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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Isn't that just like.. what Microsoft has always been? Browser wars, Tay, bad behavior around open source software.. This is how they roll. They're being their best selves.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
No, it doesn't. It used to be when the airline lost your bag they would get it to you no matter what. They own their mistake, and make it right to the best of their ability. In the most egregious case I can recall, delivering skis and
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> My belief in a smooth roll-out is reinforced by those who would probably oppose AVs also not believing it's real. Once the first factory mass manufacturing AVs breaks ground, any limited local opposition can be preëmpted. I'm
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I guess once they demonstrate it working smoothly and profitably in cities like Boston, NY, Detroit, etc. I'll be more concerned? Given that it doesn't really even work too well in places with good signage, lane markings, etc--not
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I've been to san francisco before, it doesn't even snow there
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I'm not too worried about it. Yeah, it's bad that people don't understand how labor organizing works. It's bad they're not willing to stand up to shitty employers and take a little risk to make life better. But in t
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Look closer, it really isn't good research
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I got a well used HP Z840 with 256GB ECC DDR4 and twin Xeons ca. 2014. Then I slapped 2 AMD V640 32GB passively cooled GPUs in it with some 3D printed fan shrouds and 2 1U 15k rpm fans each. They just fit! I needed to order a quad 8pin powe
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
There's an obvious answer... just set up the camera in the conference room where you're running the demo.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Won't the mirrors themselves be unable to get updates from Canonical, though? Or do they distribute them some other way?
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
This is the message that somehow the tech industry is constitutionally incapable of absorbing. The "innovation impulse" is cancer . I have no idea why tech managers keep harping on about "innovating", it's so bizar
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Yeah it isn't great. I have stuck with Ubuntu because I have some peculiar hardware which is well supported. I have learned to live with it.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> (1) ...getting paid for doing what a company wants you to do...? At my previous company, when the thing they thought they wanted me to do (which was not the thing they actually wanted... but whatever) diverged from my values I quit. Yo
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Yeah, it's basically the opposite of how "product-led growth" SaaS works. Generally pay-as-you-go pricing is expensive at scale, but attractive initially. So you start on a pay-as-you-go plan, but as you scale you end up tr
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
If it were 10x productive you'd be able to measure it indirectly, you'd be unable to avoid measuring it. So the initial claims were clearly lies. The research question is: Is it >1.0x productive? I agree that's ve
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
AI token austerity when
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
just now: $ snap refresh error: unable to contact snap store
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Surely wheel bearings too. And you have to do a safety every year to check for rust perforation (at least in the U.S. states that still do that).
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I agree that continuity (and therefore infinity) are really useful tools. But it may also be useful to develop mathematical formalism that hews more closely to that which we can actually observe. Or not! But if nobody investigates we&#x27
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Yes. If a company is running vibeslopped compilers to build their production artifacts I absolutely want to know which one it is, so I can protect myself from their software. > utterly stupid That's completely uncalled for. EDIT: Wh
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
If you walk up to me and shove a camera in my face I'll get very loud and very angry with you very quickly. That's kind of paradoxical, if you intended the camera to make you feel safer. I don't think I'm in the minority
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Your employer allows/encourages this? Do you run that stuff in production? Would you mind telling us where you work so we can avoid using their products? It is just not possible to trust the software that emerges from the process you&#
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
This is an excellent point. LLMs might merely be exposing and amplifying behaviors that were always there. This can be an opportunity, in that shining light on it may allow us to cleanse ourselves of it. It's fundamentally about integr
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> It very well could be an infinite number of atoms and then what? Where I get stuck with this is how might we measure that? Continuous measurements and infinite measurements are not something we can make. We fit continuous theories to d
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Maybe an exceptional one will realize the task's futility and invent infinity as a way to rationalize giving up
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
LLMs are in this case enabling bad behavior, but open source software has always been vulnerable to this. Similarly, people who use LLMs to do this kind of thing are the kind of people who would have done it without LLMs but for the large
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> There is a big difference between “infinity doesn’t exist” and “infinity doesn’t exist physically”. Is there? I think one could make a decent case for "nothing exists which doesn't exist physically[1]". [1] https:/
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
All indications seem to be that things are only lost, not gained. But that doesn't mean it doesn't hew closer to how things actually are. But if that's how reality actually is, then developing a rigorous understanding of it c
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> Yes, they could on indefinitely Only if they live forever, which they won't. They can only count so fast, and there are only so many of them. Even if every atom in the observable universe was counting at, idk, 1GHz, that's st
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
In school I developed a strong hunch that continuity and infinity are "convenient delusions" we have that allow us to process the otherwise horrific complexity of the world. Experiencing time, sound, or visual motion as continuous

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