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by nayroclade 10mo ago
Actually it says the desalinated water is too expensive even for farming, it’s only used for heavy industries, so it’s certainly not a solution for the domestic supply of 9 million people. And don’t confuse moving the capital city with actu
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by nayroclade 10mo ago
Perhaps not, but you can bet that they were told the opposite when Zuckerberg was recruiting them. Indeed, ring fencing the lab does suggest some real attempt to do it.
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by nayroclade 10mo ago
I'd be wary about interpreting a simple trend of App Store / Google Play apps without other context. Both are walled gardens, with developer fees and review processes managed by gatekeepers with an incentive and an ability to arti
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by nayroclade 10mo ago
If a US company operates in a different country as well, it has to abide by the laws of that country, or leave it. For example, Adobe's acquisition of Figma was blocked by the UK and EU regulators, despite them both being US companies
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by nayroclade 10mo ago
Apparently they didn't forget. Lionsgate did all the necessary work, then someone sent the "wrong file" to HBO Max, and it seems nobody checked it properly before uploading it! Given the volume of material these streamers are
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by nayroclade 10mo ago
If you think you can't get into this kind of Kafkaesque billing nightmare with any large vendor, then I have some bad news for you...
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by nayroclade 11mo ago
The core argument here, as far as I can discern it, seems to be: A trillion dollars has been spent scaling LLMs in an attempt to create AGI. Since scaling alone looks like it won't produce AGI, that money has been wasted. This is a fra
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by nayroclade 1y ago
IMO it is usually a mistake to integrate AI as a separate chat function in the UI. AI(s) be integrated into existing chat and collaboration features via @ tagging. E.g. in something like Figma or Google Docs, you should be able to add comme
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by nayroclade 1y ago
It also generally portrays almost everyone around him at Bletchley as some level of ignorant, stupid or maliciously obstructive, despite the fact that most of them were brilliant mathematicians and engineers whose contribution equalled his.
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by nayroclade 1y ago
Enjoy democracy, EU-style
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by nayroclade 1y ago
I'd much rather be on a cruise ship than a lifeboat, but that doesn't mean cruise ships shouldn't have lifeboats. No serious advocate of settling Mars, Venus or anywhere else in space seriously believes it will be easier than
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by nayroclade 2y ago
That episode presents quite a plausible scenario for why notable historical figures might be cloned, in my opinion: Participants in a contemporary power struggle wanting to use their talismanic status for political ends.
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by nayroclade 2y ago
The impression I've gotten from the reading I've done on these sorts of conditions is that part of the reason doctors are reluctant to do research is because it such a fraught area that anyone who engages with it are targeted by g
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by nayroclade 2y ago
CRA seems pretty much abandoned. I wouldn’t recommend it for anything nowadays. There are much better options for both starter and serious apps.
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by nayroclade 2y ago
"Good enough" for what? We're in the middle of an AI arms race. Why do you believe people would choose to run the same LLMs on cheaper equipment instead of using the greater efficiency to train and run even larger LLMs? Given
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by nayroclade 2y ago
When I read about something like this, my first thought is always, is this something we could have evolved ourselves? And if so, what haven’t we? Thicker mucus seems like something we have evolved, so was there some survival trade-off, perh
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by nayroclade 2y ago
I think you encounter this idea of effort adding value a lot in the arts. If a book (or film, album, etc.) is particularly long or "difficult", it can add something to the experience and achievement of reading it. And correspondin
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by nayroclade 2y ago
Humans do great in groups until they get bigger than the size of a larger hunter-gatherer tribe, say more than a few dozen individuals. Basically, the point at which it becomes impossible for everyone to know everyone else, and you need to
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by nayroclade 2y ago
> This thread gives me the vibes of arguing for the sake of arguing. You must be new around here
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by nayroclade 2y ago
This article seems like a wilful attempt to rewrite history by ignoring, distorting or inventing a lot of things. - Web standards didn't move fast enough for developers and users. People _wanted_ things like games, streaming videos and
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by nayroclade 2y ago
I’m sure Flash was great for Flash developers. But speaking as someone who remembers the plague of slow and unusable Flash websites in the 90s and 2000s, it was not good for users and I’m very glad it’s dead.
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by nayroclade 2y ago
"The state" is not a monolith. Anti-fraud enforcement is handled by agencies with limited budgets and resources. Often they are deliberately underfunded and understaffed precisely so they cannot cause too much damage and embarrass
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by nayroclade 2y ago
Saying it’s a subrange implies you can perceive differences in tone within it. In which case, reframe the question as “is this shade of teal closer to the blue or green end of the subrange” if you like.
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by nayroclade 2y ago
The current state of the UK water industry doesn't seem to support this theory. Privatisation has only lead to water companies like Thames Water taking on unsustainable debt while paying out billions in dividends, underinvesting in inf
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by nayroclade 2y ago
If these +1000 humans remain similar to us, then I imagine they will resurrect people for much the same reasons we would do so now, if we could: - Proof: At first, dead people will be resurrected just to prove that it can be done. - Researc
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by nayroclade 2y ago
The audiobooks of the Wolf Hall trilogy are fantastic as well. They're read by Ben Miles, who played Cromwell in the RSC adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, and collaborated directly with Mantel on the stage adaptation of
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by nayroclade 2y ago
No skilled engineer I've met has had any issue turning a Figma design into a HTML/CSS. That's their job. If someone protested that they couldn't reproduce a Figma design without it spitting out HTML/CSS for them, th
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by nayroclade 4y ago
Yeah, I’ve helped build some of those huge apps, and I’ve ran in these issues and wasted countless hours debugging and working around them in all of them. And what do we get from the React team? After five years? More vague promises. More R
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by nayroclade 4y ago
It might have, but that RFC has been withdrawn.
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by nayroclade 4y ago
Unbelievable that they’ve gone ahead launching this, going all in on hooks, while the fundamental problem with them, which was raised in 2018 is still unsolved: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/14099

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