mrngld

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by mrngld 1mo ago
I think the burden of proof is on your position. When activists in my area pick a fight with local government, it's never over that invisible group. Indeed, as far as I can tell, they don't give a rip about the veterans living in
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by mrngld 2mo ago
I'm not seeing why it has to be connected to the internet. Make it a private, air-gapped intranet for all (or most) of the benefits of being "connected", but with no entry point for someone sitting on another continent to tur
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by mrngld 2mo ago
I think that sort of journalism has largely been purged from the traditional sources and has ended up on Substack, or their own site. It's transitioned from "I can trust Brand X" to "I can trust that individual because o
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by mrngld 2mo ago
I'd be onboard with supporting a local newspaper -- if they hadn't gone all-in with aligning themselves to a particular political tribe. They're part of the problem Ground News makes obvious to a hilarious degree, where if so
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by mrngld 2mo ago
I don't have experience directly with Anthropic, but I wouldn't assume anything with such high confidence without knowing the persons situation. No, an individual off the street or with an LLC and 5 employees isn't going to g
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by mrngld 2mo ago
Interesting. I've been wishing that old 'Stars!' game from the 90s would play easily on modern systems. I'd love it if we'd got to the point where I could point Codex at a folder with an ISO from my CD of the game a
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by mrngld 2mo ago
China's 50 Cent Party being a real and noticeable thing (and the two biggest things they like to shill is open weight Chinese models and the futility of resisting a Taiwan invasion), I have to take things like this with a healthy dose
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by mrngld 2mo ago
Sounds like a reheated version of MMT, modern monetary theory. The "just print money" approach exploded in a mushroom cloud of inflation during the COVID years, just as any economist even remotely aligned with the Austrian school
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by mrngld 2mo ago
Absolutely no one serious thinks that, but when you feel like you need to diversify you don't have to find a like-for-like replacement. Any port in a storm. Just consult Google. All a country has to do to find itself on the receiving e
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by mrngld 2mo ago
I've been thinking for a while that all of this is just trying to grasp tighter the last bits of sand escaping between our fingers. The end game, perhaps, is trust. Do you trust or know the source? If you don't, assume it was AI g
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by mrngld 2mo ago
There's competition, but no one is interested. TBH, I blame IT leadership. The easy choice is Google or Microsoft. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" is now "No one ever got fired for subbing to Office." Someone
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by mrngld 2mo ago
No, we do not in fact have the "power pipes". Those "pipes" have capacity limits. Those "pipes" and getting them approved and built in the US is a key limiting factor that throttles... pretty much everything. Y
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by mrngld 2mo ago
Temu built out some local distribution after it had already reached a pretty high level of popularity, but Temu was enabled by regulatory and political indifference that allowed China, with an enormous GDP, to get extremely subsidized posta
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by mrngld 2mo ago
So, steal from everyone (taxation) whether they want to support or use government-run Facebook, give the money to government-run Facebook, and everything will be great because Government? What incentive does that mechanism have to spur inno
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by mrngld 2mo ago
Lets be fair, here. Traditional TV was ~40 minutes of content with 20 minutes of ads. I still remember televised holiday movies "presented with limited commercial breaks by Folgers, where the best part of waking up..." or whoever
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by mrngld 2mo ago
If it's simply pay to win then the value of a degree from an institution falls to absolutely zero. If the product a student is buying is a credential that's supposed to say "I know and can do things, pay me money please"
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by mrngld 2mo ago
But it's not true. Cute to say that, but I wouldn't believe it. Just like most students, given the opportunity to use AI to essentially cheat will often do so (look at the stunning percentages professors are detecting when they bo
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by mrngld 2mo ago
Yes, same here, for me high school was easy and I failed (or effectively failed, a D counted the same as an F) a couple classes right out of the gate. It was a lesson to myself that I never learned to study in high school and had to learn t
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by mrngld 2mo ago
I don't get all this existential talk about college acceptance. Yes, elite schools should expect elite applicants. Meanwhile, the state school down the road is a fraction the cost, teaches a lot of the same content, and will accept any
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by mrngld 2mo ago
I think the risk is a little different. It's not that data centers are being built and then unused -- the fact that OpenAI, Anthropic and pretty much everyone has to put a lot of effort into getting enough compute tells you the demand
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by mrngld 2mo ago
When I used to fly in Florida in the 2005-2015ish timeframe, NOTAMs for GPS interference (it didn't say that exactly but that's what it meant) were an everyday occurrence along my path, it became boilerplate. I experienced it a fe
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by mrngld 3mo ago
But do people look at installing a formulae in brew and wonder "what's their position on Uyghur oppression in Western China?" Like, wow, jxl is pretty neat, but they don't have a position on Palestine so I don't kno
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by mrngld 3mo ago
And meanwhile, I gave up trying to connect to my offices printer months ago. Paper free environment over here, planned or not.
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by mrngld 3mo ago
I have some degree of sympathy for data centers, and anyone else that needs power, only because of how broken our regulatory state is on approving new transmission. To be clear, it's not just data centers that have this problem. Journa
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by mrngld 3mo ago
Agree about YouTube and Twitch. Whatever personality you want, there's someone that fits it. You can pull up a recent stream or tune in and message them live if they're on. In some ways we're in the golden age of some of what
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by mrngld 3mo ago
Is that inaccurate or are you upset data and history don't fit your desire? Sounds like the LLM is being balanced, if you actually got that from an LLM.
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by mrngld 3mo ago
It's state-backed, or at least state-directed, scaling to capture market share, standard CCP playbook since the 80s. Whether dumping is a loaded term of not is irrelevant; it's a specific term of art in economics and policy, it fi
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by mrngld 3mo ago
You're right. My elderly mom has fallen victim, or nearly fallen victim at least, to tons of ads or sponsored spots served within Facebook, which are a bit harder to block. They can also outrun DNS-based block lists, probably because L
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by mrngld 3mo ago
Full time journalists do in fact enjoy eating like the rest of us.
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by mrngld 3mo ago
Based on alleged leaks in the NYT, they actually may have had a very similar tactic with Ahmadinejad. They just couldn't engineer the situation on the ground the way they thought. They got duped, to some extent, by Mossad. But it'

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