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by dofm 3mo ago
Don't be fooled into thinking that the tractor or the loom brought about positive social progress. It wasn't the machines that caused the social progress. It was the organised labour movements (and the variously destructive or vio
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by dofm 3mo ago
My broad feeling is that if we generally independently identify the insufferable tone, and we absolutely can, so can a sufficiently trained machine-learning model. It's an aside, but my biggest problem with trying to get up to date and
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Text is simply not information dense enough to be able to decode some arbitrary signal of provenance from it. This does not sit well with personal experience and I wonder if it is just one of these questions of AI people being unaware
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by dofm 3mo ago
OK. Not sure I agree Opencode is mature, having used it enough and seen the source code, but if that is the level of attention to detail that now qualifies as “mature” then I understand why my comment upset people so much and I apologise. I
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by dofm 3mo ago
I am aware of it, and I dabble with Unsloth Studio and use the llama-server approach. I would obviously prefer an open source, open weights stack. But I guess a paradox is that as long as there are open source options I could use, a solid
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by dofm 3mo ago
Pro tip: you just don't have to. Plough your own furrow; keep your practical knowledge and skills up-to-date as much as you can. But do so aligned with your own goals. Being up to date with generic "news" is not really that i
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by dofm 3mo ago
So as long as nobody makes major economic mistakes it's fine?
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by dofm 3mo ago
1978 is two generations ago, really, and things are not better for everyone now. Working days are long, six days a week, pay is poor enough that people are living in dormitories or company housing, effectively indentured still. And the ques
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by dofm 3mo ago
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by dofm 3mo ago
He's naïve about many things but I don't believe any of these people are ignorant of fascist imagery or its trollish power, even if only in some bullshit recycled bad-sci-fi trope sense. He may be more ignorant than he portrays bu
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by dofm 3mo ago
Right. Luckily the universe has decided to solve this problem quite early on by having the tech industry fuck itself in the face first.
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by dofm 3mo ago
If any of you guys who use the phrase "neo-luddite" had any grasp of who the Luddites were, what their concerns were, and why such campaigns did what they did, you'd be getting ready to fight the future too. Whichever side yo
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by dofm 3mo ago
Not at all quickly. People's lives got immediately worse — well within a working lifetime. Life expectancy fell and infant mortality worsened for well over a hundred years. In particular the quality of life for people displaced by the
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by dofm 3mo ago
Someone who really understood long term results wouldn’t keep repeatedly promoting absurdly short timescales for major developments. He has a malignant narcissist’s distorted grasp of time: any future he promises is always nearer than is pl
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by dofm 3mo ago
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by dofm 3mo ago
More than half of IPOs fall below their price in the first year and AFAIK it’s something like more than half underperforming market over the first five. Basically an IPO is a bad bet for a five year position. But SPCX is especially bad.
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by dofm 3mo ago
But that's part of the thing, isn't it? You don't get to argue that your crime wouldn't have been so bad if your victims weren't incompetent.
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by dofm 3mo ago
> It's kind of like using a 3D printer: It doesn't matter if a print takes 10 hours, because when you come back in the morning it will be done. This is how I used to think about my 3D printer, but FWIW the way my actual thinkin
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by dofm 3mo ago
Subtext: we correctly assume that this is the only way we can rebuild trust
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by dofm 3mo ago
Max Keiser of Karmabanque was talking about and writing about it in public more than a year before Burry acted, with pretty solid predictions, without any obvious forensic action. He's quite bonkers, but if it was obvious to Keiser it
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by dofm 3mo ago
> If you want to suggest the subprime crisis as a mechanism for SpaceX bonds getting mispriced I don't? I'm just observing that the bond market got something wrong — through an absolutely industry-wide blindness - that was inde
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by dofm 3mo ago
This device should have been a blog post about how you can make this device with an Arduino/Pico and a 3D printer and Codex.
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by dofm 3mo ago
stopitgetsomehelp.gif ;-)
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by dofm 3mo ago
Gemma 4 26B is capable up to 256k or 262k, can't remember which. Whether the writer's setup affects that choice I don't know.
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by dofm 3mo ago
> But anything you and I are aware of, they probably are too. This is something that seems like it should be true but the subprime crisis (which didn't at all come out of the blue — anyone with any instinct at all should have unders
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by dofm 3mo ago
Of course — I compiled it and ran it yesterday. Not aware if they have a PR in place with the main project, though as I recall I ran the last Bonsai model without needing it so I guess there might be plans.
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Institutional bond traders are pretty sophisticated. I am old enough to remember Long Term Capital Management.
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by dofm 3mo ago
There is this, but he is also a quasi-government figure. As Trump weakens he will reappear in that sphere.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Of course. But you have a bond buyer who can put their thumb on the scale, and has shown willingness to do so. That buyer also tried to interfere in (succeeded in interfering in) the business of law firms that worked for anti-Trump causes,
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by dofm 3mo ago
Except that it's not clear really that lenders will be able to judge on that basis alone. SpaceX is a different kind of unicorn: it's a government contractor run by the richest man in the world who controls a media echo chamber an

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