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by gilbetron 1y ago
This period feels extremely similar to the early 2000s, where people were saying that the web hadn't really done much and that it seemed to be at an "end". And then Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and pretty much the entir
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by gilbetron 1y ago
"bubble" is just an oversimplification and is overused. Uber was a bubble. Video games were a bubble. Streaming services were a bubble. Self-driving was a bubble. The reality is much more complex and nuanced. LLMs are legitimate A
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Blaming the Democratic Party when the other party is in control of all three branches is the true idiocy. The GOP is refusing to govern to show how broken the government is.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
If you invested in something that gave you 26% returns, you'd be ecstatic. 26% increase is fantastic.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
What do you think should be done? War? Nothing? Diplomacy didn't work.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
I dunno. I'm on the older end, but nowhere near 90, and I've read a lot of these takes, and heard similar from a lot of older people in my lives. While there are good thoughts, often they come from people who didn't do that i
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by gilbetron 1y ago
And yet if you look at the "Fatalities" column, you see a stream of zeroes with a handful of non-zeroes, the worst being Chernobyl at 50 direct fatalities. Rooftop solar accounts for more deaths. Nuke plants are scary when they fa
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Almost like an LLM hallucination
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by gilbetron 1y ago
I don't understand, that recent article is a fairly balanced take on what the title literally asks: What if? It examines what if the hype is true, or what if it is partially true. That seems like a good article. You might have a point
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Following roads and lane markers and signs and signals is the "easy" part of autonomous driving. You could do everything you say and it wouldn't result in something that is any better than the current state of the art. Dealin
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by gilbetron 1y ago
You are utterly wrong, and you can easily read about it and find the process behind all of the numbers. The current administration just hates facts that go against their narrative and so are installing yes-men to give the "facts"
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by gilbetron 1y ago
I honestly think school systems will use AI as a way to pass "difficult" students. It has been a real problem dealing with students that are failing, and school systems have just basically looked the other way. Now they can look t
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by gilbetron 1y ago
My complete frustration with the RTO situation is that it is so backwards thinking. Instead of trying to enhance remote work to alleviate the negatives and enhance the positives, we just stop with "Zoom+Slack" and throw up our han
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by gilbetron 1y ago
That's been the mantra in the tech world for at least a decade now, and I've grown to really disagree. Managers should have 10 at minimum. Most should have 15-20. They should specialize in being a manager and shouldn't be sol
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Just HackerNews this. It's probably an actual vibe-code project to have a list of ghost jobs that are crowd-maintained that people can use to filter them out of job sites. Like RSS for ghost jobs.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
No, it's proof that chocolate can be a tasty addition. Left: Capitalism isn't always perfect, sometimes social policies make a better society. Right: Capitalism is always perfect, socialism is evil even in the smallest amounts.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
I've customized our McD's orders for my entire life - they mess it up maybe 1/20 times, about the same ratio I'll have to park and wait. Otherwise it's always worked for me!
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Nearly all available evidence points the other way, sorry. Now, intense sports (like hockey) isn't as good as exercise where you don't put yourself in physical collisions and major strains is better, but both are better then seden
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by gilbetron 1y ago
> Professional photographers viewed the first low-resolution digital cameras as flimsy gadgets, only for them to completely decimate the film industry. You oversimplify everything, but this is completely wrong. 320P cameras were useless
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by gilbetron 1y ago
For whatever reason, those houses get snapped up quick. I've lived in the midwest my whole life, and those cornfield subdivisions are hugely popular. I have a house near a small city, and I've had numerous friends and family ask m
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by gilbetron 1y ago
I agree 100% with you. I'm most excited about LLMs because they seem to capture at least some aspect of intelligence, and that's amazing given how much long it took to get here. It's exciting that we don't just understan
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Almost three years ago I gave a talk to a Staff+ group where I work and told them that AI felt like the internet in 1995 timeframe. It still does, and I agree we seem to be in the late-90s now. However, we need to be careful, this feels sim
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Connecting to other people, I think, is going to see a surge of desire. I've been feeling it, many I talk to are feeling. One strange piece of anecdata is that I've been working out (with my son) at a gym for the past 3 years, ver
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by gilbetron 1y ago
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRocket/a... It is not that simple.
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Here's a relatively quick read (press the "next" buttons under the "Guided Tour" section to get to the other 3 slides) from NASA. https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRo
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by gilbetron 1y ago
This is a terrible suggestion, please ignore it. If people have found an effective way to communicate information, leave them the hell alone. I have too often seen people like Auronis decide to come in and manage something to be proper, and
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Covid shutdown was 2020, do you remember who was president?
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Speaking of Washtenaw County, as a resident, it is also "the leftists" that are protecting existing zoning and are the major NIMBYs. It is the "evil corporate right wingers" that want to build all kinds of housing, but a
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Sadly, tenure will not save people.
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by gilbetron 1y ago
Definitely a good point. I live in a college town and know many people that read all the time, but don't actually do anything active with what they've read. They just consume it continuously and think the understand many topics. E

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