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by pipo234 3y ago
+1 Arguably "AI" is already plenty general enough, it's just not very intelligent.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Some hobbyists spend a fortune on miniature rail roads, some collect antique furniture or action figures, and there are those that obsess over stamps and coins. TL;DR — good to know that Apple fans have not yet forgotten about iPhones.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Yes, we've seen that it can be done. Technically. But by and far the majority of trains are still human operated. Even though the traffic rules are very straight forward ("get out of my way, or...") and the guidance systems
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by pipo234 3y ago
> A million jobs are begging for HUDS that guide the worker [..] I have a pretty dull, comfortable desk job and lack the imagination to come up with any. Can you name some? (I've been wrong before when I was skeptical when everyone
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by pipo234 3y ago
If @detourdog meant AR/VR in the snow crash / Metaverse sense, I guess the apprehension is similar to the discourse about "Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)" a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Might have completely missed something, but I thought AR/VR was (and still is) a solution looking for a problem. Have they finally stumbled into something people want to do with them, beyond games and porn?
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by pipo234 3y ago
+1. So often we conceptualize in terms of tasks, phases, states, processes. And then ultimately you discover it is all about data flow, an rarely about the algorithm.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Another five years away it is, then ;-)
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by pipo234 3y ago
Okay, that makes sense. Men on moon was 5 years away in 1964. I might argue that today men on the moon are over 50 years away, in the sense that currently there's no-one there. Guess it's a half-full / half-empty, discussion.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Existence is an important first step. I'd argue it's still at least five years away from replacing my daily commute, though. So, were the train experiments successful? If so, what is stopping it from replacing regular trains? From
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by pipo234 3y ago
Multiple promising experiments show that it's technically possible. That's an important step, but still mostly shows this is theoretically working until you can show me a profitable company that replaced human drivers without
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by pipo234 3y ago
So next up: will they be able to reach profitability servicing SF and Phoenix. So far, highly small scale subsidized pilot projects. The hardware is more expensive than regular cabs. The software has cost billions, an may cost billions more
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by pipo234 3y ago
Maybe we should have tried self driving trains first?
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Landmines [..] arcane rules [..] So you're (primarily?) referring to "cognitive overhead" rather than more usual meaning of overhead as in "runtime overhead". Not sure about the ABI differences and how this tie
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Rust showed that these things were not only possible but viable without unnecessary overhead [..] Ehrm. You seem to imply that Rust has somehow solved the overhead that C++ introduced. I'm aware that comparing Rust versus C++ is a
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by pipo234 3y ago
What?! A mere $375 per world inhabitant?! Psss.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Disclaimer: I'm an ex-oracle employee. Making millions on DB software only withhold RedHat the pocket change they absolutely deserve is absolutely pathetic. Even with the helpful support and hand holding of then co-workers, I found tha
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by pipo234 3y ago
Curious to learn who the bad faith actor was. Oracle? Rocky Linux? Alma? VMware? All of the above? And what avenues of negotiating a better outcome did they try before opting for the nuclear tactics?
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by pipo234 3y ago
Call me a hippie, but wouldn't it be great if Rocky got its way with free as in libre , while RedHat got its way with NOT free as in beer ? I for one am perfectly happy paying some. Appreciating that RedHat is not a charity, while al
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by pipo234 3y ago
Okay, let's start with the software itself being free. That is, no-one pays for distribution or use, creation is sponsored voluntarily (contributions, donations) but this is not sustainable. Customers may want to pay for training and c
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by pipo234 3y ago
Indeed, who can? RH is still leading and sponsoring a lot of Linux development — that's the goodwill part. But maaaann, for quite a while RHEL has not been a very welcoming and inviting distro (unless you're the one checking the b
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by pipo234 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Ideally, Rocky's money making side could come to some sort of agreement to share revenue with RHEL's money making side, so that in turn RHEL's software making side doesn't mind sharing code wit
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by pipo234 3y ago
Wow! Lots of information in a snappy interface.
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by pipo234 3y ago
> So an alternative explanation for widespread perception of moral decline is that each generation observes moral decline relative to its own standards. and > [..] they find a marginal trend for people to rate morality worse 40 years
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by pipo234 3y ago
Silence, at last.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Micro payments only make sense if the intrinsic transaction costs are (near) zero. Like reaching for your wallet to pick a coin to give to a homeless person. With trusted third parties or block chains, the transaction costs are unfortunatel
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by pipo234 3y ago
...And then we're back with the underlying conflicting interests surrounding governments guarding their citizen's privacy. Yes absolutely we want all our citizens to always use unbreakable and untraceble communication channels. Ex
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by pipo234 3y ago
True. There is some great content (blogs, OS software, books, p2p networks, public libraries, academia, government), but by and large that wasn't created with monetary incentives. Could there be a way to sustainably make enough money f
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by pipo234 3y ago
I'd pay a little if we could get rid of the pop ups and cookie banners, advertisements and click bait content. But after 30 years we're still missing the infrastructure for micro payments. For news sites and netflix we now have su
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by pipo234 3y ago
Sure! If everything crypto were as simple as hashing, but protocol design and in particular privacy is not. I was thinking along the lines of Bruce Schneier's infamous “Attacks always get better, they never get worse”. In terms of hash

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