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811.
by andrepd 1y ago
When someone passing through first rode a bicycle through my grandmother's hamlet, there was a general panic and someone even shrieked "the Devil comes, in two wheels!". This was in the 1930s.
812.
by andrepd 1y ago
The notoriously opaque EU institutions would sooner insist on reading your every message than actually be transparent themselves. This is beyond satire.
813.
by andrepd 1y ago
It's a very sad state of affairs that when Trump and von der Leyen meet to represent two of the most powerful entities on Earth, one has been democratically legitimised less than a year ago, and the other has never ran in an election
814.
by andrepd 1y ago
> The EU Parliament doesn't have equal legislative power. EU Commission proposes legislation, and the parliament can only accept or reject. Note that this means that, crucially, the Parliament also cannot repeal laws. Which means
815.
by andrepd 1y ago
Nice theory, but the European left wing parties (The Left, and Greens) are against chat control, while the right wing parties are in favour. In the UK, the Conservatives and the "New Labour" aka centre-right Starmer aka Tory Lite
816.
by andrepd 1y ago
THIS IS NOT TRUE. Both "The Left" and "Greens/EFA", the major left wing parties in the Europarl, OPPOSE Chat Control! Unfortunately the website appeared to show the MEP's positions as being *equal to their coun
817.
by andrepd 1y ago
But that's not a closure, a closure/lambda is not an std::function. It's its own type, basically syntactic sugar for a struct with the captures vars and operator(). Of course if you want to store it on a type-erased container
818.
by andrepd 1y ago
What does this one mean? :p
819.
by andrepd 1y ago
Why would capturing require a heap allocation? Neither Rust nor C++ do this.
820.
by andrepd 1y ago
Would make sense, your reasoning, if they actually paid taxes. Unfortunately everything is very broken on that front, labor pays much higher taxes than corporations, the richest don't pay taxes at all, and the shortfall is plugged by c
821.
by andrepd 1y ago
> Another example - you can tell it things like “implement comparison operators for this class”, and it’s done in 5 seconds. Wow, it can do the same thing as a derive macro, but only sometimes, and it only takes 10,000x as long and 100,0
822.
by andrepd 1y ago
What could you possibly be talking about? The only benchmark I see in the article where Apple M4 isn't near the top is the rails test suite.
823.
by andrepd 1y ago
There's so many actual reasons to complain about lack of democracy at the EU level; constitutional monarchies are certainly not one of them.
824.
by andrepd 1y ago
Implying all US electronics don't ask from your smartphone access to your location, contacts, calendar, SMS archive, email, medical records and political views and attitude towards the US and Israel and then does some shady syncs with
825.
by andrepd 1y ago
I wish someone would explain to me the rationale of spending time and resources migrating to something to make it worse.
826.
by andrepd 1y ago
What does web request latency have to do with it? News articles or simple forms take 5 seconds to load. Why? This is not bounded by latency.
827.
by andrepd 1y ago
It is definitely ridiculous. It's not just a nitpick too, it's ludicrous how sloooow and laggy typing text in a monstrosity like Jira is, or just reading through an average news site. Makes everything feel like a slog.
828.
by andrepd 1y ago
Markets are very good and squeezing profit out of sometimes ludicrous ventures, not good at all for foundational research. It's the problem of having organised our economic life in this way, or rather, exclusively this way.
829.
by andrepd 1y ago
Humans can learn the symbolic rules and then apply them correctly to any problem, bounded only by time, and modulo lapses of concentration. LLMs fundamentally do not work this way, which is a major shortcoming. They can convincingly mimic h
830.
by andrepd 1y ago
It's almost too on the nose to be satire, yet here we are.
831.
by andrepd 1y ago
If you mean CoT, it's mostly fake https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say... If you mean symbolic reasoning, well it's pretty obvious that they aren't doing it since they fail basic
832.
by andrepd 1y ago
> once one of the AI companies reaches an AGI threshold Why is this even an axiom, that this has to happen and it's just a matter of time? I don't see any credible argument for the path LLM -> AGI, in fact given the slowdo
833.
by andrepd 1y ago
I could certainly tell if they played ??-level blunders, which LLMs do all the time.
834.
by andrepd 1y ago
We can barely measure "performance" in any objective sense, let alone claim that it's doubling every 4 months.....
835.
by andrepd 1y ago
> This 'reasoning' explains why the predominent sentiment in Europe is now: 'Bye bye USA'. Do you mean the people? They don't matter, the EU is not a democracy that has to answer to its people. Do you mean the le
836.
by andrepd 1y ago
Yes, we are conditioned by the long thread of history and each event followed from those that preceded it. It's a good observation even though many people think things happen in a vacuum :)
837.
by andrepd 1y ago
Based and Georgism-pilled. It's worse than that. If you sit on the property, but your neighbours improve it , make it a better place to live, create businesses that attract people, OR the public treasury builds a park, or a metro stop
838.
by andrepd 1y ago
linuxmint.org :)
839.
by andrepd 1y ago
> The discussion here assumes that you are not trying to beat the market, but instead passively managing individual stocks to create your own "DIY index fund."
840.
by andrepd 1y ago
It's trivial to say in hindsight "if you had just bought XYZ in January you would have 80% gains by now!". Yet this is pure confirmation bias. Moreover, surveys routinely show that amateur day traders do not consistently beat

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