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by jnwatson 3y ago
Rust. The alternative is Rust.
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Still, if one had to plan to land and start a small insurrection, I don't think you could come up with a better place to do it. Niihau is extremely isolated, to the point it is difficult to get there even today. The impact of Americ
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NATO was already on his border.
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I just don’t use snap. They don’t force you.
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Why couldn’t this happen before? Competition. If you raised your prices, your competitors would see an opportunity and you’d lose market share Now competition has been consolidated away. With the pandemic, corporations have accidentally e
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That is confidential information.
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Manhattan is at 22% now.
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For the same reason why it took a long time for crypto mining accelerators to actually ship. It is more profitable to keep them for yourself.
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The fundamental problem is that the government spends way more than it takes in. Until they fix that, the currency is just a detail.
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While assuming that other human-looking things are conscious is a reasonable starting point, it certainly isn’t a given. There seems to be a wide variety of thinking processes. Some folks don’t have internal monologues. Some folks can’t vis
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It took me some effort to limit to 2L a day.
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That’s what they say about every piece of software. There are always things to fix and add.
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The hamburger menu is the junk drawer of UI. It is where you put everything that doesn’t have a place.
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That’s the difference between AI in cars and AI for business processes. L5 must be >99.99% right. Business processes have a much lower bar. Even moderate accuracy is sufficient to have a dramatic impact on all sorts of jobs whose only
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I’m sympathetic to your argument, but consider the case where you remove the sex from the above picture. It is normal and not specially restricted to have violent torture-like scenes in modern media. The problem isn’t the sex. The problem
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Wow that’s way more in-depth than “ask chatgpt to compress this”. Very neat.
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I don’t buy the climate argument. However, banning gas appliances comes from the same place as banning lead paint. Gas appliances are a major source of indoor pollution. Gas heating leaks pollution inside the home, especially as furnaces
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The citizens of Washington DC (or the other U.S. territories) don't have voting representation in Congress, but it isn't a potential for abuse. The difference between H1B and permanent resident is massive. Residents aren't b
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Engineering isn’t usually the impetus of new product categories, which is what Lyft needs to survive. Ride share isn’t sufficient.
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That’s what they said about crypto…
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It is kind of like asking an orthopedist about the best sport. They’d probably pick something boring like water aerobics. Reliability isn’t always the most important characteristic of a car, especially now that reliability across all brand
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Corporate profits are high. That they can do this is a function of the ultimate source of the problem: lack of competition. In a competitive environment, businesses would be less able to pass costs onto the consumer. It is time for the an
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The worst part is they could design a system with 99.9999% false negative rate and still have a few leaks a year. That we don’t have more leaks is really a good question.
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Why not both? Consciousness can both be an evolutionary advantage as well as naturally emerge from complexity.
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The price disparity is getting worse. Cloud price reductions haven’t kept pace with the amazing pace of hardware performance improvements, especially in I/O and RAM quantity. For $400 you can buy an SSD with 1.5 million sustained IoPS.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You can with LG TVs. It makes sense. LG and Samsung want the TV to act as the media hub. You can even control smart home devices from the tv now.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
All mechanistic attempts at evaluating intelligence are doomed to fail. I am way more concerned about the people making philosophical arguments about intelligence without any foundation in philosophy.
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In the US, the author would have had a sleep study done and it would have been diagnosed in a day. Do they not have those in the UK?
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“But as the toddlers themselves discovered, sometimes there is just no way to cover your rear end.” Bravo! What a sentence.
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This doesn’t look particularly sophisticated. It takes understanding of basic circuit design and embedded programming. The genius bit is leveraging a Bluetooth speaker. That’s a clever choice. In many countries, engineering (especially ha

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