cogman10

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by cogman10 5d ago
> So, there's an ojective measure of shade of gray? Very much no. More that almost all actions have good and bad impacts and how good or bad those impacts are can be judged completely differently between large groups of people. To
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by cogman10 5d ago
Well that's my point. Someone working as a geologist for the oil industry can think climate change isn't real or not a problem so they can view their job of finding more oil as being a clear benefit for society. No amount of tryi
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by cogman10 5d ago
My point is that these articles are ineffective and miss the point. It's not about moral relativism but rather that morals aren't universally shared or understood. Ultimately, pretty much everyone feels like they are a good perso
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by cogman10 5d ago
I disagree with this article and here's why. Life isn't black and white with "good/bad". Further, there's no objective measure of what is good or bad. Everything is a shade of gray. You certainly could argue
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by cogman10 5d ago
Anyone that doesn't see the obvious play here probably wasn't alive when cable was the "ad free" tv option. These media companies cannot help themselves. Advert money is very tantalizing and they'll always want to
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by cogman10 5d ago
It'll take a lot of time. Micron has been working on expanding in Boise since around 2023. They are predicting that the first new chips will start rolling out around 2027. I don't think we'll see any relief until at least 20
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by cogman10 7d ago
Warrants are what's at issue when the 4th amendment is in play. The thing you can't do when FISA issues a warrant is get the details about that warrant, who issued it, why it was issued. You can't even know that a FISA warr
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by cogman10 8d ago
> 2024 Hezbollah killed US troops in Jordan Nope. It was a proxy of Hezbollah who Hamas, Iran, and Hezbollah all condemned. And after the US attacked Iran in retaliation, they again de-escalated. > Houthis also attacked US ships if
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by cogman10 8d ago
It's complicated. WW1 happened due to the crazy web of treaties between nations. It's not unlike nuclear holocaust and MAD doctrine. There could have been other triggers for WW1, but that's not really a guarantee. That is t
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by cogman10 8d ago
It actually hasn't "gone back and forth". That's the issue. What you have is 2 good examples of Iran being attacked, unprovoked, and then responding to the attack and STILL after those attacks trying to establish peace
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by cogman10 8d ago
> but Iran has been sponsoring terrorist groups all over the world for decades. Let's say I grant this. The problem you run into is these terrorist groups have not attacked the US. The last time Iran did anything aggressive toward
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by cogman10 8d ago
The issue, as I understand it, is that someone with standing to sue over the 4th amendment would be prosecuted under a FISA court. Those cases due to how the court was created and structured, do not end up in front of the supreme court. It
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by cogman10 8d ago
Yeah, I really think we are on the cusp on the difference between SOTA and cheap models is small enough that paying 10x or 100x the cost makes no sense. It also helps that a lot of effort has already been spent figuring out how to do more w
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by cogman10 8d ago
> and this famously failed, along with every attempt to fix it. What was the cause of failure? I see that it is now deprecated which surprises me. It was my understanding that large portions of this were taken from the Java memory mode
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by cogman10 8d ago
It's a war of aggression. That is a war crime. Iraq was also a war crime. The reason Putin is a war criminal is because of his unprovoked attack of Ukraine.
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by cogman10 8d ago
There was no reason to strike Iran in the first place. The absurd claim that "they were about to get nukes in 3 days!" is something that Israel has been claiming for 20 years. Our own intelligence agencies have said that they w
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by cogman10 9d ago
At least originally, servo was just an experimental browser with the intention to carve up useful parts and send them back into Firefox. I believe firefox's current css parser came from servo.
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by cogman10 9d ago
Didn't they start with like C++, then zig, and now rust. To me it's just not serious. They also had articles of "why we are doing zig and not rust". It's an ambitious project, but I can't take it seriously whe
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by cogman10 9d ago
IMO, they aren't qualified for even that. This is the sort of thing that proves them to be untrustworthy and thus should only work in low trust positions where they can't ruin someone's lives or business.
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by cogman10 9d ago
> This idea that the state has a monopoly on getting money from doing a thing that you are saying is bad doesn't make sense. It makes a lot of sense. Here in Idaho, hard alcohol can only be sold in state run liquor stores. The sto
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by cogman10 10d ago
Including the input parameters. It's not unusual for us to end up with bad query plans because the shape of our data can vary pretty greatly. In many cases, a Foo has 1 Bar. But in some cases, a Foo has a million Bars. That can caus
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by cogman10 10d ago
> It’s my hardware I mean, probably not technically due to some EULA you were forced to sign which says the hardware is actually Google/samsung/etc and not yours. Giving them the right to brick your phone the moment you step o
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by cogman10 10d ago
It's because it doesn't matter how copyrighted material ends up in a project. If an LLM reproduces copyrighted material (which is very hard to verify) then the lawsuit from the copyright owner can still sink even robustly funded
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by cogman10 11d ago
My assumption is they thought they could kill the supreme leader and get Venezuela 2.0 where Iran's next leader ends up being a puppet to the US. I doubt they thought this war would be going on this long. They tested the waters with
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by cogman10 11d ago
It makes systems harder to work with and new features slower to deploy and it requires you to make sure you stay on top of CVEs. That's overhead that businesses really hate paying as it's diverts software devs away from making new
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by cogman10 11d ago
TBH, though, the only lesson you learn from BLFS is that value of package managers. If you like the idea of everything being purpose built for your computer, then after you do LFS you should switch to gentoo.
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by cogman10 11d ago
Right, so we definitely have the ability to commit genocide, but we lack the ability to dismantle the government without being monsters. To actually do the hard thing that the trump admin wants, we need to send in boots on the ground. And
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by cogman10 11d ago
So, I've actually implemented a system like this for my work. It's completely non-shocking to me that a unchecked and unvalided "reason" field ends up with nothing but garbage in it to get past the software checks. My 3
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by cogman10 11d ago
For the most expensive population to insure (old people) in a much more inefficient manor (private coverage via medicare advantage).
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by cogman10 11d ago
Even worse, Iran has shown how utterly pointless and ineffective these expensive weapons are. Cool, we have a weapon in space that cost $1B and 6 months to re-arm. That's not super helpful when who we are fighting is flying $20k lawnm

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