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by beloch 2mo ago
Numbers don't tell the whole story. 1. The U.S. economy is large, but insular. Most trade is between states, not with other countries. This is why most countries shrug and accept tariffs on their goods. For them, trade with the U.S.
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by beloch 2mo ago
Google maps, outside of the U.S., labels the Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". Practically no other map providers go even that far. It's still the "Gulf of Mexico" and will continue to be such.
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by beloch 2mo ago
"They could multitask, but it wasn’t modern pre-emptive multitasking. Instead, the applications cooperated rather than the operating system being able to hand out resources. This meant a poorly behaved program could do a lot more to gu
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by beloch 2mo ago
Canadian here. The leaks surrounding the deal that was on the table earlier this week did not look promising. e.g. Locking in 15% tariff's on autos made in Canada would have resulted in slow death for the Canadian auto sector, not to
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by beloch 2mo ago
The response certainly has been strange. Hugging Face has expressed that they're willing to let things slide and not sue or press charges... if OpenAI offers them $100M of services in kind (i.e. compute)[1] and makes full disclosure of
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by beloch 2mo ago
"Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, and a staggering share of that spending is consumed by administrative middlemen, soaring drug prices, and emergency care for conditions that should have been treated earlier and
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by beloch 2mo ago
Chris Roberts is still doing his thing. Elite:Dangerous is still getting updates and there's also Star Citizen/Squadron 42, both of which could either turn out to be epoch-defining or fusterclucks of truly epic proportions.
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by beloch 2mo ago
Uncompressed audio tracks may have been necessary to get acceptable performance. e.g. GTA 1 came with some PCM tracks on the CD. If you didn't like them, you could pop in a different CD and get different music on the radio in-game. P
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by beloch 2mo ago
"For video game developers, the CD-ROM was an odd beast. The capacity far exceeded the quantity of assets they were able to produce. A few titles, like 7th Guest (1993) or Phantasmagoria (1995) introduced Full Motion Video (in a world
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by beloch 2mo ago
The infinite monkey theorem[1] can be applied to show that AI is not incapable of producing quality output. However, expecting your audience to sort through the output from a very large quantity of monkeys is not respectful. I think the b
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by beloch 2mo ago
What's probably more interesting than the incident itself is that it elicited well over a hundred comments on this site. Explosions happen at natural gas plants semi-frequently, few make the news, and fewer still are likely to get muc
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by beloch 2mo ago
I can deny it, but not disprove it. That's pretty F'd too.
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by beloch 2mo ago
"So here’s what I would love: A bookstore for humans by humans. A Humazon.com. Or even just a BookBud recommendation service where the authors are fully vetted (they’re your buds!)." -------------- To do what the author of this po
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by beloch 2mo ago
As an interested outsider to U.S. politics (i.e. Canadian), this seems like a political choice that may indicate tech billionaires are finally picking a side. For the last few decades, big money has donated heavily to both U.S. political
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by beloch 2mo ago
Earthquakes can occur in swarms[1] (distinct from aftershocks), with many of a similar size (i.e. Not a big quake followed by smaller ones) occurring in a small area over "relatively short" periods of time (i.e. days, weeks, or ye
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by beloch 2mo ago
"The key to this sort of business model is not innovation, but instead the externalization and compression of cost. Somewhere upstream, people work seventy-five hours a week, in conditions most readers of this website would refuse to e
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by beloch 2mo ago
To put it another way, AI is like a calculator or physics textbook. You can say, "I don't need to be able to do basic arithmetic in my head. I have a calculator!". Or, "I don't need to know how to solve this kind
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by beloch 2mo ago
Where Facebook has gone, I fear other U.S. social media is headed. Reddit recently blocked access to old.reddit.com for users who are not logged in, which suggests they're doubling down on user tracking. On top of that are the increa
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by beloch 2mo ago
A lot of industrial and scientific instruments/equipment require a computer to run them, gather data, etc.. Often the software on that computer is Windows based and, if it is, you're not going to connect it to a network (if you c
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by beloch 2mo ago
If "ethics departments are just PR stunts", then Bakalar would have been a terrible hire for OpenAI. Facebook's grudging and lacklustre response to their role in the Rohingya genocide would have happened mostly under her wat
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by beloch 2mo ago
This is simply speaking of something you wish to be true as though it already were. It's a very old trick of con artists. People make bad assumptions about the ultra-rich. e.g. "We should listen carefully to whatever Elon Musk
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by beloch 2mo ago
Information hygiene is important if you don't want to go "crazy" in this sense. Be careful about what news you consume, even if it appears to agree with you. Check sources. Check facts. Try to work up to your beliefs from
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by beloch 2mo ago
What else might that weather app be doing to justify the memory footprint? MS might suck at memory efficiency, but you can't claim they'd ever miss an opportunity to monetize their users. How can a weather app make MS money?
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by beloch 2mo ago
"AI companies want to be regarded as something more consequential than ordinary businesses — institutions capable of balancing states — the conversation cannot stop at their freedom from government control. It also has to include the r
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by beloch 2mo ago
This could be a factor, but there are other things that probably do more to explain the uptick in suicides. 1. There's a new hot war with Iran, a country that has put a large amount of resources into its cyberwarfare capabilities aft
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by beloch 2mo ago
Suggestion: For the pop-up text, bold the meaning of the word so it pops out a bit better. Due to the formatting of word definitions, you have to go hunting for it in many cases.
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by beloch 2mo ago
AI companies would do well to realize that civil disobedience is a thing. Take what's currently happening to Flock cameras as an object lesson. People are so fed up with Flock that they're cutting their cameras down en masse, som
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by beloch 2mo ago
Knowing the way in which bureaucracies work, I suspect there is zero (or likely negative) money available for new humans or old-school systems, but heaps available for anything with AI in the title. A manager who increases human staff will
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by beloch 2mo ago
1. Trump doesn't care if he costs U.S. taxpayers money. He'd only care if he was personally sued. 2. A foreign party using U.S. courts to sue the U.S. government has always been a dicey proposition. Some parties are more &quot
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by beloch 2mo ago
The original teaser for Star Wars was made before they had John Williams' score: https://youtu.be/XHk5kCIiGoM?si=VxAJcCATzwn6gZPw Watching it may help you appreciate just how important the Williams' score was to S

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