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by drooby 2y ago
Idgi, optimization leaps are virtually guaranteed. I think this is a deeper question about the bounds of human desire... which seem virtually limitless. We seem to have an unlimited appetite for answering questions on the complexity of exis
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by drooby 2y ago
The amount of compute required for R1 to determine that strawberry has 3 Rs is hilarious.. I'm not so convinced that the Nvidia panic is justified.
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by drooby 2y ago
Increasing the speed at which you throw shit at a wall does not change the fact that you are throwing shit at a wall.
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by drooby 2y ago
Honestly.. just keep asking "why?". Most engineers ask "why" to the surface level questions. E.g. "Why is the bug doing this instead of that?" A: "Oh, because this conditional does thing..simple, just fix
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by drooby 2y ago
1. Deeply understand the problem before you start writing code. 2. Provide in depth summary and explanation of the problem and solution in your PRs Engineers can waste months or years of their collective time because they don't underst
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by drooby 2y ago
These people are such fools Yes these same "repressive countries" that also shutdown social media platforms in their country are also suddenly perfectly benevolent when controlling the app in US markets. Oh the kids just want to d
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by drooby 2y ago
Lark is interesting... so just assuming for a second ByteDance was working for CCP... Lark is potentially corporate espionage spyware?
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by drooby 2y ago
What does the ACLU not understand.. The law does not ban TikTok.. it requires divestment from a foreign adversary.. Said foreign adversary refuses to divest, thus the company is shutting itself down
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by drooby 2y ago
Good.. US govt makes an inferior mouse trap.. Nor is it subsidies.. it's funding from contracts.. SpaceX is on track to make most of its revenue from Starlink anyways
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by drooby 2y ago
> convoluted expensive google search Interesting, I'm the opposite now. Why would I click a couple links to read a couple (verbose) blog posts when I can read a succinct LLM response. If I have low confidence in the quality of the r
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by drooby 2y ago
That's great thank you. Can we please get this as an on the iOS Lock Screen app. Thanks.
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by drooby 2y ago
We don’t need to label a conflict as genocide to recognize the urgency of ending it. Armed conflicts, regardless of labels, demand immediate efforts to stop the violence and protect civilians. The focus should be on saving lives, not semant
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by drooby 2y ago
We need to have our cake and eat it too
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by drooby 2y ago
Clearly off-topic for HN. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they&
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by drooby 2y ago
Genocide requires proving intentionality. Specifically, the deliberate intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group. This is a serious and complex standard, and it’s central to the legal definition. It's like the distincti
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by drooby 2y ago
I don't doubt it. But it's also worth noting that insurance companies will often report people as having diseases when they don't (or have since been cured), because they can then extract more revenue. The fox is in the hen h
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by drooby 2y ago
Biological aging is a fuzzy concept that we define relative to various social constructs and other objective markers compared to the general population. I don't see much issue with its usage in this context.
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by drooby 2y ago
Would we potentially expect lower rates of Alzheimer's among Muslims then?
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by drooby 2y ago
In a hypothetical world where this was integrated with code reviews, and minimized developer time (writing valid/useful comments), and minimized bugs by even a small percentage... $200/m is a no-brainer. The question is - how good
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by drooby 2y ago
That's Graeber for you. "Bullshit Jobs" should have also remained a blog post.
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by drooby 2y ago
Without trade, war becomes more easy to justify as cost-effective.
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by drooby 2y ago
The battery life of a human is 6-8 hours. Those pesky humans also want "rights". Takes a long time to make a new human too. So that's the competition.
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by drooby 2y ago
And fyi - If the tips do not cover what would have been the federal minimum then the employer must pay the difference. And for many states the state minimum wage overrides this.
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by drooby 2y ago
The males die shortly after mating.. it's hypothesized that the males may even offer their body as nutrition...as a way to maximize their offspring's success. So this adds another layer of wtf. Doesn't really help moralize hu
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by drooby 2y ago
This morning I was reviewing some code that a JR engineer submitted. It had this wild logical conditional with twists and turns, negations, and weird property naming.. o1-preview perfectly evaluated the conditional and determined that, hila
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by drooby 2y ago
Can someone please start a car company that is the equivalent of Framework for laptops.. or even better, just a "safe dumb car". Why is it so hard to find a car with roll up windows that is also safe... I want to be able to easily
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by drooby 2y ago
Excuse my language but I can't help but think this is anything other than a stupid, racist, and sexist article.. Literally all races on earth care about anti-aging and have historically done so. Most women I know care more about anti-a
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by drooby 2y ago
Did OpenAI ever even claim that they would be an open source company? It seems like their driving mission has always been to create AI that is the "most beneficial to society".. which might come in many different flavors.. includi
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by drooby 2y ago
I suspect OP wanted a human floating ("walking") in space. It appears that Isaacman popped his head out of a hole while holding onto a ladder.
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by drooby 2y ago
This feels like a map of real estate price

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