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by dofm 2mo ago
> I could see a dude in Ukraine having exactly the same perspective vis-a-vis Russia in 2013, and look how that turned out. Nobody in Ukraine who wasn't already explicitly pro-Russian thought that in 2013, did they? Russia-aligned i
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by dofm 2mo ago
> It's not that they "didn't mind", but many probably were happy that he was those things. I think many of them were determined not to vote for a Clinton, or a woman, or that particular female Clinton, and they casual
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by dofm 2mo ago
> And then along came Donald Trump, and, "OMG look how awful he is! Vote Blue No Matter Who!" And that would have been the correct choice. Because he's not just the worst person to be president, he was very clearly , even
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by dofm 2mo ago
Smart people helped him be the candidate. People who didn't mind that he is a racist, xenophobic, anti-semitic, bigoted philandering malignant narcissist grifter made him president. Intelligent lawyers degraded themselves to make it ha
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by dofm 2mo ago
Bias in media reporting is a factor here. That bias is driven in part by feelings about Brexit and about a system that exists in this form because of it. Either way, the fact that it has been used ten million times successfully strongly s
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by dofm 2mo ago
There simply cannot have been that many border crossings that failed this way — the eVisa system has only been in force without any fallback alternatives for a few months and only four million people hold them anyway. Proportionally speakin
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by dofm 2mo ago
> A lot of people here are responding to the message but not to the meaning. Well it is framed as quite specific advice . (I'm done with mining PG tweets for meaning)
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by dofm 2mo ago
I will not be trying that though. Dark chocolate or bust. In the post-apocalyptic future I will be the guy roaming the wastelands, armed to the teeth, seeking out rumoured stashes of Jamesons Raspberry Ruffles and those Roobar things.
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by dofm 2mo ago
> If they had less than 100 cases where the system initially failed and the issues got resolved within a few hours I'd bet they would brag about it. That's a bit of a straw man though isn't it — could there ever have been
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by dofm 2mo ago
I misread a thing. Actually the system went into force at the border in February — that is when people have only been using their eVisas instead of alternative methods, as it's when the border switched to using the readers. The governm
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by dofm 2mo ago
Actually this was developed by the government, in a meaningful sense, but it seems like it's Entrust (more or less inevitably) and Accenture who are the outsourced parts. So basically both US multinationals (Accenture have a Dublin HQ
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by dofm 2mo ago
It only launched in the middle of April (edit: middle of February was the switchover at the border where no other fallback would have been possible) It sounds to me like this number indicates broad success. The rough estimate seems to be th
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by dofm 2mo ago
I think this is weird advice. Learn how to make language models from scratch, yes. But learn how to use them, in the context of other machine learning tools, on very small hardware. When the bubble bursts (and I still tend towards thinkin
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by dofm 2mo ago
A mixture of opportunistic edge-seeking, FUD, FOMO, novelty-seeking, the need to impress shareholders, the tendency of salespeople to believe other salespeople are telling the truth, the ever-present need to stay in front of relentless comm
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by dofm 2mo ago
+1 to all of this. I used to think that the hyperfocus and the many small talents I have acquired were a net up-side to my disorder. But now I see they don't even fully compensate, and neurotypical people are just as good at all those
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by dofm 2mo ago
So we can't have the dark chocolate Bounty bar anymore but we can use coconuts to fuel planes? This isn't the future I want.
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by dofm 2mo ago
I just had a sunday afternoon request for a solution to a trivial but annoying spammer pattern on a stackoverflow-like site I maintain. The software has a plugin API. I asked Muse Glimmer to recommend a plugin — it found one but I tested it
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by dofm 2mo ago
xhigh tends not to do that. Uses caveman-ish language. But the reasoning trace does tend to obsess about stuff that it should just ask you about.
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by dofm 2mo ago
> Hyperfocus for example can be highly beneficial if you manage to point it in the right direction If you have the social support to cope with the costs of hyperfocus: forgetting to complete other tasks, losing track of broader prioritie
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by dofm 2mo ago
More suited to it than others? No. There is no upside to what I experience. The genes for ADHD and autism survive because their consequences do not kill all their bearers before they get a chance to breed. The appalling thing for me is th
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by dofm 2mo ago
> These traits have self selected for a reason, and any issues encountered are a fault of modern society not the individual imo. I mean, quite apart from the fact that you can be so profoundly autistic that you are vulnerable and cogniti
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by dofm 2mo ago
Not necessarily. I have seen xhigh go down several rabbit holes, dwell on edge cases and write worse code as a result; it literally distracted itself into writing a complex chain of functions ignoring my prompt, when on “low” reasoning it g
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by dofm 2mo ago
> To wit: AI will destroy all of humanity, or the related "AI will become sentient and lead to threat to human civ" etc. This is pure negative science fiction All of this is true, but it is the two main AI companies themselves
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by dofm 2mo ago
Yeah — even ARM2 has no divide, as far as I recall from my days with an A310.
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by dofm 2mo ago
Nope.
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by dofm 2mo ago
I think that was maybe a rhetorical question, but that indeed sums it up.
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by dofm 2mo ago
I rather think OpenAI will never get there. I think the AI industry desperately needs one of the two to get to IPO for its own sense of identity, though; the morale boost and the presumption of validation are crucial at this point. I thin
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by dofm 2mo ago
Not what we are discussing.
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by dofm 2mo ago
They have but this reply was a fully fair answer to my point; perhaps there are more.
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by dofm 2mo ago
I was thinking maybe Uber but I was not sure it could have been that bad. They would have had states pushing back but against a very popular product with users. But Airbnb, good point: they would have talked about the risks of states curt

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