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by gtowey 11mo ago
"Shouldn't you feed the lepers, Supply Side Jesus?" "No, that would only make them lazy!" https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-...
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by gtowey 11mo ago
This article seems to indicate that manually triggered failovers will always fail if your application tries to maintain its normal write traffic during that process. Not that I'm discounting the author's experience, but something
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by gtowey 11mo ago
The skill of a plumber isn't in knowing how to solder. I've run copper pipe and soldered fittings on my own plenty of times, it's not hard. The skill is in either knowing the building codes inside and out when dealing with n
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by gtowey 11mo ago
I agree. The comments in this thread don't seem to understand how skill trade work operates at all. One truism is that any halfway decent tradesman always has about 10x the amount of work waiting for them as they can accomplish. Peop
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by gtowey 11mo ago
Well at least we have the answer to the Fermi Paradox now.
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by gtowey 11mo ago
Doubt it. Especially when you realize the cost to the company for an employee is much more than just take-home salary. Healthcare, employer payroll taxes & such all add up. You could also argue wether deferred comp like stock options
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by gtowey 1y ago
> Why are these different than using LLMs? I would say that with a computer you're using a tool to take care of mundane details and speed up the mechanics of tasks in your life. Such as writing a document, or playing a game. I can&#
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by gtowey 1y ago
What would be the point? Ships are complex machines and the ocean is an incredibly harsh and unforgiving environment. You would need crew to simply maintain the ship while underway and fix things that break (which pretty much always happens
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by gtowey 1y ago
> The more of those people you hire, the higher the chance that a bad actor will slip through and push malicious things through for a fee. Again, the newspaper model already solves this. Moderation should be highly localized, from the c
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by gtowey 1y ago
No, it's already a solved problem. For instance newspapers moderate and approve all content that they print. While some bad actors may be able to sneak scams in through classifieds, the local community has a direct way to contact the m
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by gtowey 1y ago
All this hypothetical tells us is that you're young, healthy, single, and have a good income. Which is exactly the issue with our health system -- it only works when you don't get sick. The median household income in the US is $83
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by gtowey 1y ago
Study after study finds that a health care model where you can visit a doctor frequently leads to much better overall heath for people. The system we have here forces people to wait until minor issues turn into life or death situations that
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by gtowey 1y ago
This is because Azure just copies everything AWS does. Google is a bit more innovative, they will have something else unexpected happen.
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by gtowey 1y ago
I really love this idea!
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by gtowey 1y ago
It's shocking to me too, but not very surprising. It's probably a combination of factors that could cause a failure of planning and I've seen it play out the same way at lots of companies. I bet the original engineers planned
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by gtowey 1y ago
Gambling is also extremely successful but you could argue it's a net loss for society to have it. The argument that money == correctness is basically what we've been trained to believe by armies of MBAs, but it's not right. I
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by gtowey 1y ago
Lol, yes. Although the unintentional slight is somehow hilariously appropriate.
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by gtowey 1y ago
OpenAI marketing and hype feels like things we've seen before. Just like Adam Neuman who was reinventing the concept of workspaces as a community. Just like Elizabeth Holmns who was revolutionizing blood testing. Just like SBF who pion
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by gtowey 1y ago
I'm wondering if it's one of those paradoxes where by the time we are technologically capable of building one, we won't actually need it.
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by gtowey 1y ago
actually geosync isn't the top. You need to extend beyond that & have a counterweight that balances the weight of everything below the point of geosynchronous orbit. Otherwise it would fall down.
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by gtowey 1y ago
I think it's definitely the case where corporations and the media want us to believe that having a huge array of choices is freedom.
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by gtowey 1y ago
Nah, for me it's about utility. Big trucks are tools, and they spend much more of their lifetime putting that engine to use where nothing else will do. The shocking thing about light trucks with fuel economy in the teens is that most
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by gtowey 1y ago
I don't disagree with you, but man is it crazy to hear that a "light" truck these days includes a 5 liter V8 that gets 16 mpg.
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by gtowey 1y ago
> He deserves at least some credit, considering that he and Bezos are the only billionaires actually willing to put their wealth into chasing a vision. As much as I love space exploration, I think it's actually a problem that so few
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by gtowey 1y ago
As one of the aforementioned, yes I don't mind seeing his projects blow up. I'm sure Starship will make it to orbit, but I'm betting that the claim of 100 tons to orbit is where it will miss the mark. And that is the crux of
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by gtowey 1y ago
It's the American Way(tm)! We've been this way for a long time. Just look at the glut of holiday decorations made of plastic that will be bought, then end up in landfills in a few months. We have literally fought wars, killed mill
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by gtowey 1y ago
That's just the point, it always sounds like a great idea to people not experienced in database operations. The problem with the setup is you will have a data corruption issue at some point. It's not an "if" it's
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by gtowey 1y ago
There's more to it than that. I've been practicing this from a different perspective. It's not necessarily bad to have stuff or buy stuff, but you have to spend just as much time getting rid of things and evaluating their co
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by gtowey 1y ago
> So all those CEOs and CTOs are wrong, and you along with the skeptic camp see the true nature of AI. This kind of a statement assumes that all those CEOs did exhaustive, detailed, independent research to arrive at the conclusion that A
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by gtowey 1y ago
If Mars contained significant amounts of water in its past as we suspect, that would mean we have n=2 just in our own solar system.

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