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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> Has anyone else noticed a cultural shift around monetization of output? I think it's simply due to the economy being in the shitter for the non-"Capital Ownership Class". 1977-2007 was generally a good time in the US if
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Hackers tinkered with other things (e.g. the telephone) before pervasive computing. I imagine the young hackers of today just find other things with which to tinker. I've seen kids build some amazing things in Minecraft. Is this really
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> most analyses have very little to do with the car's technical attributes and there's a lot of gibberish about design and lifestyle Which is what makes a used Lexus so compelling. Toyota engineering under the hood, "Luxur
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
How else can they report on BREAKING NEWS if it doesn't at least break your concentration?
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
I live 1.6 miles from my county hospital. If my wife is having a stroke, I can definitely pick her up, toss her in the car, and get to the ER faster than an ambulance can reach my house. As I'm sure you know, every second counts when i
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
The topical reply is that those positions aren't paying enough. However, if we have to pay e.g. miners millions to compete with a high UBI, we trigger a massive wage-price spiral. Since extracted raw materials are the bedrock of the en
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Not necessarily true. If you're employed by e.g. a contracting company or consulting firm, your value to your employer is in #hours_billable because you are their product .
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Luke: Do you have benchmarks for BF16?
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Born in 1988. It wasn't lost on me. Am I old now too?
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> nor the complete mapping of customers behaviors to use in contexts not being the phone call This is because the telephone system was regulated with wiretapping laws, among others. > I don’t remember reading about ads in phone calls
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Touché! The question is: Are social media services more similar to communications platforms or publishing platforms? My reply obviously treats them like the former and yours like the latter.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
That's dumb. Who defines what a black box is? Like, is it not alright to write all of your code in a hex editor targeting one specific ISA? Is not alright to lose your code and have only the binaries to run?
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Human operators were not required of The Bell Telephone Company by law. Bell switched to mechanical switching stations as soon as doing so was economically advantageous. (Reconsider my post. I'm arguing for no regulation.)
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> social networks need to be required to show how their algorithm works Hypothetically speaking: What if it's a neural network in which each user has his/her own unique weights which are undergoing frequent retraining? Would it
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> But what responsibilities do megacorps have? Right now, everyone seems to avoid this question Clear, simple, direct: Whatever was required of The Bell Telephone Company and nothing more.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
My favorite art for The Hobbit is from the version released in the USSR. https://www.openculture.com/2014/03/discover-soviet-era-illu...
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
After reading "Knots" by R.D. Laing I always think I'm getting tricked.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
It won't hold a candle to Pat Boone's metal album! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Metal_Mood:_No_More_Mr._N...
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
Let's replace "car" with another noun for now. "I want to wash my dog." is very clearly different from "I want to have my dog washed." --- Now, every car wash business I've even been to has a small co
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> I want to wash my car The question doesn't clearly state that the user wants to have his car washed at the car wash. "I want to wash my car" is far less clear than "I want to have my car washed". A reasonable a
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
Unless they intend on generating their own oxygen to breathe, I don't see how these bunkers stand a chance.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> how does it know what is correct for what the customer wants/needs? The way NASA does it so that they can trust deliverables from the lowest bidder. That is, have developers translate the wants/needs into detailed contracts o
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
I normally don't write comments like this, but... this title was extremely challenging to parse.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
Begging for a 12h day of work every morning on the docks as a stevedore in crowds among hundreds of other men begging for the same job does not give one power to "rule over women". They'd be too underpaid and exhausted to rul
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
One possible solution is to intentionally introduce Ancient Rome's "Brittania Problem". Specifically, fund a distant vassal state which requires a military so enormous to maintain peace that any general in charge of said mili
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> They voted for a promise of a return to a world where they were on top. Very few were on top during The Gilded Age and it has been EXTREMELY clear for quite a long time now that the "Great" in M.A.G.A. is a reference to the 1
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> the level of testing required is much higher than software No dispute there. I suppose I meant "simply" instead of "easily". Outside of aeronautics software (specifically, aviation and spaceships/NASA), the top
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
It's different. Download an English book from Project Gutenberg and have Claude-code change its style. Try both models and you'll see how significant the differences are. (Sonnet is far, far better at this kind of task than Opus i
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
I'm talking about chip design: Verilog, VHDL, et al. Very specifications-driven and easily tested. Very easy to outsource if you have a domestic engineer write the spec and test suite. Mind you, I am not talking about IP-sensitive ch
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
At least in the US, yes. Check out general1465's reply to me. The problem, I think, is that there are many competent hardware design engineers available abroad and since hardware is usually designed with very rigorous specs, tests, etc

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