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by krupan 2y ago
People don't understand that the free market system is essentially a law of physics. You saying that a producer/seller of a limited good (in this case, space in a concert venue) cannot choose their own price is true, like it&#x27
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by krupan 2y ago
"A devoted fan will have no issue to wake up a 6am and try to buy a ticket." Oh really? What if they are at work at 6am? So take a day off work? You just greatly increased the dollar cost of the ticket, which is exactly the thi
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by krupan 2y ago
Money quote at the end "Enthusiasts present AI as a magic wand that can solve humanity’s biggest problems. In the meantime, it uses an exponential amount of energy to make everything the same."
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by krupan 2y ago
lol!
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by krupan 2y ago
Which timezone's night? Aren't these globally available services?
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by krupan 2y ago
And the data center use will be constant while the solar farm output will not be
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by krupan 2y ago
That’s a very fine distinction you are making. What happens when we get to the point where we are asking ChatGPT where to get a quick burger? Or even how to make a hamburger?
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by krupan 2y ago
This sort of advertising feels a bit like the original AdWords from Google. They were text-only and unobtrusive and pitched as basically just some search results related to the content you were viewing, so they were sure to be relevant to
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by krupan 2y ago
Hey, at least her hands look pretty normal
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by krupan 3y ago
Are we going to place any blame on the people selling this “AI” and their ridiculous claims? Sam Altman in particular?
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by krupan 3y ago
correct vs. incorrect encompasses so much more than memory safety and types that agree. You could spend a ton of time making the ADA or Rust compiler happy only to discover your program doesn't solve the problem your customers want so
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by krupan 3y ago
"cannot fathom how these kind of languages got so much adoption" The other options built into your UNIX (maybe Linux) machine were: - C - C++ - tcsh/ksh/bash - awk - TCL What would you have chosen?
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by krupan 3y ago
This should make us all reconsider any criticisms we've levied towards Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, or any other gruff open source project lead
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by krupan 3y ago
Time is money Time and money are not actually 100% fungible, but there is a lot of truth to it, especially given enough money. Maintainers are human. They need to eat, to sleep, to visit the doctor, to rest when they get sick, to participa
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by krupan 3y ago
"won't buy any electronics that can't just charge USB-C without bs.." I don't think that leaves too any ham radio to buy then?
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by krupan 3y ago
No, you wouldn't be able to store your large files separately this way. Check out git-annex as an alternative to LFS for storing large files separately. It has been around longer, and doesn't require a proprietary server componen
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by krupan 3y ago
"It seems native Git is better at compressing/deduplicating data than Git-LFS is" This. The more I have dug into LFS the less I have liked it. Now that you can do this with git, I think LFS is totally unnecessary: git clone
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by krupan 3y ago
tl;dr government interference
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by krupan 3y ago
In winter where I live there's a ton of salt on the roads and you don't want to leave that stuff caked on your car
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by krupan 3y ago
What else even uses Wayland? Sway?
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by krupan 3y ago
Just like damming rivers to generate carbon free energy turned them into lakes and changed the climate and ecosystems that we are trying to preserve, paving over many square miles of land with solar panels (that will all end up in landfills
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by krupan 3y ago
That's not a desert anymore
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by krupan 3y ago
Exactly. And a nuclear plant does not change the ecosystem like all those other things you mentioned.
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by krupan 3y ago
Yes because land is free, according to solar power proponents
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by krupan 3y ago
So two wrongs make a right?
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by krupan 3y ago
I'm pretty sure it was hacker news roughly 15 years ago that introduced me to Seth Godin. Or maybe it was Slashdot. Either way, there was a time when engineers were excited about starting businesses and were drinking up everything th
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by krupan 3y ago
FWIW, Google and HP back in their days did still pay among the highest if not the highest salaries. But you are right the ideals mattered a lot to the employees and it's really really hard for a company to maintain those high ideals f
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by krupan 3y ago
You're right, companies would stop hiring employees and just work with contractors. These kinds of regulations never work like you want them to. Just let the market do it's thing.
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by krupan 3y ago
In his defense, he (should be, at least) talking about relative pay for each job. It's like talking about the price of milk and the price of caviar (or some other expensive and rare food, I don't know). You can find both at price
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by krupan 3y ago
Good economists don't talk about needs vs. wants, it's all wants because anyone can argue just about anything is a want and not a need. You need food, but if you ask for anything more than beans and rice, that food is now a want.

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