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by brookst 6mo ago
A product like Chrome probably has 10,000-ish features, maybe more. Is your position really that any feature that “many” users failed to ask for must require additional consent to install? And where is this registry features that a sufficie
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by brookst 6mo ago
Yeah having gate, seat, time updating automatically is such a huge improvement for travel.
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by brookst 6mo ago
No models predicted that. Plenty of info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_Maldives Of note, most of the country no longer has fresh groundwater, and 50% of the national budget goes to climate mitiga
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by brookst 6mo ago
Oh, if you’re moving the goalposts from “Banksy had official support putting it up” to “the authorities reacted differently after the fact than they would have for others”, then I actually agree.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Do they get a vote?
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by brookst 6mo ago
I don’t see it. Is the idea that big companies take too many risks today? If so, I’d love to see data, because the usual knock on big companies is they become dinosaurs and risk-averse, and therefore stop innovating and eventually get displ
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by brookst 6mo ago
Check out the etymology of “utopia”
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by brookst 6mo ago
Not sure I agree it’s “most likely” when the linked article presents no evidence of LEA awareness or complicity, just one person speculating. I know firsthand what can be done with a hardhat, clipboard, and high-viz vest. IMO it is far mo
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by brookst 6mo ago
You really don't think there's an experiential difference between putting your hand on a hot stove, versus reading the text "the stove is 200c, and will hurt if you touch it"?
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by brookst 6mo ago
argh, and too late to edit. But thank you for the correction!
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by brookst 6mo ago
Gotcha, I was thinking more about radiologists than patient-facing doctors.
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by brookst 6mo ago
The is the age-old music parochial thing. "Oh, he's just in a cover band, he doesn't write anything" / "Oh, she's just a composer, she can't even play the stuff she writes" / "Oh, he
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by brookst 6mo ago
I built https://github.com/brookstalley/cordyceps to do CAD work using claude code. It's not perfect by any stretch, but it is surprisingly strong. It was able to create and debug some pretty complicated geometry
824.
by brookst 6mo ago
Isn't that conflating diagnosis and treatment plan?
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by brookst 6mo ago
They don’t even have the resources to test the most common browsers on every scenario of every page of every application, let alone fix every issue such testing would find.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Plenty of people doubt evolution. Doubt without evidence is just noise.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Clearance vs tolerance is important. Clearance includes all of the things I said.
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by brookst 6mo ago
No, it will respond to tokens telling it about a temperature change. It has no sense of warmth. It cannot be burned. Conflating senses with cognitive awareness of sensory input is a mistake.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Think of the poor Xerox machines.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Obligatory Blightsight recommendation for intelligence != consciousness.
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by brookst 6mo ago
These LLMs don’t have senses, they have a token stream. They have no experience of the world outside of the language tokens they operate on. I’m not sure I believe that consciousness emerges from sensory experience, but if it does, LLMs won
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by brookst 6mo ago
Sure, and at the same time we need a more efficient way to ensure big companies can’t just take what they want and bury anyone who complains. It’s not an easy problem.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Yes. In marketing it’s called observability, and it’s why even high end designers are writing their brand names in huge letters on goods (well also to improve IP protection) Apple’s white earphone cables are a classic example. Back in the i
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by brookst 6mo ago
The difficulty is clearance between two moving parts, with blades that deform slightly due to air pressure (at different amounts for different speeds) and with thermal expansion.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Agreed. This is the OS adapting to available memory. Similarly if you started with 4GB and there was 900MB available for user apps, I expect you could launch apps that consume 1500MB just fine; the OS is leaving enough to launch anything, a
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by brookst 6mo ago
It’s fair to be skeptical. Though I’d question whether the quality declines you observe (presumably with hard evidence) really just started in the past 18 months or so, such that strong correlation to AI coding tools suggests causality. For
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by brookst 6mo ago
Might they appeal?
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by brookst 6mo ago
I’m very skeptical that training is the right way to insert ads. Training is very expensive and very durable; look at this goblin example: it was a feedback loop across generations of models, exacerbated by the reward signals being applied
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by brookst 6mo ago
I’m not sure Waymo pays much in taxes. Do they? But in any event, cars and roads are massively subsidized, such that drivers get far more than they pay for. See for instance: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59667 Roads
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by brookst 6mo ago
What if my aunt had three wheels? I don’t see the value in hypotheticals like that. If the claim is that a computer is not really a computer unless every user can do any low level operations they want, is it also true that a car is not re

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