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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Thanks! I don't tend to use the GitHub discussion very much (just commenting on a few Issues) so I didn't know! The Talkyard example is interesting - how does it differ to the algorithms Reddit uses to sort by "Best" or
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
The troubles over copyright infringement in AI training data remind me a bit of Eli Whitney and the cotton gin. There he suffered massive patent infringement, that basically stopped being enforced due to the sheer economic importance of the
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Ignoring the bizarre inclusion of training compute for the AI company estimates, the other comparisons are still valid. > The rest of the software market trails. The top 1% of companies spend $89k per engineer per year on AI, 40% of a fu
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
I wonder if a hybrid might work well - a Reddit/HN style system for comments, but a simple forum style method of post ranking by last activity. So if you make a comment on a post, the post goes to the top of the page. This could work f
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
How much time and money has this ban wasted? Policemen out arresting harmless old ladies with placards like they've nothing better to do.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
People wouldn’t be willing to pay those prices for food, so they’d just end up importing it all. You could force people to accept the low wages by removing all welfare but that has its own problems.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
I haven't read Accelerando but I found Blindsight really difficult to read and like visualise what is going on. It felt like he tried to jam way too many story threads into what is a reasonably short book too. The vampires are a good e
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
That must be outside of Valencia city at that price. And anywhere near Madrid or Barcelona (where most of the good jobs are), forget it. It'll be 350k for a 100m2 apartment or even more expensive in the popular neighbourhoods.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
For me, expat implies a temporary stay, often tied to your job.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
It's crazy the science funding was cut so much, but I wonder if even after the cuts it might still be better than what we have here in Europe. There's been a Europe -> USA brain drain for decades due to the better funding, sala
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
It reminded me more of Blade Runner, especially with the gold lighting.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
> As you descend you pass through a ring made of half a million tiny squares each the size of a fine grain of sand, and each capable of acting as both a tiny speaker and a tiny microphone. Is this actually possible? It seems really ambit
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Why? I can go and fire up my own Unreal Tournament (1999) dedicated server right now, loads are still running. It means the customer needs the option to run their own servers.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Most of these non-fiction, non-technical self-help books are just trash. I say non-technical because the ones about specific subjects like "What to expect in the first year" etc. can be pretty good, but the more general "impr
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Food is a solved problem. We can grow far more food than we need and we stop doing so simply because the low prices mean it's not economically viable. In the places where famine remains a problem, it's due to political issues, not
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Yeah, the times I've had to deal with bots they have seemed way more willing to just give a refund and close the issue.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Are there any popular/successful vibe-coded games? I suppose perhaps they wouldn't disclose that it was vibe-coded but I'm not aware of a single one.
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
Who will down detect the downdetector?
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
> 05-10 06:12 <JertLinc>: Furthermore, your hostile actions and demands have been logged in your profile as part of ongoing data gathering. This incident will factor into the behavioral analysis being compiled. The operation cont
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
Progress in Robotics has been painfully slow so I suspect this simply isn't going to work and we are making the poor guys wear a GoPro for nothing. It looks like GoPro could use the revenue though!
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
We are already there but it's "Sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't tell you what mitochondria are."
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
Unless it brings the price of labour to near zero.
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
It's crazy that now the main goal of the war is to open a strait that was already open before the war.
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
That seems to be working well for Mythos. Just never release it and keep talking about how 'dangerous' it is to pump up the IPO price.
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
Spain's economy grows but unemployment is still a massive problem because the main industries are seasonal, low-paid agricultural and hospitality work. To switch to a high-tech, high value-add economy would requires deep changes that w
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
It seems MSCI will add them, maybe? See: https://www.msci.com/indexes/markets-in-motion/megacap-ipos But it's written in a rather confusing manner so I'm not certain.
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
I'm cautiously optimistic. The Cloud and AI Development Act looks especially interesting: --- # Capacity * at least tripling the EU’s data centre capacity within the next 5–7 years; * simplifying and accelerating permitting and deploym
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
I was quite concerned about this, so this is really good news. In Spain, it's much better to use mutual funds rather than ETFs (for tax reasons) so I didn't have as much choice of funds to avoid these IPOs.
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
How are people using so many tokens? I'm on the $200/month enterprise plan for Claude Code (because it's a better deal than the API pricing) and I don't come close to the limits. If you use stuff like opusplan and /
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
Yeah, in England only certain universities like Oxford and certain subjects like Mathematics have separate entrance exams. That said, the Sixth Form exams are mostly standardised with only a few different exam boards for the entire country,

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