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by ajross 5mo ago
That article's lede says that Starbase is more dangerous than other SpaceX facilities, not that SpaceX is dangerous per se? Also there's a sample size problem with numbers like that. Is SpaceX more dangerous than heavy industry
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> The money paid to Bushart ultimately is no skin off the government's back. The suit was filed against Perry County, TN, not the state or federal government. A quick google says that its budget is $33M, so in fact this is a very i
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by ajross 5mo ago
Well, yeah, "should be" and "does" are different and this is new technology and has bugs and misfeatures and different limitations than what came before, and the market will have a learning curve as we all adapt. I was j
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by ajross 5mo ago
> Training on the whole internet feels like citing the National Enquirer It's not, though, because the refutations are in the training data too. This isn't actually the problem being described. The weights in the LLM are fine.
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by ajross 5mo ago
> AWS goes down catastrophically but are back up in minutes/hours most of the time The outage in the linked article appears to have been resolved in 4-5 hours.
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by ajross 5mo ago
The Node ecosystem happens to be more vulnerable for social and software design reasons, it's true. But people need to be aware that PyPI and Cargo et. al. are not in any fundamental way less vulnerable. This will happen there too.
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by ajross 5mo ago
This spin is such a weird way of thinking about this. Hormuz was open! Hormuz had been open for decades! Iran "closed" it as part of a war that the United States started . We weren't defeated in a attempt to "keep Ho
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by ajross 5mo ago
That's misunderstanding the finances involved here. OpenAI is a privately held company; sure, that means they're "borrowing" from their investors technically. But that's in exactly the same sense that a public com
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by ajross 5mo ago
> Electron does not, in fact, work great. People get so outrageously bent out of shape over the details here. But it's 100% just geek nattering. People who need to develop and ship general use UI code that isn't a game or an
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by ajross 5mo ago
> actual autocracies that crack down on this kind of speech The ball is rolling. Action against media organizations is already underway. You already couldn't publish this message via CBS, WSJ or the Post, for example. They likely
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> What does “far better tooling” mean exactly It means that git invented a bunch of new jargon and ideas that confuses people exposed to it for the first time, where hg's usage metaphor hews closer to the received wisdom of people c
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by ajross 5mo ago
Again, meh. I'm just happy you've admitted that the idea that Go is 10x faster than V8 is bunk. Use what you like. But like I said everyone else is using Electron and winning. I don't make the rules, I'm just trying t
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by ajross 5mo ago
Meh. Flaming about this is so exhausting given that the war was already fought and we know who the winner is. First, that's the typescript compiler , not typescript apps. And it was a ground-up rewrite effort (a very large one) with
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by ajross 5mo ago
> I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Why? It's no less crazy than when Uber and Lyft were doing the same thing. Or when the entire tech industry was doing it in the dot com boom. Investment-driven market growth at a loss is
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by ajross 5mo ago
This is the ActiveX/nacl/wasm/etc... argument recapitulated. For decades, people dithered about how to get fast code into browser environments such that it could be deployed safely. Then the V8 team at Google just asked &quo
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by ajross 5mo ago
In theory corporate ownership was supposed to be the solution to that problem. Deep pockets to buffer through the lean years and maximally exploit the profitable content when the harvest arrives. In practice, of course, corporate bean co
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FWIW, I wrote 2019 as a representation of "last year before AI mattered" and not when people cared about the early web. Also by 1999 Mosaic had been forgotten and everyone was running Netscape and IE4. :) To wit: complaining abou
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> The code already was broken before somebody published the vulnerability. The difference now only is that you know about this. The philosophy in this subthread may be too deep for me. Me and the Jedi at the ends of the bell curve are ju
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by ajross 5mo ago
That is emphatically NOT the thesis of the linked article. That's the argument made by the politicians being quoted and enumerated. What the article is trying to tell you is that these actions are entirely partisan, and reflect th
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by ajross 5mo ago
The instinct to treat geopolitics like a schoolyard fight is exactly why we're in this mess[1]! To extend your more-apt-than-you-really-want metaphor: you punched the bully like a moron instead of involving the administration, now you
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by ajross 5mo ago
It was that the AI boom/bubble is a new technology in its infancy. It's not comparable to the stuff you mention, which were all[1] second wave "Web 2.0" products being introduced into an established market. The proper
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by ajross 5mo ago
> You're ignoring Iran's negative effects on the world, and their increasing harassing of shipping, and their support of Russian wars and terrorist actions throughout the middle east (at least). Literally none of which have bee
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> My point on the acquisitions was that a surprising amount of their successful software was not made in house. First, that's just not true. Their biggest products by revenue (search/adwords) and biggest stock value driver (AI
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> I would say we're reaching new levels of incomplete and rushed to market though The year 2001 called, it was laughing hysterically and I couldn't quite make out what it was saying.
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> But it isn't like [Google] are that much more successful at software projects than any other company? I re-read this several times trying to figure out where the irony was hidden. But... it's not there?
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> I can't get Gemini to not cut me off mid-sentence and reply to only half of what I wanted to say. This kind of criticism is unpersuasive: "USENET and ftp are fine! Why do I need this monster 'mosaic' thing which ne
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by ajross 5mo ago
> the principle was free trade Trade was free in the gulf, pre-war. > and some mixture of "we dont negotiate with terrorists" Negotiate for what? Iran was making no demands. Pithy or not, you seem to be just being obtuse.
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by ajross 5mo ago
That seems wildly naive in the post-XSS era. We've been here before, and that kind of analysis turns out to be wrong almost every time. "Well, sure, this component is insecure but an attacker can't reach it" is like a 5
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> principle of ensuring bad actors can't act badly That's... not a principle though? Who else pursues geopolitics by that principle? When else has the US? It's... not a thing, unless you mess with semantics to define &qu
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by ajross 5mo ago
Definition for "naughty" and examples thereof might help. Because it doesn't mean "closed". The point isn't to make a moral argument for Iran's position, just a realpolitik one. We fucked with them, they

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