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by apothegm 3mo ago
Oh, duh! How dense of me.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
… by defunding it?
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Bulky? Costly? Software doesn’t support it? How much do they cost, anyway? I bet they’re also absolutely awful to read/write text or code on. And the quality for 3D uses is still mediocre. I could imagine their having an application in
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by apothegm 3mo ago
You’ll probably want to use an escrow service. eBay used to and probably still does integrate with a couple reputable ones. Alternatively, sell to a reputable third party that buys and sells secondhand. For Macs, OWC comes to mind.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
A robot that washes your clothes isn’t much use if you can’t afford clothes (let alone the robot) because there’s not enough work left that they can’t do to employ more than a minuscule fraction of us humans and the techno-feudal barons hav
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Except that obesity happens in large part because we eat too many things (highly processed junk food, sugar added to everything, and All The Carbs) that are dense in macronutrients but sparse in micronutrients. That lack of micronutrients l
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Surgical masks aren’t. But N95/KF94 were originally designed for exactly this sort of use case.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
They’re useful if you want a job with a big company that doesn’t have tech in its DNA. Tech companies and startups associate certs with big traditional companies that aren’t really tech savvy — they’ll either ignore certs or see them as a n
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Because the world and the jobs we need to put food on the table and roofs over our heads work on whatever the local time is and don’t allow for waking up on standard time if your locale is running on DST?
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Since climate change is making extremes worse, not just causing warming… likely more than baseline.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Doing what everyone should be doing and using the LLM for what it’s good at (natural language processing) and not for what it’s bad at (decision making). In a high stakes context like this, trusting an LLM for anything more is negligent — a
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by apothegm 3mo ago
All the private files on the hard drives (and maybe cloud drives depending on host) of individuals who haven’t enabled AI assistants on their devices. Corporate data belonging to non-AI companies. Data that exists only in filing cabinets or
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Starts talking about LEDs and totally misses LCDs, which made heavy use of 7-segment displays and were ubiquitous for a few decades in the early years of consumer digital electronics.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
I might be off by a factor of 2 in that estimate, but not much more. Most of our communication is via chat. Then there are ticket specs and comments. Project overviews and status updates. PR descriptions and comments. Documentation. ADRs. R
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Okay? This article is about the campaigning for change part. It doesn’t say you shouldn’t make those tweaks. Just that you shouldn’t have to and we should change that.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
LLMs? No. 85% correctness and avcuracy — even 95% — is just not going to cut it in that context.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Easily. I probably generate 180k words per quarter at work and another 180k for personal and social media purposes. Maybe 180k/month, even.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Best performing headphones I ever had were the ones with the foam covers that came bundled with a particular model of Walkman. Kept those together with duct tape until the electronics finally gave out.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
I’d be more concerned about the refusals than the refills granted.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
It’s a US holiday.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Which would in turn imply that markets cannot be simultaneously efficient and competitive.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Wouldn’t (1) be the point?
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by apothegm 3mo ago
Composer writes the worst, stupidest, most naive and straight up brains-dead code you could imagine. Fast and cheap is about all it’s got going for it. I mostly use it for “sort these lines alphabetically” and stuff that’s a smidge too comp
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by apothegm 3mo ago
That last one in particular is turning AI into an enemy for a LOT of people, and it’s hard to blame them.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
> Why is Grok just so sexualized? I would think the answer to that one would be obvious, tbh.
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by apothegm 3mo ago
For those of us without a WSJ subscription… what is it?
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by apothegm 4mo ago
I think you mean (1-(1-prob[success])^numAttempts).
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Shocking. Totally shocking.
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by apothegm 4mo ago
Water usage concerns in a desert, perhaps?
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by apothegm 4mo ago
The learning curve is arguable, but the discoverability is essentially nonexistent — and that massively affects the learning curve.

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