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by danans 11mo ago
The built-in Linux VM supports the GPU (you can enable it in chrome:flags), and Linux GUI apps work fine.
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by danans 11mo ago
A Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 has a M2 equivalent ARM CPU/GPU (Mediatek Kompanio Ultra/Mali Immortalis G925), and comes with an arm64 Linux VM (Debian Bookworm) ready to go out of the box that supports most regular Linux apps built
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by danans 11mo ago
> I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care If you have never earned above 0 at age 37, that suggests that you have a personal situation that actually prevents you from working, not so different from a
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by danans 11mo ago
> Anyone who really goes off road is looking for a lot of features that are hard to find in a production vehicle. (which is why they often modify production vehicles). Perhaps this is something that Slate can solve better than Tesla. h
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by danans 11mo ago
Its even stranger because presumably the light requires a wire for power, so using an adhesive doesn't allow them to avoid making at least 1 hole in the roof. Perhaps it's about minimizing the installation cost at the dealership.
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by danans 11mo ago
> I'm not a linguist so I can't send any articles that explain the origins of this mess. It's probably because Polish, unlike English and most Western European languages, has a case system (where nouns are modified to indi
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by danans 11mo ago
> For most white collar jobs like tech here in the US, your out-of-pocket as percentage is income doesn't play a role in how we decide salary bands. Most people here in the US don't have white collar jobs nor compensation of a
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by danans 11mo ago
When people are so taken by your brand that they volunteer their money and lives to test your half-baked product, why would you stop them?
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by danans 11mo ago
> Would at least like to use it for stop and go traffic, which is about the only thing I trust FSD for. Depends on the type of stop and go driving. Crawling along at 15mph, sure. But the most dangerous driving scenario - whether human
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by danans 11mo ago
> FWIW, I get on the order of $40/hour as a senior with almost 10 years experience, and it allows me not to worry too much about spending (with a wife earning about a third of my salary and two kids) How much do you pay annually out
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by danans 1y ago
> I think they’re referring to the fact that if you’re connected to the grid, you may be charged a base fee of around $100 per month, even if you don’t use any power. The base charge for most customers in PGE territory is $24/month:
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by danans 1y ago
> And they actually charge you a fee if you generate. My brother in law unhooked from the grid because back feeding was charging him $100 a month. To give away power. Which utility and plan is this? I'm not aware of any California
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by danans 1y ago
Not free, but PGE has started an hourly variable rate plan pilot: https://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/hourly-flex-pricin... However, they aren't taking net metering customers yet, but if you end up
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by danans 1y ago
> First of all there is the repair itself, but there isn’t any collection service so you need to travel (often a full day) to get to a repair centre This is a good reminder of how much we in the developed world take our publicly funded
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by danans 1y ago
> Why are we lowering the bar for generative AI? Because it doesn't need to sleep or spend time with its family.
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by danans 1y ago
> This sounds like a price difference created by government behavior It's a price difference created by market segmentation of heat pumps as a luxury product in the US, and the relative lack of qualified installers due to our under
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by danans 1y ago
This is what the current Republican administration recently posted to the website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: "Expanding Access to Health Insurance: Consumers to Gain Access to “Catastrophic” Health Insurance P
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by danans 1y ago
> No thanks. I have a plan for catastrophic coverage but I stay as far away from hospitals and doctors as I can otherwise. This is pretty much the Republican plan for healthcare.
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by danans 1y ago
> Somehow, healthcare MUST be decoupled from capitalistic incentives . I don’t pretend to have the answer but continuing on this path will lead to worsening patient outcomes. We cannot have corporations expecting to make a dollar off hu
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by danans 1y ago
> Isn't "stuff that most people can't afford but would help with healing" the stated purpose for health insurance? You are confusing "health insurance" with a "system that guarantees healthcare as a hum
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by danans 1y ago
If you are are starting from scratch, isn't the answer to which language to use just "the framework that best supports the business case and problem you are working on"? If that produces many options, then choose based on the
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by danans 1y ago
> I have reasons to believe current AIs are conscious & have qualia/experiences, so the moral question is relevant now as well. There are very strong reasons to prioritize alleviating the immiseration of humans as a consequence
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by danans 1y ago
> If you believe that AI are sentient, or at least that "AGI", whatever that is, will be, then we are talking about the enslavement of digital beings. I think the question of harm to a hypothetically sentient AI being in the fu
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by danans 1y ago
> What Bostrom & Yudkowsky and their entourage want is AI control. The ability to enslave a conscious, sentient being to the will and wishes of its owners. While I'd agree that the current AI luminaries want that control for the
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Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong(bengoertzel.substack.com)
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by danans 1y ago
Only if you defraud investors in hole-digging corp and hole-filling corp by that by doing this you will be able to extract Unobtanium, which will make both companies 1000x profitable.
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by danans 1y ago
From the abstract: > First, we prove mathematically that transformer language models mapping discrete input sequences to their corresponding sequence of continuous representations are injective I think the "continuous representat
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by danans 1y ago
> There is no free lunch, and traditional solar installations don't usually have a lot of light missing the panels. Traditional single axis tracking installations don't miss much light. These provide similar characteristics in
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by danans 1y ago
In his commentary on Gen AI, Yuval Hariri points out that the initial type of publication that proliferated after the printing press was not scientific, but instead witch hunting manuals. Perhaps Intel's ex CEO isn't attempting to
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by danans 1y ago
I think the correct word is "propose".

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