colechristensen

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by colechristensen 2mo ago
The EFF is wrong. The clear solution is NOT COLLECTING THE DATA. There is no reason or justification for us to live in a surveillance state, "protecting" the data with a warrant doesn't cut it. Cutting down and destroying ma
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
One of the things I've done is create an entire fully functional GitHub alternative that does more of what I want and hosts all of my other projects, so yes I at least am getting considerably more done.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
There are rules you have to understand and follow, notifications required but no approvals if you meet certain criteria. It's mostly an FAA thing in the US, so one jurisdiction.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
>intentionally designed from the top down not designed, evolved Social behavior and the actual behaviors themselves evolved through populations as, among other things, an information storage mechanism that survives generations.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
"hitting a protein goal" being one of the current health fads I'm talking about surely the natural response here will be about how important, healthy, and real this particular fad is. same as all the other health fads ever
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Most "good for your health" advice is pop culture driven with a half life of 5 years anyway and breakfast being the most important meal of the day is a marketing slogan. In other words, no better than any various convention. Abou
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
I think it's bimodal for me, lots in the first six months bringing fresh eyes and outside ideas followed by a lull of a couple years before the benefits of realy knowing the company sets in.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
The problem is the scaling cycles for demand and supply are at different timescales. It takes a lot longer to build capacity than these bubbles take to form and pop and there is a SIGNIFICANT history of silicon manufactures scaling during
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
>I cannot figure out if this data center panic is legit or trumped up. It's both. As with VERY MANY things, the people making the noise about it have extremist views and only a vague idea of what they're talking about. You can&
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
it'll all be centralized models justifying their capability against local inference in, maybe 3 years or less once we have a bit more memory fab capacity and the insane bottomless investment in AI giants realizes there is a bottom, loc
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Plenty of things get discovered all over the world and this isn't a particularly earth shattering result. Discovering evidence of a particle predicted for 50 years is interesting but still pretty mundane. The LHC which is doing much o
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
surely we're not a community so unfamiliar with lacking social skills and this aberration isn't at all important to the topic at hand
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
>I've personally never heard of anyone not using PGbouncer, or some connection pooling proxy, There is plenty of space for large systems which need a database but don't have a large number of clients. It's a matter of the
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
It is perfectly valid and the point is that if a person cared about water usage, they'd highlight percentage of usage as a whole and other violators of the same misusage of water. If you're complaining about resource usage, but on
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
One of the reasons this is there is the "psychology" of the LLM performs better with these kinds of affirmations. If you've made a mistake once you're likely to make it again, so leave a note. This indeed pollutes the c
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Then you're too young and fail to remember many things. Phones are very new, the decline in birthrate in the rich western economies is not.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
It is effectively the same city in three states, but most of it is in Iowa. Of course there are separate entities because it's in different states but if it weren't they would have all combined.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
It's really not. Nor is it phones. Real estate is too expensive and rent is too high and people don't want to raise a family in a tiny apartment where both people have to work long hours. Combined with the fear TV sold to people
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Oaks ARE a food forest for birds and bugs and small mammals and such. They create food chains. Oaks are particularly good at this. I think the best path is helping nature along to be the best that it can be naturally. There's a bunc
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Requirements ARE written in a precise, formal language. These days most people don't actually have any contact at all with real requirements though as practiced by professionals. There is quite a bit of distance between the exactness
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
I do. Software as a list of requirements and that's it. The local LLM appliance everybody has taking in a document specifying hardware, interfaces, and requirements and spitting out software changeable locally via conversation with it
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
In that they'll have to act like a competitive employer?
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Dude, calm down. The offense is exclusively in your own head.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Yes if firefighters sit watching a fire burn whining about it, they are indeed to blame for not putting out the fire. I'm tired of people in power whining about being victims.
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Yes. Their whole job is defending the republic and in the easiest to win election they succumbed to the ego of a bumbling old man and failed to lead on anything at all. Those fools couldn't sell bottled water in a desert. You absolut
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Go plant an oak tree. Not in theory, not a big plan for a monumental effort, just plant an oak tree. They survive for many lives of men and are a cornerstone for feeding the entire ecosystem. If you can't plant one where you're
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
This is the endgame of encouraging everyone to vote. The theory was representatives would be motivated to address the interests of everyone as a whole. The reality is politicians are motivated to take advantage of the stupid and the fea
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
There is a sort of island of complexity in the parameter space of physics where we exist in a thin film on the surface of a rock orbiting at such a distance of a star of a particular strength. It is a bit presumptuous to dismiss out of hand
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
And you must ask yourself, is the ability to sell your company to another company a benefit or should there be considerably stronger hurdles for this kind of thing?
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by colechristensen 2mo ago
Zoom out and ask yourself which injustices the popular voice care about and which they don't. There is a hard to miss tendency for the things which get the most noise to be the most useful to national adversaries. You can't mentio

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