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by barumrho 3y ago
Isn't it because it was tied to Windows? My impression still is that the ecosystem is not as well supported outside of Windows. Similar problem with Swift even though it started out as an open source project. The ties to Apple OSes are
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by barumrho 3y ago
Can .lance file be used without the directory structure? (For whatever reason, a single file is just much easier to work with.)
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by barumrho 3y ago
It is helpful to think of it in terms of unit economics. If a company sells a product, it needs to eventually make profit on each unit. (cost < price per unit) When it comes to owning a share, it eventually needs to make the investor mon
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by barumrho 3y ago
Hackers hack on all levels of abstraction. Defining "hacker" around the level of programming languages seems silly. Hardware hackers could have said the same thing about the author.
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by barumrho 3y ago
wait until you gotta wait for the waitlist.
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by barumrho 3y ago
I agree with your sentiment that the Fed isn't "out to increase unemployment" but I think it's not entirely correct to ignore the trade off of raising rates. It's the low employment that allows the Fed to keep incre
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by barumrho 3y ago
Well, if it's profitable, someone will want to claim it. If it's not, then it will get shutdown due to some unpaid bills. (Compute, electricity, connectivity, etc.) Maybe possible if it's running as a truly decentralized algo
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by barumrho 4y ago
Hmm, one way I can see is that ChatGPT becomes a bit like the AppStore/Spotify/Netflix. Users pay for ChatGPT -> OpenAI pays plugin developers for usage. This incentivizes plugin developers to provide quality answers. Websites
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by barumrho 4y ago
Hmm wait, what do you mean by “real terms” because that usually means inflation-adjusted.
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by barumrho 4y ago
Withdrawal of $42B in one day. Wow. It does seem like SVB would be uniquely vulnerable to this type of run. (Relatively small # of customers holding large sums of deposit.) Is that incorrect?
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by barumrho 4y ago
Are these nominal or inflation-adjusted figures?
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by barumrho 4y ago
> "The likely aggressors" Is there any other than China?
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by barumrho 4y ago
While it's shorter, it seems more magical? How does it know to count `failure`?
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by barumrho 4y ago
Yes, that is true, but it is still part of their mandate. Supply and demand of money gets reflected in inflation and the Fed responds by changing interest rates. Isn't this a free market mechanism?
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by barumrho 4y ago
Well, being subject to S&D of money is why they have the mandate to keep inflation at 2%, no? You can argue that measuring inflation is a poor way, but you'd have to come up with a better alternative.
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by barumrho 4y ago
The bit about Apple Notarization is incorrect. You can do it with a free Apple Developer account. You only need to pay $99 if you want to distribute it through the App Store.
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by barumrho 4y ago
> This is why people who claim “I don’t want kids because of global warming” are so incredibly stupid Just a different explanation for this: If one has a super pessimistic view of effects of global warming in the next 50~100 years, e.g.,
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by barumrho 4y ago
This means that for foreign customers of yours, your product will have constantly fluctuating price. I personally don't find that desirable. Also, there is some considerations to be made for purchasing power especially for items like a
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by barumrho 4y ago
One reason I'm aware of is for foreign customers who are buying in foreign currencies. As a developer, I don't want to set prices in every currency, so they translate the price grid for me which I found useful.
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by barumrho 4y ago
Maybe I’m off here, but this doesn’t really seem like it’s about the 30% commission. Maybe Apple is taking a position against allowing crypto trades on their platform?
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by barumrho 4y ago
I generally agree with your statement, but it depends on what your goal is. Ultimately, do you want to build a successful business or bring a (specific) new technology into the world? I suspect the former is true more often and it can lead
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by barumrho 4y ago
I’m glad you brought up this point. I think there are analogues to “muscle memory” when it comes to learning concepts, too. For example, I don’t remember all the techniques to compute integrals explicitly, but I know that I’ll be able to pi
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by barumrho 4y ago
Curious to learn, what are the differentiators of ZFS? File system seems like an invisible layer to me personally which makes me ask this question.
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by barumrho 4y ago
Search ”split brain experiments”.
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by barumrho 5y ago
Don't you think some form of Facebook on the Internet is inevitable? A social network that is free to use and ad-supported. It seems that the question is if there is a version of Facebook that does not lead to misinformation and other
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by barumrho 5y ago
Having just read this and Zhamak's article, it seems that there may be some incentive alignment issue with this. I assume a lot of valuable data originate from customer-facing applications, so the team that already has a customer-facin
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by barumrho 6y ago
Hmm, if you view biology as technology, isn't the ecosystem required for human life basically an industry in itself? It seems that centralization is the natural outcome of decentralization. We live in the tension in between the two ext
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by barumrho 6y ago
Is it necessarily true that consumption requires carbon?
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by barumrho 6y ago
I would like to see more than just toy benchmarks. Also, can you provide any information on theoretical basis of this? I can see this carving out a space for low value tasks.
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by barumrho 8y ago
If the mechanical model also does this, it it conscious too? So, how would you answer your question?

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