mlyle

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91.
by mlyle 4mo ago
A is an indefinite article.
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by mlyle 4mo ago
It's worth doing when the -true cost of resources- is represented in their price. If it's not, then more of the thing ends up being done than is socially optimal. E.g. artificially cheap agricultural water -> lots of water-heav
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by mlyle 4mo ago
> If you don't think your moral stance is the correct one That's not what's asserted. The title is "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast" But the reality is "To have his moral stance is to be
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by mlyle 4mo ago
Most of the water concern is evaporative cooling of the datacenter itself. But IMO not too much of a concern. The energy use and the resource use to make the chips, etc, is bigger.
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by mlyle 4mo ago
Well, stuff tends not to get completely wasted, but: - AI datacenters are gold-rush rush jobs with interesting things like their own gas turbine generators etc. - It's not clear that serving the internet needs us to double the amount o
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by mlyle 4mo ago
Parts of it (e.g. water consumption per query) are overblown. But the degree of data center buildout and resource use, if exponential growth just continues a little longer, is going to end up being a big number. AI datacenters are already
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by mlyle 4mo ago
And a lot of it is silly. What, we can't use AI even to show it's silly and incomplete? How are people supposed to know the ways it's incomplete if we cannot evaluate it?
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by mlyle 4mo ago
> It's a lot of extra time and QA for each variant of a release. In Vivado, it's the same release for the free and expensive builds on both Linux and Windows. It's just a question of the installed license file/licen
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by mlyle 5mo ago
It is big but the preconditions shave off a lot. You need to get to display memory and also get to a sound port and need to do both in a loop where each varies. And you need to build it out of valid instructions. That puts you at more li
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by mlyle 5mo ago
I think the bigger issue is that there's market segments that old product reached and that newer ones don't... and you are locked into their devices by the content you've "bought." 14 year support window is pretty g
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by mlyle 5mo ago
Adjusted wald intv'l gives us for 2 observed out of 39 gives us a "true" failure rate from 1 in 200 to 1 in 6 (95% CI).
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by mlyle 5mo ago
So I've been in a hobby project for a few weeks -- transforming an old software modem binary to c code. I gave it the existing modem, and had it build rigging to build test vectors. I had it specify the work in the modem. And to conf
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by mlyle 5mo ago
Shoot dude, the engineering organization I mentor/teach at a high school has ~75 internal repos. Robot source code; satellite ground station hardware; satellite ground station software; visualization; satellite hardware; satellite soft
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by mlyle 5mo ago
> (As an imperfect example - a world rally car going through a 80kph blind corner over a crest on snow between the trees is not necessarily more of a margin / less of skill or spectacle than F1 taking a tarmac open corner at 200kph:
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by mlyle 5mo ago
> It is not the same. I have seen so many military display teams. Yes, I like the roar. But they blur together. > sure, you can do formation flying in an Extra 300 or a C150, But that's not what we watch Extra 330s do. We watc
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by mlyle 5mo ago
Yah.. the roaring sound and precision of military aerial display teams can't be denied, and are an awesome experience. But it's something you see someone doing in a Pitts or Extra or maybe even a Citabria or 150 that makes you qu
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by mlyle 5mo ago
Yah.. but between the Iran war and this, we've taken some EW losses. And it's not like this is one of the capabilities that we have massively overprovisioned.
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by mlyle 5mo ago
People demand airshows because they're cool. The military participates in airshows because it's good for morale, because it helps showcase capabilities, because it's good PR for military expenditures, and because it's go
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by mlyle 5mo ago
My dad was a great programmer... who typed with a terrible two finger peck technique. It was infuriating to watch as a kid. Typing was not a core skill. He had secretaries for that. A lot of the early typing he did was on a keypunch when
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by mlyle 5mo ago
> I cannot wrap my mind around why people think finding vulnerabilities is bad. The code already was broken before somebody published the vulnerability. The difference now only is that you know about this. I don't think anyone is sa
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by mlyle 5mo ago
Good/funny observation. Game theory and economics are fun. :D I do think that the partial information problem relating to new entrants into this market is interesting though. The number of potential threat actors with partial/no
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by mlyle 5mo ago
There's one more piece that matters. If no one pays the ransoms, but people believe that large ransoms are paid-- you still have the crime.
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by mlyle 5mo ago
> > And that shape tells you that _at some unknown point in the future_ progress will slow (but likely not stop). Now back to the point, what reason do you have to believe progress will stop soon? > Because the premise that the sin
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by mlyle 5mo ago
You'd prefer to throw people with dementia and children in jail? Most of us agree that those outcomes are messed up, and the ability to form intent and/or understand the consequences of one's actions is important information
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by mlyle 5mo ago
Note that New York seems to have much lower property crime rates than Florida. It's usually difficult to compare this between jurisdictions but it seems pretty clear cut in this case. It also seems like the percentage of goods lost to
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by mlyle 5mo ago
> Definitely not given back. If I didn't misread it, she needs to take a new driver's test at 83, which she already declined applying for (though it'll be her right; we'd have to see if she stays by the decision or if
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by mlyle 5mo ago
> Straw man. Harsh and arbitrary are mostly orthogonal. It's "arbitrary" because it's something that the legislature has not specifically allowed for. We do not allow judges to make up things on the spot for good rea
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by mlyle 5mo ago
Yup. And we do have some degree of safeguards here-- admittedly, less in California than many other states. They are: physician required reporting of disqualifying conditions, ability for other people to report concerns about capability t
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by mlyle 5mo ago
> She gets her license back. That's wild. In 3 years, at age 83, if she wanted to... she could try and take the driving test again and become licensed. This is just not going to happen :P In the end, the court can only prohibit he
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by mlyle 5mo ago
1. Doesn't seem like this quite fits under "hanging a few pirates" 2. One of the big problems here is there's no real counterparty to negotiate with/cow like the Algerian Dey. That's not to say that I'm ag

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