ahartmetz

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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Since long before LLMs, so nothing of value was lost.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Do you actually read that LLM crap? I don't. You don't have to.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
A new A380 is more expensive (rule of thumb half of official list price, so about $220 million), and airlines were not talking about retiring A380s yet at the time. So it even made economic sense.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Seems close to impossible for existing designs. The wings are commonly almost entirely full of fuel at max fuel, and I doubt that taking the capacity hit is an option even in newly designed planes.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Nefarious and default aren't incompatible properties. If companies (especially large, public ones) were benevolent by default, a lot of laws and institutions would not be needed anymore.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
It might come down to that they don't care (enough). They could probably do it if they had to (hire a lot of professional editors and authors to train models), but AGI seems more profitable and also a better "story" for inves
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
/// Rule: every block leaves exactly as long as it arrived, whatever /// is being held back, or the output would run short. Uhm yeah, that is "literally what" territory.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
In addition to all that, I find the quality of writing in average current scientific papers atrocious, too. Look at some from earlier than mid 80s or so, they are so much better.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
If I read something like that, I always recommend getting psychiatric help. FWIW, I don't think that spiritualist communities need to be driven insane in the same way that hooligan communities don't need to be driven to violence.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
3. Publish or perish, scientific publications (count x impact factor) as careeer credits. What a terrible yet hard to kill idea.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I think Hoyerswerda is to this day best known for something that happened in the early 90s: Local neo-nazis rioted against and physically attacked some foreign contract workers and asylum seekers while the local police watched and did nothi
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Obama were OK, too. Clinton probably overrated, but not bad.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Well, obviously it's only censorship if it happens to their people. This is a completely different situation.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
That is a weak variant of the "Trump is playing 4D chess" argument. No, he isn't - he is an idiot, he's playing tic-tac-toe, and he's losing.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
We're already doing it and making progress. It's not instant and we still have delayed consequences to deal with, so short-term fixes also make sense.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
With a few caveats, though they do tend to get fixed over time. For example, frame rate. Higher frame rate is better, the end, right? Wellll... Latency and hitching are annoying to measure, so for a long time, they were pretty much ignored.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Probably, by replacing alcohol in places where people gathered during daytime.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Not for the festivals that I know. They are either always profit-oriented or always not. There are or were (RIP Melt Festival) great ones of both types.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Presumably they are trying to farm karma / reputation, which (I think, mostly) doesn't work if they need to switch accounts all the time.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I've seen it. Walls of text with stereotypically worded non-summaries that just repeat all of the code in words, mutating values all over the place instead of the obvious canonical one place that touches related values... Yeah you can
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Definitely Rocket League, the new Doom games (upgrades and glory kills are out of place though), Brutal Doom, racing sims like Dirt Rally and Assetto Corsa - difficult as heck but lowering expectations kinda works, the Half-Lifes, Hollow Kn
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
TFA talks exclusively about being hated by the right people. If you are only hated by the right people (yes, I made an adjustment there), it's probalby not because you are a jerk. Come on.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
He could have gotten $5bn ten years ago (for great justic... quarterly results) and then have his lunch eaten by Epic and GOG. He clearly doesn't understand how to do current year capitalism.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
>Big picture Well, if you juuust let the rich get richer, something (intentionally left unspecified) will trickle down on you.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
The simplest and perhaps most honest argument for humans being special is that we are humans, so other humans are special to us.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Letters are why it takes so long, yes
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
It takes ~2 weeks to resolve and will cost you tens of Euros. The biggest threat is that they won't want to deal with you anymore, at least for a while. Happened to a flatmate of mine 15ish years ago.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
There was another European payment system change to remove* the fees for real-time (official name) transfers, roughly a year ago. Together with the removal of international fees 10? years ago, it is indeed instant (if you check the box) and
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Some business accounts charge a 20 to 50 cent flat fee. I think mine does. Retail basically never, yes.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Same here, Germany. PayPal with immediate bank transfer is usually a little more convenient. I use CC more often anyway to avoid the middle man, but when I feel lazy (wallet is not on my desk, oh no) or there is any hassle with CC, I use Pa

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