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by creato 11mo ago
That's baked in to the cost of the hardware though.
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by creato 11mo ago
> All of the ones I've remained friends with over that time are either deeply concerned about their career future, or have already jumped ship and become nurses, carpenters, teachers, caregivers, and even priests and drug dealers...
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by creato 1y ago
I literally just got my first Mac computer a few months ago. I tried to set it up as a local account with no online account. I could not. Maybe it is possible and I just missed it. But either they don't allow it, or they have enough da
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by creato 1y ago
MacOS is just as aggressive about turning on icloud as windows is with it's crap.
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by creato 1y ago
Most people think they can just use WiFi, and most of them are probably right.
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by creato 1y ago
> Let's start with the obvious- in all forms of gambling the gamblers make a net loss. The games are hosted by very sophisticated companies, that have better mathematicians, and make money. It's not impossible to beat them cons
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by creato 1y ago
Escrow doesn't magically solve the problem, a way to mediate disputes would be required. That probably will fail in very similar ways to the way the systems we have today fail.
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by creato 1y ago
"People" you are referring to want a level playing field. If the Chinese government is tilting the field, there aren't a lot of good options. You can either watch the Chinese subsidize draining most productive capacity from t
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by creato 1y ago
I'm ambivalent about whether their design can work but if they were confident in their design and have the necessary funding, a paper and a nobel prize are going to be very far down their priority list.
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by creato 1y ago
> Also AI training seems like the perfect fit for solar. Run it when the sun is shining. Inference is significantly less power hungry, so it can run base load 24/7. If you're talking about just not running your data center when
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by creato 1y ago
It was a fluke because the US was unscathed by a war that destroyed much of the industrial and productive capacity in the rest of the world, at the same time vast strides in technology were being made. The US worker had a worldwide monopoly
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by creato 1y ago
It's especially silly in this case because Safari extensions have always been equivalent to MV3 functionality.
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by creato 1y ago
Something like this could maybe happen to one switch, it's unlikely but possible. But two independent switches at the same time?
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by creato 1y ago
> So where is the obviously-named "KickStop" table saw? It's called a riving knife?
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by creato 1y ago
At least 50% of time on every software team I've ever been on was spent on maintenance and fixing bugs. You can expense such time as opex, but it has to be justified, and that's often difficult to do. Did you fix a bug by refact
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by creato 1y ago
> If you algorithmically denoise an image and then subtract the result from the original to get only the grain, you can easily see “ghost” patterns in the grain that reflect the original image. This represents lost image data that cannot
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by creato 1y ago
> They got 17 year sentences and Biden let them out nearly immediately. This is grossly incorrect. Conahan was incarcerated in 2011, and sent to home confinement in 2020 (panedemic), and the remainder of his sentence was commuted in 2024
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by creato 1y ago
> Length of 6.2 m times 5 tonnes per cubic meter gives a sectional density of 31 tonnes per square meter, which is about 15 meters of dirt. So Newton's impact depth approximation would predict a penetration depth one fourth of the r
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by creato 1y ago
They had pinpoint accurate information about a lot of senior leaders, that seems a lot harder to know than a stationary facility's location and layout.
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by creato 1y ago
When you design software for N customers, where N is very small, and you expect to hold each customers' hand individually, the software is basically guaranteed to be hot garbage that doesn't generalize or actually work except in e
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by creato 1y ago
> publicly lied about the vaccine’s efficacy. You keep saying this... what was the lie?
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by creato 1y ago
Even if true, a small fraction of engineering time on a project is actually developing that asset. The rest is maintenance and support. The tax code does allow for this distinction, but only if you track hours associated with each kind of w
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by creato 1y ago
I thought this was going to be a metaphor for debt, not literally bar tabs
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by creato 1y ago
This is why the standard for something to be considered improper behavior is (or used to be) the appearance of a conflict of interest. People stopped giving a shit about anything. This is just one of dozens of things that would have been
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by creato 1y ago
The point is, this amount of error is huge for fp32, but may be expected for fp16. But then why compare to fp32 performance baselines? An algorithm that gives you the accuracy of fp16 should be compared to an fp16 baseline, and this may not
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by creato 1y ago
I also wonder how much of ChatGPT's usage is to basically cheat on homework. Basically 100% of the users of ChatGPT I know mostly use it to do their homework for them. Maybe this will turn out to be a valuable user segment, but I'
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by creato 1y ago
Some of these scam victims are duped into trying to help someone they trust with a financial problem. In that case, the victims are being the opposite of greedy. The only character "flaw" I can think of in these cases is being nai
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by creato 1y ago
> we'll reach a crunch point that puts governments under immense pressure to increase taxes (probably on megacorps & the wealthy) more in order to fund welfare. I don't see how even that helps. What you need to fund basic w
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by creato 1y ago
Maybe so, but I don't think this point changes the overall situation as described in the video.
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by creato 1y ago
You're not denying freedom to just those ~1000 companies, you're also denying freedoms from everyone they might "acquire". And if your definition of "acquisition" is 4 dudes with a source control repo and no ma

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