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by cornholio 4mo ago
I'm not entirely sure how that dismisses the CEO's putative argument: they go big on AI precisely because shipping end-to-end is hard, so they think they shouldn't waste resources on tasks that can be automated. The structure
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by cornholio 4mo ago
Focusing on pure energy efficiency might be missing the point of economic efficiency. An RO desalination plant needs electric energy to drive the pumps, which might be generated by panels which are 15-20% efficient. So, if you can have chea
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by cornholio 4mo ago
The LVCVA is a public authority and the Loop contract had substantial penalties in place, about 30% of the total ~$50 mil amount, tied to various tiers of service the system needed to hit. So right off the bat not only do you have good fina
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by cornholio 4mo ago
Hitting almost 4000 was a requirement of the LVCC bid and they actually hit 4400. This is all public info available from unbiased sources; preferring schadenfreude and rage inducing bait is, of course, a choice you are entitled to.
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by cornholio 4mo ago
Loop demonstrated 4500 people per hour with Teslas with human drivers. Hence, the assertion that it can be competitive with most light rail systems is entirely reasonable, assuming, as I said, " they get adequate, automated, larger veh
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by cornholio 4mo ago
It's interesting how Loop criticism has evolved over the years: initially, it was claimed Boring Co has no chance of duplicating or significantly improving on the speed and cost of state of the art used by tunneling companies, or that
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by cornholio 4mo ago
> the great problem of our age is deciding who controls technology Isn't that just an instance of the political problem for all ages: who controls what, who gets to rule and who obeys, the fundamental power struggle apparent in al
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by cornholio 4mo ago
That's a JIT. Yes, you can do all sorts of optimizations in a JIT, because you do it at runtime using runtime information, and always keeping an escape hatch, so the static code bails when invoked with data it was not compiled to handl
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by cornholio 4mo ago
Typescript is a dynamic language. Without changing the language, there is fundamentaly no way to resolve at compile time decisions that can be made only at runtime (ie, they are data driven). Monomorphization helps pin down (some) dynamic t
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by cornholio 4mo ago
But why would you wrap some proprietary solution around your neck instead of rolling your own custom solution or extending some open source? The answer for most things pertaining to encloudification seems to be "because it's easy
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by cornholio 5mo ago
If I understood correctly, the model will get it right because it knows when it isn't right.
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by cornholio 5mo ago
As someone who's vibecoding my own self-hosted language (via a typescript to c++ transpiler and bootstrap), I can tell you mainline commercial models like Opus 4.7 aren't quite there yet. I'm getting 10KB source files balloon
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by cornholio 5mo ago
Money laundering is the action of obfuscating the origin of criminal proceeds; victims or clients of criminals do not generally commit money laundering, for example buying drugs is not a form of AML violation regardless of the legality of t
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by cornholio 5mo ago
I used to do the CodeWarrior installer for Freescale/NXP embedded product lines in the 2010s and InstallShield became completely unworkable as a tool for a massive dev tool. Even today, a 400MB+ installer is difficult, let alone in the
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by cornholio 5mo ago
It's a joke. But you got it all wrong, it's not praise + sarcasm, it's double sarcasm.
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by cornholio 5mo ago
I agree, Python allows anyone to write bad code, but makes up for it by running the code slow enough that it can't do real damage.
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by cornholio 5mo ago
> Rust is perfect for writing all of code using LLM. It's strict type system makes is less likely to make very dumb mistakes that other languages might allow. I question this. Yes, strong enforcement of invariants at compile time he
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by cornholio 5mo ago
It's a move to block competitor AI agents while securing access for your own, classic ladder kick. The market for autonomous agents providing services and doing online work will be gigantic so, unless you want your own bots locked out
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by cornholio 5mo ago
I don't think it should even be surprising or controversial that it works with an apparent slant. All these filters have a single point, to protect the lab from legal exposure, so sometimes there is an inherent fuzzy boundary where the
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by cornholio 6mo ago
On the other hand, allowing people to feed their sweet addictions only re-enforces and desensitizates them further. So while you are probably safe drinking ungodly amounts of aspartame water, you won't find equivalent substitutes for s
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by cornholio 6mo ago
That sounds like a good reason to keep the exam model, since boys are already at a strong and widening educational disadvantage compared to girls.
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by cornholio 6mo ago
All that kinetic energy needs to go somewhere. It's irrelevant if the asteroid burns up in the atmosphere or if trillions of tiny parachutes heat the atmosphere. I guess you could devise some scheme where kinetic energy is shed or tr
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by cornholio 6mo ago
Terraforming is an exceptionally energetic endeavor. Even if you had the perfect combination of icy asteroids with just the right amount of water, nitrogen, oxigen etc. and the means to hurl them towards Mars, this kinetic event would be so
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by cornholio 6mo ago
git is not a new idea, various features of git existed in various SCMs for decades. The distributed aspect existed in Bitkeeper too, for example. But it took a big brain with a systemic view of the problem and solutions space to bring them
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by cornholio 6mo ago
It's probably related to the fact that Apple doesn't see itself selling devices, you don't really buy and own the phone. You rent a device from them and the Apple account is the doorway to that subscription plan.
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by cornholio 6mo ago
The PASS card features your name and photo, it's an ID by any other name. You must have a very warped perspective of social reality if you think it should be acceptable to force every adult to show their papers before they can do anyth
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by cornholio 6mo ago
A docker image host is NOT a VPS with extra steps, because a VPS is a server and needs to be administered professionally as a server by someone competent for that job, that excludes 90% of developers who are willing to spend only one hour p
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by cornholio 6mo ago
I don't even bother setting up VPS instances by hand. If you have gmail then you have access to Google Cloud, and they offer a free tier of Cloud Run that comfortably covers anything you might do on a personal project. You basically cr
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by cornholio 6mo ago
Well, let's make a revoltingly fun analogy: say a hamburger restaurant opened in your city, that openly admits it puts (ethically acquired) human meat in some of its products. You don't have to worry about the legality of the vent
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by cornholio 6mo ago
What do you think about CaMeL and similar approaches? https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/

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