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901.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Reasonably. This is the Newspaper Formerly Known as the Evening Standard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standard_(London_newspaper... ). That said, in this case you can just check yourself.
902.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Why are they recommending a China Miéville book which won’t be out til the end of the year? I mean, it’ll probably be good, his stuff usually is. But I don’t think even reviewer copies have gone out yet? And while Ann Leckie’s Translation S
903.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Delivery vans rarely hit buildings. And, one assumes, pretty much never above the ground floor.
904.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
And, in fairness, it being Microsoft, it probably will.
905.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
I mean... If Jason Calacanis told me the sky was blue, I would be _checking_. (At some point he seems to have gone from professionally-wrong-about-everything blogger to magical-podcast-thought-leader. I have no idea how this happened.)
906.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Wait, the R1 still exists? Frankly, I had assumed they'd gone under.
907.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
> You could send it a voice message over discord and say "hey remember that conversation about birds? Send an email to Steve and ask him what he thinks about it" Ah, so it's a device for irritating Steve, got it.
908.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Oh, wow, totally forgot about that. I kind of miss the brief period when there was a new absurd LLM-based gadget every week or so (actually, I think they are still coming out; there were some at CES. But everyone has largely lost interest).
909.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
I mean, if it ever gets good, eh, I suppose I'll use it? Pre-emptively using it in case it one day works properly seems rather perverse, tho.
910.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Eh? If all the things that LLMs are not very good at (a long list), they are particularly not good at debugging.
911.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Remember the Ruby on Rails hype? You could make a twitter clone in an afternoon! It obviously wouldn't work properly, but, y'know... This is, like, not the industry's first run-in with "this makes you 10x more productive
912.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
> But something I'd bet money on is that devs are 10x more productive at using these tools. If this were true, we should be seeing evidence of it by now, either in vastly increased output by companies (and open source projects, and
913.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
An AI thing demoed well? Well, colour me shocked. Amazon, which employs many thousands of SREs (or, well, pseudo-SREs; AIUI it's not quite the conventional SRE role), is presumably just doing so for charitable purposes, if they are so
914.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
I mean, Italy had a big problem with this... in the 1980s. Occam's razor indicates that this is probably just Russia, and not some geriatric extremists abruptly coming out of retirement.
915.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
> our projects are far from non trivial Well, there you go; as they say, it's okay for trivial stuff.
916.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
I mean performance is so bad across the board that this is likely essentially random. Monkeys accidentally doing a bit of Shakespeare.
917.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Oh, _only that_? Oh, well, that's fine then.
918.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
> The only mitigating circumstance I can see is that Trump in fact may not have known all the contents. So he's not racist, he's just grossly incompetent? I mean it's not _great_ mitigation.
919.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
"We can now expensively generate useless things! Why are you not more impressed?!"
920.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
... Are you claiming that Americans can't easily buy euro?
921.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
As far as I can see you'd actually have about 50k. Which is, mind you, y'know, still _pretty terrible_.
922.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
> EVs before Teslas were basically niche experiments. The Nissan Leaf (which predates any Tesla production car) was pretty much an electric version of previous Nissan cars. The VW eGolf (contemporaneous with the Tesla Model S) was _liter
923.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
... I mean Tesla's first real production electric car (Model S) came out after the Leaf, and only a few months before VW AG's first production electric cars (VW had previously occasionally put out an electric version of the Golf o
924.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
I think they may catch up quite quickly. In Ireland, I'm suddenly seeing huge numbers of bZ4X, particularly as taxis; Toyota has a tremendous amount of brand loyalty, and I'm fairly sure that there are a lot of people who were wai
925.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Which country? It's surprisingly variable. Note that Geely owns Volvo (or, at least, Volvo Car; the company that makes HGVs is separate) and Polestar; you won't see much under their own brand.
926.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
For all the press, BYD isn't actually that big in Europe. As you can see, Geely (another Chinese brand, which gets very little press) is actually bigger. If you look at the data for Spain, where they're quite big, you'll see
927.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
> Volkswagen (VOWG.DE), opens new tab overtook Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab in sales of fully-electric cars in Europe in 2025 This is pretty nonsensical. The VW _brand_ overtook Tesla in EV sales. However, VW AG (ie the VOWG.DE referenc
928.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
I'm shocked, shocked, that a Trump-appointee-run thing fell for snake oil. I mean, come on, obviously this wasn't going to work. It's face recognition. It's notoriously not-very-good.
929.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
As in, in the modern American sense? No; I’m baffled as to what would make you think that.
930.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
That’s the interesting bit; Winston’s job turns out to be largely redundant. You don’t need to hide the evidence that the chocolate ration used to be higher; if a sufficiently charismatic person with sufficiently stupid hair says that it ha

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