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by avidiax 3mo ago
AI is both terrifying and miraculous. Good to have stories like this where it enables something that might be impossible or impractical otherwise. I do think the author has a good understanding of software requirements, which is hopefully s
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by avidiax 4mo ago
This article really buried the most interesting part: the shaping of public opinion by the home office in the UK following acts of terrorism.
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by avidiax 4mo ago
The French Revolution is no longer possible. The surveillance state plus wealth mobility means the wealthy will be in New Zealand before anyone erects a guillotine, and the people that would foment a revolution are heavily surveilled and in
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by avidiax 4mo ago
Rural power was always expensive, but now due to wildfire risk, it needs to be ruinously expensive. It's not for the benefit of the cities, and driven by corporate risk management.
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by avidiax 4mo ago
Yes. That is a central problem with power distribution in California. The cities are paying exorbitant prices for electricity to pay for safer infrastructure for rural customers (undergrounding). Some cities have divested from PG&E and
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by avidiax 4mo ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-05-21/spa... https://archive.is/yFZjd ---- The complaint here isn't from SpaceX investors. It's from retail investors that are bei
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by avidiax 4mo ago
> So a passion tax seems like something that should exist and not really be decried. To put it the other way, work that is distasteful in some way, should also pay more, but this is missing the point. I think the point of the unionizatio
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SpaceX's index fund debut will look nothing like what most investors expect(investmentnews.com)
6 points by avidiax 4mo ago|2 comments
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SpaceX and the 'Enshittification' of Markets(ft.com)
10 points by avidiax 4mo ago|0 comments
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by avidiax 4mo ago
Also product liability. If you give a domestic hair dryer a 12 ft cord, someone will use it in the shower. If you give an insta-pot a 6 ft cord, someone will drape it off the counter and a child will pull it. UL standards actually limit cab
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by avidiax 5mo ago
What is a "fair" outcome? Is it easier to hold back talented students with a low bar or push untalented ones to a higher bar?
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by avidiax 5mo ago
It's not just special relativity that's out of reach. It's generally difficult for an LLM to do anything novel, i.e. produce a new hypothesis from scientific data that fits no existing hypothesis, or create an algorithm with
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by avidiax 5mo ago
Present LLMs are quite good at interpolating, in fact, too good. That's the source of hallucinations. A path can be found between A and B, even if A is the 12th century Chinese royal court and B is the Easter bunny. Interpolation and r
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by avidiax 5mo ago
AI for engineering productivity seems to be widely misunderstood to be a magic button that produces the same result, but faster and more cheaply. And based on that reasoning, you should want to force employees to tokenmax, because, why woul
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by avidiax 5mo ago
Until SCOTUS rules that parallel construction is a constitutional violation, the FBI is free to track everyone and build cases from illegal data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by avidiax 5mo ago
The US could have those benefits for free. Single payer would be drastically cheaper than the current system. The other benefits are just policies that slightly reduce GDP per capita based on a first order analysis. We are able to afford so
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by avidiax 5mo ago
That paper is looking at the top 1%. Buy, borrow, die is the realm of the top 0.1 % or 0.01%. Are you saying that billionaires are actually realizing capital gains to afford yachts, private jets, and mansions?
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by avidiax 5mo ago
Though I am pro-LVT, I don't think this will help in the current situation. The owner, the bank, and the city all wish to maintain the illusion that a $10M building from 2010 is still worth at least $10M today, even vacant. No party wi
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by avidiax 5mo ago
Get custom fitted ones at an audiologist. They are very comfortable, at least in the upward facing ear, for me. Foamies are only tolerable a couple of nights for me.
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by avidiax 5mo ago
Yes. Wearing regular earplugs will change the shape of your ear, and many people can't tolerate it every night.
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by avidiax 5mo ago
You can't have a modality that leaves someone out for a mass social or business product. It's the vegetarians that constrain a shared restaurant choice.
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by avidiax 5mo ago
My rule is more about expansion ratio and effort. I will generate an LLM output that organizes scattered information and thoughts, resulting in 1.25x the text. I then read and edit it, generate executive summaries, and send it. It saves eff
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by avidiax 5mo ago
> More seriously, why wouldn't older, longer-lived people be more likely to address long-term problems like climate change? Why would people with a short-term future be likely to address long-term problems?
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by avidiax 5mo ago
The court is the regulator of last resort. A company that gets taken to court would likely have been sanctioned by the government regulators of another country. Also, court is unavailable in many cases now. Binding arbitration is very commo
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by avidiax 5mo ago
Why would private equity want more competent doctors? Incompetent ones order unnecessary tests and exhaust treatment possibilities, which drives up cost billed to insurance. Only the insurance industry and perhaps licensing bodies can press
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by avidiax 5mo ago
Not exactly, the article says that the effects aren't linked to caffeine, not that decaf has been shown to have the positive effects or still contain the necessary chemicals.
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by avidiax 5mo ago
These are tools that are pushed for everyone from schoolage children through the elderly. I would also like a fully uncensored model, but I don't think that it's appropriate for everyone.
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by avidiax 5mo ago
The tool can only tell you what the cable says. Detecting the gauge and composition of the wires in the cable is either destructive or requires temperature probes. Detecting whether the signal characteristics are close enough to in-spec or
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by avidiax 5mo ago
Wontfix for Intel Macbooks: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/issues/12 Seems the Intel southbridge isn't known to expose the needed info.
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by avidiax 6mo ago
The trouble is that you aren't chilled at all today . Tomorrow's government may decide that attending certain protests, or having "associated" with certain people was always a crime. It doesn't even need to be &quo

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