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721.
by causal 2y ago
Of course it is, but it's not an either-or expense it's both-and. For most projects you need to do a lot of trial and error to get the right image, so it's the cost of someone who knows how to do that trial and error effectiv
722.
by causal 2y ago
6 cents per image :|
723.
by causal 2y ago
It's a numbers game. The stadiums, highways, etc. are very few and are being built during a blink of history, compared to fossils which typically come from animals that were around for tens or even hundreds of millions of years. The sh
724.
by causal 2y ago
This is why I ported my Google number away years ago, and I'm happy I did so. That said, phone is considered a utility, and I"m puzzled why Google Voice isn't regulated as such by now.
725.
by causal 2y ago
You are right that this is wise, but it's too much to ask the average user to do. At least in the US, most people lack the technical literacy to do anything but depend on big tech. What we really need is legislation to regulate big tec
726.
by causal 2y ago
Yup - the cost of the service does not matter, the dependency the service creates is what matters. Making someone dependent on a service is especially easy when it's free, and the incentives to do so are usually to create dependencies
727.
by causal 2y ago
Unsustainable practices lead to exhaustion of resources and subsequent spikes in prices. Prices today will be nothing compared to the prices we face when the earth exhausted of topsoil, the sea is exhausted of fish, and the water table exha
728.
by causal 2y ago
Source? Searching on this I'm only finding evidence that fracking has been extremely lucrative
729.
by causal 2y ago
These things are not disconnected
730.
by causal 2y ago
New dentist keeps trying to push Invisalign on my family, thinking about switching for that reason alone. Haven't needed braces my whole life and suddenly I'm getting a sales pitch about all the terrible things Invisalign could pr
731.
by causal 2y ago
Do dentists make a lot from Invisalign? Wife and I both were being pushed Invisalign at a new dentist office and I'm pretty sure neither of us need it.
732.
by causal 2y ago
Agreed. Even long-context models lose track of what they're doing pretty quickly as the size of the code base grows. Cursor et al seem great for make small changes in context, or big changes in small apps. But I don't trust them t
733.
by causal 2y ago
You're getting a lot of snark in the comments, but your excitement is warranted. It's fascinating how any claims of a code tool being useful always seem to offend the ego and bring out all the chest-thumping super-programmers clai
734.
by causal 2y ago
I always wonder about this too. Half the ROS projects I've seen are just single-board applications with topics. ROS bags are a useful facility for data capture and testing, and there are some ROS packages that are useful (against the b
735.
by causal 2y ago
Yeah I'm a huge fan of Apple hardware and even I can't handle this. The different in price between 8GB and 16GB for the M3 Air was like $500 at Costco. My air from 2016 came with 8GB.
736.
by causal 2y ago
I think you're hinting at a hidden problem: our vocabulary has not caught up with the way social media has evolved, and we need new terms. People actually LIKE, perhaps even need, the social aspects of social media. But that's bec
737.
by causal 2y ago
It is social media, but I'd argue that it lacks the worst incentives of social media: monetization and ads, which lead to attention-hacking algorithms and regression to lowest common denominator content.
738.
by causal 2y ago
It mostly depends on the application. If you're doing complex transforms over hundreds of GBs of data- yeah, use a workhorse for that. But the vast majority of slow JS I've encountered was slow because of an insane dependency tree
739.
by causal 2y ago
And more importantly, the GPU is the most replaceable part of the datacenter infrastructure. Power, buildings, cooling, security, cabling, internet backbone connectivity, etc. are the harder to swap pieces that require time to build out.
740.
by causal 2y ago
This useful for large binaries?
741.
by causal 2y ago
I think the perception that they're several months ahead of everyone is also a branding achievement: They are ahead on Chat LLMs specifically. Meta, Google, and others crush OpenAI on a variety of other model types, but they also aren&
742.
by causal 2y ago
And that's just what amateurs can do. Yeah the light cone of online activity seems to only grow with little diminishing, which seems unnatural and counter to the type of environment we evolved for. GDPR and the right to be forgotten se
743.
by causal 2y ago
Interesting premise. Can't read the entire paper right now but going on the abstract alone I'm not able to think of an illuminating example of the need for metaclass connectors
744.
by causal 2y ago
Always a little disappointing when someone announces they're releasing a model when they mean they're releasing an API
745.
by causal 2y ago
Yeah, very strange. ISS is in the news almost daily by comparison
746.
by causal 2y ago
Right in the middle of the decade of ocean science no less
747.
by causal 2y ago
Botulism can be present without any smell or taste
748.
by causal 2y ago
Yeah, so little imagination in these pro-Google comments. They're imagining a world without Google instead of a world where ten Googles are all competing with one another.
749.
by causal 2y ago
Nobody's proposing killing Google. You think this is bad because you cannot imagine an alternative history with better competition between multiple Googles
750.
by causal 2y ago
The government does a lot to fund and incentivize startups. It can do more than one thing at a time.

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