petilon

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by petilon 10d ago
> The trouble for the US is that it is now very clear that the US president can just act like a crazy dictator, and that the mechanisms which were supposed to prevent that simply don't function. This is true. A US president who ha
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by petilon 10d ago
Trust won't come back immediately, but if the next 2 to 3 Presidents are "normal" then trust will come back slowly.
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by petilon 10d ago
Trump is not emperor for life, fortunately. He'll be gone in a couple of years. With any luck the upcoming midterms will significantly limit his powers. America will recover from this dark period. Other countries have had dark periods
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by petilon 10d ago
When Hitler was removed did another Hitler variant take control of Germany? No, Germany recovered from that dark period. The same will happen in the US. We will recover from this dark period. The comparison to Hitler is not baseless, btw. H
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by petilon 11d ago
I think it will happen in about the same timeframe as SpaceX runs AI racks in space.
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by petilon 11d ago
> You don't think the human race will be extended to Mars? About the same probability as SpaceX running AI racks in space :)
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by petilon 11d ago
That's if SpaceX AI doesn't hack into the systems that control this capability first. And this is why physical access is important, as depicted in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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by petilon 11d ago
The same kind of analysts are saying extending human race to Mars is a dumb idea.
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by petilon 11d ago
And extending the human race to Mars, and Hyperloop, and frontier AI model, and DOGE cutting $2 trillion per year in government spending...
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by petilon 11d ago
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the hero defeats the hostile onboard computer by entering its logic core and manually disconnecting its memory modules. That's hard to do if the AI rack is in space as SpaceX is planning to do. You can't
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by petilon 11d ago
> Microsoft are bundling a lot more into the platform and leaving less to the community. This is a good thing. In Java everything has multiple community offerings, so before doing anything you have to evaluate the community offerings a
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by petilon 11d ago
> AI is a legit threat to Amazon because headless Amazon makes it more difficult for Amazon to sell ads No, the threat is bigger than that. If AI automatically places orders on Amazon's site, tomorrow it could place the order on a
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by petilon 11d ago
For CPUs, Moore's law lasted more than 50 years. We don't know how long it will last for GPUs. I think Nvidia will keep improving performance, lowering power consumption and reducing heat generation for many years to come.
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by petilon 12d ago
> They are still making billions from highly sticky enterprise customers That's true. This lets Oracle coast for a while. But if they coast for too long SAP will overtake them.
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by petilon 12d ago
Bloomberg and Economist seem to be doing OK, so it is possible.
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by petilon 12d ago
NVDA P/E is 26. That's hardly overhyped. For comparison AAPL P/E is 38.
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by petilon 12d ago
Larry Ellison's son had to scale down his media and TV empire ambitions when Oracle stock crashed. That's one thing to celebrate, because we don't want CNN to be controlled by the Ellisons.
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by petilon 12d ago
That's relative to the hype we had before. Previously any involvement in AI was rewarded heavily, but now it is being punished. Wallstreet previously punished Apple for not enough AI now they are being rewarded for not throwing 100s of
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by petilon 12d ago
Oracle's credit rating has been downgraded to a notch above "junk" status [1]. That means they can't borrow cheaply anymore. The only way to raise cash now is to cut payroll, and that's what they are doing. And what
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by petilon 13d ago
So kind of like how the US figured out how to test and maintain nuclear weapons without an actual explosion, then sought to ban nuclear testing by explosion.
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by petilon 14d ago
> The threat to mathematics isn't that suddenly the profitability of their profession (lol) is going to go away, it's that people are thinking of AI as a replacement for the human social and intellectual practices that constit
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by petilon 14d ago
> We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose. In many fields and activities, years of training have traditionally served not only to produce a
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by petilon 16d ago
If it is a tier-1 language why isn't it supported in Visual Studio?
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by petilon 16d ago
If you like uncomplicated GUIs: http://mayura.com/chess/
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by petilon 19d ago
If the goal is to use JSX and avoid the complexities of React checkout https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder Sample application: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/we
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by petilon 21d ago
Astra pelican looks amazing: it looks like it was made by a professional artist. All the others look like they were made by kindergartners.
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by petilon 22d ago
I think mainly your mail won't go into the sent folder and be searchable. You can work around that by CCing your domain. What other features will you not get? The mail composer in Gmail is pretty sucky anyway. For example when you are
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by petilon 22d ago
This only impacts Gmail web interface, according to [1]. You can use a desktop email client and continue to receive and send email from your custom domain. "Web access changes: As previously announced, you can no longer add or sync you
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by petilon 22d ago
AI could discover candidate novel physics without autonomously operating new physical experiments, and humans or instruments can later independently validate the result. This is analogous to how Einstein developed theories whose predictions
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by petilon 22d ago
Solving "open problems" will push the field forward.

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