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by mrandish 5mo ago
We probably don't disagree on much but nuanced details, which is why I said it was a "strange claim" instead of "incorrect". Being a retro-head who lived through those days obsessively watching every twist and turn.
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> I believe it's possible to write laws that serve the people they're supposed to protect. I agree. In theory it should be possible to create a fully transparent legislative drafting process incorporating red-teaming, open comm
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But it's not comparing to school shootings, it's satirizing supposedly responsible parties who continue to deny responsibility despite repeated catastrophic failures which are their responsibility.
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> shouldn't imply that all 3rd party libraries also have to be open sourced. That's a very reasonable way to address the issue of 3rd party licensed IP. I expect something like that will get incorporated into the legislation.
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> so nobody is happy and the law is followed. An outcome so common they invented a word for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> open source server code if you are going to cease support When I was a senior exec at a big public tech company, there was a product we decided to discontinue and we thought would be nice to just open source. Somehow I ended up in char
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I doubt it's possible for legislation to mandate meaningful compliance regarding something as dynamic and rapidly evolving as online games. Despite good intentions, such legislation often results in unintended consequences including di
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I think a deeper dive into Job's evolution during the 12 years at Next is an excellent idea. However, I found statements like this concerning: "Apple version one was failure in many ways." In context, 'Apple version on
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by mrandish 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by mrandish 5mo ago
My 80/20 was a broad simplification of a more nuanced landscape but I do think there's a real split, so I'll try to add one-click greater detail. While most people make any major purchase for multiple reasons, for the ~20% th
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> It's not the engine that mattered to her. People into ultra-luxury car brands have a saying something like "The person who pulls up to a five star hotel in a Rolls Royce has a huge suite but the person who pulls up in a Bent
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> Quite a few want the attention. Through the supercar club my wife belongs to we've now met dozens of supercar owners and from that sample I'd say it's roughly a Pareto split. For about 20% the status signaling and attent
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I'm not a car guy, so I used to think such ear-damaging decibels were necessary for performance but have since learned it's not required even for ultra-high performance road cars that can go >200 mph. While a 12 cylinder Lambor
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I found this claim by Altman to be very puzzling. He's not a researcher nor does he have any experience as the direct manager of research groups. Satya Nadella's very public employment offer to Altman was obviously coordinated as
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> why does SpaceX acquiring XAi make sense to do it? I never said it did. My post didn't even mention SpaceX, Elon or XAI. I just shared that my initial drive-by opinion on space-based compute, as a general concept (regardless which
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> they do too much rage baits these days Yeah, I agree but given the state of YouTube and the fact GN has an actual office, lab and employees, I also understand why they have no choice but to the play the game at least a bit. YouTube has
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> but the scale that he's suggesting... Well, yeah but that's just Elon being Elon. At this point I think even the most pro-Elon folks freely admit "The first rule of Elon is: 'Ignore everything he says about timefram
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It's funny because I when realized it was signed by Elon I immediately wished it had been signed by Gwynne instead (although I'm sure she reviewed it anyway). I just knew being signed by Elon would push responses to being (even) m
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I was initially very skeptical about the viability of space-based data centers but after a couple hours reading papers, studies and summary technical assessments I realized there are a range of credible expert viewpoints from, "prett
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I've wondered the same thing because lately I've noticed a bunch of consumer companies forcing cloud-required models where it's not necessary and many/most users have no need for whatever features cloud connectivity may
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My understanding is that, depending on the phone vendor, such support may only apply to security updates after ~3 years and not feature updates.
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Yes, the first thing I asked an "AI Phone Assistant" to do was set an alarm. It didn't even try and fail, it rejected the request entirely.
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Your valid use case doesn't contradict the point that so far most consumer-focused "AI features" are rarely useful and often just get in the way. I'm pretty sure a specific "AI Shopping Feature" wouldn't a
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Private equity firm Francisco Partners did a leveraged buyout to gain majority control in 2021 and then quickly loaded the company up with even more debt by acquiring other smaller music companies. So, five years to reach insolvency is righ
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by mrandish 6mo ago
If you look into the arcane architecture of the Playstation 3 console you quickly gain an appreciation for just how impressive the RPCS3 emulator is. PS3 is definitely one of hardest emulation targets, so it's wild they have the majori
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Yeah, I hear you but as I mentioned in my reply to your other post there is a long-term silver-lining to having a bit of onboarding complexity. I think it's a big reason the VPin community is well into its second decade and still full
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by mrandish 6mo ago
+1 on Visual Pinball, it's really mind-blowingly great and supported by a huge, very active community of artists and table developers. For anyone who doesn't yet know, there are hundreds of high-quality tables with a dozen or more
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Transients are tiny spots which occasionally occurred in the film emulsion of photographic sky surveys taken prior to 1957 when satellites were first launched. They are called transient because they're only seen in one ~hour-long photo
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> nobody is going to tell them otherwise Indeed. As an example, there was a one-line response far down-thread from my GP which basically said only "Mick West is not credible" (which the poster has since deleted). I found this r
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by mrandish 6mo ago
> In short, OP had an impressive lack of situational awareness/direction and is trying to play it off as a common burden of the olden times. It wasn't. As someone who graduated high school in the early 80s, I also was puzzled b

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