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by andy99 1y ago
What is this percentage-wise? Every technology will have some waste, and obviously it should be minimized if economical. But I think the efficiency is more important than just raw waste numbers. How much energy gets wasted putting energy in
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by andy99 1y ago
I agree with the grandparent comment and wanted to say something similar. I’m allergic to AI written drivel and at the first “it wasn’t just” I had to close the article. Whether or not the author used AI to write it, it’s a valid criticism
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by andy99 1y ago
If it sold itself on its merits I don’t think we’d see all these fawning posts about it. It’s a Rust fan thing. You can see how any criticism gets treated. I’m sure it works for some people and obviously if it does, then great. But it’s got
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by andy99 1y ago
I have, but it takes me back many years to some obscure situations I’ve been in. For my day to day, I can’t think of the last time I’ve encountered it, it’s been years, and I regularly am setting up new environments. That’s why I’m curious
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by andy99 1y ago
I’ll bite - I could care less about speed, that feels like a talking point I see often repeated despite other package managers not being particularly slow. Maybe there’s some workload I’m missing that this is more important for? I’ve tried
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by andy99 1y ago
I taught intro to programming ~15-20 years ago. Back then everyone just copied each other’s assignments. Plus ça change
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by andy99 1y ago
I still find it’s only useful for writing code you don’t need to understand. I would never vibe code something that I needed to know how it worked. It’s just going to take time for “best practice” to come around with this. It’s like outsour
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by andy99 1y ago
Yeah too many of the examples seem to be just that. It’s no true for all “disruptive” startups, it’s not always even bad, but it’s a different play than just solving a problem in a new way. - Uber is an end-run around existing taxi monopoli
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by andy99 1y ago
I bought a Nokia phone a couple years ago and tried it for a month. I went back to a smartphone, despite my general dislike of them. - Unlike the author I really like having maps, and also notifications about police, hazards, traffic, etc -
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by andy99 1y ago
This raises lots of interesting questions. Off the top of my head, if this pans out: - what would AI have to “deliver” in terms of capability to avoid collapse? And how much can be pawned off on the “people overestimate the short term value
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by andy99 1y ago
Cell phones have been through how many generations between the 80s and now? All the past generations are obsolete, but the investment in improving the technology (which is really a continuation of WWII era RF engineering) means we have read
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by andy99 1y ago
It’s down for me right now. See https://web.archive.org/web/20251012183954/https://www.ejump...
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ChatGPT prompts and a lighter led investigators to a suspectedarsonist(cnn.com)
2 points by andy99 1y ago|0 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
“Based on the information provided,” she wrote, “we were not able to conclude that there was a violation of our policy.” This seems to be a favourite of these companies. While orders of magnitude less bad, I’ve reported several dee
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by andy99 1y ago
This is new to me, it probably was a scam, but the part about Investors lose 84% of their money some of the time and all of it 40% of the time is meaningless. This could easily be true for many venture investments, which is how this
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by andy99 1y ago
> The only downside was that although we broke through the network restrictions and could access any website, the plane’s bandwidth was extremely limited, making web browsing quite painful. Unfortunately this is also the downside of payi
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by andy99 1y ago
We have this in Canada as well. I generally either don’t buy it at all or if I really need to do so begrudgingly and go somewhere else next time.
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by andy99 1y ago
I’ve worked a bit comparing precomputed lookup tables with computing the result in real time, and in many cases, e.g a multiply operation will be faster than the corresponding lookup. Point being that, for the example he gives, it’s also ne
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by andy99 1y ago
I'm not entirely sold on the methodological soundness. It seems like they went into it looking to confirm something, and designed and experiment that probably would. Maybe it's more rigorous than I got from reading the first part
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by andy99 1y ago
this is what first came to mind for me too. I'm in my 40s and still saw them used semi-frequently during my life. In ~2015 I actually paid using one in a taxi, that was the last time.
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by andy99 1y ago
And there's a solution to that that lets them value what they want appropriately and not have to choose it from a government list. I think unfortunately the temptation is too high for governments to also try and tell people what their
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by andy99 1y ago
The idea of there being some "government approved" list of things people can buy with this is horrifying and exactly why cash should continue to exist.
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by andy99 1y ago
> Even more concerning, often the malicious people will hide behind stupidity. yeah a lot of people that get ahead seem to be intentionally ignorant (to the point of fooling themselves) to provide a kind of plausible deniability. It&#x27
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by andy99 1y ago
It's easy to armchair quarterback these things, and in retrospect, the actions that innocent people should take are probably obvious. At the time I don't think it would be so easy. There is lots of pressure not to take action, bec
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by andy99 1y ago
Just for reference, Canada, with an economy less than 1/10 the US lost 66k jobs in August. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-economy-bled-66-00... My first reaction to 32k for the US is that it'
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by andy99 1y ago
Everything has a sales component, good engineering doesn't automatically sell itself. In that respect, I agree some of what's called politics here is always necessary. On the other hand, I've worked at places where the only w
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Canadian government denies Marineland request to export belugas(cbc.ca)
2 points by andy99 1y ago|0 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
> I’d rather pay real human authors and artists for their creativity than openAI. So would I. You've just demonstrated one of the many reasons that any kind of LLM tax that redistributes money to supposedly aggrieved "creators&
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by andy99 1y ago
Your rent seeking is not a real world problem. I'm sceptical about the bill, I would be much more so if it was just some kind of wealth redistribution to the loudest complainers.
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by andy99 1y ago
Canada is like this (possibly worse). Nobody ever wants to do the ostensible thing that they say they are doing, if that makes sense. Take some kind of government procurement, say to buy a truck. The truck ends up being a pretense for all s

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