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by danans 11mo ago
> Look at the farms that still have the houses of that era standing on them and you'll soon notice that they are all mansions. Those are usually large plantations, and the people who owned them weren't just farmers but vast lan
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> Do you run ChromeOS Flex on some thinkpads or do you work on a Chromebook? Chromebook. > What are the pros/cons vs running a debian if you can elaborate? I like minimalist desktop environments. I like full screen window tiling
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> So how to explain the current AI mania being widely promoted? > I think the best fit explanation is simple con artistry. Yes, perhaps, but many industries are built on a little bit of technology and a lot of stories. I think of it a
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> Things that are too big to fail can end up being nationalized when they do fail. And if that happens, will the taxpayer be on the hook to make investors whole? We shouldn't. If it is nationalized, it needs to be done at a small
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by danans 11mo ago
AKA "too big to fail". The interests of major and early AI capital owners will be prioritized over those of the later capital and non-capital-owning public.
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> I can hardly wait for all the WFT->RTO charts :P Work from ... Texas?
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LAN party at the end of the universe?
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> Which makes me think they are getting the strategy exactly backwards The strategy is to take an admittedly cool technology and spin a dramatic story around it to raise capital, while providing a rationale for workforce reductions. Re
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This will keep going around the table, next it might be a Chinese company that demos 98% of the capability at 1/4 the price. The objective of being at the cutting edge of LLM performance seems like more of a marketing advantage in the
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> It's one thing to have concentrated wealth. It's a very different thing to have concentrated wealth and people's attention. Because of human nature, the two are inseparable, and influence over people's attention is
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> You are confusing obedience and willingness to jump through hoops with the motivation to learn. You can call it obedience or whatever libertarian talking point you like, but the ability to negotiate social systems is an important skill
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> By 2035 I wonder if we'll be all running KDE or WindowMaker and the hell with modern OS GUI I love Linux, but I doubt that will happen. If anything, by then Linux will be a feature of a workstation OS running in a hypervisor, jus
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by danans 11mo ago
Lenovo has tons of options that you can configure to your delight including with Ubuntu pre-installed, well below your $2000CAD price limit. I'd be surprised if you can't get one with USB-A ports: https://www.lenovo.co
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> 15 out of the top 50 and 4/6 top hospitals > I’m just saying we do get something for the money Who is this "we" that gets to be treated at the 15-out-of-50 and 4-out-of-6 top hospitals in the world?
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> Most useful skill and knowledge is still learned on the job. The "education" is just a selection process. It selects for the ability and intrinsic motivation to learn. If you were running a factory or a building construction
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I agree that our system relies heavily on uneducated migrants for menial labor. However, uneducated people in the 1950s regularly got jobs in factories that paid enough for a single income to support a family. That opportunity for uneducate
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> The percentage of American adults over age 25 who have a college degree was only 20% as recently as 1990. When America was truly at the top of the world in the 1950s and 1960s, it was under 10%. Due to automation and the great advance
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It does make you wonder, given how much investment fraud targets regular people, whether there is considerable overlap between the target surface area of the FTC and what was the CFPB.
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They are composed of people, though.
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> How much money does the community need to raise all in, for that notebook to happen. > Where's the GoFundMeAngelList platform that's a cult where I can pledge $10,000 to get this laptop of my dreams? The hard part isn&#x27
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by danans 11mo ago
Perhaps they should pursue building around Mediatek CPUs. Google has already built Chromebooks (which are Linux based) on them, so presumably the necessary drivers exist. Outside of laptops, NVidia sells its Jetson Devkits and DGX workstati
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by danans 11mo ago
Lenovo Chromebook Plus 12 or Acer - Chromebook Plus Spin 514. Both have an M2 equivalent MediaTek Kompanio ARM CPU/GPU, and comes with native Debian VM built in (Crostini) that runs standard Linux desktop apps. Battery life and p
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Yes, but Linux's desktop environment(s) is a feature of a product, not a product itself. You can see that Framework themselves markets Linux that way: https://frame.work/linux If the goal is to make the Linux deskto
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> Would the energy be better spent in making Linux more stable or usable for the general public? Linux is stable and widely used, whether as Android, Ubuntu, WSL on Windows or Crostini on ChromeOS (itself Linux under the hood). The gener
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I also doubt that "social smart" and "book smart" are fundamentally different things. Just that different people have different sensors with different sensitivities, and different noise tolerances when operating with di
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> If you're an entrepreneur, you also have to do a bunch of things that are more social than smarts High social aptitude is "smarts". It has arguably been more central to our evolution, survival, and even advancement than
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Something like that: https://www.telotrucks.com/
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It wouldn't work very well for cooling then
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That's a different "geothermal" - the correct name is "ground source heat pump" or in your neighbor's case, a pond-source heat pump. Those exploit the temperature stability that occurs some small numbers or me
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I think they meant that as a joke.

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