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by prewett 6mo ago
I think a more reasonable reason is that much of the electorate was tired of woke politics. Unfortunately, Trump is just as bad, but in a more traditional sort of bad. (Fortunately, he is also obviously bad. Unfortunately, being obviously b
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by prewett 6mo ago
Apparently the rich have already been moving out of NYC: from 2010 to 2022 the percent of people in the US with $1+ million in federal taxable income dropped from 6% to 4% [1]. A whole bunch left during the pandemic (unsurprisingly), accord
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by prewett 6mo ago
I'm not sure that the continental Colonies brought in much revenue, though. The individual colonists could do quite well, but viewed as an financial investment for the British Crown (which they were not, but that's the OP's a
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by prewett 7mo ago
Even worse, the training set probably includes a lot of code that needed review but didn't get it...
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by prewett 7mo ago
Seemed like satire to me. The author is pretty intentionally oblivious, and even suggests that other people see flaws in their writing that they don’t see. Also, the most egregious errors are right after comments about grammar and such.
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by prewett 7mo ago
The cynic in me thinks that they’re mining bitcoin on our phones… And after completing, it claimed the page was misconfigured.
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by prewett 7mo ago
> You’re just a bag of meat. I submit that there is a difference between me and a corpse. Or between a steak and a cow in the field. "Well, okay, you're just (living) flesh on bones." There's a difference between me a
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by prewett 7mo ago
> individual contributors are evaluated by their execution on deterministic tasks. Ha! Apparently the author hasn't been asked "how long will it take to code this?" yet... And isn't a common developer complaint that m
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by prewett 7mo ago
> My capitalist side says it's always the product not the process. Your capitalist side needs to read some Deming. "Your system is perfectly tuned to produce the results that you are getting." Obviously, then, if you want
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by prewett 7mo ago
I think adding new features is exactly the sort of place where AI is terrible, at least after you do it for a while. I think it's going to have a tendency to regenerate the whole function(s), but it's not deterministic. Plus, as o
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by prewett 7mo ago
Wow, 48k for $14000. Now you can get a MBP with a million times more memory for $3500 or so. Whereas that CPU was clocked at 1 MHz, so CPUs are only several thousand times faster, maybe something like 30,000 times faster if you can make u
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by prewett 7mo ago
I think the reason that I like dark mode is that I have had floaters in my eyes since at least age 14. They stand out against a bright white window background, but I don't notice them at all on a dark window with light text. Or maybe i
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by prewett 7mo ago
Not to disagree with you, but in the case of Civilization, I do find it addicting in both senses. It is one of two games that I just cannot play, because I will be up until 3am playing. (Puzzles and Dragons was the other one, I think I had
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by prewett 7mo ago
I think the article's theory on why people plow is wrong: it is not to let the soil hold more water, but to get rid of weeds. I know someone who did no-till for a while, and he found that you have to spray with glyphosate to keep the w
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by prewett 7mo ago
I spent a while learning English change ringing, on specially mounted church bells. It is basically an exercise in combinatorics: the "change" is applying the pattern so that the bells ring through all possible sequences that the
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by prewett 7mo ago
As a customer, though, I don't really care about the theater's pricing structure. If I'm paying for a pricey ticket, I don't expect to be advertised to. If the theater experience is lousy, I won't go to the theater.
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by prewett 7mo ago
So a bunch of leftists say things like "knowledges" are just things that people in power use to keep themselves in power. They make everything about power. And then they are surprised when the right decides it's about power a
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by prewett 7mo ago
> Haven’t seen anything about Afghanistan. Yeah, that's because about the Taliban took it over about 5 minutes after the US left Afghanistan a few years ago. It was a complete mess.
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by prewett 7mo ago
I wish they'd sell old varieties of apples. The new ones all insist of having Red Delicious (so called) as part of the genetic makeup. It does not impart a good flavor. There are all these nice old ones, like Cortland and Winesap, but
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by prewett 7mo ago
There appear to be zero "C++" jobs within 100 miles of SF, Austin, Chicago, and one at a finance company in Boston. None of those locations had any "React" jobs. So either the job market is abysmal, or those jobs are sti
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by prewett 7mo ago
If LLMs just output the most likely next word, then there must exist enough documents out on the Internet with people in similar situations to make the responses Gemini generated highly probably. Which is a pretty dark probability.
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by prewett 8mo ago
I can totally see why Europe doesn't want to touch this! I'm assuming that Europe doesn't mind the results, but also finds the means legitimately concerning. But they aren't in a position to do anything about the latter,
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by prewett 8mo ago
> Almost anything that China does is based on long-term consequences. I'm not sure that's the case with Xi. Well, I wouldn't be surprised if he tries, but as far as I can tell from a distance, his value system produces unw
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by prewett 8mo ago
A number of the major freeways immediately around Boston are 55. Almost nobody actually drives slower than +10 mph. If you go 55 in the slow lane you'll get passed by other people in the slow lane! I've seen truck speed limits of
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by prewett 8mo ago
Maybe Reformation religions require belief, but the paganism was a set of rituals known to work (by virtue of having worked before), sort of a like a spiritual experimental science. Belief was not required. Religions don't necessarily
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by prewett 8mo ago
A pile of gold always reminds me of an Asimov short story, which began by a guy offering 100k credits of gold bars to a respected movie producer to make a film of questionable artist merit. "He didn't need the credits. He wasn&#x2
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by prewett 8mo ago
Cynicism in unhelpful, and it's not correct. This has nothing to do with governments and everything to do with market economics. This sort of thing happens every few years in computing.
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by prewett 8mo ago
Just for the sake of argument, I don't think the internet and mobile phones are military technologies, nor to GP use those examples. > Industrialized manufacturing of electronics? Ukraine seems to be exploring this and rewriting mil
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by prewett 8mo ago
A cogent article. But I think the biggest problem is that the DOM was built for documents, not apps. We know how to build a performant UI architecture: Qt, Java/Swing, Cocoa all have pretty similar architectures and they all ran fine o
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by prewett 8mo ago
Could you be more specific? Because NVDA has a consistent 20 year growth of something like 400x and +30%/yr, so I don't think the bitter lessons are there.

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