate and someone needs to execute it even if the total value is less than most lawyers care about.
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by acdha 5mo ago
> Marc Andreessen argued that we've already reached AGI. He says that the top AI models give better answers than 99% of people he has access to, and he has access to some of the best people in their field. He stands to make billions
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by acdha 5mo ago
Dude, we get it, you’re a super fan but these are some intellectually lazy comments. Our military is powerful, yes, but if you want to make some exceptional claims you need to show your homework demonstrating that kind of claimed huge leap
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by acdha 5mo ago
Yes, there were people here criticizing that but also plenty of people saying it was a reasonable trade off. Making exceptional things harder to make everyday security better is not a bad decision even if it upsets techies who’d like everyt
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by acdha 5mo ago
We know that Meta made a big deal about how they were moving all support to AI: https://www.meta.com/account-recovery-support/ai-support-ass... Now, it’s possible that they instead moved it to human workers and simulta
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by acdha 5mo ago
That’s a specific bubble half a century into railroads transforming the American economy. While there were plenty of bad investments, that’s because so much of the economy depended on railroads to move goods and people.
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by acdha 5mo ago
Companies don’t have a “first amendment right” to be dishonest or to sell things which are harmful. Tobacco companies used to make all sorts of claims in their ads and nobody held that they had a magical free speech right to ignore risks th
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by acdha 5mo ago
Railroads seem like a good parallel: right of way, coal, and iron all were huge factors for success. That was greater CAPEX but the parallel does break down somewhat since railroads had huge, immediate demand and everything but fuel had muc
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by acdha 5mo ago
Yes - IIRC, Amazon was profitable on books by 1996, with other sectors following as they expanded and it was clear that they could post profits any time they wanted by slowing expansion. It was surreal through the bubble years to see “analy
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by acdha 5mo ago
> Then you get trusted parties selling account access How many bank tellers or USPS employees do that, though? It’s possible but quite rare because people know they’ll be running a big risk of being caught and no individual transaction i
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by acdha 5mo ago
To be clear, I was thinking cost as more than just payroll - e.g. my bank can do this because they have paid for a branch near my house, Facebook does not - but another way to look at it is that many of the costs due to errors have been shi
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by acdha 5mo ago
If a single junior engineer can do this, it’s an even bigger indictment of Facebook’s senior management than this exploit. A well-designed system doesn’t rely on individuals never making mistakes and if our hypothetical junior developer can

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