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by pphysch 9mo ago
The autopilot analogy is good because level 4-5 are essentially vaporware outside of success in controlled environments backed by massive investment and engineering.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
How is it conceptually different? RDBMS ORM-based web frameworks (with built-in Admin GUIs) ate the web-oriented crowd, and the rest are happy managing their data in Excel. That doesn't leave much room for MS Access.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
> MS Access for the web with an SSO This is essentially Rails and Django and so on
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Snowflake and Databricks provide data storage and pipeline features and therefore have extraordinary lock-in potential, which allows them to have sustainable business models. GPU compute is essentially fungible. That's quite a stretch
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Israel was car bombing Iran less than a year ago, with the open intention of destroying the state through terrorism. Yet violent agitation is a bridge too far?
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by pphysch 9mo ago
What is "going after [...] the people who vote" supposed to mean?
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by pphysch 9mo ago
There are many reasons why you can have violence in the streets, especially in a climate of enormous foreign manipulation. An enemy state was setting off car bombs just a year ago...
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Is the Hash Index method strictly superior to creating a unique "hash" column and precomputing the hash in the application or query?
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by pphysch 9mo ago
The microeconomics of that decision are poor for the company, but the macroeconomics are great. But the macro angle has been reduced to "Fed interest rate" in America.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
"China bots everywhere" or generally making renewable energy seem like a nefarious foreign plot is itself a big oil talking point. When your argument can't stand on the facts, deploy the Big Bad Bogeyman.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
That would be nice. It looks more like the early 1900s with naked imperialism and crony capitalism right now. Possibly staring down the barrel of a 1930s economic collapse.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
The minmax representation makes less sense if you are frequently updating the 3D objects position, no? You really want both representations available. It make sense to generate the bounds JIT when you are actually building an octree to test
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by pphysch 9mo ago
The obvious problem is that Grok is also distributing the illegal images. This could be easily fixed by making the generated images sent through private Grok DMs or something, but that would harm the bottom line. Maybe they will do that e
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by pphysch 9mo ago
An AI-enabled developer is still a full-time job that requires SWE expertise. I think the quoted portion is correct, but it will be a gradual change as CTO/CIOs realize the arbitrage opportunity in replacing most of their crappy SaaS s
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by pphysch 9mo ago
European software industry is so interesting because my impression is that the (Western) OSS sector is largely supported by talented European developers. Just a vibe from interacting with hundreds of successful OSS projects. Europe clearl
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by pphysch 9mo ago
You mean base64? 10 digits is only 10 billion addresses
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Predatory loans were maligned as "usury" long before "rent-seeking" or Scary Marxists came along. For good reason. They're bad for society and the economy writ large.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Which is rarely longer than a year, and many people go month-to-month, if they even have a contract.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Yep. The initial marketing video makes it seem like a "brain+motor" super-brick that can somehow turn minifigs into robots and autonomously drive vehicles. But no, it's just a speaker + couple LEDs and a proximity sensor. It&
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by pphysch 9mo ago
To be clear, the SMART brick is not much of a "programmable logic toy", topping out at "if near X, play U sound". Your last paragraph is spot on though.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Destroying the fabs would hurt the West a lot more than China, which is rapidly playing catch up (while US and EU are not). The other glaring flaw in this pop-geopolitics narrative is that China already has enormous economic leverage over t
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by pphysch 9mo ago
A lot of the changes you are referring to were probably implemented by Lina Khan's FTC. Guess where Lina Khan is now.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Why would Taiwan destroying its own assets disincentivize annexation goals that have existed long before computer chips were produced there?
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by pphysch 9mo ago
> Part of my problem is that the ecosystem is big. There's too much to learn: OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Zipkin, Micrometer, eBPF, auto-instrumentation, OTel SDK vs Datadog Agent, and on and on. I don't know, maybe I'm bi
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by pphysch 9mo ago
The same applies to Universities and "democratic" institutions.
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by pphysch 10mo ago
Nor is it The Atlantic.
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by pphysch 10mo ago
> There's never been any hint from either the US or China that those agents were doing anything other than passive intelligence collection, as opposed to actively interfering in domestic Chinese politics. And in any event, the scope
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by pphysch 10mo ago
The West hasn't stopped interfering in Iran though. They did massive terrorist attacks there just a year ago. Israel would openly salivate at the prospect of destroying Iranian agriculture and water supply. China is an interesting coun
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by pphysch 10mo ago
On the contrary, being able to access (largely/verifiably) correct solutions to tangible & relevant problems is an extremely great way to learn by example. It should probably be supplemented with some good old RTFM, but it does get
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by pphysch 10mo ago
Oh no, not the Used Cooking Oil. Thank you DoJ for keeping our streets safe. Seriously though, what's the usual lifecycle for those waste oil tanks? Will the owner sell the contents to a recycler when it's full?

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