magicalist

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by magicalist 3mo ago
> Did it not burn? Part of it did! > Was it not the most extensive library of human writing at that time? No. More importantly, the original assertion: > the world certainly turned its back on the only collection of written kn
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by magicalist 3mo ago
Ok, but this post: https://themackabu.dev/blog/js-in-one-month isn't the post of someone who just implemented a js engine (it reads like someone who asked an LLM to write a blog post about the git log of a differe
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by magicalist 3mo ago
Seems like you ignored the GPs point to tell a NIMBY anecdote? They're questioning your premise, not asking what "NIMBY" means.
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by magicalist 3mo ago
FWIW the burning of the library of Alexandria, and, indeed, its status as "the only collection of written knowledge" are myths.
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by magicalist 3mo ago
Not if you're a publicly traded company and that's a major part of your revenue.
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by magicalist 3mo ago
And by 2004 the browser wars where long over. That was the period when Microsoft left the web languishing on IE6 after destroying all competitors and then promptly disbanding their browser team. Firefox only got its name in 2004 and was rel
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> I'm not an expert but I'm going to condescend about an expert's "results" anyway. I mean it's a detail free second hand anecdote about someone's informal discussion of their bachelor's thesis.
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> Her result was that the microplastic particles she studied were too large to interact with T cells. Her "result" of what? Was there an actual experiment and what was its scope or was this by surveying literature? Microplast
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> the answer is no it uses the latest gpt models now. Actually it says it _can_ delegate to the latest models. Seems reasonable to ask how the voice model does when it doesn't delegate (or while waiting for the delegated answer).
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by magicalist 4mo ago
Wait, but Sundar Pichai was there pre google IPO as a Chrome PM, and Neal Mohan was there for 18 years. How are they examples of "doing your time" being a bad strategy?
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by magicalist 4mo ago
> If that's a real problem and fireable offence, then there's people at Google that should be fired ASAP for failing to delete this repository. Unclear what you're referring to here. Was it "misrepresented what they
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by magicalist 4mo ago
It's a fair point that it's still up, though looking just now for two minutes there are at least some issues with auth[1] which would make me really not trust it. It was just speculation about what could be bad enough if they real
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by magicalist 4mo ago
Releasing vibe coded handling of google account credentials seems like the biggest problem with this. Agreed it's gross if the big problem with execs was that it got social media buzz and it embarrassed official products or something.
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by magicalist 4mo ago
I mean, the GP is being overdramatic but releasing a vibe coded cli frontend for an official product in a google github org and that uses your google account credentials is a big deal no matter how unofficial you claim it is in the readme.
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by magicalist 4mo ago
> For example, in Denmark[1] a solar-dominated grid would cost around 565 EUR/MWh. A nuclear-dominated grid would cost around 141 EUR/MWh. That's not what it says. It says that would be the cost assuming the current grid
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by magicalist 4mo ago
> The Iran war really brought them to the surface, a lot of them were very unhappy with the Trump administration about that. So, like...Thomas Massie and Rand Paul? There were only four republicans in the House and four in the Senate t
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by magicalist 4mo ago
>> stopping fraud / - addressing wasteful and ineffective programs > Good to know that this will be an evergreen argument despite an extremely well-supported project to do just that taking place in the last two years with n
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by magicalist 4mo ago
> To extend the base of the student movement, Rudi Dutschke has proposed the strategy of the long march through the institutions: working against the established institutions while working within them, but not simply by 'boring fro
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by magicalist 4mo ago
I feel like I might be missing the point of your comment. > The vast majority of bytes sent over the internet are neither from nor to a human writer or reader. I don't believe that's right. Without even breaking down the rema
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by magicalist 4mo ago
Ha, why is the creator's account banned?
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by magicalist 4mo ago
> We already have medicines that treat the problem We do have treatments of screwworm infestations, but it involves physically removing the larva and usually removing tissue as well as systemic treatments like antiparasitics. It's
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by magicalist 4mo ago
Eh, it seems increasingly clear that no matter the fusion breakthroughs to come, it's going to be complicated and big and therefore expensive compared to renewables. By the time we figure it out it'll be a nice breakthrough but wi
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by magicalist 5mo ago
> That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it This post is written by three of the authors of the JPEG XL spec, implementors of the reference and rust implementations of libjxl, and...longtime google employees.
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by magicalist 5mo ago
> This is all contingent on AI forays into mathematics being slop and low quality It's literally a set of recommendations for researchers on how to use AI to advance the field and prevent slop from overwhelming the people who mi
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by magicalist 5mo ago
> Especially interesting compared to the Bourbaki movement from a century ago, which was much more focused on universality and correctness, and much less focused on process and attribution (in fact, demanded anonymity). The Bourbaki gr
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by magicalist 5mo ago
Your list is cherry picked from the list of "potential threats" to the values of the mathematical research community identified by this document. They aren't criticisms or absolute statements, they're literally a list of
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by magicalist 5mo ago
> That's the product of math from the point of view of mathematicians. But is it the point of view of those funding math? Yes, and your examples are exactly examples of what the GP quote is talking about. Of course people paying m
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by magicalist 5mo ago
> Because their customers, who they built a trusting relationship with, get hosed when the owner wants to cash out. Sure, and it's often a real loss to customers, but are you suggesting mandating that you vet the person you'r
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by magicalist 5mo ago
> no attention paid to the folks who sold the businesses to them? Why would the retiring dentist selling their practice be a trust or collusion problem?
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by magicalist 5mo ago
> This is assigning intent without evidence, as is common in tribal politics You are calling for constructive discourse and yet your response is an accusation of dishonesty. A non-charged assessment might use the phrase "without p

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