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Beating a dead horse here... " But I still like the dig at X getting server and client confused. " A "server" is something that accepts requests and multiplexes some resource; a "client" makes requests. The X s
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by mcguire 3y ago
Presumably, GNU Hurd will fix these issues without introducing fun new ones.
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How is one commercial entity better than another?
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes makes the point that logic was originally a branch of rhetoric: the idea behind it is to convince someone of what you are saying. https://youtu.be/gcwSwkQySw4?si=uQwSmmhKsVpv8_a8 A lot of what we thin
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Corollary 3: This is one reason why many businesses deliver one product and then sink without a trace. Corollary 4: Never buy version 1 of anything.
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by mcguire 3y ago
It spent, what, eight episodes attacking archaeology for not taking Hancock seriously. (And really, why not? Who doesn't believe there was a global civilization roughly like the Victorians built on telepathy and sonic vibration techn
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From the ones I've seen, they aren't terribly impressed. https://twitter.com/jens2go/status/1721625889585148297
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Along with a stack of related sites nearby, yep.
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This is actually one of the major criticisms I've seen from archaeologists and geologists. The dating is from core samples (and apparently poorly done ones) with no related context showing actual human activity.
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by mcguire 3y ago
What punishment do you envision for someone who steals $20 from a convenience store?
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by mcguire 3y ago
Please don't advertise scams on HN.
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One comment I saw pointed out that the verdict was returned in a spectacularly short time, for precisely those reasons.
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The United Kingdom is not a state in the United States.
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Are you speaking of the dot-com era, the web 2.0 era, or the era that gave us tetraethyllead?
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Pardon me! I was apparently misled by " Take a look at the '70s environmental movement and the way its legacy, laws like NEPA and CEQA,... "
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How is that not AI?
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by mcguire 3y ago
"Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune", also on Netflix, is a series but I enjoyed the military/diplomatic/political plot.
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" Comparing California before and after the 1970 passage of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and benchmarking against performance in the other 49 states, this study finds that 1) California per capita GDP, 2) California
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" Right but the problem with a lot of these positions is obstructionism. Take a look at the '70s environmental movement and the way its legacy, laws like NEPA and CEQA, are used to simply block development " One of the diffic
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by mcguire 3y ago
I'm not entirely sure Bertrand Russell would like to be on that list.
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Trust and safety, ethics, and risk management are direct responses to several forms of malfeasance, including fraud.
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Those eras of greater tech optimism and growth led to the current concentration of wealth; it seems unlikely that he would be all that interested in greatly enlarging the club.
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I don't know that Andreessen is going to compete in building AI technology; I suspect he is looking at applying it to the military and defense industry. Andeessen Horowitz has been noted as moving into the defense contracting arena ove
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by mcguire 3y ago
Speaking of stagnation, Andreessen's manifesto seems to be aimed at a specific group of people who are not the majority of Americans. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
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What does "abide to simple courtesy rules" mean, specifically? Can you have a family reunion with 30-40 people? Can you stay in one place for a week? Fishing? Hunting?
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What is your definition?
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" When Horace He, a machine-learning engineer, tested GPT-4 on questions taken from Codeforces, a website that hosts coding competitions, he found that it scored 10/10 on coding tests posted before 2021 and 0/10 on tests post
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Context switching, cache coherency, and the way that, in practice, you end up with #threads >> #cores.
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Have a number of threads greater than the number of cores results in either synchronization costs or longer latency.
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(The next leading market share is Walmart's 6.3%.)

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