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by pton_xd 2y ago
Go to your doctor with eczema and ask what the problem is. They won't know, and sorry there is no cure. Hell go to your doctor with a migraine -- good luck. Have a food allergy? That should be simple to explain and fix, right... well a
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Taking a step back, my point was simply that there's a large number of common ailments that we don't understand. We don't know what causes them and we don't know how to cure them. Our understanding of human biology is gr
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> The fact that we can't pin down a strong effect on human health outcomes after decades of exposure should be a relief What kind of strong effect are you looking for, immediate death? That fact isn't reassuring to me at all. T
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I think this was a pretty obvious end-goal when they required everyone to relocate back to Seattle and go in 3 days a week. As a tangent, everyone I know at Amazon is over-worked and stressed out. I legitimately don't know anyone whose
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Standard Chartered bank was fined $1.1 bil a few years ago for laundering money for Iran. They were fined for the same thing in 2012. Deutsche Bank was fined $2 bil in 2023 for laundering for Russia. They were fined for the same thing in 20
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Our own banks commit 10x more fraud than that. See TD Bank money laundering case ongoing, could reach $4 billion in fines. Wells Fargo $3 billion in fines for fraudulent charges on fake accounts. JPMorgan Chase $1 bil settlement for UST and
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> Why can I not put an abstraction layer that provides me with the illusion of exactly-once delivery? You can do that. You can implement a video conferencing system ontop of TCP, and it will even work, technically. It will just have terr
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by pton_xd 2y ago
From TFA: "Erosion of Core Programming Skills, Over-Reliance on Auto-Generated Code, Reduced Learning Opportunities, Narrowed Creative Thinking, Dependency on Proprietary Tools, False Sense of Expertise" Personally, I've been
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Wholesale I'm not sure. Retail you can use sites like stonealgo.com to search inventory. And no that's the final cut and graded price.
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I mean, this has been true for the better part of a decade. The difference now is that jewelers caved and many offer a selection of lab diamonds. There's still a high markup on lab diamonds in most retailers though. Loose lab diamonds
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by pton_xd 2y ago
"The results were a 90% reduction in costs and a 30% improvement in performance." What's the scale of this service? How many machines are we talking here?
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Aren't UVA and UVB the low energy / non-ionizing parts of the UV spectrum?
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What's the mechanism by which UVA and UVB radiation cause cancer?
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Is there an agreed upon best effort robots.txt that I can reference to cut out crawlers? Or a list of IP addresses or user agents or other identifying info known to be used by AI crawlers? Ultimately pointless but just curious.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
I see your point but that specific analogy makes me wince. Google search was way better in the 2000s. It has become consistently dumber since then. Usefulness doesn't necessarily increase in a straight line over time.
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> It's very bizarre that COVID is the poster-boy for social media censorship. The whole thing seems incredibly contrived; no one actually cares about COVID censorship I agree, it is bizarre. Why weren't we allowed to discuss th
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> Their solution to this high level of crime is yet more incarceration. True, more incarceration doesn't seem to fix anything. However less incarceration also does not fix anything (see downtown San Francisco). > Finland and Norw
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by pton_xd 2y ago
That doesn't pay. Pulling over a citizen with a job and citing them for speeding is a much more lucrative use of their time. Both are against the law, so they're doing their job either way. Kind of. Although as another commenter n
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Ain't nothin' wrong with configuring V8 to have unbounded heap growth, disabling the memory reducer, and then killing the process after a while.
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On the one hand, yeah of course guaranteeing coverage for children and preexisting conditions is an obvious win. And removing coverage caps. But beyond that... has average life expectancy measurably increased because of this "extra&quo
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by pton_xd 2y ago
What are the cool Zed features? Also genuinely interested.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Pretty cool attack vector. Kind of crazy how many different ways there are to leak data with LLM contexts.
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Many industries, like AAA game development, work this way. There's a good reason for it -- code quality and performance is important. Understanding what your code actually does and how it does it, is important. And as a result, AA
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Every team should eventually have some internal libraries of useful project-agnostic functionality. That addresses most of your points. Copy-paste the code into your internal library and maintain it yourself. Don't add a dependency on
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Here's a site that lists a few [0]. I will say that if you've spent any time trying to develop a web-based app it becomes painfully obvious that Apple is doing the absolute bare minimum to support the browser on iOS. PWAs are bare
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No wonder the compile times are so slow. Rustc comes with built-in content moderation! Anyway I think they forgot a few, like 173406926 (// Intentionally written in decimal rather than hex). Seems like they just checked https:&#x
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Constructive dismissal should be met with malicious compliance. I wonder what the PFML / FMLA claims look like graphed year over year.
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This use-case actually makes a ton of sense. How many other low-hanging fruit applications for agents are out there like that? Although now that I think about it, a lot of doctors practices have a MyChart-style portal where you can schedule
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Isn't "we hardcoded JSON into the latest model" kind of the opposite direction, strategically, from "we're on the way to AGI and I need 7 trillion to get there?"
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> investors would be bought out at a valuation of about $88 per share. That’s about 2.5 times the value of shares in Character’s 2023 Series A, which valued the company at $1 billion Those investors almost certainly have a liquidation pr

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