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I think it is more common that "shortsighted value" or "false value" is looked-down on by engineers. For example, you can increase profitability in the short-term by gutting R&D expense (engineers) but over time main
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I'm not sure about Gemini, but OpenAI GTP-V bills at roughly a token per 40x40px square. It isn't clear to me these actually processed as units, but rather it seems like they tried to approximate the cost structure to match text.
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Looks like https://getcode.com/ just launched to solve this problem. There have been many attempts at web3 micropayments, but this one seems slicker than most. Hat tip from USV, one of their investors.
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The problem is that there always is some objection. Building out in a wilderness area will have environmental impact. Building in a farm area will have a huge impact on the local, formerly rural community. Building in a former industrial ar
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> as in system x has updated y, this triggers a function to update paths to use the latest version This is the sweet spot. Eventing. Any kind of queue based workload, especially one with variable load is a potential candidate for FaaS ki
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On the other hand their customers and regulators are taking it seriously, which will enable mitigation.
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In many ways, source code is the ultimate documentation
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It is more than that. We also invent new technologies. Searching for resources, refining them, do the same stuff more cost-effectively, extraction from different kinds of compositions and ores with processing methodologies, recycling, chang
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> And if they changed the dataset to include a plurality of additional books which happen to not be about Vietnam, I don't think that changes the analysis substantially. I think the question is if it changes analysis if the dataset
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Wouldn't that depend on the use case? If you just had the model regenerate articles that roughly approximate its source material that is much a more clear cut violation of a paywall. But if you use that data as general background knowl
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> but there’s qualia that LLMs do not have I'm with all your other arguments ... but not this point. What is the special magic property that machine-generated art doesn't have? Both human and machine generated art can be banal,
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>What would you buy? $10 H&M or $100 hand-made shirt? - (My guess, if you could afford the later.) This is an interesting example because even in the $100 case you are still talking about machine-augmentation. You can have a seamstre
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And even then they didn't pivot to "don't break anything." They still are willing to break user workflows are quickly test new features that have a high risk of being rolled back. They key is that they are able to set mo
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> I don't think there will be any cities becoming 'major powers' ever again except maybe for SV and some in China if they manage to avoid financial collapse. There are more opportunities than that. Technical change that do
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Or the SEC, because one the breach/incident is public, the share price drops and failure to have disclosed those factors prior constitutes "securities fraud." Increasingly this it the default method of corporate regulation.
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Another source that are common are emails entered in on physical point of sale devices
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One thing you might find useful is using it to write unit tests for legacy code, that more easily allow you to refactor the crappy codebase.
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This is exactly where I get the most value. For example, I know write a bunch of custom chrome plugins. I'm not much of javascript guy, but I can get by and validate the code. Usually what I want to do is simple, but requires making an
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by jacobr1 3y ago
> so I wonder if there's something holding back Python + WASM Yes. The problem is that may python libraries involve compilation of c, rust or other native languages that themselves need a WASM toolchain configured to cross compile t
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No, I was not proposing such situations are knowingly maintained, explicitly the opposite: there is a whole system to resolve them once discovered. Here is an example I found in the first bulletin I clicked on, but each one is full of examp
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Aren't most the contradictions forms of ambiguity? Two overlapping scenarios where some sort of administrative ruling is needed to clarify which dominates. Does that count as contradiction? https://www.irs.gov/irb is f
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Only in the sense that you can optionally not accept it. But it still is part of your compensation, as is in effect, even the "employer-paid" portions of healthcare and other benefits. From the perspective of the employer they are
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But they do need higher efficiency
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Airbus did an interesting job reinventing aviation typefaces, including handling ALL CAPS scenarios explicitly: https://b612-font.com/
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Looks like their audience is backend python developers that don't have web-specific knowledge, not no-code folks.
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One factor to consider is AI-Augmented content. I'm not an academic reviewer, but I certainly will do some sort of analysis, write up some key bullet points, then ask chatgpt to synthesis some prose for a report. I then make a few twea
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A long time ago, I switched from emacs to vim, because I switched to a company that used Sun Solaris in production, and it didn't have emacs and ssh'ing into boxes was common need. They didn't have vim, either, just vi.
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> There is a difference between the body-self of yesterday’s cells and a self made of software. There doesn't seem to be a strong reason to presume this. What is your basis for stating this? > But that these won’t be copies, they
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Notifications, for event processing architectures aren't part of the API common to these systems
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yeah, we should generalize "tv" here to broader "screen-time"

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