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by arjie 5mo ago
To be honest, one thing I've been interested in is a totally markdown-only web. You leave everything the same, you just use a Markweb browser as the only thing and it only accesses text/markdown. Then I build Yet Another Protocol
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by arjie 5mo ago
This is such a fascinating referendum. The population is at 9.1m, and at 9.5m it appears they'll stall asylum and family reunification, and at 10m they'll execute a Swexit - Switzerland isn't in the EU but it allows freedom o
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by arjie 5mo ago
It was unclear from this summary but there are a few parties here: the original farmer A, the neighbouring family B, the city C, and the datacenter builder D. A sold to C with the deed restriction C sold to D without the restriction B tried
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by arjie 5mo ago
The alternative networks have solved this problem for me. I don’t get spam calls on Signal or WhatsApp though WhatsApp and Telegram do both have a spam text problem. I also have a phone number from a different area and I blocked that area c
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by arjie 5mo ago
Realistically, if these are the minimum conditions to reduce this kind of low-gain amplified damage, then I suspect that most people will rapidly conclude that the cost-benefit leans in the direction of immediately severing these people fro
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by arjie 5mo ago
Garbage operating system support. If you can’t do Linux support it’s a bit pointless because there’s two platforms for this that matter: Linux and Darwin. Qualcomm is like AMD was for GPUs for like decades. Lots of announcements and people
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by arjie 5mo ago
It is just a few people. Any time people are unpleasant to others or post in an uninteresting way I add them to a personal list that filters out their comments. Rapidly the site becomes more usable. The negativity is from a few highly polar
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by arjie 5mo ago
It’s just a big forum so it has lots of people. Personally, I block most reflexively anti-AI people because they’re boringly repetitive. But this has always been the case. Over a decade ago, my friend made a user script to block Snowden new
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by arjie 5mo ago
2 years ago, wrote superfast float -> fixed point string code. That was cool. Then a while ago, I plugged in everything at the datacenter and one device didn't come up. Plug into the management port, and Claude Code writes a C progr
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by arjie 5mo ago
Well, the welfare state for most nations will suffer. The reason it's a massive sin to scale down is that with a scaled down economy you can't sustain the old without greater sacrifices by the young. So you need someone to pay the
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by arjie 5mo ago
I'm the same as you. I, too, think it's just opportunity cost. Even a superficial model will show some effect as median income rises https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-02-14/Fertility_Ra...
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by arjie 5mo ago
Does LW have a downloadable archive? I can only find references to GreaterWrong but no public answer. Would be useful.
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by arjie 5mo ago
You're right. I just need to upgrade my PDU. But as you can imagine, I'm hesitating because I don't want to power down the rest of the hardware either.
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by arjie 5mo ago
Well, obviously it’s cherry-picked. It’s an example of something that challenges my intuition. Most things align with my intuition because I’m in my late 30s and have seen enough of the world to have a fairly good idea of the rough numbers.
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by arjie 5mo ago
Surprisingly small contract. It's interesting to see that a full government contract for a payment provider is a fraction of a US mid-size company's cloud bill. I am constantly surprised by things like this. Here's another: t
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by arjie 5mo ago
Okay, there were two things that bothered me with these KVM switches: the power adapters are massive so there's too many cables, and the cables don't go always in the same side of the thing. Your post covers both and I'm thri
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by arjie 5mo ago
That's a logical thing for governments to do. Governments are under pressure on different axes than the companies they contract to do things. Governments switching contracts won't ever make the news, but it's much harder for
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by arjie 5mo ago
Realistically, I'm not going to watch a video by a fellow whose entire content reel is big yellow and red capital letters saying "capitalism sucks" imposed on a horrified face. I find that these people have poor epistemic dis
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by arjie 5mo ago
I do have GPUs running there and I'd be running them denser if I'd already paid for the power. To be honest, there's no room on 3rd Street to put turbines next to the DC there so if they wanted to put in AI they'd have t
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by arjie 5mo ago
Am I the only one who wants a datacenter in his backyard? I actually went down a little over a year ago to get a cabinet down at Hosting.com’s old location round the corner only to find that they’ve been gone from there (and the DC business
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by arjie 5mo ago
It’s a pretty good policy: Singapore owns most land and therefore you lose the rent-seeking ability on land. So all homes are leasehold apartments and the government can develop places either by right or by using repurchase agreements with
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by arjie 5mo ago
It’s interesting. They’re “cheating” a bit at least. They have these things called Group Representation Constituencies: multiple people represent a single constituency but you vote once for the team. So they’re clearly using this to up-weig
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by arjie 5mo ago
Truth be told, I wrote docs for other programmers but now I have Claude Code write docs for itself but if you looked you might conclude that I wrote docs for Claude.
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by arjie 5mo ago
I’m curious about homeschooling and alternative methods of schooling so this is of interest to me. By “virtually all” I assume you mean “all but those developmentally delayed”. Have you run a program that uses your principles or have you te
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by arjie 5mo ago
True that it’s a few in a global sense but it’s almost every user of this website surely, the vast majority of whom will continue to “break the world” so to speak which makes this less a lament and more a boast.
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by arjie 5mo ago
Boy, the game of telephone on the way to HN is really amazing. Paper: We make a stylized model that uses observed social networks in Honduran gangs and varies some parameters to match the US to see and it aligns with some things regarding h
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by arjie 5mo ago
They will easily have exceeded $50m.
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by arjie 5mo ago
These things are all true but in the end the most transformative AI results came from US labs with US university trained students, so one must ask what the purpose of a more difficult pedagogy is if it doesn’t lead to humanity’s greater kno
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by arjie 5mo ago
Just the industry term for what you’re building. Electronic Medical Records / Electronic Health Records. There’s some subtlety with what they’re doing that makes this more an EHR system (cross practice patient record rather than single
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by arjie 5mo ago
The book SAT Wars has arguments for and against and the striking thing for me was that some in admissions believe in a concept called crafting a class : the applicants are input into the admissions officer’s artisanal contribution to pro

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