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by rurp 1y ago
The same people who want to cut this service just added a million times that amount to the national debt. Any claim that this is about saving money is transparent bullshit. Free weather data has massive positive externalities. Just like i
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by rurp 1y ago
If you ever end up working on large complicated code bases you'll likely have an easier time relating to the sentiment. LLMs are vastly better at small greenfield coding than for working on large projects. I think 100% of the people I&
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by rurp 1y ago
For anyone reading who hasn't been following the story and is curious, the actual chain of events was pretty much the opposite of what this post is imagining. Elon posted he didn't like that Grok was saying nice things about liber
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by rurp 1y ago
The Smartphone Theory of Everything probably doesn't explain all of the recent social changes, nothing is that simple, but it sure does correlate really well with all kind of trends since they became widespread. Casual socializing, par
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by rurp 1y ago
That LLM is incredibly filtered, just in a different way from others. I suspect by "retraining" the model Elon actually means that they just updated the system prompt, which is exactly what they have done for other hacked in chang
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Linda Yaccarino resigns as CEO of X (Twitter)(politico.com)
2 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
If true, that's pathetic on Apple's part. The unreliability of LLMs was maybe the biggest topic in the entire tech industry around that time. To be ignorant of that basic fact would be an incredibly bad look. I have no insider kno
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by rurp 1y ago
It's being deprecated for billionaires . IP laws are one of the most blatant cases I've seen in this country of wealthy connected people being immune from laws that affect everyone else. I know it happens in many other areas, but
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by rurp 1y ago
Unfortunately this Israeli government has consisently refused to articulate any sort of positive goal. Netanyahu is only publicly against things. He is adamant about preventing a Palestinian state and crippling Iran, but seems to have no pl
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by rurp 1y ago
The tradeoffs depend a lot on how reliable the external dependencies are. Sourcing from Europe seems pretty low risk high reward for the foreseeable future. Relying on the US seemed really safe 10+ years ago but is much less so currently.
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by rurp 1y ago
It's not about fashion, it's about diligence and consideration. Code formatting is totally different from say clothing fashion. Social fashions are often about being novel or surprising which is the opposite of how good code is wr
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by rurp 1y ago
I'm just a civilian on the internet but the total cost was much much more than a just the bomber flight. Getting the equipment and related crews across the globe to the target in a highly secure way is non-trivial. Just based on public
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by rurp 1y ago
In other words, give up the everything wants out of running Tesla? I don't see that happening. He has been working extremely hard to extract as much value as possible out of Tesla, at an unprecedented rate. He wants to be paid more tha
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by rurp 1y ago
> Energy usage doesn't have to correspond to environmental damage much at all. Come on now, green energy is less bad than fossil fuels, often by a lot, but that's very different from having no impact. The mining to support sola
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by rurp 1y ago
Well I've driven Tesla's many times as two of my immediate family members own one and I find the software absolutely terrible, it's the worst UX of any vehicle I've ever driven. The move to hide basic functionality, ofte
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by rurp 1y ago
Same for the Economist. I was on their signup page about to start a subscription when I figured I'd better check how cancellations work. Sure enough there's no simple online cancellation option like there is for signing up. There
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by rurp 1y ago
We're so many years from that point that it's impossible to make reliable predictions. I was hearing these claims over a decade ago and we're only marginally closer. The vast majority of miles driven still happen in locations
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by rurp 1y ago
It depends on how much autonomous driving they actually do. My guess is that they will only drive a miniscule amount in favorable conditions for the foreseeable future. That would maximize the hype:risk ratio. It's also possible they
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by rurp 1y ago
One of my favorite wildlife stats is that you're hundreds of times more likely to be killed by a deer than a mountain lion. Protecting apex predators like wolves and lions significantly reduces deer caused deaths and injuries. It&#x2
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by rurp 1y ago
Yep these bridges have been researched and found to be quite effective. It sounds like this bridge was unusually expensive but on average they even work out to be neutral or +EV on cost due to all of the prevented accidents.
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by rurp 1y ago
Why would those numbers mitigate how bad this is? Public land is awesome and open to everyone. These areas are currently used by millions of hikers, hunters, ranchers, miners, researchers, campers, OHVers, and so many other groups. These sa
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Explosion at Starbase, No Injuries Reported(theborderchronicle.com)
2 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
I agree with this so much. My parents got me reading books early and I regularly read now, but for the most part I hated school asigned reading. There were maybe three books I actually enjoyed throughout high school and college, with the re
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by rurp 1y ago
This honestly sounds slower than just doing it myself, and with more potential for bugs or non-standard code. I've had the same experience as parent where LLMs are great for simple tasks but still fall down surprisingly quickly on anyt
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by rurp 1y ago
I'm really surprised there isn't more pushback to the program since it has aspects that piss off post political sides. Maybe it's just too wonky for mainstream political coverage. A system of indentured servants really is the
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by rurp 1y ago
It's clearly the latter goal, but he just needs to be able to extract money from Tesla rather than keep it going well indefinitely. He's still fighting to get his unprecedented >$50B payout (more money than the company has made
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by rurp 1y ago
Despite everything he has done Musk still has a number of hardcore followers who excuse every action and attack any criticism.
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Another one for the graveyard: Google to kill Instant Apps in December(arstechnica.com)
2 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
Yep, Waymo turning into a terrible exploitative experience 5-10 years after locking up the market will be the least surprising business story ever.
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by rurp 1y ago
I second this, and would add that taste buds are more elastic than many assume. Drinking less sweet drinks can be underwhelming at first but your tastes do adjust fairly quickly and can often get to the point where mildly or unsweetened dri

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