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811.
by jacknews 3y ago
"I know I sound like a luddite here" There are plenty of articles explaining luddism, that it wasn't against technology, but against the way the tech was being used to shift profits from workers to owners. IMHO we need a neo-
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by jacknews 3y ago
Seen this every day for the last week it seems, one article even suggested it could run your phone for 50 years. I'm sure it has uses, but it's just 100 microwatts - that's the realm of arduino boards in sleep mode.
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by jacknews 3y ago
Seems hyperbolic, but if AGI really is arriving in 2025, what would you build? Would it be worth building anything? AGI will be able to build it far cheaper, and in any case, who's going to use a travel-booking website or whatever, if
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by jacknews 3y ago
“closed-source” AI applications ...—where the system’s software is securely held by its maker and a limited set of vetted partners. ... while keeping the underlying software secure. ... rapid and uncontrolled release of powerful uns
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by jacknews 3y ago
"Rinse and sort the dried beans" Wut, sort them into the 13 varieties?
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by jacknews 3y ago
I often have trouble with challenging people at work. Me too. Should I demand a joust, or pistols at dawn?' For the video, I find the format completely destroys the content. Reading the book, I can almost put myself in the situ
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by jacknews 3y ago
But it will be eventually, and we're already seeing spasms in capitalism, which requires growth and more growth. Something will have to give. I honestly don't think economists are the best at prediction. Or at dictating how societ
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by jacknews 3y ago
"waffle waffle ... typically used by PE firms to help them return money to investors. waffle waffle" This scam, err, scheme, is simply a way for 'investors' to squeeze out all the company's speculative value in a qu
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by jacknews 3y ago
I don't think AI has much to do with it. The fear/expectation of AI, perhaps. But the rest is definitely Fed policy; they specifically said they wanted to cool wages, and I think maybe in cahoots with shareholders - remember that
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by jacknews 3y ago
Soft delete seem like a similar issue to the entity-attribute-value systems that some people build atop relational databases in order to have 'dynamic' tables, effectively writing their own database. I'm not sure the ideal so
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by jacknews 3y ago
Jesus Christ himself could come back to Earth ... Ooo, sorry, that gap is a huge red flag. lol
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by jacknews 3y ago
This seems like only 1 aspect of what's broken now. Interviewer: First, congratulations, out of the 13000 applications we received, our AI selected yours for further consideration. Now please take this test on the chemistry of lignin,
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by jacknews 3y ago
I agree, and buildings need to be easily reconfigurable too. I love the idea of modular buildings, but this doesn't quite seem to fit. The materials don't seem ideal for the wet climate, the manufacturing process seems expensive;
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by jacknews 3y ago
It's the UK, so everything is twice as expensive anyway.
825.
by jacknews 3y ago
Exactly, and they also provide the network stuff over and above an already complex local lcd/button/touchscreen UI. They should just provide a local API, conforming to a standard, and then 3rd party remote control software could d
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by jacknews 3y ago
I could never 'get' twitter/X, how do I see the 'conversation'? Why is his machine using so much, are there any comments? A thread? Or is this just thrown out there for likes?
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by jacknews 3y ago
It's not more than I want to know. It seems ground-sourced is a much better idea than air-sourced, and it seems to me you could install the ground loop with/under/around the foundations for new builds. As far as indoor dist
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by jacknews 3y ago
For a long time Apple apparently didn't test in hot humid climates, as the plastic they used on the macbook power cables would disintegrate and slew off after a year or so. I would not be surprised if hot humidity is also an issue with
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by jacknews 3y ago
But it doesn't have to be disposable. All the major components for induction cookers are commodified (coils, IGBTs, etc), it's simply a matter of making the whole thing more modular (particularly, separate the UI from the inductio
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by jacknews 3y ago
Fish-hunting on an industrial scale should be banned, it's completely unsustainable, regardless of quotas, international agreements, conservation efforts, etc, and it's just backward - we don't wild-hunt anything else for foo
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by jacknews 3y ago
> I am happy to see competition in the space though and I hope more induction burners can get more accurate temp sensing and PID control The thing is most the cheap chinese single cooktops all use the same microcontroller/firmware p
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by jacknews 3y ago
The battery work-around to low power mains supply seems it could serve a niche. Magnetic knobs seem like a great idea, and the 10kW max power level seems intriguing - I'd like to know what extra capabilities that allows. Otherwise, th
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by jacknews 3y ago
Exactly, and it's gotten even worse lately. Unless you have a track record and reputation on the sites already, your proposals will simply be ignored anyway. It's really a waste of time there unless you can offer something very un
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by jacknews 3y ago
Does he actually produce anything of value, or just arbitrage various financial trends, eg cheap debt paired with steep asset price rises, especially property? To me, how you get it, and how you spend it, are essential in judging the worth
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by jacknews 3y ago
It does not only affect older people; everyone now has to use digital services (which often have appaling or onerous UIs or security requirements). For example, I recently opened a new bank account, and essentially to be able to do anything
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by jacknews 3y ago
I think it will continue to grow, as the two major OS's have each become enshitified in their own way; Windows with ads at every turn, and macOS with 'security' restrictions and limitations anytime you deviate from the annoin
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by jacknews 3y ago
Indeed it doesn't seem to be a recession for the tech companies themselves, they're still raking in adverttising $$ or whatever. But it's certainly a recession for tech workers.
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by jacknews 3y ago
"The language is quite strict in its use of spaces and indentation." Not this again. Please stop. Code structure should be explicitly denoted with brackets or whatever. Code formatting is cosmetic, can be applied automatically,
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by jacknews 3y ago
Sure if your idea is 'uber for X' then it's worthless. And of course, any idea that stays just an idea is also worthless. But in the right hands ideas themselves can be valuable. Would you rather have your crack new team work
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by jacknews 3y ago
"software is just fluff compared to the business" The thing is, software pretty much is the business in many cases, or at least an essential component of it. Facebook is an advertising business, but without the websites and aps, t

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