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by lwhi 10mo ago
Is there any utility in thinking about LLM provision in terms of the electricity grid? I've often thought that local power generation (via solar or wind) could be (or could have been) a viable alternative to national grid supply.
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by lwhi 10mo ago
I was hoping for 'will 2036 be the year of the Linux desktop' ..
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by lwhi 10mo ago
Whether they know how to best exploit my commercial footprint via anonymous data or personal data, doesn't stop them from exploiting my commercial footprint.
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by lwhi 10mo ago
Uber really are the piranhas of the corporate world. I can't imagine any depth they wouldn't dive to, in order to get a morsel to feed on.
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by lwhi 11mo ago
How many are needed though. And for how long.
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by lwhi 11mo ago
Why would you report honestly to your employer about metrics and methodologies that could potentially show you're not needed?
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by lwhi 11mo ago
I wonder whether these documents will be retrieved by archaeologists of the future, trying to comprehend how it all began ..
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by lwhi 11mo ago
I've just remembered a similar situation in 1993! A Japanese factory that made epoxy resin for chips was destroyed and the price of SIMM chips skyrocketed (due to lack of availability). I remember being very upset that I wasn't go
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by lwhi 1y ago
Ignorance is bliss. If you're smart, you're taught you should expect more. You're also able to think critically and question. For me contentment came a lot later; maybe the years have affected my brain plasticity and made me
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by lwhi 1y ago
I think the only thing that would convince me, is the ability to self host or setup using infrastructure I own / have full control over.
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by lwhi 1y ago
It's more challenging to encourage correct implementation of semantics than implemention of visuals; which is a great reason for using the element that was designed for this use case.
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by lwhi 1y ago
I thought 1 is the country prefix for the USA?
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by lwhi 1y ago
Yes, there is a such a thing as a bad question after all.
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by lwhi 1y ago
I'm in the UK, but do you feel either is likely to exercise authority to constrain private enterprise for the good of the people underthe current US administration?
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by lwhi 1y ago
I think it's more productive to think in terms of 'owners of public enterprise', rather than elites There's a theatrical push-pull negotiation narrative that's replayed to us, but do you honestly feel that governmen
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by lwhi 1y ago
Conceptually, yes. But I'd argue the legal framework necessary to carry this out doesn't exist. The strength of private lobbists, keeps power in the hands of private enterprise.
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by lwhi 1y ago
> [..] we need to know the reasons behind why people feel so easy to conform to llm's. I think it's ultimately down to risk, and wanting to feel secure. There's little risk in confiding to something you turn off, reset and
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by lwhi 1y ago
True, but if you diverge away too much, you end up living in a vacuum.
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by lwhi 1y ago
I really don't buy the idea of AI helping with 'X' issue, by becoming a surrogate, because at it's root this is still avoidance. It's not solving the problem, it's diverging away from it.
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by lwhi 1y ago
I didn't say government doesn't have the power to represent the people, now did I?
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by lwhi 1y ago
If robots are better partner, then maybe you no longer understand what it means to be human.
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by lwhi 1y ago
Government no longer has the power or authority to constrain private enterprise; especially in highly technical sectors.
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by lwhi 1y ago
The problem is more existential. Why are people even doing the jobs? In a huge number of cases people have jobs that largely amount to nothing other than accumulation of wealth for people higher up. I have a feeling that automation replacem
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by lwhi 1y ago
So maybe the thing we can improve is an understanding of likelihood? I.e. prevent the journey from occurring if weather conditions are likely to be adverse above a certain threshold?
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by lwhi 1y ago
Witness A said, “It appears that the fire started when a spark flew during the process of replacing the uninterruptible power supply,” and added, “Firefighters are currently out there putting out the fire. I hope that this does not lead to
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by lwhi 1y ago
I guess it's a problem of monopoly, what could or should be done to solve it?
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by lwhi 1y ago
The engineer is wise to ask this. Architectural decisions sometimes close doors and making future changes very difficult. The only thing we know for certain is that change will happen.
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by lwhi 1y ago
Linux actually works well .. maybe 2026 will be the year of [...]
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by lwhi 1y ago
So credit card benefits suck, because the consumers can't be exploited to create a large profit surplus that can partially be used to benefit a small subset of consumers.
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by lwhi 1y ago
macOS support for anything that isn't a new Apple product is appalling.

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