rzwitserloot

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by rzwitserloot 29d ago
I use the dutch version of this (OVInfo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.skywave.ovi... ) which does have a nicer interface: You _can_ load a map and gawk at it, but by default it loads very fast
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by rzwitserloot 29d ago
It's a wider take on [Goodhart's Law]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law ): - young female founders running successful businesses appear to be exceptionally skilled because they have been fightin
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by rzwitserloot 2mo ago
If a government entity would work like this, all heck would break loose. Trying to contrast this to the EU's attempts to force only gatekeepers (those companies so large that there is no alternative to dealing with them) to open up s
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by rzwitserloot 2mo ago
To add a few more exotic cases that affect things. Keep in mind that by default new languages fail. To succeed, many things have to all go right at once, and this implies that therefore there is not one single element that, if gotten righ
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by rzwitserloot 3mo ago
As I said, H2 has violent exothermic reaction potential just the same.
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by rzwitserloot 3mo ago
... and it costs society more to process the destroyed waste, and it costs society more to then deal with the fallout of shelters not having enough clothes. Or not. Who knows. The point is, this 'economically it is more efficient'
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by rzwitserloot 3mo ago
Yes, and that sounds like a better plan, but evidently that requires more political capital than is available.
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by rzwitserloot 3mo ago
It's a somewhat blunt instrument used to internalize some externalities: Making a product and then destroying it is wasteful, and the market will fix all internalized costs of that waste, but some of those costs are externalized. Havin
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by rzwitserloot 3mo ago
Hear me out: There's a way the desert states can export and store their solar energy production cheaply, easily, at scale, without needing any rare earths (nothing that is hard to obtain / limited supply / is dirty to extract
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by rzwitserloot 3mo ago
It's the local v. federal thing. The US has been suffering from this for a while, as has Germany. The EU, too, is suffering from this. The local politician's thinking is thusly: - Datacenters are going to happen somewhere . And w
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by rzwitserloot 3mo ago
Let's not conflate these two issues. For this specific case there is absolutely no confusion. A quote, from his own talk page, written by himself: > But as of fall 2025, I have returned, with the aim of helping Wikipedia in variou
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by rzwitserloot 4mo ago
You cannot bet 50/50 on that question. Hence, you aren't actually asked to evaluate whether the answer to the questions you posted is 'yes' or 'no'. You are instead asked 'is the actual chance of it happen
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by rzwitserloot 4mo ago
A good point and the java ecosystem makes similar mistakes. In general any: ``` if (x != null && !x.isEmpty()) doAThing(x); ``` is either: [A] Code directly on the boundary between systems; the other system is explicitly documented
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by rzwitserloot 4mo ago
One obvious alternative plan, presupposing that Full Body Scan is dirt cheap, is the following protocol: - At 25 years old or whatever you get a FBS. Pretty much no matter what, this FBS will not be used to do more checks, procedures, and s
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by rzwitserloot 4mo ago
In normal times, what you say is obviously true. But specifically at this moment in time what you've written is total hogwash. Currently the US is spending money as if it's, specifically, an infinite resource. Hence, this kaibos
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by rzwitserloot 4mo ago
Your premise is incorrect; if apple truly wants to do the 'right thing for its users', it would allow choice. The fact that the current crop of likely alternate choices include quite a few companies and offerings that seem far m
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by rzwitserloot 5mo ago
In this context, a social construct. In terms much more popular a century ago, a 'nation': A people who have some similarities in how they approach, in this case, a combination of 'privacy aspects in regards to business'
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by rzwitserloot 6mo ago
Switserland is a true confederation. It consists of 26 cantons and in most ways each canton is sovereign. As an example, swiss cantons are considerably more independent from the Swiss Confederacy (i.e. what most people know and call 'S
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by rzwitserloot 6mo ago
It is the same premise, because the person you are responding to is not talking about the moral implications at all, only about the financial / hardware implications. Running AI inference increases the power draw, and requires certain
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by rzwitserloot 7mo ago
Not to mention that the actual controls in a car (from gearshift to button to change the brightness on the on-board display to 'open garage door' button of a built in radio wave thing) are never called chrome for fairly obviou
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by rzwitserloot 8mo ago
that's a bit of a hairy situation. You're doing it wrong. Or not really, but.. complicated. As per [RFC 5321]( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321.html ): > the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned
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by rzwitserloot 8mo ago
The vast, _vast_ majority of such infrastructure was turn down in the 60s to make way for the almighty automobile. The number of places in the north american continent that retain their street focused infrastructure is pretty much countable
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by rzwitserloot 9mo ago
That boils down to the second point, doesn't it? Just - with tooling that checks you are doing the thing that the model requires you to do.
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by rzwitserloot 10mo ago
2 friends of mine did an entire presentation on their deep dive into crypto. They started a long time ago, and very smartly: Instead of trading it themselves, they wrote bots to play the arbitrage game: Find price differences between 2 mark
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by rzwitserloot 10mo ago
I don't think these LLMs were explicitly designed based on the CEO's detailed input that boils down to 'reproduce these servile yes-men in LLM form please'. Which makes it more interesting. Apparently reddit was a part
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by rzwitserloot 10mo ago
There is utility in indicating how surprised / concerned you are at a certain process or event. We can flatten out all communication and boil everything down to an extremely neutral "up", "down", and "nailed it
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by rzwitserloot 10mo ago
It wasn't an 'it' it was a 'some'. Some of these companies that are investing massively in data centers will fail. Right now essentially none have 'failed' in the sense of 'bankrupt with no recovery
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by rzwitserloot 11mo ago
I read in multiple somewhat off-beat sources lacking good info (in the sense "They did not back up their writings and don't enjoy an impeccable track record of such high regard that I will take their word for it", not in the
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by rzwitserloot 11mo ago
Network effects says that is long-term immaterial; there just needs to be some event that breaks a self-reinforcing cycle. The reason there is no linux version of Affinity is thus simple: Because there aren't enough linux users to warr
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by rzwitserloot 11mo ago
I'm from The Netherlands but have lived in the US for a while and unlike other country brethren responding in this thread, it did come across as condescending to me. Trying to dissect why it comes across, I think it's just me kn

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