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by foldr 3mo ago
>> the exceptions allowed for by using "in general " as opposed to "always". > I'm not saying that we don't want to enforce laws, because generally we do You are in ageeement.
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by foldr 3mo ago
Right, but we’re not talking about a worst case scenario where models are trained primarily on their own output. We’re talking about what will happen in the long run, as future models are trained on a realistic mix of content. It’s surely a
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by foldr 3mo ago
AI isn't going to go away, and AI-generated content isn't going to go away. So while it's an open question the extent to which AI training will be hampered by the proliferation of AI-generated content, I think that the existe
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by foldr 3mo ago
Humans face the same problem. So this at least shouldn't make AI perform worse relative to humans, even if AI slop degrades the performance of both over time.
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by foldr 3mo ago
There's plenty of embedded code in consumer products that doesn't need to meet any special standards like MISRA.
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by foldr 3mo ago
This reminds me a bit of that stuff people used to say about how China could never compete economically with the US until it embraced Western-style democracy, or about how it could copy but not innovate, etc. etc. Europe will continue being
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by foldr 3mo ago
Indeed. GPT 5.4 was perfectly happy to help me write some 8051 assembly and integrate it into a weird vendor-specific Eclipse/Keil C51 build system. I would never have had the time or patience to figure it out. Embedded isn’t ready for
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by foldr 3mo ago
We don’t really disagree on any substantial point. However, if we’re going by the F135, that’s an engine that first flew in 2006. If China now has an engine that’s comparable to it it some ways, that means it’s about 20 years behind, give o
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by foldr 3mo ago
I think we're talking slightly at cross purposes. The f119 is an engine that flew in 1997. So while the WS-15 is evidence that China can make modern, well-performing military jet engines, it doesn't show that China has caught up w
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by foldr 3mo ago
The WS-15 is impressive, but it’s on a par with the jet engine technology available to the US military in ~2005. No-one doubts that China can make functioning jet engines. The question is how long the West can maintain the technical lead th
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by foldr 3mo ago
Sure, the US has been in a better political situation in the past than it’s in at present. No argument there. The title of the post we’re commenting on contains the words “in 2026”, though. The open corruption of the current US administrati
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by foldr 3mo ago
We are talking about the present, aren’t we? If so, it’s honestly quite a wild take to suggest that the US is doing better politically than almost anywhere else. This is not a partisan point. US politics is broken in ways that people of a
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by foldr 3mo ago
I think you’d have a hard time arguing that the political situation is worse almost anywhere else. There’s a long list of democratic countries where things continue to chug along more or less as usual, without a total collapse of norms.
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by foldr 3mo ago
Supercruise matters directly for BVR combat. It means that you can get high and fast to launch your missiles with the best parameters without burning half your fuel via afterburners. (Many fighter jets would burn through all their fuel in u
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by foldr 3mo ago
In a military context, the main technological gaps relating to jet engines are supercruise and maintenance hours. Both are potentially quite relevant in a ‘local’ conflict.
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by foldr 3mo ago
You can steal ‘know’ but you can’t so easily steal ‘knowhow’. I could easily find all the information that I theoretically need to make a wooden chair. But to actually make it successfully would require years of practice at carpentry. At fi
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by foldr 3mo ago
Making your own bicycle is a waste of time and energy. If you’re buying in bulk from China, you can get a bike for around a $20 per unit cost. I know that $20 is a lot of money in some parts of the world, but it would make far more sense to
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by foldr 3mo ago
Wasn’t so long ago that you were rather down on the American alternative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167215
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by foldr 3mo ago
It’s common knowledge in cricketing circles that underarm bowling is legal. The only reason not to do it is that it’s less effective (just like underarm serves in tennis).
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by foldr 4mo ago
How is it a myth? It has 2.5 billion fans worldwide (in comparison to 3.5 billion for football). That’s 1 billion in excess of the entire population of India, so clearly there are some fans elsewhere! You’re perhaps forgetting Australia, Ne
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by foldr 4mo ago
This gets the history a big wrong. Overarm bowling actually had to be explicitly legalized in the mid 19th century before it became common practice: https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,782938,00.
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by foldr 4mo ago
It's not inherently unhitable. Overarm bowling is a relatively recent development in the history of the sport (rather like overarm serves in tennis). But of course, in this case, the ball was simply rolled along the ground rather than
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by foldr 4mo ago
Cricket is the world's second most popular sport. It's actually much more popular than baseball from a global perspective.
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by foldr 4mo ago
I got a second hand M1 Mac Mini for this purpose. Costs about $200 and it can easily handle 4K streaming.
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by foldr 4mo ago
The 12K figure is the total figure for arrests for Malicious Communications offenses. It's not a figure for social media posts specifically. The vast majority of these arrests have nothing to do with people making edgy social media pos
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by foldr 4mo ago
>There could be other solutions to this problem - one being, signing exclusive deals with vendors. Apple won't get an exclusive deal to buy RAM for far less than the going rate.
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by foldr 4mo ago
This is a weird take, because Starmer hasn't had a particularly pro-diversity agenda. His government has been harsh on immigration ("island of strangers", large drop in net migration) and has been quite happy to do nothing in
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by foldr 4mo ago
That was a special promotion with a defined end date. The game is not free. The only legitimate way to obtain it currently is to pay for it. Together with the false claim about HL1 being open source, you're really adding a lot of misin
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by foldr 4mo ago
HL2 is not free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/
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by foldr 4mo ago
I vibe coded this for exploring levels in the original Deus Ex: https://dxwebview.pages.dev/ ( https://github.com/addrummond/dxwebview ). It's a bit janky owing to the vibe coding, but the basic fun

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