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by mlsu 1y ago
Social media is like a parasite for the brain that slowly drives a person insane. Posting or only consuming. In some sense, whenever I see someone with psychotic views (in any political, ideological, social / etc direction), it’s not e
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This is a structural problem with our economy, much larger than just Facebook. Due its large scale concentration, the allocation of capital in the economy as a whole has become far less efficient over the last 20 years.
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Wait, this is not intuitive at all for me. If the compiler is working harder wouldn't that result in a more compact binary? Maybe I'm thinking too much from an embedded software POV. I suppose the compiler does eventually do IO bu
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As far as book reviews, professional is professional. I have never, ever read anything on Goodreads that compares at all to something in the London Review of Books for example. They just aren't even in the same category. People who r
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People who like to drive around in a truck are pretty much the exclusive market for new trucks in the USA.
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They are selling "AGI" replacing huge swathes of the white collar workforce "incremental upgrade for power users" is not at all what this house of cards is built on
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Claude Code is good because the Anthropic models are trained/finetuned to be good at using it.
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It’s not as simple as just buying an ASML machine and make chips. Otherwise Intel would have already done that. For the cutting edge stuff TSMC is a monopoly.
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No, the prompt, no matter the amount of detail, is always strictly better than the model output. It has to be, because the whole point of reading and writing is _communication_. Communication between TWO people. This AI interlocutor is like
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The company is a pivot from some web 3 token BS. Surprise surprise!
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Nah. The top 10 percent of US households make $190,000 per year. That is simply a lot more money than a household strictly needs. At that point, your Roth IRA is maxed out, you own a home, and you still have thousands every single paycheck
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I have noticed this as well, and yes it hasn't always been this way. My theory is that we are simply too wealthy. For the average rich person (the top 20-30%), the first $70,000 goes to real companies who sell real things for money. Pa
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I love this future of agents! It gets rid of the one thing I hate most in my life: acknowledging the existence and interiority of other human beings, and being acknowledged in return. I long for this future where I can be alone in the cyber
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I'll tell ya, it certainly doesn't match the nuclear fusion production curve!
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Another flipflop. Canceling the Germany fab, bringing SMT back. > Looking further ahead, we’re developing Intel 14A as a foundry node from the ground up in close partnership with large external customers. This is essential to designing a
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In the energy section, they talk about using nuclear fusion to power AI... but not solar. What a joke.
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What's the strategic reason for having a supersonic aircraft, when we have ICBMs? I thought the reason the SR-71 was cancelled/mothballed was because the missiles got good enough for it to be totally ineffective.
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I lean reflexively libertarian on housing (mostly just my psychological NIMBY backlash). Therefore my take is that the market would naturally accomplish the scheme you've described, no need for policy, if we simply remove constraints o
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> Our family once bought a Nordic chess set my then-seven-year-old son was excited to use. He asked me whether we could play it together, and I said, “Sure!” He then asked me to put it on my calendar, and watched until I had done so. Th
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Quite simply, housing has to be either affordable, or an investment. Those two things are literally, by definition, mutually exclusive. If something is an investment it means that it must appreciate in excess of inflation over time. That me
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> To Arendt, that was the scariest thing of all – that such evil could be perpetrated by so banal an individual. My takeaway from Eichmann was not that Eichmann _wasn't_ a horrible person. It's very clear that he is horrible,
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I'm really confused as to how Section 174 made it in in the first place. It seems like a carveout specifically to target software engineers, who, despite being a wealthy bloc, still work for their money. Why was this done? Simple venge
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Tough for me to speak about embedded in general, but many companies are on vendor toolchains or paid compilers by choice, and it is the right choice to make given the tradeoffs involved. IAR for example is simply a fantastic compiler. It pr
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Maybe it's easier if we use a toy example. "In the future, you will inevitably give me money. Let's discuss how much you'll give me." vs. "In the future, there might be some amount of money exchanged between us
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My intellectual strategy to get to the bottom of these grand questions is very straightforward: look at my own life and evaluate what’s important. In my life, I have found the answer to these questions. Telling a joke and making a colleague
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These senate hearings are happening right now . There is no moment in history when we all look back and go, ah, that was a mistake. Nope. That only happens right now, we're all creating the world we want to live in today.
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Yes, of course. What is AI freeing us of? Communicating with other human beings? Ah what a chore. Other human beings. Wish I could just enter into a cocoon of solitude for the rest of my life. I mean I'm kind of being glib here but the
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I hate AI. I'm so sick of it. I read a story about 14 year olds that are adopting AI boyfriends. They spend 18 hours a day in conversation with chatbots. Their parents are worried because they are withdrawing from school and losing the
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What is the 2023 mistake that he is referring to?
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The full bodied palate of this AI market mirrors the sharp nose of 2023 AI doomerism. The argument goes: if AI is going to destroy humanity, even if that is a 0.001% chance, we should all totally re-wire society to prevent that from happeni

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