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by nightski 2y ago
There are plenty of compression methods that have zero generalization. There are also methods of generalization that do not compress at all. It seems to me that they are orthogonal concerns, even if they may make sense to use together.
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by nightski 2y ago
It's the cars right? Not the speeding driver behind the wheel. Not the person driving home buzzed from the brewery. Or the person on their phone while driving. It's those pesky damn cars. Our culture not only makes too many ex
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by nightski 2y ago
Yes, but not solely. They are also generalization.
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by nightski 2y ago
Throwing out type safety simply because you have unverified input is a little silly. It's trivial in most statically typed languages to safely turn input into a concrete type (or an error if it is invalid) at the edge and meanwhile ma
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by nightski 2y ago
Calling weights an executable is disingenuous and not a serious discussion. You can do a lot more with weights than you could with a binary executable.
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by nightski 2y ago
It's not zero sum, we can do both.
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by nightski 2y ago
FWIW depends on cost of power. Where I live cost of power is less than half the stated average.
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by nightski 2y ago
Vanguard, but instead of using target date funds I choose the index fund allocation manually. The target date funds basically just hold 4 index funds. If you are in a tax advantaged account, it's pretty trivial to just update those a
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by nightski 2y ago
As an end user (not developer) I'd take just about any design system over MUI. It's so clunky/heavy, has an abundance of useless white space, and just feels really outdated.
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by nightski 2y ago
There's no problem. It's just the same model as Microsoft with the only difference that Microsoft works with an ecosystem of hardware manufacturers vs. being the sole one.
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by nightski 2y ago
I find whenever you try to play god when it comes to the economy things never work out how you plan.
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by nightski 2y ago
No, but maybe don't start with one of the smaller sources of overall greenhouse gasses (it's like <3% in the U.S. for example, not sure about Denmark), especially when it affects nutrition and well being of your people.
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by nightski 2y ago
Very few negative externalities are actually accounted for. This is political grandstanding at best.
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by nightski 2y ago
I'd imagine most of that "doing better" is wiped out by much higher housing costs and food inflation for the least fortunate.
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by nightski 2y ago
Or maybe those wage gains are not evenly distributed.
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by nightski 2y ago
That's fine for your purposes as you just need the correlation and don't need to find the true cause. But in reality it doesn't tell you much about what the true nature of these people are. It just allows you to label them
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by nightski 2y ago
I don't think the distinction between DRY or don't DRY is interesting at all. Instead what matters is how the abstraction is achieved/performed. Good abstractions stand the test of time, poor ones leak.
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by nightski 2y ago
You seem to think that if you spread everyone out, they all need to commute back to the same place. That's not true at all however. With small cities/large towns I don't need to commute to "the big city" because t
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by nightski 2y ago
There's nothing efficient about big cities. Hours of commuting by millions of people every day. Tons of excess and waste. You become disconnected from the source of your food which has to be shipped in. Technology is a lot more than
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by nightski 2y ago
This comment will not go over well on HN but I am in full agreement. I am actually extremely disappointed as I thought tech would enable a more dispersed society. Instead we received the opposite.
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by nightski 2y ago
Or it means that earnings are lagging the price increase. They just announced a 629% increase in earnings from a year ago (461% non-gaap) and it seems to be accelerating.
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by nightski 2y ago
What do you mean "getting into hardware again"? They have been making surface laptops for quite some time. This is like the 10th iteration? Maybe more?
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by nightski 2y ago
A lightweight model that you can only use in the cloud? That is amusing. These tech megacorps are really intent on owning your usage of AI. But we must not let that be the future.
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by nightski 2y ago
A decked out Mac Studio is like $7k for far less GPU power. I find that highly unlikely.
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by nightski 2y ago
At least on Bitwarden you can just edit the domain if that comes up a lot for you (or even add multiple domains to a password). I'd rather do that than copy/paste on a regular basis. Honestly I can't say I ever copy/pa
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by nightski 2y ago
I am so tired of all these acquisitions. My personal opinion is that it is ruining our economy.
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by nightski 3y ago
Maybe in isolation when only considering a single fine tune. But if you look at it in aggregate I am not so sure.
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by nightski 3y ago
I find that highly unlikely. Maybe in specific markets but not US wide.
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by nightski 3y ago
You can't look at them independently. Code generation is not it's own task separate from requirements gathering, Q&A with stakeholders, testing, etc... As we get agents that bring those other factors into the loop of code ge
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by nightski 3y ago
I'd imagine practically no one actually takes that because the standard deduction is more lucrative. Unless you live in a far above average priced home with a jumbo loan.

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