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by coldtea 3mo ago
> (You could of course argue that they did not give enough context ... but that's exactly my point: the trick makes the proof work but hides the explanation) Can't one see it in another way: that the trick illuminates a deeper
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Ok but you can use AC in the winter as well You can, but they already had a solution for winter.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> I think this whole heat wave crisis has been shocking to the rest of the world to see that apparently Europeans refuse to install AC even in new-build homes and it is causing enormous numbers of deaths. What is the reason for this? Be
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> 1.) China is not communist, even remotely so. China is fascist in every sense of the word. Except in the actual historical sense. They appear to enjoy all sorts of freedoms, increased prosperity, even have elections at different level
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Not so sure about that: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manh...
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> It might help to not have much in the way of environmental, safety or labor regulations. Yes, like how it helped western industry early on. Or, well into the 70s for the most part.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
As if it requires some unique genes or brains? If a place can do it, another place, with a huge track record on manufacturing and lately expanding all kinds of tech, can.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
That proves that spinning up US fabs takes ages. Chinese fabs might not be so tied with red tape and regulation upon regulation (which is a funny reversal, in terms of "communism vs capitalism" bureucracy/inefficiency cold wa
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by coldtea 3mo ago
I mean, just writing "Java official YouTube channel" to Google or YouTube gives it: https://www.youtube.com/@java
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Communism is at fault /s
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by coldtea 3mo ago
"Their performance depends solely on the model training before release and how well you curate the context you feed it". Wrong. The face-saving backtracking doesn't change that.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Don't forget this is a text editor, not an IDE or some general purpose automation harness It's all 3 and way more. > You could add lisp to mspaint and mspaint suddenly becomes awesome somehow? I don't follow the logi
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Oh give me a break. Show me one example of 1) any knob twisting that makes the underlying model better. I mentioned several. You're now once again changing goalpoasts to say you meant the underlying model, not the overall llm p
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by coldtea 3mo ago
You used the word "smart" now, whereas on the comment I replied to, you said "better". Tuning those can definitely make a model respond better or worse. So your claim (quoting 100% as written) that "Their performanc
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> The models don't get better, except when a new one is released. Their performance depends solely on the model training before release and how well you curate the context you feed it. That's it. Not quite. The hosting side ca
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by coldtea 3mo ago
On LinkedIn it's the only place where AI slop will be a huge improvement over the previous content.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
All of those should be voted directly by the people.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Saving face before (saying "see, I voted against") then doing what's asked of them by the lobbyists anyway where it's less apparent.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
If it's indeed the case, it adds more value than 100 comments explaining non-happening course corrections, and revolts, and backlashes they believe we'll see. It's useful to add some cynicism in the mix (or in this case, prag
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> with no regard for the impact of the decisions on the theoretical next turn They know the impact of the decisions: more power for them as bodies.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Comparison are completely subjective Nothing wrong with that. In this case, the requirement is clear enough, and the result is similar enough to judge it subjectively. Even code-wise, if tests pass and the features are there in all ca
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Billions of externals HDD exist, continue to be sold, and are the best price/performance/durability for external backup drives though?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
And run them in test setups to try to find bugs. If you find some, fix them.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
There's no position on privacy. They make whatever laws the corporate laws and elites like, and that furthers their own bureucratic reach. GDPR is a good way to create a "compliance moat" against smaller players, and to give
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> And while supply did re-enter the long term market, it still doesn’t capture if it eased rents. We can measure this by comparing rents in the Airbnb-heavy neighborhoods and see if they fell or grew more slowly after the ban compared to
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by coldtea 3mo ago
It's not about if it can happen or if it happens. It's about how easily it's mitigated completely. Use a proper db library which does escaping and it's completely eliminated.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Combine with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823557 Orwell
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Thanks! Now we know and can stay well away!
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> This isn't true and it ignores the cultural differences amongst all of the original colonists (religious, language, political, and country of origin). You got it backwards. This is BASED on the "cultural differences amongst
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> How much more likely are you to be injured on an eBike vs. getting run over on a Schwinn, though? Have you ever been afraid of the bike? Many rightly are.

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