llm_nerd

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by llm_nerd 1y ago
>To steelman it, the US has a far lower dependence on trade as a percentage of GDP The US being the centre of trade is basically the entire foundation of its GDP. It is the reason the US $ is the global reserve. It is the reason the worl
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
It isn't just China, and it isn't just goods. Tourist travel to the US has contracted, for instance. US service exports are suddenly extremely suspect and a lot of countries are finding alternatives. US goods exports are facing ma
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Hyperbole? What? What did I say is remotely hyperbole? You can't simply drop that as if it immunizes you from reality. Your claim that Elon has "nothing to do" with this is simple ignorance. Either you simply didn't k
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
And the manuals usually themselves had "copy protection". Many were printed in variations of dark colours, such that any easily accessible copier would just copy a black page.
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
SimCity had a hard to copy (at the time) red/black card with city populations, and during the game it would ask you for the population or name of cities based upon a graphical indicator lookup. If you failed the check it would inflict
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Why would a list of random "adjustments" lend legitimacy to their effort? If they told you that going barefoot and talking in Pig Latin would solve autism, would that give it legitimacy? Maybe soap is actually suppressing our natu
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
>the judge lied to the FBI These were ICE "agents" with an administrative warrant. Nor did she "lie", she refused them entry to an operating courtroom -- which she was 100% right to do. So nothing you said is accurate
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
Elon Musk has been waging a war with Wikipedia[1] for a couple of years now, and has the ear of the president. Of those in the administration, he is the single name that really stands out as a guy with a Wikipedia beef. Seems like he has lo
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
Bondi -- an outrageously partisan hack who is destroying the DOJ -- reached peak irony when she stated that "no one is above the law" in talking about that case. Donald Trump and his administration are on an absolute crime spree[1
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
This is my take-away as well. Many projects let warnings fester until they hit a volume where critical warnings are missed amidst all the noise. That isn't ideal, but seems to be the norm in many spaces (for instance the nodejs world w
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
Enormous numbers of humans work hard and are talented at the things they do. Hard work and talent gets you a middle-class existence, at least if you were born in the right country and with the right resources to go to university, etc. In th
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
The idea that they need to operate -- on hugely sensitive data and systems -- in darkness because any sort of accountability amounts to "sabotage" is dubious. "Rules for thee, not for me" This is some sort of "The
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
It's an interesting detail because if true -- and I fully assume it is -- the intention likely wasn't to dissuade him from going public, but instead to make him look like a conspiratorial nut. When I first saw this story and heard
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
There is a phenomena I've noticed in this industry where people who lack a skill compensate by convincing themselves that they are a savant at seeing and exploiting that skill they lack in others. They find and encircle themselves with
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
>This really isn't civil It's a statement of fact. Meta profits off the worst of society. It is a heinous company. If you find my comment so reprehensible, feel free to downvote, flag, etc. The crocodile-tear moralization comes
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
What is ugly or uncivil about noting someone's biases? The "your small businesses would fail without Meta" line is from the official lobbyist arm of Meta, and it's usually a pretty good tell that someone is a Meta employ
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
>You are likely entirely informed by ragebait news articles Sure . Do you think I haven't experienced every aspect of Meta properties? Instagram reels, for instance, is a racist hellhole full of the most vile content and snuff vide
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
> The EU fines could stoke tensions with U.S President Donald Trump who has threatened to levy tariffs against countries that penalise U.S. companies. Mark Zuckerberg, in his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, specifically noted thi
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
>Trump wants to get rid of income taxes for those earning under $150k. Trump has openly talked about his plan to replace income tax with tariffs for years. Not just for "earnings under $150k" -- that was some post-facto inventi
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
I think a part of it is simply that the space is absolutely flooded and the public becomes almost numb to it: This administration is so absolutely rampant with criminality, constitution shredding, and just rank incompetence that reports of
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
The major powers are endlessly engaged in hacking operations against each other. This is just normal , and no one needs to "admit" to it for that reality to be true. The notable part of this story isn't that Russia tried to
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
Russia has absolutely no need to hide anything. Do you think they would face any consequences at all? And given the astonishing incompetence from DOGE, that its various staff members have been thoroughly compromised isn't remotely unli
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
This is a pretty incredible three month creation for a couple of people who had no experience with speech models.
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
I guess people are upvoting based purely on the title, as yeah this is just a horrible stump of a page. There is a much better (but still only an absolute intro) CloudFlare explanation at https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relati
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
Data centers do use a lot of water on average. Warmer climate data centers often use evaporative cooling and can run through millions of gallons of water to offload heat. Google's data centers combined chewed through some 6 billion gal
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
>More than 50% of those are below 3 stars. Do you make bad purchasing decisions? How could "over 50%" of 200+ purchases be two star or fewer? Why would you still patronize Amazon if this is your experience? >They don't
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
Neither does Temu. They're misrepresenting what Temu does, at least in my experience. If you choose a star rating below five , Temu asks if you'd like to request a refund or seek other assistance. The one time I said yes -- it wa
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
They are fighting his return out of absolutely hubris . They are pissing on the constitution, multiple levels of court, and even the Supreme Court. They're seeing what they can get away with. I don't care how violently stupid som
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
Ruby seems to continue to exist largely because of Shopify. If Shopify didn't have some dogmatic religious zeal about Ruby because of the beliefs of the founder(s), it seems likely it would have faded into irrelevance.
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by llm_nerd 2y ago
>In Python it is simply possible to create large amounts of flaky software at a rapid pace Your core point is valid -- python is grossly overrepresented -- but you don't have to (weakly if not ignorantly) shit on Python to make th

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