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by bombcar 4mo ago
Don't look so smug! I know what you're thinking, but The Commission was merely a setback!
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Bill Watterson is comfortable for life - even without merchandising he's easily a millionaire multiple times over.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The old ones vs the current ones really do hit different.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Watterson and Larson (both who retired at or near the "top" of their game) could easily have gone on for a year or two more - or three, or five, or twenty. But they both knew that the font was running low, if not completely dry; l
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Honestly, the ability to pass off a project to long-term maintainers that don't immediately get overwhelmed, collapse, or explode is perhaps his greatest skill.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Raymond's important and high up enough that he probably only needs the approval of three AIs and five managers to publish a blog - updating documentation likely needs twice that.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
He responds to this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546779
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I've had moderate success with the little AIs, though they seem to have added some annoying "don't do that" stuff.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Even lower risk is to email hn@ycombinator.com with duplicate posts or other issues on this site! It helps, and it gets you a bit over the fear of emailing. ;)
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by bombcar 4mo ago
It’s the difference between setting up a system to encourage investment and hoping for a factory, or at least a large department store, and instead getting a DataCenter that employs 30 people total.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Curl is so important that if it had a heartbleed and didn’t patch, someone would and people’d just apply it until it was fixed in tree.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
That’s the problem - it seems like a mind but it doesn’t operate like the ones we’re used to. Even a dog will learn from recent stimuli, these things don’t. The prompt just modifies.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Surprised nobody will spring for the inflight WiFi for Linus. Has to be some of the best return per dollar that could be spent!
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The Gulag AIpeono is such a letdown compared to the original. At least they have the decency to not compare themselves to chattel slaves.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
some countries do make income available publicly. even the USA does it for public employees in many states.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The real underlying issue is that (block, sex, age) is basically a unique identifier.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
It would entirely be possible to limit the scope of things, by making sure the company that has your address (UPS or USPS, say) never has the other information. Each business would hand off a zero-knowledge identifier to you that you'd
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The number of capital-heavy businesses that are wildly profitable “if you ignore capital expenses” is too many to list. Airlines, for example, which are so profitable they continually go bankrupt.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
How is the result of training stored? How big is that? It seems reasonable to assume we’ll eventually plateau and all we’ll need is relatively infrequent training.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Making games is hard for the greatest game designers and programmers of all time . We have had any number of quite competently programmed absolute flops.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
It’s obvious those who didn’t live through the dot com bomb; they believe you can’t have a rug pull on something that has some use.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
A huge part of the problem is that we’ve made everything so big that we have a choice between the dragon and the hydra. Fight for localization.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The illusion of control is stronger with modern democratic governments-but while it’s true that if we all voted for Vermin Supreme, he’d rule, it’s also true if we all stopped using Google they’d die quickly. But neither is a realistic
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by bombcar 4mo ago
If you have as many devices as he does and a rack, getting a real APC managed power distribution unit is worth it.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
There’s different levels of interlibrary loan - around here all the little local libraries can loan from each other in a matter of days (they ship to a central location each day). But they can also pull from a much wider distribution via me
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The libraries actually do this, even if it’s not entirely visible or advertised- most librarians are rabid book-lovers and would love nothing more than to stock great books and similar. They just provide cover with the DVDs and the pulp.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Goodwill is a much more accurate slice of “what is published” than any library is.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
If you’ve not encountered the clueless LLM cowboys who would do then and then blame the victim for it not working, you’ve not met many people yet. This round of hype provides new and shiny footguns which are Never the shooter’s fault.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
You're very likely to get a somewhat circular reference; the key (for me) is that for 90% of the usages, "standard translation LLMs" are just fine - I still recommend a translator but they're more of a proof-reader for b
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by bombcar 5mo ago
What if we made SQL injections everything ?

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