eightysixfour

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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
No RCS and iMessage via bridge (which effectively means no iMessage via phone number and a number of privacy concerns) makes the communication part an issue, but the rest looks nice. Preordered to see how it goes.
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
Neither of those are dumbphones and neither resolve 90% of the problems I mentioned. I wasn't trying to get away from walled gardens or chase additional privacy, I was trying to get away from the most distracting devices ever created a
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
I am a similar age to Geohot and I have tried to escape smartphones to a dumb phone. It didn’t work. So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. • Surface parking in my city is all by QR
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
> The computer I'm writing this on has 64 GB of RAM, 1024 times as much. By comparison I have a 20-core Intel CPU with up-to 3GHz speed or somewhere around there, even pretending each core could run at that max speed simultaneously
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
From the repo you linked: > This repo is available under the MIT expat license, except for the ee directory (which has its license here) if applicable. > Need absolutely 100% FOSS? Check out our posthog-foss repository, which is purge
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
More recent Claude models tend to do these new longer lists. I think they've trained it on more varied sentence structures to give it a less monotonous feeling when reading, which worked, but now it has this tendency to go for "pu
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
Sure, LLMs learned them from somewhere, but when you use it a lot you see that it has very specific, very repetitive writing patterns. This article makes little effort to adapt the writing away from those patterns. It is like a code smell,
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
> Hesiod felt it. Plato theorized it. Polybius mechanized it. Sallust prosecuted it (while guilty). Ibn Khaldun put it on a timer. Five civilizations, twenty-one centuries, one diagnosis. The only thing missing was proof. > For most o
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
It absolutely was written with Claude. There are so many Claude-isms in the second half that it was hard for me to digest, despite enjoying the ideas.
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
I think they should have moved Halo onto it instead of Unreal.
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
I like Scott Miller but he doesn't work there and "insider" information after layoffs is almost always part of a PR game by one side or the other. Again, not saying he is wrong, just that a tweet from someone secondhand reall
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
People will tell you they do not want endless sequels. Sales numbers will mostly disagree with them.
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
> The thing is, every time you take a swing on one of those big IPs, you take a risk. I think the entire content production industry, no matter the medium, is aware of the risk/reward of rerunning existing IP vs creating new IP. The
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
Yes, it was mentioned in the article. I just don't count a tweet from an "insider" as particularly strong evidence anymore.
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
I actually think this is the wrong diagnosis of this situation. The studios in Microsoft gaming appear to have been given a lot of room to take risks under previous leadership, build passion projects, etc. while letting big franchises sit o
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
There's no real evidence in here that the IDTech team or the "coders" were specifically let go. I'm not saying it didn't happen but the article is just raging at the idea of it happening without presenting any evide
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
You keep ignoring my only point. > Again, what Flock is doing is decades old. It doesn't even look like you dispute this fact. Scale and level of effort involved matter. How many cameras were reporting to the Motorola database in 20
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
In the US, up until the mid to late 2000s, the majority of ALPRs were mounted on the police cruisers. Even when they moved on to installing them in fixed locations, they had two major limitations: • There were few of them • The databases we
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
One of the things that is really interesting to me is when people don't update their opinions of some thing when the level of difficulty and cost associated with that thing change. A few decades ago, if a police officer wanted to find
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
This is cool conceptually, but "y" do I have to login to your site if it is local and uses my Claude Code?
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
Again, this is already happening. Hospital side care providers use systems which optimize for expected payout value. That increases payout totals and insurance costs for everyone. The ACA tried to make health outcomes a part of the calculat
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
Hospitals and some doctors already do - it isn’t a one-sided problem with insurance as the only group optimizing for their desired outcome.
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
> Switzerland has no uranium and no strong relationship with an uranium-producing country. They also regularly antagonise the EU (especially the far-right isolationisz SVP/UDC, which is... pro-nuclear, of course) which controls ever
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
Energy security is something I expect the government to invest my tax dollars in especially energy generation that is resilient to international politics and reduced carbon emissions.
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
Sure, but my guess is for "true" super intelligence we won't be able to predict whether that is true or not until it happens. I'm not a doomer, but I also don't really think we can "align" people, much les
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
These things are true, however: 1. The labs in the US and China don't seem to have any problem selling (or even giving) access to these models right now. 2. If some kind of take-off happens which makes that not true, my bet is all bets
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by eightysixfour 3mo ago
I'll play devil's advocate a little bit - I'm not sure it is losing its "independence" by not taking part in the race. It could very well be that it is gaining independence from tech and choosing a "second move
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by eightysixfour 4mo ago
Every travel system I have worked with at [big corps] required the cost of my flight to be within a specific range of the average for that route. I wouldn’t have been able to take a $1k if a $400 was available without an override by the per
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by eightysixfour 4mo ago
> The strangest part is that it won't just reject ML research, which I can understand, it will sabotage it silently by using a worse model without revealing it is doing so. My hypothesis is they know they can’t build effective enoug
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by eightysixfour 4mo ago
In Formula E the drivers control engine behavior and regen. It is much better than F1 right now.

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