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by mppm 1y ago
Jonathan Blow's "Preventing the collapse of civilization" [1] makes a similar point. It is easy to assume that, if we can build EUV machines and space telescopes, then processing stainless steel and manufacturing PCBs is baby
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by mppm 1y ago
The article specifically mentions that OpenAI is losing money on all plans, including Plus and Pro. The 500 million number is strongly inflated by those who only use the service on and off.
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by mppm 1y ago
Yeah... with bitcasts and some creativity (and some boilerplate) both versions are ultimately equivalent, or nearly so. But the new one pushes you towards intrusive-data-structure thinking and away from container-of thinking. This, by the w
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by mppm 1y ago
Equity compensation is an essential part of modern corporate incentive structure. In particular, it incentivizes prospective employees to accept lower compensation, by making it appear larger on paper.
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by mppm 1y ago
It would probably have been more correct to say "requires fewer allocations in some cases ". As you point out, in terms of layout, the old generic version is just as intrusive as the new version, and requires just as many allocat
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by mppm 1y ago
This looks pretty bad. I was naive enough to expect that the pro-Elon faction would cancel useless garbage like Artemis and Starliner, but they instead go after the actual science programs?
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by mppm 1y ago
Amazing. Maybe I should pitch them my idea of MIL-spec acoustic relays for communicating with air-gapped facilities?
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by mppm 1y ago
It would be karmically appropriate, but I'd guess nobody has an actual interest in doing so. Export restrictions are also easier to circumvent than import restrictions by routing through third countries. Unless, of course, you apply th
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by mppm 1y ago
As a sibling comment implies, high-power IGBTs are still built from small and thin silicon dies with most of the module being heat spreader, insulator, interconnect and packaging. Even MW-class modules probably contain a gram or so of Si.
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by mppm 1y ago
Why do solid-state transformers need so much silicon?
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by mppm 1y ago
Maybe publicly was not the right word. What I really meant is that the nominal 145% rate will remain in effect, so he can continue to pretend that the tariffs are still there and still hurting China, while he makes "minor adjustments&q
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by mppm 1y ago
This is pretty much how I expected this to play out, at least for now. Trump acts all tough and doesn't back down publicly , but China actually doesn't back down. So what happens is that some businesses get exemptions to mitiga
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by mppm 1y ago
As others have pointed out, writing is a very recent phenomenon, but your intuition seems correct in general - what sets humans apart from chimps and bonobos is efficient transfer learning to future generations. If you are interested, The
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by mppm 1y ago
> And most people on this planet are more or less happy with whatever they're presented with because they don't care about technology. I think this is a debatable statement. It could be true, but I am increasingly convinced t
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by mppm 1y ago
I do wonder sometimes how UBP would play out in a developed country... Would it remove the need for bullshit jobs and refocus the market-oriented part of the economy towards real progress? Would it make people happier? Or would it make peop
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by mppm 1y ago
This is basically the communist vision (in its original, positive sense) -- Universal Basic Provisioning achieved through automation and a moderate amount of community service. People are always quick to point out how governments will inevi
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by mppm 1y ago
The stock market today seriously reeks of insider trading. Most stocks were down pre-market, but suddenly went up at 9:30 when the big boys joined the trading. And that right after the announcement of further escalation with China. I was re
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by mppm 1y ago
> Interesting article, but I think it downplays the incidence of students using Claude as an alternative to building foundational skills. No shit. This is anecdotal evidence, but I was recently teaching a university CS class as a guest l
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by mppm 1y ago
Meanwhile, Apple stock is up 3.5% at the time of writing. What gives? Has Wall Street already priced in the "104% is so unreal, there has to be some kind of deal or exemption in the works"?
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by mppm 1y ago
TSMC is such a (sadly) hilarious "cooperation" story: 1. Hey, TSMC, come to the US, we will give you a fuckton of CHIPS Act money and extend the US military umbrella over Taiwan. 2. Oh, yeah, it turns out building and runnig an ad
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by mppm 1y ago
Some bird species are capable of communicating in proto-language that is only a few steps removed from full language capability in the human sense, so I think the most likely answer is "accident of evolution". If the primates didn
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by mppm 2y ago
Long-term -- yes; short and medium-term -- not necessarily. For example, during and after Covid, Germany had a very severe antibiotics shortage. I think it is still ongoing to some extent. On one hand, it seems ridiculous to suggest that Ge
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by mppm 2y ago
I'm just making a general point, since the trade between China and the EU is qualitatively similar to China-US. And while the EU is anti-Trump at the moment, I do not think it is beyond aggressive economic action against China for poli
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by mppm 2y ago
One thing that I'd like to inject into this discussion, is that the nominal trade imbalance is not the only relevant figure, and maybe not the most important one. For many goods, there is a very strong disconnect between the market val
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by mppm 2y ago
> What's the model supposed to do? It's just doing what many human artists would do, if they're not explicitly being paid to create new IP. Not really? Why would a human artist create a faithful reproduction of Indiana Jon
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by mppm 2y ago
Orbital space tourism and space manufacturing could potentially make a significant market in terms of launch mass (that is, if you launch 1000-ton facilities instead of 1-ton satellites without necessarily occupying a large number of new or
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by mppm 2y ago
> Ask the LLM for a solution, paste it in, get an error, paste that in, get a new solution, get another error, ask for a fix again, etc. etc. That's exactly what I've seen as well. The students don't even read the code, le
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by mppm 2y ago
> So if I can outsource the mundane, annoying and repetitive parts of SW development (like coding) to a machine, so that I can focus on the parts I enjoy (debugging, requirements gathering, customer interaction, etc), what's wrong w
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by mppm 2y ago
There is a lot of talk about how LLMs will disrupt software development and office work and whatnot, but there is one thing that they are massively disrupting right now, and that is education . I've witnessed this with a group of CS
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by mppm 2y ago
It had a perfectly fine UI before it transitioned to the current web-styled thing.

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