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by kaibee 3y ago
If only there was some giant naturally occurring fusion reactor that we could siphon a bit of power from to power our things.
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by kaibee 3y ago
Anyone who thinks it's a wise financial decision to bet against fools is gonna lose a lot of money.
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by kaibee 3y ago
Not even close. You can look at the Llama v2 training curves and its clear that even 7B models are still under-trained and they themselves have only been trained on 2T tokens. A 70B or whatever size/model amalgamation GPT-4 is also li
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by kaibee 3y ago
Yes, but when I deposit $100 with @Bank (ie, effectively lending $100 to the bank), they aren't loaning out $10 to a couple people, they're lending out $100 to a couple people, because they did the math and figured that they can g
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by kaibee 3y ago
Yeah... but otoh, being a lower level peon shouldn't be a get out of jail free card. The incentive is then 'well as long as i flip on the big guy if he gets caught, i can make some nice piles of money in the mean time and maybe i
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by kaibee 3y ago
It tends to be a lot easier to destroy than create, because entropy sucks like that.
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by kaibee 3y ago
> The difference is the software/forums encouraged the landlords to all leave more units empty then they normally would to raise prices. Well, in a working market, you'd have more supply get built up by developers and those lan
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by kaibee 3y ago
Repercussions for who? The employee in charge of pricing or the real estate company?
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by kaibee 3y ago
Eh. Is it collusion to look at the prices for similar properties on craigslist/zillow and then set your rate accordingly? Is it collusion to pay someone to do that part for you? My initial reaction was that yes what they're doi
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by kaibee 3y ago
> As an FE, I have always held their design org in high regard. And I can't possibly imagine a government agency doing better. I'm always so conflicted because the flow is really nice but I feel so patronized the entire time. I
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by kaibee 3y ago
> This behavior has fully converted me from "optimistic early adopter" to "late majority" on the Adopter Categories chart. Hadn't seen it put so clearly but yeah same. Not even limited to tech unfortunately, sam
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by kaibee 3y ago
> "Won't someone please think of the children^W cheaters?" This argument is preposterous. If you want to solve multiplayer game cheating, there's no solution other than to make your game fully server-based and stream
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by kaibee 3y ago
> I think Valve gets way too much credit. They haven't abused their market position as much as they could have but they did normalize always-online DRM schemes. Always online DRM schemes were inevitable and even with Steam its ultim
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by kaibee 3y ago
The colour of the bits is different. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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by kaibee 3y ago
> in charge of planing, execution and governance of a project. They don’t define any of the goals or vision. This sounds like if you were trying to hire a race-car driver instead hired two people, and put one of them in charge of steerin
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by kaibee 3y ago
If it were doing a ton of compute-shader simulation on GPU to actually increase the fidelity of the simulation that would be one thing, but having a badly implemented graphics pipeline isn't that.
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by kaibee 3y ago
> I think one could make the case that the government must compensate landowners for putative environmental restrictions. After all, if it's really that important, surely the taxpayers would be willing to pay for it, right? Why make
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by kaibee 3y ago
An ML model to differentiate human-in-pain screaming from other noise sounds like scifi-satire.
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by kaibee 3y ago
> Yeah, that's the thing, who knows? > So who has any right to ridicule anyone else for having a different perspective?> > Just choose whatever narrative that floats your boat and live and let live. Sometimes the right answ
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by kaibee 3y ago
This is unfair to all of the Republicans who refused to vote for the plan too.
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by kaibee 3y ago
> both ideologies have failed miserably. Y'know the ACA originally had a public option in the bill. Guess which side killed that? Why did we even need an ACA-with-private-insurance-companies anyway? The ACA was initially copy of
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by kaibee 3y ago
> from the additional value its capital is able to generate on top of the labour value. Can you provide a concrete example of capital generating value without the involvement of any labor?
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by kaibee 3y ago
> This was also the period where Netflix et al discovered that shows become more costly to make and less likely to get brand-new subscribers around season 3. This isn't the only reason I stopped watching shows, but its certainly a c
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by kaibee 3y ago
> One implication of what you write seems to be that every property owner is incentevized to NIMBY any improvements to the area that they don't care about. For example, if I am "child free" I will now oppose the building o
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by kaibee 3y ago
> They should implement a blight tax or a vacant land tax instead. A land value tax is a much more elegant solution. For one, it doesn't introduce the problem of needing to define 'vacant land'. Is a parking lot vacant l
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by kaibee 3y ago
Every application already believes its at address 0 and can allocate as much memory as it wants. This is literally fractional reserve banking applied to memory management. Seems to be ok.
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by kaibee 3y ago
The "Rules of Acquisition" are a Star Trek reference actually, so they actually predate that other Rule 34. *disclaimer: not a trekkie, just a pedant
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by kaibee 3y ago
Not sure if this is the one OP has but: [ https://www.homedepot.com/p/Schlage-Camelot-Satin-Nickel-Ele... ] I had one on my house growing up from like 2007-2012, rock solid. Bought a house this year and the first thing
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by kaibee 3y ago
Seems to handle it easily. https://chat.openai.com/share/4d8ab2af-f824-44c8-9311-e3893c...
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by kaibee 3y ago
https://chat.openai.com/share/a9806bd1-e5a9-4fea-981b-2843e6... Took a bit of massaging and I enabled the Data Analysis plugin which lets it write python code and run it. It looks like the simulation code is correct t

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