ndiddy

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by ndiddy 5d ago
The comment you're replying to is saying that in fair markets, BYD is taking market share away from Toyota even without the proven track record of reliability. Saying "But I wouldn't buy a BYD unless I knew it was reliable&qu
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by ndiddy 5d ago
You'll be looking for a while, looks like they're going for $600-700 used currently. You can get a used M1 Mac Mini for around $350 though. Macs don't depreciate nearly as quickly as PCs do.
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by ndiddy 5d ago
It's basically the same as emulation as long as the recompiled code doesn't get distributed (which this project doesn't do AFAIK). Functionally the only difference between a "recomp" and traditional console emulatio
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by ndiddy 6d ago
Good essay about this: https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted
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by ndiddy 6d ago
You really can’t see a difference between what Bison and GCC do and what an LLM does? You cannot tell GCC “I want a ZX Spectrum GUI” and get a working result.
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by ndiddy 6d ago
Well it’s more like commissioning art than making art yourself right? You want a painting of some specific thing to exist, so you find an artist you like and pay them to make it. It’s not art, but I recently commissioned a translation of a
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by ndiddy 7d ago
Please read the entire sentence you're quoting, then ask yourself whether that sentence is referring to the US, or to somewhere else.
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by ndiddy 8d ago
> The status quo of "your knowledge has no protection, but our knowledge is sacred" is the worst of all possible worlds. This is how IP has always worked. It has never protected the little guy. Draw a picture and then people st
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by ndiddy 8d ago
IP does not protect the little guy. This is nothing new. Draw a picture and then people start putting it on t-shirts and posters without paying you? Great, you can't do anything about it unless you have enough time and money to hire a
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by ndiddy 8d ago
> Intellectual property exists as a concept to foster the creation of more intellectual property. The idea of IP as an economic tool to foster creation comes out of the UK and subsequently the US. In mainland Europe, IP comes out of the
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by ndiddy 9d ago
The purpose of starting a war is to extract concessions from the other side that you were unable to get through diplomacy, not to kill a lot of people because you think they deserve it. So far Iran has not been willing to make any concessio
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by ndiddy 10d ago
> This PS5 incident has some strange element where supposedly keeping the reveal secret for 2 more weeks would have changed something with the GTA6 release. Well it's that GTA 6 comes out in mid-November, so he wanted to wait until
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by ndiddy 10d ago
I agree that if EU states start kicking out the US military, that would be compelling evidence of an actual shift in alignment.
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by ndiddy 10d ago
In the long run, the problem they'll run into with this is that the the people who have enough disposable income to pay for those plans are the people that advertisers will pay the most to show ads to. This is the same reason why the a
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by ndiddy 10d ago
There are over 30 US military bases in EU member states, so I would classify that as alignment with the US.
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by ndiddy 10d ago
Yeah I think it's a shame how much time and effort gets put into understanding things simply because other people want to keep them proprietary.
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by ndiddy 10d ago
It's extremely impressive that they were able to make a working driver so quickly. I think this is one of the best use cases for LLMs. You don't need someone to spend years reverse engineering undocumented hardware anymore. It wil
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by ndiddy 11d ago
Sort of related: The Shuttle was designed for military use, but mainly regarding launching and capturing spy satellites. From a NASA report on the Space Shuttle's history ( https://www.nasa.gov/history/sts1/pa
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by ndiddy 11d ago
For me the usefulness of a survey like this has nothing to with how effective LLMs are themselves. It's more that when someone's able to produce an app in an afternoon, and submitting the app to F-Droid becomes a checkbox, how con
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by ndiddy 11d ago
I just updated my M1 MBA, it feels basically the same as 26 performance wise (that being said, I didn't notice a performance difference between 18 and 26 either). I think the appearance is actually worse. They haven't addressed th
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by ndiddy 12d ago
The Glasshole thing comes from when Google Glasses were new (sort of the ancestor to the modern Meta pervert glasses). When you saw someone wearing Google Glasses, you could see the camera pointed at you and that the screen was on and doing
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by ndiddy 12d ago
The thing that I disliked the most about Tahoe is that they made light mode extremely bright, so it was a lot more uncomfortable to look at than Sequoia. I had to switch the computer to dark mode as a workaround. Did they fix this in Golden
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by ndiddy 12d ago
I'm not sure what Twitter's specific reasons are, but AFAIK the general trend of login-walling services over the past few years has happened due to a court decision saying that it's legal to scrape publicly available data (
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by ndiddy 12d ago
According to a Nielsen report, women control 70-80% of consumer spending and are responsible for a growing share of discretionary spending (expected to be 75% by 2029). Everybody is simply going to where the money is. https://nie
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by ndiddy 12d ago
The Voynich theory I find most compelling is that it was a hoax made for a quack doctor, made to look like a foreign herbal manuscript. "Oh of course the local doctors can't help you, but my special book from a faraway land that o
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by ndiddy 12d ago
Right, that's what I meant by the problem being cumulative rather than caused by the actual amount of oil. The GAO article I linked goes into this: > The SPR caverns that were built by DOE were designed to be geomechanically stable
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by ndiddy 12d ago
> There is a legal floor of ~250M, after which it is reserved for government national defense. There is no "government national defense floor". As far as I can tell, this originates from someone misreading the SPR drawdown laws
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by ndiddy 14d ago
> It's not rational, for example, for them to build nuclear weapons, deprive their people of economic prosperity, kill thousands of protestors, fund militant groups spreading terrorism and murder throughout the region, yet they do i
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by ndiddy 15d ago
> I'm not supportive of Israel having nuclear weapons, but Iran won't do something like this because the Israelis might nuke them. You've said elsewhere in this thread that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and that a g
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by ndiddy 16d ago
> What we don't know is just how recent this model was, and therefore what it may have been trained on. OpenAI's statement says that they began training their new model on August 28.

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