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by michaelt 3mo ago
> There is no such price If it’s sustainable at $1/month, and a customer is willing to prepay $1200 for a 100 year subscription, that sounds sustainable to me.
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by michaelt 3mo ago
> The main case against regulation is that it shouldn't be used when competition would do it better, which is most of the time. The trouble in this case is that copyright is a government-granted monopoly, which means this isn'
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by michaelt 3mo ago
> The reason bug reports feel like a ‘waste of everyone’s time’ is likely because you don't have the right error logging or telemetry built into the app itself. Having to wait for a manual bug report from a user is already a failur
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by michaelt 3mo ago
> You have to accept that your pricing model sucks to a group of people (who are likely experiencing subscription fatigue) and decide if it’s worth losing or never getting their money. And for some subscription situations, you can prob
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by michaelt 3mo ago
How many US warships did the Iranians need to hit? Turns out, none. Plenty of stationary targets, like US-owned data centres in US-aligned countries. Plenty of huge, slow-moving, undefended tankers.
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by michaelt 3mo ago
Not necessarily. See the paper See "DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression" [1] One option, when an image is fed into an LLM, is to divide it into tiles, then those tiles pass through a 'vision encoder' neural networ
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by michaelt 4mo ago
Does their salary bonus depend on that though? Car makers make money selling cars. Which buyers happily pay five figure suns for. An executive can add to the bottom line by raising sales prices/volumes with a more competitive product,
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by michaelt 4mo ago
One thing I've noticed with generative AI is it's now easier than ever to write more lines of code. Before, a backend guy asked to add an intranet page would make an austere page -bare html with barely any styling or javascript. T
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> This is why things like the Nintendo Switch hacks and iphone jailbreaks have to be reloaded every time the system reboots, Why is it this particular form of 'malware protection' always seems to involve a 30% fee?
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by michaelt 4mo ago
When nobody's done something before, there are lots of unanswered questions. Is it even possible? Will businesses my voters like and use a lot just leave my country entirely? Will companies be able to develop privacy-preserving age che
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by michaelt 4mo ago
There's quite a lot of statistics saying currently teens struggle with mental health even more than is historically normal for teenagers. [1, 2] Young people are also spending less time with friends, drinking less, and having less sex
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by michaelt 4mo ago
I mean, the web 20-30 years ago was kinda mixed? You had your IRC, with no message persistence, no image hosting, and no persistent account names (being able to reserve a username was an optional add-on feature). People would show they were
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by michaelt 4mo ago
With the rise of USB-C, docking-station-like devices are cheaper than ever before. For $20 you can get something that will pass through power from a USB-C charger, 4k HDMI to a monitor, and provide gigabit ethernet and some USB ports. We&#x
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> I think we are all programmed to respond well to any courtesy, no matter how indirect. I once read a book called "The Media Equation" that argued humans' social cooperation/courtesy instincts are many thousands of
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by michaelt 4mo ago
The “Five Eyes cyber security leaders” aren’t exactly famous for their political independence, or for having the public’s best interests at heart, or erring on the side of regulating less. You don’t get very far in the spying profession wit
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by michaelt 4mo ago
Some systems use liquid cooling for the GPU and CPU, but air cooling for the PSU, RAM and SSDs. With that said, by the standards of industrial sites data centres are quiet, low traffic and smell free. An industrial area that can’t build a d
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by michaelt 4mo ago
The government literally doesn't prosecute anyone. It is done by the CPS, which the Prime Minister, Kier Starmer, was head of from 2007 to 2013.
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by michaelt 4mo ago
What happens after the job they were hired to do is complete?
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> Alice says your service is slow. You tell Alice that the mean request to your service completes in 100ms, but Alice says that her mean wait time is 1s. There are also plenty of situations where a service can have a bimodal performanc
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by michaelt 4mo ago
99% of security experts I know use ad blockers. When there are unpatched browser vulnerabilities, attackers will use ad networks to inject attack code into reputable-but-ad-laden websites. And even when there aren't unpatched vulnera
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> Why would you ever do such a thing on a device controlled by your employer? It is in fact common to do personal things on work PCs. The senior manager spending 5 days visiting that foreign office is logging into his personal netflix
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> You can do what frontier labs do today which is to properly license things that are copyrighted and use open source web crawls for things that don’t have copyright issues. You can then also commission new datasets (volume needed goes
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> What does it say about progress that the same laws that protect human rights also stifle innovation? Perhaps it merely says that certain good positive things stifle other good, positive things? Having 24 languages is a good, positive
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by michaelt 4mo ago
Or they did it for positive PR. To show they’re working on reducing the impact of data centres on the environment, and that they’re taking action on e-waste, all while saying their pixel phones are so powerful they can be clustered into ser
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> Also, disposing of books when there are not actually space limitations, in order to create the supposed library of the future that has few books, is so new a phenomenon that it shouldn’t yet be called routine. 20 years ago when I was
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by michaelt 4mo ago
Cars aren't the best option, but you can drop self-driving cars into an existing car-centric society one car at a time, with the car buyers paying for themselves. Making a car-centric society meaningfully less car-centric requires the
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by michaelt 4mo ago
Before the rise of modern LLMs, when both AI and cybernetics were just futurists’ speculation, some people saw parallels. For example, thinking humans wouldn’t be displaced by super intelligent machines, but would instead be augmented by th
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by michaelt 4mo ago
To a reasonable extent, including this case, yes. But there are limits - with finite resources like land, the present-day owners should not be subject to the whims of men who've been dead for 150+ years. If in my great-great-great-gran
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by michaelt 4mo ago
I don't, 99.9% of the time. But when your browser has a 2% market share worldwide, some developers won't bother to test on it. And if your setup is even more obscure (I use Firefox on Linux with an adblocker and third-party cookie
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by michaelt 4mo ago
> They can be misused, like any technology can be, but that is not an inherent feature of the tech, but rather how it is implemented. And as the developers of such measures are not a monolith, it is unfair to paint them as merely trying

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