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by nostrademons 1mo ago
Are you confusing Tor with a VPN? With a VPN the IP is a commercial server run by the VPN provider, and there's usually just one hop (you run an encrypted connection between yourself and the VPN provider that all your traffic is route
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Everybody is saying that the Great Lakes region is a climate haven, but it's intensely vulnerable to both polar vortex events coming down from Canada and wet-bulb heat waves coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. The middle of America is
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
It's beneficial for the largest firms, the ones that can forge personal relationships with the administration, because it's detrimental to all other businesses. Competitive advantage and all that.
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Note that Google stopped using it in IIRC 2006. It wasn't because of the adversarial link farms, though, which are usually handled by trying to identify fake links and take them out of the computation in a preprocessing step. (There a
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
The first time it happened (2023) it was a non-issue; he did exactly as you said, appointment happened as planned, and then he was back on his scheduled plane trip a week later. Everything post-2025 has been a shit-show. There's no pr
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
I've had a couple of reports that this applied to. It's incredibly disruptive. "I've got to fly back to India to renew my visa." "Okay, when will you be back?" "I have no idea, it depends when I c
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
There are two purposes to jobs: One is the obvious one, to produce things. AI can somewhat help with that, although less than you might think because it's largely producing knowledge output rather than physical things. If AI lets one
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Yann LeCun's response is interesting. I've heard that the transformer architecture underlying LLMs is actually really effective for robotics, but progress is a lot slower here because instead of just scraping the web and Anna&#x2
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
They can't, really. Putin's domestic power base will not let him suffer a defeat. His power is predicated on seeming all-powerful; once he doesn't, then other internal threats within Russia which have been kept at bay by
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
His strategy was to give Ukraine just enough weapons to prevent annihilation without giving them so many weapons that would allow them to win. Hence, quagmire. The weapon sales also came with conditions like not allowing them to strike de
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Biden gets Russia and Ukraine stuck in a quagmire in Ukraine, so Putin retaliates by getting the U.S. and Iran stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East. Wars are won by the countries that stay out of them. The Russia-Afghanistan war played
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Not honest-to-god Tesla tiles, but a friend of mine put up Chinese knock-offs that he's pretty happy with. I think the problem here is "Tesla" rather than "solar roofs"; friend has a non-Tesla solar roof and it loo
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
I think it makes sense as soon as students have the fundamentals down. You have to be able to read, listen, make connections, think critically, devote sustained attention to a task, and manage your time effectively. Some students develop
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Also - 90s tech generally didn't try to charge you rent for existing. Either you paid them a price for some fairly tangible benefit to your life, or they gave you the service for free fueled by VC dollars (which we now recognize as nu
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
AI is now more powerful than the people doing the prosecution. After all, those folks are using AI to make their legal briefs, and also for burning peoples' houses down with drones for that matter. Welcome to our 21st century dystopia
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
This is typical at the college/university level - when I attended 20-25 years ago, we were expected to learn the material through readings outside of class, and then class time was spent on discussion, application, questions, and worki
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Not GP, but one of the challenges with debating whether LLMs are "conscious" is that we don't even really know what it means for a human to be "conscious", or even if consciousness is experienced by other humans the
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
The optimal fit doesn't remain static. The reason for all of [job hopping, fluid labor markets, bankruptcy, startup formation, inflation] is because the world doesn't stay the same . Desires change. New technologies are invente
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
This really depends on mindset. If your mindset is "The economy is an incredibly dynamic, living thing whose purpose is to satisfy the consumer desires of the moment ", then job-hopping can be all of very satisfying, very lucrati
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
A product that lets airlines keep annoying people off them isn't worth enough to either the airlines or Google for it to be worth releasing. My very first project at Google made them about $180M. It was canceled after about 3 years be
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
It's a response to the GP, which makes the point that time in the field would still be spent with family. Time in the field with family is different from "spending time together" in the same sense that time on the computer a
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Time on computer is often spent "with family" too, eg. my son is home from school today and noodling around on my phone next to me while I handle a bunch of errands online.
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
I think that's going to be the central tension of the next few years. The article suggests that software becoming more secure is going to lead to renewed calls for a "legitimate" backdoor for law enforcement to access everyt
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Kinda, yes. Osama Bin Laden's express goal was to bankrupt the U.S. by provoking it into a war it could not win. Three wars in the Middle East later, and $33T in additional government debt, and hear we are.
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
This article (and the previous one) is a little weird, because nowhere in either of these is a discussion about why you would use an arena , and I'm not certain the author understands that very fundamental concept. You use an arena wh
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
My wife wouldn't have considered this a business before LLMs. She's mostly just doing friends' parties, and oftentimes getting paid in-kind (i.e. instead of bringing a gift, she just facepaints all the neighborhood kids). Re
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Makes me wonder how many of the complaints about capitalism are really about corruption , and if people would have a more favorable view of it if we didn't have this system of interlocking directorships, revolving public/private
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Actual example: my wife wanted a logo for the facepainting business she's starting with our 5yo, so she asked Gemini "I want a logo with these objects in it, drawn in these colors, with this business name." And it spits back
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
If you want determinism, you ask Claude Code to write you a computer program to the desired specs, and then run that program over and over again, instead of renting the software from a SaaS vendor. I've done that a bunch - I'll s
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
The leaked internal Google memo "We have no moat" [1] was really prescient. It foresaw all of these proprietary models losing out to open-weight models. Entirely possible that none of the big incumbents ends up winning, economica

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