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by anonymars 2mo ago
FRED shows Federal outlays as a percent of GDP broadly leveling off and declining. 2008 GFC and COVID being transient exceptions https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S Meanwhile here's employee compensati
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by anonymars 2mo ago
> I totally understand why people just buy physical media. Not to disagree with your larger point, but physical media can also be a nightmare. Try watching a 4K Blu-ray on your computer
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by anonymars 2mo ago
I bet it is about solving the daily brain teaser of working with unmaintainable code!
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Who is the singular bully in this analogy? It seems to me the choice is between "civil war" and "influencing people to vote differently" -- the latter of which requires understanding them (for example, the common theme s
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Are you perhaps mixing up empathy and sympathy?
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Wait, is the argument now that cryptocurrency only exists and is useful for buying drugs? It's tough to keep track of what point you're trying to make
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Banking-related errors have recourse
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Ironic: > NEW POLICY If I don't know you, I don't merge you! Thanks XZ! https://github.com/switck/libngu
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Were cars designed to communicate and emulate the mental architecture and thought processes of animals?
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by anonymars 2mo ago
I disagree, as it seems that we are confronting problems that result precisely from emulating human behavior, in all its unsound, ill-defined, and abstract "glory" For example I'm not convinced we can solve prompt injection
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by anonymars 2mo ago
In practice you have to work really hard and pay a huge performance penalty to get deterministic output (for example, floating-point math is not associative and we are running a ton of calculations in parallel), so practically speaking I&#x
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by anonymars 2mo ago
LLMs are deterministic algorithms?
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Not to disagree with the overall point, but in fairness you are responding to a different person from the one that made the original claim
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by anonymars 3mo ago
The accusations are pretty wild https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865294
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by anonymars 3mo ago
It's easier to throw stones than realize "this could happen to my society too and in all likelihood I'd be just as screwed as the Americans, Russians, 1930s Germans..." COVID was another vivid illustration of how you&#x2
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by anonymars 3mo ago
People say Microsoft has no UI taste, but they used to be decent. They had sensible guidelines and behaviors For example for this case, the taskbar icon would blink three times and then remain highlighted. So it would grab your attention,
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by anonymars 3mo ago
Interesting -- seems like the side effect would be to basically prevent use by the DoD but not really anyone else. Bonus points if they sell a "government" version for higher cost
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by anonymars 3mo ago
Land tends to appreciate, but not so much the rotting box atop it I bring this up not as a "well, ackshually" but because the datacenter analogy is more similar in that respect...except worse, because now it's a rotting box f
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by anonymars 3mo ago
Is your claim that Chinese commerce isn't subject to political censorship? Where does Grok come into this? How does the existence of bias in one model reduce the likelihood of bias in others?
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by anonymars 3mo ago
WhatsApp insists on having access to your contact list. Pro-privacy, it ain't. It's still a Meta product.
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by anonymars 3mo ago
How I miss checkboxes instead of these god-damned Schrodinger's sliders that replaced them Except they've now started ruining them too with the new asinine trend of making them look like radio buttons
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by anonymars 3mo ago
Trucks and trains serve different purposes. My understanding is the US has a higher percentage than most of freight carried by rail. Indeed at the expense of its passenger rail
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by anonymars 3mo ago
Why couldn't this also help with continuous-welded rail? Your own video points out that it's still prone to trade-offs: rail breaks in the cold are better than buckling in the heat, but what if you could reduce the high point with
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by anonymars 3mo ago
It seems like a prudent warning in a thread explaining the very basics of short selling Also worth mentioning you might be on the hook to buy it back at any time ; after all, the person you borrowed it from may themselves wish to sell it.
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by anonymars 3mo ago
What context are you responding to? > It would be nice if microsoft had windows update for .net, visual c++, office, windows, edge ... just all their software in one updater ...
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by anonymars 3mo ago
A contract that says "we can change the terms of this contract at will" (as pretty much all "terms of service" do) is little more than an adhesive charade Imagine thinking people who bought a device when it didn't
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by anonymars 3mo ago
No, "Microsoft Update" is what it was once called (see e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/... )
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by anonymars 3mo ago
3-2-1 rule still alive and well 3 copies, 2 different media, 1 off-site But also, what a fucking disgrace, Microsoft Edit to add: cloud plus synced hard drives do not count as separate copies
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by anonymars 3mo ago
Not only that, but developing for Windows Phone 8 required using Windows 8 (which was a flop) That being said I don't know that there was a path to success. I don't think it was as much about the little apps as the big ones: Insta
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by anonymars 3mo ago
> Find another health app/service with more preferable terms if you don't like it It never ceases to amaze me how many people defend the Darth Vader style of buying a product: "I am altering the deal; pray I don't alt

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