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by blagie 3mo ago
That's missing the point. When a toddler does something inappropriate, "but he did it to me" is not an excuse. If both kids did something bad, I want both to apologize, and both to move on. It's also not a contest for wh
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by blagie 3mo ago
Yes, these are very much among Russia's pretexts. There were others as well. Most have at least some basis as well. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/422nd_Unmanned_Systems_Regimen... And yes, it is still
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by blagie 3mo ago
MIT has, predictably, become a cesspool of corruption. People called this about two decades ago. The problems are: 1) Ambitious people are drawn to such institutions 2) There are $40B swishing around 3) Incentives align for fame and impact,
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by blagie 3mo ago
Curiosity: For most of the past five years, I've known ways to do better than Anthropic, OpenAI, and friends in many ways, at least on paper. I know I was right about many of them since many would show up 6-24 months later tools from t
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by blagie 3mo ago
> But then, by standards of two decades ago, every website that cannot legally avoid showing a GDPR popup would be classified as malware. As it should be today. Alas, standards have changed. I don't think you've read GDPR. In E
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by blagie 3mo ago
> However, I continue to be amazed that Perforce survived Git. I assume its ability to handle large binaries has been what saved it. Curiously enough, the git data model is ideal for handling large binaries. The place it crashes-and-burn
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by blagie 3mo ago
> Everything I do is driven by a single goal: to make my startup successful so I can innovate in edtech. Nothing else. I believe you entirely. That comes across in everything you say. Huge harm has been done in education precisely by peo
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by blagie 3mo ago
I did try it. I'd provide feedback on how to make this better, but to be frank, I don't want to see this made better. I'd like open education made better. I'm on the other side here. Even if I did, I'm pretty sure y
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by blagie 3mo ago
> All we want to do is innovate. That's very clear. That's why we have spyware, ad tech, WWII-era German chemical weapons, the East India Company, Oracle's business model, fintech, ... Ask anyone 40 years older. Regrets fo
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by blagie 3mo ago
LLM-written clones of free software into proprietary seem to be a growing trend now. With manim, it's probably legal (I think MIT license?), but in general, it makes the world a worse place.
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by blagie 3mo ago
This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professional. It is dogshit which no one can understand. The re
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by blagie 3mo ago
40+% of the slots at Harvard are taken up by ALDCs. That's most of the white students slots. If you're like, say, our vice president, you have quite literally a snowball's chance in hell of making it in. I doubt people are in
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by blagie 3mo ago
I'm curious: Which state? However, there are *many* such effects. Whack one, and I can point to a dozen others. Until and unless they're systematically addressed, it's actually very hard to either make progress or even draw g
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by blagie 3mo ago
This is not an accident. If you talk to admissions officers, over drinks, they'll tell you that poor black students from marginalized US communities have abysmal performance at elite schools. The decision to admit rich black students i
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by blagie 3mo ago
The open question is the meaning of "proper representation:" - One which maximizes Harvard's power network? - Most likely to succeed in the future? - Representative of the general public by race? - Representative of the gener
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by blagie 4mo ago
Only partially true. In well-designed microelectronics, they will. The standard circuit involves a fuse, a fast Zener clamp, and sometimes a small resistor (e.g. 1 ohm) and/or capacitor. The design parameter is that, with the current l
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by blagie 5mo ago
When I used it a decade ago, virtually everything in mercurial was slightly better-designed, more user-friendly, and more polished. Much shorter learning curve.
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by blagie 5mo ago
Growing the economy is not "like a bicycle, the slower it goes the less stable it is." See everything from ancient Egypt to Soviet-style Communism. Periods of time in Ancient Rome would fit in too. The problem with those -- except
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by blagie 5mo ago
Honestly, the world could use more stagnation. We've had a lot of change in the past hundred years, and we've reached a point where we can clothe, feed, and house everyone in the world. Once that's done, moving forward more t
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by blagie 7mo ago
Nope. https://abovethelaw.com/2016/02/criminally-yours-indicting-a... You can be arrested, indicted, and held in jail on pretrial, and there is literally no recourse. There are many other ways jail can happen with
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by blagie 9mo ago
> Then Iranians will be reminded how peaceful and prosperous the most other Muslim countries are. This is factually incorrect. Top 10 majority-Muslim countries, sorted by population: Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Sudan, Ir
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by blagie 9mo ago
Really? When did this come up? I know tons of people who run Windows unactivated. The key difference is there's a watermark. Otherwise, it seems to work fine.
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by blagie 10mo ago
It does, but my comment was "even in big-O." Environments might mean the difference between e.g. 16GB and 24GB, but not 16GB and 160GB.
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by blagie 10mo ago
For future ML developers: A post like this should include system requirements. It's not clear from the blog post, the git page, and most other places if this will run on, even in big-O: * CPU * 16GB GPU * 240GB server (of the type most
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by blagie 10mo ago
FWIW: I've used Arduinos, but never with their IDE. AVR was super-developer-friendly well before the Arduino. It replaced the PIC for a lot of hobbyist projects. To the points in the thread, on major product development, these things d
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by blagie 10mo ago
I, respectfully, disagree with this analysis. Prototyping platforms have tiny markets, but lead to downstream sales. Many a company were brought down by more developer-friendly platforms ignoring the "tiny" userbase of people who
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by blagie 10mo ago
There is nothing you can't do, given a Turing-complete language. That doesn't make it reasonable or convenient to do so, though.
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by blagie 10mo ago
It is, and intentionally so. NiCd batteries could also sit on a shelf forever, holding their charge. They had virtually no self-discharge, which was super-convenient. They came in standard form factors (AA, AAA, 9V, etc.). I really liked Ni
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by blagie 10mo ago
"Fun" isn't the same thing as "functional." I remember having great fun in QuickBASIC. And my son enjoys Scratch. Django code is much more fun to work with than Node, but I can't imagine developing something co
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by blagie 1y ago
Amazon broke in 2020, when most shopping went online. It never recovered. I doubt it ever will. Trust takes a long time to earn, and a little bit of time to break. I had four or five incidents on Amazon, cancelled Prime, and I doubt it will

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