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by bloppe 1y ago
Everyone seems to be focusing on the school car accident. I was focusing more on "Over three months from December to March, public support dropped from 79% to 42%". People just don't like waking up super early in winter. >
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by bloppe 1y ago
Sure. Everyone remembers from Algorithms 101 that a constant multiple ("a thousand times slower") is irrelevant. What matters is the scalability. Something that's O(n) will always scale better than something that O(n^2), even
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by bloppe 1y ago
It's only actually an issue at the poles. Even 10 meters away from the pole, there's technically going to be a solar noon.
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by bloppe 1y ago
> In the end normal time is summer time I think you have this backward. Standard time is during winter. Daylight savings is during summer. That being said, I used to hate the switch, like you. Now, I'm convinced it's the best o
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by bloppe 1y ago
While we're at it. I'd like for 9am to be 5pm, and for 12 to be 4:20.
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by bloppe 1y ago
Everybody think DST is the worst and needs to be replaced in some way or another. Most people don't realize that their proposed "solution" has already been tried. Your particular solution of "year-round DST" was tri
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by bloppe 1y ago
At least you can teach a human to become a software engineer.
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by bloppe 1y ago
But it's becoming increasingly clear that LLMs based on the transformer model will never be able to scale their context much further than the current frontier, due mainly to context rot. Taking advantage of greater context will require
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by bloppe 1y ago
If the niche SaaS product never required a talented engineer in the first place, I'd be inclined to agree with you. But even a niche SaaS product requires a decent amount of engineering skill to maintain well.
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by bloppe 1y ago
> I'm paying much less attention for quality now. After all, why bother when AI produce working code? I hear this so much. It's almost like people think code quality is unrelated to how well the product works. As though you can
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by bloppe 1y ago
It's telling to me that nobody who actually works in AI research thinks that it's "not that far off".
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by bloppe 1y ago
The article "AI can code, but it can't build software" An inevitable comment: "But I've seen AI code! So it must be able to build software"
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by bloppe 1y ago
> We’re not there today, but it doesn’t seem that far off. What time frame counts as "not that far off" to you? If you tried to bet me that the market for talented software engineers would collapse within the next 10 years, I&#
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by bloppe 1y ago
Yikes
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by bloppe 1y ago
And it would be an even bigger issue if the driver did not have perfect 360 degree spacial awareness and could react to a child in single digit milliseconds
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by bloppe 1y ago
Probably heart disease
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by bloppe 1y ago
Which is also true
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by bloppe 1y ago
Not really, but it's actually kinda like currency. Imagine if a government suddenly devalued all $500 bills into $100 bills, but every other denomination remained the same.
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by bloppe 1y ago
So... what's the point of all the onerous restrictions in the first place?
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by bloppe 1y ago
Thank you for your concern, but I need a phone, not a device to manage dementia. I don't see why nobody should be allowed to have the former just because a few people need the latter.
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by bloppe 1y ago
How is this related to app store fees? No, paying a 30% fee on all transactions does not make you 10x safer than paying a 3% fee
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by bloppe 1y ago
This (1) ignores the extremely strong network effects purposely engendered by Apple's chronic refusal to implement interoperable standards in any of their products and (2) this is as much about app developers as it is about app consume
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by bloppe 1y ago
Someone asks this every time, and the answer is always the same. Fair pricing can only be discovered in a competitive market. The problem is that Apple moves heaven and earth to prevent competitive markets from doing their thing. That being
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by bloppe 1y ago
Seriously? I thought that was a joke
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by bloppe 1y ago
There are some things that the US does heavily control on a global scale, but internet access is not one of them. It's much easier for countries to create walled internet gardens than to create walled finance gardens. Many of them have
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by bloppe 1y ago
Enjoy your $20/mo claude code while it lasts, guys. Once the investor money starts drying up, a few hundred a month will be a lot closer to the norm going forward. That's probably the biggest concern for me.
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Why China is winning the trade war(economist.com)
73 points by bloppe 1y ago|94 comments
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by bloppe 1y ago
Humans: by far the most populous large animals on the planet, thriving in by far the most diverse set of environments in and around the planet, are clearly good at adaptation. The fact that Eskimos and Bedouin and uncontacted amazonian trib
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by bloppe 1y ago
Google invented transformers. OpenAI just released their model to the public first. Good for them, but not exactly impressive research. Reasoning models are pretty cool, but it was just taking what every body was already doing manually (&qu
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by bloppe 1y ago
I'd go a step further: has OpenAI actually achieved any significant research breakthroughs on par with Google's transformers? So why does everybody think they will achieve the next N breakthroughs necessary to get to AGI?

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