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by golem14 4mo ago
Compete with, or not be dependent on them? I don’t see Google to sell RAM or GPUs to consumers, they would, like Apple, just use their vertical stack, no? Amazon might be a different story, if there is a longtime consumer computer market ou
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by golem14 4mo ago
No mention of GROWIAN , which in 1976 was conceived to generate 3MW. Not a success, but was providing invaluable lessons for future wind turbine developments.
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by golem14 4mo ago
The difference is between asking to explain x^y and reading and understanding the why and maybe go through a test, vs asking to do my homework for me and then go back to video games quickly. If the whole idea of using LLMs is to reduce effo
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by golem14 4mo ago
> We can't be buying France's nuclear energy all the time. Actually, why not ? I mean this as a serious question. Just like Oregon or New Mexico do not have problems getting (possibly nuclear) energy from California. You just h
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by golem14 4mo ago
Maybe he's preparing the next aquihire for Google ? C'mon people, if you don't know Noam personally, who are you to fling such accusations? I really hate the low bar of HN discussions lately. It's late-Slashdot-level. Br
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by golem14 4mo ago
If it's true, then I think you are cursed and I hope you never move into a complex I'm living in ;)
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by golem14 4mo ago
Don’t fret. Science had to confront issues before- the Catholic Church, the earlier Chinese dynasties, Nazis, etc. Just have faith (in science, not sure about the U.S. - empires come and go)
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by golem14 4mo ago
Yes! And they also shatter in many sharp pieces.
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by golem14 4mo ago
I’d pay more for drinking glasses that break far less often. The sharp shards are ok - have to clean up anyway.
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by golem14 4mo ago
How cool is that! How difficult would it be to create some sort of 'game' around it that let's me go through some levels building something actually useful in a few steps, like the nand games does, with actual hardware ? I fo
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by golem14 4mo ago
Two remarks: "extra-ordinary professor" is roughly the same as a "associate professor" – an ordinary professor is a tenured one (roughly). So no wonder Prof. Liebig wasn't happy about it. They should have mentioned
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by golem14 4mo ago
Shouldn't the denominator be the number of people actually executed ? 691 in the last 20 years, for instance ?
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by golem14 4mo ago
There may be correlation, but what about a larger context, say go back 20 years or so? Look at other segments too, for instance recipe books (or even websites). Totally worse in any way than using an LLM to make a recipe with only the ingre
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by golem14 4mo ago
I think humour is the best medicine. EG, why not kill all the poor: https://youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE
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by golem14 4mo ago
Well, depending on how cynical you are. I'm sure there are those that are happy to let the 'senecent' people die of cancer and have a younger population and healthier population pyramid. Getting older, I'm not subscribin
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by golem14 4mo ago
I tried brew upgrade on my setup, got a bunch of warnings about untrusted taps, and it upgraded what it could, and updated itself to homebrew 6.0.0. So I guess, yay ?
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by golem14 4mo ago
Also, since I had an atari st as my first 'serious" computer, I loved the B&W monitor and b&W GEM. I'm still looking for a way to preserve the low-color feel for my macbooks and mac desktops. Also I love the idea of l
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by golem14 4mo ago
That's pretty nifty -- how to you register taps on back with automation?
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by golem14 4mo ago
sure, but is that doing the same as deleting all installed sw and then reinstalling it using the new safeguards? Assuming I have already installed something homebrew 6 would not let install, will I get a warning?
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by golem14 4mo ago
For those of us who use homebrew today, how do we get the new cool benefits ? Is there a command to upgrade (like ```brew upgrade```) everything to the new hotness, do we need to uninstall everything and reinstall ? It's probably discu
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by golem14 4mo ago
Well, it it works well enough, I don't care too deeply. But it's clear to me that the self driving on the older hardware changes it's personalty depending on something I cannot figure out (software updates? Light conditions?)
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by golem14 4mo ago
There is an even more fantastic incident with Ritonavir (Norvir), where the manufacturer lost the ability to make a retroviral drug for an extended time. Something like that during a covid like moment would suck donkey rocks. https:/
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by golem14 4mo ago
This isn't really going far enough; the readme says - keep the metadata on a piece of paper or whatever. But: The metadata is data too, you can find it ALSO within \pi. So it's \pi all the way down. Not even sure if there an inter
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by golem14 4mo ago
Yeah, but now you do have a year to ramp up security on the defensive side, which is not nothing. I still don't think this is the best way to address overall safety, but it's not entirely unreasonable. In reality, I think this p
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by golem14 4mo ago
If the answer is yes, can you figure out when the switched models by looking at the itemized bill?
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by golem14 4mo ago
Not a fanboy, but the latest generation Tesla self driving is really quite good. I still don't understand why they still aren't adding lidars now since prices have come down a lot.
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by golem14 4mo ago
I just do, Mr Cooch, I just do.
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by golem14 4mo ago
I mean, noone is stopping someone to clone letsencrypt - it shouldn't be very hard. Google had a similar dilemma - do they want to offer a (censored) service in China, and have a hope of keeping some marketshare, or not (and be kicked
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by golem14 4mo ago
I belong to a rare breed of very opportunistic hobby-developers that like to use MacOS but also like to use linux machines or BSDs (rpi etc) sometimes. I can create docker-images with docker compose, or use something like colima, which this
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by golem14 4mo ago
It’s not surprising, but I find it interesting.

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