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by adamc 2y ago
That solution is clearly weirder and more complex to understand than the comments it replaces. You impose semantic burden while demonstrating that the "abuse" of comments cannot really be prevented.
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by adamc 2y ago
One way to bifurcate the world is that there are people who tend to restrict options to prevent misuse vs. people who tend to enable options to the positive uses easier. I fall in the latter camp. Preventing errors by restricting options al
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by adamc 2y ago
Speaking only as a gamer, I think graphics cards might eventually pay off, but it's a market that will require something like 10 years of runway. It's going to take a long time to both make competitive cards and convince gamers th
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by adamc 2y ago
The original article made a pretty good case for thinking Gelsinger's ego was a problem.
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by adamc 2y ago
Google is still buoyed by their de-facto monopoly on search. If that ends, the world would look different.
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by adamc 2y ago
We have the full right to assert any moral stance. Whether others find it "condescending" is really not my problem. The reality is that the internet is not a good publication venue. There are lots of eyeballs and distribution is c
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by adamc 2y ago
Not my experience of youtube at all, but I primarily watch longer, more analytical content. It almost all has ads.
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by adamc 2y ago
Which, ironically, creates economics that encourage people to buy printers and then not use them (much). An industry built around selling you things you will then not want to use is an industry with big problems. It works for razor blades b
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by adamc 2y ago
Maybe we need better terminology. But AI right now is more like pattern-matching than anything I would label as "understanding", even when it works well.
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by adamc 2y ago
Great analysis, and I agree it's Fred Brooks' point all over again. None of these tools hurt, but you still need to comprehend the problem domain and the tools -- not least because you have to validate proposed solutions -- and AI
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by adamc 2y ago
Not sure I get how that would work. It seems to me that to do my job I will have to validate the semantics of the program, and that means I will have to become familiar with the syntax of Go or whatever, at a fairly sophisticated level. If
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by adamc 2y ago
Not even a smidgen. If your business plan is built around advertising, I hope your business goes broke. On this, no compromises.
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by adamc 2y ago
I love your summary of the ads. It sounds as gross as it is.
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by adamc 2y ago
Youtube does not do it. You stop seeing youtube's ads, which are obnoxious, but you still see the actual content author's ads.
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by adamc 2y ago
No doubt the people who work for the mob benefit from murder, drug-running, and extortion, but it doesn't follow that having them around is worthwhile. Ads are a scourge.
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I don't want any content enough to tolerate ads.
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by adamc 2y ago
They capture the reality (for many of us). I stopped subscribing to the NYT because they insisted on showing subscribers ads. They can do what they want, but I don't really care if businesses that rely on ads go bankrupt.
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by adamc 2y ago
They are certainly luxuries, given that we were willing to drive without them.
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by adamc 2y ago
Perhaps we need to rethink protecting shareholders from liability. I'm sure that would be unpopular, but having companies create harm for profit is a problem.
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by adamc 2y ago
Keeping books you wrote is not "hoarding" by any but the most insane standards.
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by adamc 2y ago
It's a problem in the US as well. New cars are basically too expensive for most people to afford.
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't really care a lot about any of those. I'm a lot more interested in relationships with people, the state of the environment, and general happiness. A better cell phone has never made more than the most marginal difference i
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by adamc 2y ago
As someone doing OK economically, when I go to the grocery I see the same thing they do: Prices are going up on key items much faster than income is rising. I didn't vote based on that, but that doesn't mean they are wrong that it
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by adamc 2y ago
The fundamental idea here is that you have no intrinsic right to the things you already possess. Should we force people to pay additional taxes on other property in order to continue to possess it? I think that would be wildly unpopular, bu
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by adamc 2y ago
I would say that I'm a "believer" in this terminology, but I don't think either coaster or grinder fits; depending on the task, I might be either. It's determined by how hard I find it to get going on the task, whic
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by adamc 2y ago
The politics of that in most areas are impossible.
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by adamc 2y ago
Given that most cities are built and the distances are set, that isn't going to be easy. Yes, they could run more buses, but.
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by adamc 2y ago
I thought the question was "why should I care about productivity if it doesn't necessarily make my life better?". The article didn't really make the case that average workers were benefiting from this.
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Not saying that is good, but you really have to analyze something like that in terms of rates, not anecdotes. Everywhere you put people there are going to be incidents. I don't blame locals for feeling however they feel. It's thei
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When my mother was in her early 70s, she told me that she still felt 17 inside. She said you always do, you just learn to behave in a way that doesn't elicit negative commentary. Aging is largely a role we learn to adopt. I'm not

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