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by jahewson 2y ago
That's absurd. Fabing custom silicon is not something anybody does for a few thousand internal servers. The unit economics simply don't work. Plus Apple is using OpenAI to provide its larger models anyway, so the need never even e
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by jahewson 2y ago
Wait, no... they changed it radically last year. It no longer has the wedge shape. https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/04/after-14-years-ap...
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by jahewson 2y ago
Furthermore the Industrial Revolution stimulated the need for a trading empire to supply its materials. Nowadays we have global free trade (enforced by the US Navy - yet more technology) so trading empires are unnecessary.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Not genome. Epigenome.
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by jahewson 2y ago
War reparations gave us the Nazis, so they clearly don’t work. And compassion has given us everything we have seen thus far in history so we can conclude that too is ineffective.
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by jahewson 2y ago
This feels like a strawman because you’re only hypothesizing a situation in which it wouldn’t work well. Imagine a dark future with a sudden military coup by a small faction of extreme radicals that 85% of the population opposes. could enou
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by jahewson 2y ago
Like what? Britain is a constitutional monarchy. Its foundations anticipated an oppressive king, not an oppressive parliament. Britain never had a revolution, it never had free speech to begin with. It seems to me that what made Britain suc
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by jahewson 2y ago
That’s not the same thing. You know what he means.
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by jahewson 2y ago
The fact that I can’t tell if this is a joke speaks volumes.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Given that they’ve only prevented new signups it looks to me more like Apple is trying to apply pressure to the U.K. government to get them to back down. The law that permits this was passed in 2016 so the situation was default lost already
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by jahewson 2y ago
Given that the most popular software of this kind is Dropbox I’m quite confident that nothing you’ve said is true.
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by jahewson 2y ago
In the case of the U.K., they can throw you in jail for not handing over your encryption key, so it’s a moot point. They’ve been slowly expanding this power for twenty years now.
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by jahewson 2y ago
The problem here is not with iCloud but with the U.K. government. People like to tell themselves the government isn’t actually trampling their rights but events like this make it impossible to ignore.
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by jahewson 2y ago
I think it's more an advert for not being a fledgling product.
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by jahewson 2y ago
It’s not. That’s the simple answer. Accident waiting to happen.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Marine radar is trivial compared to air-to-air radar. The Black Hawk, like most aircraft, does not have an air-to-air radar. IR cameras would be completely inappropriate for the situation but night vision goggles are a possibility I guess -
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by jahewson 2y ago
While true, the catch is that very little technology relevant to civilian supersonic flight has changed since Concorde. We have composite fuselages and that’s about it. Concorde was close to optimal within the design constraints it was buil
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by jahewson 2y ago
That’s not a real choice though. All it takes is one website that is essential to me not supporting the secure mode and I’m forced to opt-out. The upstream website is making the choice for me.
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by jahewson 2y ago
This idea of self-describing REST is now better known as HATEOAS. Personally I think it’s bloated and doesn’t solve a real problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
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by jahewson 2y ago
I agree, though Zod greatly helps with the JS schema issue. I’m keeping an eye on Microsoft’s TypeSpec project too: typespec.io for interoperable schema generation.
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by jahewson 2y ago
The former does not imply the latter. Look at Bezos, he spent years re-investing in Amazon to provide long-term financial benefits to his shareholders. Pressure for short-term gains comes from shareholders on Wall St, it’s not a fundamental
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by jahewson 2y ago
I disagree with that analysis.
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by jahewson 2y ago
No that would contradict freedom of association. People are free to form closed, self-censoring groups if they choose to. What we want to avoid is the government forcing it on people.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Everything that makes us human is constrained by the possibilities offered by our genes. Epigenetics, development, and environment are downstream of that. It is our genes that allow for sexual reproduction in the first place and why we’re a
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by jahewson 2y ago
Solvable with the right tools. https://github.com/noCaptchaAi/NoCaptcha-Ai-Browser-Extensio...
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by jahewson 2y ago
Actually I think in 2025 you are correct, we just haven’t got the best tech into the OCR software that’s out there in the real world. I just pasted the letter from the article into ChatGPT (4o) and asked “what does this old letter say?” The
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by jahewson 2y ago
I got “North America”
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by jahewson 2y ago
That’s not going to fly. Firstly, because cloud contracts generally prohibit renting out the cloud services as-is - you can build a product on top of it but not act as a reseller of their platform. Secondly, and perhaps most importantly bec
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by jahewson 2y ago
Screenshot and ask ChatGPT. Works pretty well.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Per Wikipedia: “An analysis of the Linux kernel in 2017 showed that well over 85% of the code was developed by programmers who are being paid for their work” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

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