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by jrmg 5d ago
I learned that one human life is worth just over ten cat lives.
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by jrmg 5d ago
The FAQ on the Jet announcement ( https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-j... ) claims it was trained with their own data: Where Does Our Training Data Come From? TypeSafe is primarily a data resea
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by jrmg 5d ago
I like that the screen recordings are ‘Real time, with the long waits taken out.’
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by jrmg 6d ago
For a (I am sure seriously simplified) history of money, I really enjoyed Jacob Goldstein’s “Money: The True Story of a Made Up Thing.”
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by jrmg 7d ago
And “they are some vendors” usually actually means “they are excellent vendors”!
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by jrmg 7d ago
I wonder if this is the most active (or last?...) still-under-development project on SourceForge?
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by jrmg 8d ago
[video].
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by jrmg 10d ago
A lot of replies confidently explaining ‘what this actually means’ in some detail despite the article saying things like: > [Canada would be] EU's first "associate member" > … > [Von der Leyen] did not give specific
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by jrmg 11d ago
These are more generically known as ‘mass market paperbacks’ - and are sadly basically extinct: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/end-mass-market-pap... Last year, ReaderLink, the country's largest di
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by jrmg 12d ago
Shape reminds me a lot of the first gen Honda Insight - also built to be low drag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight#First_generation...
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by jrmg 12d ago
What is the distinction you’re trying to make here?
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by jrmg 14d ago
Its stock could crash without causing–as long as its cash flows continue–a credit crisis through its investments and commitments Uh, that’s a pretty load-bearing as long as its cash flows continue . The two things are surely correlated.
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by jrmg 18d ago
In the 90s, how long did people expect it would be until consumer computer hardware would be able to do this so quickly?
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by jrmg 19d ago
To keep tax revenue equal, property taxes for those who purchased recently would go down, and property taxes for those who’d purchased in the past would go up. The housing market would become more liquid because people would move out of hom
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by jrmg 19d ago
Okay, even if you don’t agree with me that it’s far fetched, claims of ‘X is doing Y’ usually require some evidence that X is doing Y to be considered credible.
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by jrmg 19d ago
The TV will join that automatically without asking you because they have an agreement with the network provider. This seems far fetched to me. Have you seen evidence or reliable reporting of this?
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by jrmg 19d ago
And your credit card company investigates and accepts your chargeback requests?
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by jrmg 19d ago
It looks like someone is downvoting all the people who say they wouldn’t buy a car without CarPlay in these comments! What a weird attitude to have.
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by jrmg 19d ago
I’m struggling here: OpenAI’s primary bet here has been chain-of-thought monitoring (opens in a new window). It is based on an appealingly scalable idea: a lot of the model’s capability comes from a verbalized reasoning process (chain-of-t
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by jrmg 20d ago
A lot of skepticism here, but, anecdotally, we bought a Prologue without even test driving a Blazer. I knew they were essentially the same car and that maintenance-wise it probably made more sense to get the Blazer from a GM dealer - but it
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by jrmg 21d ago
Is this the only piece of hardware that can be repurposed like this or are there other crypto mining (or AI?…) devices that have similar potential?
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by jrmg 21d ago
I wonder if the fact that these random obscure wikis are being used implies that the agents first tried more obvious services like Tumblr, Neocities, Blogger, Reddit etc. [edit: oh, or HN obviously!] It just seems so likely - trying the mor
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by jrmg 1mo ago
Note that this post was written twenty years ago, in 2006 - it just wasn’t published until now.
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by jrmg 1mo ago
I don’t think any reasonable person would think I am claiming that every ‘tick’ makes things better along every possible axis for every possible person. It’s pretty obvious that judging whether America’s ‘ticks’ have been towards ‘a freer,
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by jrmg 1mo ago
You can make a credible argument that the American society is less free, less equal, and less equitable than it was at its founding? There are just so many ways in which this seems crazy to me. I feel like you think you’re luring me into so
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by jrmg 1mo ago
The USA started from and has come back from way worse in the past. Some dark, dark things happened in the USA, and almost every progression had a corresponding backslide - but the tick-tock has always ticked further towards a freer, more eq
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by jrmg 1mo ago
Intelligence is compression That’s a controversial statement.
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by jrmg 1mo ago
I’ve long held the opinion that humans ‘over’-value complexity . It’s why we can spend so much time tasting, analyzing, and enjoying fancy coffee or whisky - despite the fact that almost everyone is repulsed by them the first time they try
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by jrmg 1mo ago
Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted. Well over half of Google’s traffic is IPv6 in the USA, and it’s recently become over 50% of all Google’s traffic worldwide at weekends. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/stati
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by jrmg 2mo ago
You can build and distribute apps (up to and including selling them on the App Store) in Swift Playground on iPad. The full iPad SDK is in there. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swift-playground/id908519492

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