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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
My point is mostly that since the 80s there's a lot more trans-pacific flight from the Middle-east and Far-east to the United States. When the Concorde was developed this wasn't really a worthwhile market to consider for ultra-pre
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
OP seems to disregard the fact that equity in the house is basically a pile of cash you can live inside of. If you're renting you're paying some premium for the landlord to pay their mortgage interest and pay down their own princi
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
It sounds like this employee was on a team whose goal was to build developer goodwill in open source. Of course now that AWS is piling money into the AI furnace they're cutting that team. This article should be called "the guy who
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
I clicked on the post and immediately bounced off because it was intense slop. Like a high schooler padding out their essay to hit a word count. I don't care if they got paid for it. It's an interesting misconfiguration that you c
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
I think a lot of the Concorde failure is tied to its status as a British-French project. Trans-Pacific flights are much longer and there's a lot of money in PEK -> LAX than in JFK -> LHR. Qantas wanted to offer London to Sydney,
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Does anyone seriously still believe this? I thought as a society we had realized Musk is simply BSing whatever he feels like until it becomes untenable.
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Anecdotally my work is already pivoting from "use as many tokens as possible" to "try and use a dumber model if you can because the best ones are too expensive".
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
It's circular financing. It's a circlejerk. It's a circular financing jerk.
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
There's a strand of white neoliberal gays (Sam, Thiel) who have thrown their lot in with the far-right for economic benefit. If any of them read books I would send them a biography of Ernst Röhm
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
They have to speedrun boiling the frog because the capital expenditure is insane. Remains to be seen just how fast you can boil a frog before the frog notices
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
In theory eBay should be one of those bubbly dot-com companies that kind of settled into a lifestyle business by virtue of longevity. It's no longer commanding insane multiples but it has revenue and a dedicated fanbase. They sold off
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
What would an apolitical "permacomputing" look like? The premise is to reduce consumption and conserve resources. It's about recognizing the externalities associated with technology. You can't just do that in a vacuum. I
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Boots Riley is one of the most underrated American artists of our time. "I'm a Virgo" is also great if you haven't seen it.
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
It's actually very helpful! Even just to keep track of what you did and how you were feeling on a given day. I didn't keep one for a long time because I grew up in a household where I didn't feel secure - if I had a journal m
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Yes, the loan is the leverage. It's secured against the assets of eBay. If the acquisition fails to produce efficiencies the resulting company has a bunch of extra, arguably unnecessary debt from the acquisition that a free-standing eB
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
It's an impressive build of "putting a Mustang shell on a Model 3", but for God's sake why didnt they swap the seats and steering wheel at least. Got to be the worst-looking interior I've ever seen.
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
It's the leveraged buyout playbook. You buy a company and use its own assets to secure a loan. Then you "find efficiencies" (strip it for parts to pay yourself and the creditors).
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
I'm sure someone is going to miss the point and say "this is political correctness gone too far!" It seems impossible to produce a safe LLM-based model, except by withholding training data on "forbidden" materials.
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Making it trivial to generate software is making people turn their brains off. They don't think through the details and accept the "default" from an LLM which has no concern for the user experience.
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
It's May Day, which is a labour holiday everywhere except North America commemorating the Haymarket Affair when American police brutally repressed striking workers . In North America we have Labor Day in September to distance it from t
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Let me put it this way, I don't think they're operating in USDA Hardiness Zones of 1-5. https://www.botanicalinterests.com/community/blog/usda-hardi...
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Wouldn't Baltimore be the first Waymo market that actually gets snow? I don't think they've cracked driving in a real Midwest/northeast winter.
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
It's funny to me that the average American is Islamophobic, but the US government sharply divides middle eastern countries based on alliances (and how rich they are). Qatari Emir? You're a friend of the US government. Poor Pakista
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Oh this is very real. As someone who lives in Ottawa, Shopify employees are a unique brand of people who think they are tuned into the SV trends but are just huffing their own farts. They're all acting out a small-scale replica of taki
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
> People I look up to include Frank Zappa, Richard Feynman, J.K. Rowling, Peter Norvig, and Geoffrey Hinton. TFW you want to seem intellectual
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
10+ years ago companies were hoovering up data for ML - trying to find correlations in high-dimensionality data. Mostly the results were garbage but occasionally you hit on a real, unexpected phenomenon. Nowadays you just throw all the data
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
taps the "don't anthropomorphize the LLM" sign They don't have time preference because they don't have intent or reasoning. They can't be "reincarnated" because they're not sentient, they'
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Pacing is a big part of endurance sport. If you're in the lead you know intellectually you want to pace for sub-2 hours, but if you're watching someone beat you maybe it gives you the extra edge? It does sound like the course and
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Could you tell that the original model was "right"?
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by hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
Oh the "micro services" are all coupled. To test anything you have to deploy a constellation of interdependent services with redundant DBs, each generating new IDs for the same underlying resource.

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