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by brookst 2mo ago
Well, how does it compare to the internet industry?
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by brookst 2mo ago
Your comment reminds me of the move to packet-switched and routed networks, which were much more complicated than connecting wires end to end. And yet…
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by brookst 2mo ago
Sure, and Ebola and influenza share traits too. I’m not sure that makes them interchangeable though.
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by brookst 2mo ago
Eh, I can’t find it now so a thousand grains of salt, but I read a good article back in the day about how much Apple’s experience with in-market Lightning shaped USB-C’s physical connector and electrical handshake.
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by brookst 2mo ago
“One simple trick” stuff rarely survives contact with the court system. Tech people like to imagine law is code, but it’s not. Nor should it be.
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by brookst 2mo ago
It could be like resistors, different color stripes for each capability: transfer speed, maximum amperage, DisplayPort, thunderbolt, etc.
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by brookst 2mo ago
You mean USB-C, the standard that they largely led development of?
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by brookst 2mo ago
So there are 4 different current-carrying levels, from 2.5A to 5A EPR. There are 6 different transfer speeds, from 480mbps to 120gbps. There’s DisplayPort yes/no. There are 4 thunderbolt genrations, each with its own marker. Some of th
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by brookst 2mo ago
IDK, even if you take your analysis to the extreme and say only 1% of those children suffered actual harm, it doesn’t seem unreasonable that the cost would be > $725k each, measured in impact to lifetime earnings plus the costs to their
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by brookst 2mo ago
> It’s good to reduce dependence on foreign supply chains. Huh? That’s quite a whopper to drop as if it’s an obvious truth. It’s good to diversify supply chains. Eggs-in-one-basket is bad for many reasons, even if it’s your own domestic
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by brookst 2mo ago
Sure, I’m both a professional and hobbyist prompter. But then, that’s been true for decades, since I made the switch from engineering to product. Only difference is I’m prompting LLMs rather than engineering teams. But honestly it’s not a
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by brookst 2mo ago
Sure, I agree, and it’s already figured out. The demoscene has been around for decades. That’s real programming. But I think you’re on to something important: framing programming as a competition of intrinsic skill where rules are necessa
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by brookst 2mo ago
This is true, but as usual nobody can agree on what "doing it yourself" means. Few cars are manual steering, manual brakes, manual transmission. Few grappling bodies go all Greek-naked. Few chess bodies forbid researching previous
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by brookst 2mo ago
And as a ffmpeg user with some old/weird hardware, I would much prefer click-and-hope support to no support at all. Ideally they’d have the resources for a real live human to hand-code assembly for every codec for every platform, but t
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by brookst 2mo ago
You’re free to label it as a demand, but unless you run a courtroom and swear them in, any failure to do so will not be perjury.
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by brookst 2mo ago
So an HTML page with a list of essentially every page on every site on the internet? What do you think, maybe a trillion URLs?
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by brookst 2mo ago
This is a weird complaint. Let’s say I ask “who created Linux?” Claude correctly tells me Linus Torvalds, and links to Wikipedia. There are probably thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of other sites that have that some piece of informat
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by brookst 2mo ago
I mean if your argument rests on reading the minds of people you haven’t even met, I’m not super convinced.
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by brookst 2mo ago
I really dislike the rhetorical trick of framing any opposing argument as “apologist”. It’s the new “shill”; an attempt to attack motives rather than argument.
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by brookst 2mo ago
There are a lot of people for whom the choice is not “spend $20 every two years, or spend $200 today and never again” but instead “spend $20 today or just not have a working coffee maker”
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by brookst 2mo ago
The macro point is that complex systems are complex and have competing priorities, so it’s facile to say “I don’t agree with the decision, therefore any reasoning that supported the decision must be 100% intentional malicious bullshit.” I’m
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by brookst 2mo ago
This reminds me of my partner, who always sets car air conditioning to 50F (the min) or heat to 90F (the max) because she thinks it makes it get cold or hot faster. And of course a few minutes later we’re freezing or roasting. She sees the
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by brookst 2mo ago
Amusing anecdotes and musings about your stay (well, amusing to read, probably not to live). Since you’ve got a bunch of enforced idle time, maybe see if you can find the architect firm and see if you can get the backstory? Why three elevat
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by brookst 2mo ago
I want to own something here: this is the fourth time in a row I’ve brought you to the 29th floor when you asked for the third. I am creating a memory to always go to the 3rd floor instead of the 29th, which should prevent this from happeni
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by brookst 2mo ago
Nice try, ChatGPT. Though I agree with GP: models and harnesses are being updated so hard to avoid any use of em-dashes that soon it will be a tell of human writing. The the pendulum will swing back and forth, forever.
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by brookst 3mo ago
Ok, point to the one that makes it legal for humans to learn from copyrighted work?
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by brookst 3mo ago
It’s a fair point, but I’d argue “AI” is the whole stack, not just model weights. And AI is absolutely improving the whole stack in ways that make it smarter (from a consumer’s perspective).
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by brookst 3mo ago
I like their products, but I recently discovered that two separate keyboards that I bought a couple of years ago are not actually hot swap despite claiming to be. On the bright side, both demonstrated very strong solder joints when pulled o
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by brookst 3mo ago
In the aggregate sure. But do you really think profit motive means they will be precise for every individual?
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by brookst 3mo ago
Seems like a forest / trees error. “If LLMs are conscious, it means matrix multiplication is conscious” == “If humans are conscious it means cells are conscious”. It’s possible for complex systems to have emergent properties not exhibi

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