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by deanCommie 1y ago
> AWS isn't well-configured for AI workloads What does that mean? Not enough GPUs?
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by deanCommie 1y ago
You're probably going to get downvoted, but the reality is it's a valid question. Just as apparently sulfur emissions from global shipping fleets helped offset some warming and eco-friendly fuel actually caused problems, the clima
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by deanCommie 1y ago
This kind of pedantry drives me crazy. If i leave my house unlocked and someone walks in and takes my TV, they still committed a crime! Just because it was irresponsible of me, they still BREACHED MY PRIVACY. The correct ethical behaviour i
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by deanCommie 1y ago
The president is not the state. That's been established multiple times in cases like Nixon, and unfortunately recently regressed with the Trump SCOTUS decision. But in theory all these organizations swear an oath to the constitution ,
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by deanCommie 1y ago
From Terence Tao, via mastodon [0]: > It is tempting to view the capability of current AI technology as a singular quantity: either a given task X is within the ability of current tools, or it is not. However, there is in fact a very wi
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by deanCommie 1y ago
the issue isn't the capabilities of AI. It's how it will be used maliciously and change our society irrevocably. Not from saving developers hours of work. But from making truth even more subjective and at the whims of the powerful
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by deanCommie 1y ago
You can tell this was written by a technologist without a clue of the realities of social dynamics * "finding diverse sources representing all parties" Not all current events are subjective, not all claims/parties (climate ch
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by deanCommie 1y ago
no i don't think we're saying different things. what you're describing is survivor's bias. 1) the most talented people with cognitive differences made it out for sure. But not every person on the spectrum is "amazin
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by deanCommie 1y ago
except they weren't really "support systems" i mean they were, if you got lucky. If you were neurotypical; if you bought in to the local religious sect's particular flavour and embraced it wholeheartedly; if you followed
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by deanCommie 1y ago
It was crazy to visit Oslo or Amsterdam in the mid-2010s and notice just what a high % of vehicles were Tesla Model S's. Car ownership is expensive and unnecessary so people with wealth bought the environmentally positive status symbol
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by deanCommie 1y ago
> That only made the world better, and we got soo many more good photographers. Same with YouTube & creativity. I think you really missed the point of what these technologies and innovations actually did for society and how it applie
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by deanCommie 1y ago
> Promoters now can admit those tools were in fact pretty bad Relative to what came after, which noone could predict would be guaranteed? The Model T was in fact pretty bad relative to what came after... > because they now have someth
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by deanCommie 1y ago
I'm sure salt miners needed to make peace with their toil and also focused on tools and techniques to be more productive; how to remove the salt most elegantly in nice clean blocks, minimize waste, reduce burden on their physical bodie
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by deanCommie 1y ago
Yup. It's funny how this stuff evolves. You used to see "surcharge for visa" but visa made that illegal. So now you see "discount for cash/debit", and everyone is happy!
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by deanCommie 1y ago
You will never convince Europeans of this. They simply seem to be unable to grasp that (1) cultural norms about introversion/extroversion and friendliness are not universal, and so the default baseline IS more outgoing, social, friendl
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by deanCommie 1y ago
I don't understand why you're arguing with everyone in the comments. The premise was that enthusiasts drove public opinion. I was one of those enthusiasts. I got everyone I know to switch to Chrome. Why? 1. It opened instantly. T
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Good points, but the other part of this is that back in "our time" (we may not be the same age - I was in University 1999-2005, but regardless) there was...basically no other choice. If you wanted to work in CS, you had to get a d
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I think to most (90+%?) software developers out their in the world, Assembler might as well be hieroglyphics. They/we can guess at the concepts involved of course, but actually being able to read the code end to end, and have a mental
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by deanCommie 2y ago
SQS went into beta first, S3 went "GA" first. AWS typically considers the "GA" milestone as the "public launch" date, which is silly because the criteria for what is good enough for GA has changed over the year
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Why were you offended by AWS?
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by deanCommie 2y ago
To MAGA, he spoke louder, and with more confidence, therefore he won. Unfortunately this will not shake support of him in his base.
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by deanCommie 2y ago
They're not mutually exclusive because they're a triangle. Cost, Convenience, Quality: Pick 2 This isn't that deep either - convenience and quality are 2 things that cost the restaurant money (either via higher rent, or more
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Technically nothing what you said disputes the claim. You're jumping to the assumption that surely YouTube's costs have to be lower than $36B, and that is not at all assured. They handle an absolutely gargantuan amount of network
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by deanCommie 2y ago
The Witness isn't revolutionary, but it is crafted with the care of someone who cares about the small details of 3D worlds. Besides being easily one of the deepest/broadest puzzle games of the decade, it is GORGEOUS, and filled to
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by deanCommie 2y ago
The Linus response is pretty great -> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI/m/P8...
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Plenty. What looks like generic dots to us laymen are actually different types of stars. With more resolution, astronomers can more accurately categorize the different stars in the galaxy. The ratios of different stars tell us things about
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by deanCommie 2y ago
> That is like saying that replacing the car emoji with a train car is changing it from a ‘car’ to a ‘car.’ A squirt gun is not at all the same thing as a pistol In the context of human conversation via emojis (which is a very specialize
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by deanCommie 2y ago
> replace the gun emoji with a squirt gun so just to be clear, and in your own words, they changed it from a "gun" to a "gun", right? > as a way to attack second amendment rights Apple sells to customers across the
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Correct. Most recently, peace in Northern Ireland and the end of Apartheid in South Africa.
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by deanCommie 2y ago
There is a now infamous tweet: "People on twitter will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebomb a Walmart" [0] Well, Luigi firebombed

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