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by dboreham 1y ago
Elon wrote "The Mythical Man Month" 21thC edition..
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by dboreham 1y ago
Apart from the 5-eyes countries there are former colonies e.g. Singapore. I'm not sure but I'd think countries that have a language that is not widely spoken would also be a possibility: Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden for ex
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by dboreham 1y ago
Which is why "async" is a pox on our house. System threads can and do address these edge issues. User level concurrency generally doesn't (perhaps with the exceptions of golang and erlang).
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Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything(arxiv.org)
1 points by dboreham 1y ago|2 comments
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by dboreham 1y ago
The fact that you can win an election just by "pumping hundreds of millions" into a campaign that includes many highly unpopular policies seems like the underlying problem here?
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by dboreham 1y ago
I've run smaller models (I forget which ones, this was about a year ago) on my laptop just to see what happened. I was quite surprised that I could get it to write simple Python programs. Actually very surprised which led me to re-eval
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by dboreham 1y ago
With a traditional bank you can walk into a branch and explain the situation to a human. I've had to do this several times with my large US bank, one time when traveling but thankfully to a place where they had a branch. In the end thi
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by dboreham 1y ago
I have a personal Wise account as do several family members. I've had a few odd things happen with their debit cards, and actually (eventually received some reasonably sane customer support via email). Otherwise no problems. That said,
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by dboreham 1y ago
Feature parity with blockchains.
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by dboreham 1y ago
Spoiler: yes it does, but the author isn't familiar with how the term Fourier Transform is used in signal processing.
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by dboreham 1y ago
Fair point perhaps, although I'd note that I first heard colleagues boasting about how they were having Chat-GPT write all their tests sometime in 2022.
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Ask HN: LLMs enhance productivity so why don't we have more/better software?
3 points by dboreham 1y ago|5 comments
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by dboreham 1y ago
Neither DID nor IPLD have anything to do with cryptocurrency from a technical perspective. At least no more than do X.509 and ssh.
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by dboreham 1y ago
This is funny but also possibly true because: business/MBA types see these outages as a way to prove how critical some services are, leading to investors deciding to load up on the vendor's stock.
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by dboreham 1y ago
Curious: why? Aren't bubbles about people buying some instrument (stock, bond, bitcoin...) with borrowed real money that is not eventually worth as much as they think it is? People buying stablecoins are exchanging presumably not-borro
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by dboreham 1y ago
This is a common bill stuffing scam. After having this same thing happen a few times I now ask at the beginning of the appointment to confirm that it's a wellness visit. Then I ask the provider to tell me if I inadvertently ask a quest
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by dboreham 1y ago
It happens. A friend flew to France to have a tricky heart procedure done. But most people aren't going to have the time or resources to do that.
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by dboreham 1y ago
Absolutely. General advice is to never ever get in an ambulance since they charge $$ and may not be covered by insurance. Drive yourself if able or get a taxi.
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by dboreham 1y ago
I have money and it still sucks. Perhaps you're thinking of billionaire money?
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by dboreham 1y ago
Fun fact is that most such obvious innovative solutions are prohibited by law. There are many layers of turtles the lowest two are: corrupt politicians and, population that doesn't care about corrupt politicians.
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by dboreham 1y ago
A family member had a procedure a few years ago. Provider told the patient that they had contacted their insurer and received confirmation it would be covered. Went ahead with the procedure. Bill arrives and the insurer denies coverage. Pro
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by dboreham 1y ago
Presumably parent is describing a non-emergency situation.
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by dboreham 1y ago
MCP doesn't serve any technical purpose. It exists for business reasons.
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Dutch government took control of Nexperia over fears it was being gutted(reuters.com)
5 points by dboreham 1y ago|1 comments
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by dboreham 1y ago
Tests are also code and can be buggy, incomplete etc.
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by dboreham 1y ago
There have been various cryptocurrency-based efforts (including some of my own) in this space so we must presume that their lack of adoption is the issue rather than lack of available technical solutions. Why the lack of adoption? I'm
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by dboreham 1y ago
Missing insight: humans are also a trick. Every human is deluded about the intelligence of other humans, and themselves.
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by dboreham 1y ago
The fascist language is a no-op because it optimizes to: "don't violate federal laws" which presumably is reasonable.
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by dboreham 1y ago
That's not the reason. And furthermore any buffer/re-try mechanism should be done at the edge (on the camera).
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by dboreham 1y ago
Docs written by people who make more money the more services are consumed...

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