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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
They were way above their main competition at the time Google decided to ignore the entire open web but they were still focused on searching it. Since then, they decided to change focus into answering questions, and didn't maintain the
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Granted, glass bottles are also the one good case for recycling glass. But keep in mind the article's energy number is for plastic bottles, glass uses more energy. Returnable glass bottles are probably better than disposed plastic ones
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
> Number one is that humanoid robots are probably a dead end. Our shape is very flexible. It's probably not the end-all most flexible format out there, but whatever format we end up with will probably be more similar to a human th
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Your executives are completely unable to evaluate the products they decide to buy? If so, yes, they are to blame, either for not being able to evaluate the stuff they buy or for deciding on questions they are not qualified for. Either one i
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Landfills control for that and usually dispose the methane on a less polluting form.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Returned bottles have a finite lifetime after what they have to be trashed. Glass bottles tend to be reused some (small) tens of times, plastic bottles certainly last a lot less.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Yes, since 2024 the improvement has happened only in a few contexts, and the most famous¹ LLMs have also regressed in many contexts. 1 - Their numbers have also exploded, so I have no idea of any general rule.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
All those people were born rich, with no chance of losing their money. Instead, the smarter rich people stay out of the press. And the only reason we hear about them is because they were always very stupid.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
"Popular topic-expert" is a really cursed career to exist. Ideally we would reward expert opinions on track-record, instead of how they make us feel. But we don't. Also ideally, the expert's conclusion wouldn't impa
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
> Luu is pretty specific about the predictions Zitron is making He is not, though. He precisely points to imprecise predictions, decontextualize them so he misses the point of the ones this thread is focused on, analyzes them with even l
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
The AGI that appeared mid 2023 and killed single every person in 8 months was neat!
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
I guess the GP is joking. But on the current climate, it's really hard to be sure.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Most phones have no problem detecting IR up to the wavelength of the cheap leds used in blasters.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
I'll have to disagree here. It was shit back then, it is shit today, but it improved a lot over time before it started to worsen.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
So... The prediction is exactly what people have been doing since the turn of the century? I put high odds on this one being correct.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Brazil has entire areas within the largest cities dominated by para-statal organizations that often are in shooting wars within themselves, with the government, or just decide to go on a terrorism spree against the civilian population.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
> “what do you like about your job?” For software development, normal people will just assume it's money and probably not even ask...
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Are you expecting Italian banks to be classified as terrorist organizations?
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
SWIFT refused to shunt out the Brazilian banks that kept providing services to the public figures involved on the Bolsonaro trial last year.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
> which means invasion is "war" but resistance is "terrorism" That's the definition every undemocratic occupying power uses.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Both throwing airplanes at buildings and taking the World Trace Center down were pretty widespread "hidden" ideas at the time. It's not surprising that several people connected them.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Keep in mind that Microsoft laid-off a large share of their developers shortly before and during the interval the GP talks about. Repeatedly. You are right that's one or the other. Probably both are contributing.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Well, Debian has the benefit that the project has no trouble at all saying "no". Most open source communities have a difficult time with that.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Just worth remembering that the cost/W of steam generators decrease quickly (almost linearly) with size up to ~1GW. What in reverse also means it increases quickly with reduced size, down to the point you can order them 3D printed on t
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
> showing the relevant keyboard shortcuts in the UI can be overwhelming Every application did it for decades after the first Xerox guidelines up until Microsoft and Apple decided to retire the concept of usability some time around 2010.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
The most impressive thing about Trump is that he managed to shorten up the feedback loops on an overwhelming number of his policies. You would expect the US industry to silently absorb his trade policies and only break decades after he leav
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
They have that capacity right now, because of the same system the GP was talking about. Break it and they will discover they stop being welcome in other countries. Probably even quicker than on their original one.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Yes, and "why did managenent decide not to do it?" too.
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
> it’s a bit more straightforward in manufacturing That's because manufacturing is a simpler environment where causes and consequences are more conceptually distinct. Until you start to pull management decisions into your analysis,
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by marcosdumay 2mo ago
Goes to show that he should have made an LLM do it instead.

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