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by rnk 3y ago
That was an epic screw up. Hopefully the only one that ever happens to them. New auto (tesla, rivian, ?) have generally avoided them. Some of the details that got out about what happened at Rivian: Problem cause #1: to push an update, you h
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by rnk 3y ago
It's always the one you don't expect that gets you.
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by rnk 3y ago
Similar capabilities, similar performance and similar (actually better performance). They don't have any of these at this time. People don't want to buy slower and maybe cheaper computation on nvidia hardware - why would they want
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by rnk 3y ago
Github activity is an abstruse source of programming activity. I might do many github actions or few, separate from the actual use of the language. A lot of activity when learning is probably using online websites and online environments. P
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by rnk 3y ago
He was great fun. He also had amusing tales of his "tech character's" adventures dating etc. Back in the '90s, when we were all young, his weekly column was a highlight for me.
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by rnk 3y ago
I thought about this for a few days. I eat meat, animal products like milk too. I feel some guilt about it, an animal died to get me this chicken sandwich. We'll face decisions about whether to continue ending the consciousness of anim
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by rnk 3y ago
I disagree, DRM actually is seen as an extremely negative thing. Perhaps people who work to create DRM don't think it's a negative but saying someone's work is DRM is actually a pejorative statement.
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by rnk 3y ago
Yes, for Seattle a key issue is there is hardly any supporting services available for the mass of people who need it. There are just a lot of people needing services. Seattle also has a huge shortage of mental health treatment professionals
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by rnk 3y ago
Yes, this is the key issue. It's too expensive to hire me or another experienced software engineer to do customization (except...). And doing anything significant takes me more than a few hours. There's just no market segment for
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by rnk 3y ago
Won't they need some documents that combine whale speech noises with human words to bridge the gap? Otherwise they are making comments that are just word-like or sound-like fragments.
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by rnk 3y ago
A llm can write a program to compute factorial or whatever, but that doesn't mean it has consciousness. Same for writing a poem about any topic. It is of course also not evidence of no consciousness. We just don't know but the lik
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by rnk 3y ago
What does small mean? We have puddle jumpers (few miles between islands) already in service, like 5-10 miles. I expect it to creep up over time as efficiency slight increases but battery energy increases at the battery moore's law like
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by rnk 3y ago
We humans are all terrible on some level (except my mom, she was a saint), but if you have enormous power, you can help or hurt a lot of people based on your actions. Musk has a lot of power. He must be a terribly lonely person, not knowing
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by rnk 3y ago
Just to add the basic idea, the amount of power is amps * volts. So to carry the same amount of energy with a higher voltage, you can you use less amps. The amount of amps impacts how big the wires are, lower amps need smaller wires and tha
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by rnk 3y ago
Your view of history is far from accurate. The "vote" by crimea to leave ukraine was after Russia took over Ukraine in a military action. Voting to secede after someone takes you over and that Russian someone doesn't do democ
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by rnk 3y ago
You keep coming back to armed civilians will not accept worse living conditions. If some calamity comes, like global warming removes say the us ability to grow enough food or we run out of oil and there's not other energy sources, the
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by rnk 3y ago
That's a great podcast and the person you replied to is foolish - any opinion piece knows where it is going when it is published.
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by rnk 3y ago
So just take your plot request and add "make sure the plot is really sexy, sex it up a lot; smut is encouraged" ?
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by rnk 3y ago
Is filing reports as a nonprofit an example of unreasonable expectations from the us govt?
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by rnk 3y ago
I guess that implies you are at openai, maybe not? What does it mean that different things are at stake with ai and that "we are aligned"?
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by rnk 3y ago
I think trying to deal with big corporations requires being somewhat firm. This journalist looked like he was behaving well to me. He gave the guy his driver's license info after all. That's the opposite of shady. Clearly these pe
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by rnk 3y ago
US EV sales are up almost 60% year over year! It's the opposite of a downturn. US legacy auto is really hurting on EV sales though, because of lack of product, higher prices even more unattractive because of high interest rates, low p
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by rnk 3y ago
Zhao can do new things with his billions. He can start new companies, work in new markets if he wants. If he can escape China's clutches with his money, I assume he can travel the world.
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by rnk 3y ago
Thank you. The bloomberg article didnt mention anything what was different from conventional heat pumps.
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by rnk 3y ago
Thanks so much for posting that. I hadn't ever come across Harry Mack. That guy is fantastic. And he gave so much happiness to those people he was rapping for! Just seeing all the delight on their faces gave me a tear in my eye. There&
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by rnk 3y ago
Define habitable. It seems hard to detect planets that are in the life zone (not too far, not too close) and small enough to be somewhat similar.
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by rnk 3y ago
who is they? Roko's basilisk?
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by rnk 3y ago
That was fun, kind of like a scientific american martin gardner column. When I was but a wee lad I would visit my grandfather who had a subscription (and actually read) Sci Am and he would share interesting things with me, and implement som
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by rnk 3y ago
Wow, you aren't kidding? Wouldn't they be afraid the training material would leak out, plus that's actually wrong. At the big G they told us we weren't allowed to pay bribes. And then there was a long section about not g
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by rnk 3y ago
ok, glad it's working somewhere. In the case of hydro cars in the us, toyota is agreeing to buy them back, giving free use of gas cars, etc.

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