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by crote 4mo ago
> The reason is that the leaders likely will be able to accelerate faster Model improvement is already hitting diminishing returns, and people aren't willing to pay substantially more for a slightly better model. There's no
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by crote 4mo ago
"Dumping" is when Chinese companies beat Western ones on the free market. If all claims of Chinese government subsidies on basic products were true, China would've gone bankrupt multiple times already. You're being beate
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by crote 4mo ago
> the US may start subsidizing and dumping its goods everywhere Isn't that exactly what companies like Uber have already been doing? Take VC money, sell goods & services at a huge loss, wait until the competition goes bankrupt
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by crote 4mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if "fast, cheap, dumb" end us being the market for LLMs. The state-of-the-art models aren't at "can fully replace knowledge worker" levels yet and I doubt they'll get there any ti
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by crote 4mo ago
It would've been more surprising if they hadn't reversed their position, well after it became painfully clear to everyone that the war had been a terrible idea.
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by crote 4mo ago
Not all of them have the same kind of enhanced security, actually. For example, if you transfer from a flight from Africa to Europe to one from Europe to the USA you sometimes have to go through security again, as the African security didn&
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by crote 4mo ago
> which are the ones that drove plane hijackings to near-zero 9/11 itself was. The general view before 9/11 was that a hijacking is an inconvenience : you get an unexpected detour via Cuba and have a nice story to tell at the
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by crote 4mo ago
Voting the way you really want in primary elections might be counterproductive. Let's say in the main election 45% of the population will vote for whatever candidate represents side X, 45% of the population will vote for whatever can
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by crote 4mo ago
I highly doubt there are many (if any) places with "installing any kind of AC is illegal" laws. On the other hand, there are plenty of noise-related laws preventing you from installing an AC loud enough to be a nuisance for your n
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by crote 4mo ago
By all means install an AC unit to deal with the worst of it. Just install shades as well when you've got the scaffolding out so you can install a smaller, cheaper, and less energy-hungry one. Unfortunately I personally live in a highr
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by crote 4mo ago
> you just need to let people use AC properly (..) every person in southern Europe should have an AC unit in their bedroom and deaths will go down substantially. Yes, exactly: install AC where it truly helps and where it is truly nee
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by crote 4mo ago
Look at the population graph of a city like Las Vegas. It basically didn't exist before the invention of AC. Window units don't work in most of Europe because our windows aren't compatible with them. If they were, I would
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by crote 4mo ago
When you refuse to build climate-appropriate homes with things like isolation and instead guzzle giant amounts of fossil-powered energy to compensate for it? Yes. That's not adapting, that's brute-forcing.
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by crote 4mo ago
The main reason high heat causes issues in Europe is due to the high humidity, so you can't get rid of body heat as your sweat won't evaporate. It's why 35C in the shade might be perfectly fine in Nevada but absolute hell in
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by crote 4mo ago
> hot weather has happened before Obviously, which is why it is called climate change. It doesn't mean "there were no hot day ever before", it means "there will be way more hotter days, and on average they will be
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by crote 4mo ago
Well yeah, because it requires re-engineering the entire built environment! Heat waves only became a serious problem in Europe in the last decade. The vast majority of buildings predate the need for air conditioning by several decades - a
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by crote 4mo ago
I fear it'll just move the problem one layer up. Sure, you've now proven that the code matches the specification - but how do you ensure the specification is watertight?
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by crote 4mo ago
So what happened to the whole "no cruel and unusual punishments" thing?
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by crote 4mo ago
It if "becomes urgent" (it already is), spending a decade and a half building a reactor won't exactly be helpful, will it?
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by crote 4mo ago
What's the absolute worst that could happen when a water mains breaks? What's the absolute worst that could happen when a train derails? What's the absolute worst that could happen when a backhoe snacks on a fiber trunk? Now,
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by crote 4mo ago
What's the worst accident involving a Model T, maybe a dozen dead? Early steam boilers aren't going to be much worse either. Nuclear accidents are essentially unlimited in size. Nothing else can do that kind of country-sized - l
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by crote 4mo ago
The Z-axis homing problem could be solved by adding a "pause" command (gcode M0, I reckon) at the very start. The printer calibrates, pauses, you attach the pen, press continue, and it'll do the plot without zeroing the Z-axi
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by crote 4mo ago
So what are you going to do when (not "if") your internet connection suddenly drops? Unless you are okay with robots crashing into things at full speed, you'll always need some kind of local control loop, so full-remote con
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by crote 4mo ago
Doesn't most DJing software support constant-pitch speed adjustment? Pitch and speed are inherently linked when you are dealing with physical vinyl, but time-stretching in software isn't too complicated.
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by crote 4mo ago
Fan noise. My computer sits next to my desk, so I want it to be as quiet as possible. This means the fan should run as the lowest speed which maintains a reasonable temperature, so at the very least there should be some kind of mapping betw
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by crote 4mo ago
But who vouches for the author? If you're not already experienced in the domain, how would you know whether to pick up a book written by Jane Expert or by Dave Dunning-Kruger? Traditional authorship is self-vouching: writing a coherent
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by crote 4mo ago
That's because Odido violates the GDPR by retaining data of ex-customers. The hack also included data from people who stopped using their services several years ago.
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by crote 4mo ago
You can, it just requires the ISP to play nice. CGNAT doesn't have to draw a random ip:port combo out of a hat for every new connection. Nothing is stopping an ISP from implementing it by taking one ip and assigning ports 1-10.000 to
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by crote 4mo ago
Would you give your personal phone number to random strangers on the internet, or even publish it on a website? Probably not, due to the possibility of harassment, right? IP addresses aren't any different, which immediately kills a hu
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by crote 4mo ago
Self hosting doesn't mean home hosting. Someone DDoSing the $10 VPS hosting my personal website is no big deal. I don't care about it strongly enough that it must stay online, so they'll eventually get bored and move on.

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