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811.
by slashdev 3y ago
Despite the article, I don’t think it would be a good doctor. I read a report of a doctor who tried it on his case files from the ER (I’m sure it was here in HN) It called some of the cases correctly, missed a few others, and would have kil
812.
by slashdev 3y ago
LLMs are not for doing arithmetic. Don’t use a hammer to drive screws.
813.
by slashdev 3y ago
The same thing that keeps them from doing that now. Banks are required by regulation to keep enough liquidity on hand and have restrictions on what kinds of assets they can hold. They don’t do it out of an abundance of common sense anyway.
814.
by slashdev 3y ago
It’s the combination. Either factor by itself might have been ok, but when 80% of depositors are not insured and the bank has a liquidity crunch, it can spiral out of control quickly.
815.
by slashdev 3y ago
In Canada where we have a couple large banks and no real choices or competition, that sounds like a dream. Unfortunately it looks like the U.S. is moving rapidly in that direction too. That’s a shame. I can tell you, it’s much worse when a
816.
by slashdev 3y ago
I would rather they have money and a business plan. That way it’s more likely it will get the resources needed to develop it, build a community around it, and I won’t end up with a mothballed open source project that’s not maintained anymor
817.
by slashdev 3y ago
Not really, no. Like SVB, FRCs problem was just having too high a percent of uninsured deposits (rich customers, basically). When rumors started that they were next, unlike SVB they were actually a healthy, well run bank. But no bank can ha
818.
by slashdev 3y ago
The funny thing is, if you insure everything everywhere then why would anyone pull their money out of a bank to begin with? That ends the bank runs and the deposit flight right there. It probably wouldn’t come to that.
819.
by slashdev 3y ago
Up the rate and ammortize it over the next 20 years. The alternative is to kill the regional banks and concentrate power in the few really huge banks. I’m not much for conspiracy theories, but the problem is so obvious and the solution so s
820.
by slashdev 3y ago
I’m referring to exactly that misprediction when the branch triggers. It’s only predictable if the input arrays always has the same length log2, and it’s called in a loop so the history is there.
821.
by slashdev 3y ago
I’d be surprised if SIMD + branch to switch algorithms beats branchless binary search for data in cache. Were you comparing with that? Not saying it isn’t possible, god knows CPUs surprise in all kinds of wonderful ways. It’s not the outcom
822.
by slashdev 3y ago
When it came time almost two years ago to get a new laptop, I had a choice between a MacBook Pro for over $4000 or an Alienware that I could modify with 64gb memory and an extra SSD for half the price. Bare metal gaming with better performa
823.
by slashdev 3y ago
Not in shale. That’s measured in as little as months.
824.
by slashdev 3y ago
An achievable goal is exactly what I’m asking for. That’s part of effective goal setting. Anything else is fantasy and counterproductive.
825.
by slashdev 3y ago
How about we aim for an achievable goal instead. What’s the point of setting ourselves up for failure? That’s part of effective goal setting. Anything else is fantasy and counterproductive.
826.
by slashdev 3y ago
I’m guessing you’re getting downvoted for not expanding on: > Life has been here for 4Bn years and we have about 500m left until our carbon cycles grind to a halt and all life on earth starts it’s final, and ultimate, extinction event.
827.
by slashdev 3y ago
?
828.
by slashdev 3y ago
I’m not sure what’s the point of focusing on 1.5C anymore. I think the writing on the wall is pretty clear that we’re going to double that at least. Barring any miracle in carbon sequestration technology anyway. I hope we get a miracle.
829.
by slashdev 3y ago
Yes, that's it exactly. There has never been an atheist president, because people wouldn't vote for them. Politicians have to at least pretend to be Christian, because it gets them more votes. Apparently polls show people would so
830.
by slashdev 3y ago
All of which amounts to sticking one’s fingers in one’s ears and saying don’t try to change me followed by a bunch of of neeeneer neeners. I kid, but I guess that is what’s at the root of it. A fear of change and wanting to believe it isn’t
831.
by slashdev 3y ago
It’s more or less the same thing because if your fuel price doubles you’re going to scrap that car and buy an electric. Nobody is forcing you to do so, it just doesn’t make much sense to keep driving that ICE. When everybody is making that
832.
by slashdev 3y ago
Statistically, yes. There’s thousands of risks you don’t even consider that are more dangerous. So probably not rational to worry about collagen. There is no definite proof that gelatin can contain infectious prions, as long as it is manufa
833.
by slashdev 3y ago
Who cares about IPv6 on a home server that you might not even want to expose to the public internet anyway?
834.
by slashdev 3y ago
Or is it just happening extremely slowly? I don't think we can count IPv6 out yet.
835.
by slashdev 3y ago
It is indeed silliness, and out of character for Germans who have a reputation for being practical.
836.
by slashdev 3y ago
The most cost efficient way to do carbon capture is on the smoke stacks of coal power plants. Better than that is not burning the stuff in the first place. Both are way more efficient than these boondoggles trying to pull co2 out of the air
837.
by slashdev 3y ago
Staying under 1.5 is a fantasy. If we want to stay under 3 we’d better get some real effort behind ending coal as soon as possible. While it is possible to do more than one thing at a time, our politicians are trying to plug a leak while ig
838.
by slashdev 3y ago
There are alternatives to coal.
839.
by slashdev 3y ago
How about we stop burning coal first. That’s not unproven and is much effective. This is just silliness.
840.
by slashdev 3y ago
The technology exists to do fairly efficient long distance transmission like that. Europe is small. It could work. Is it cheaper than putting the solar closer? Don’t know. It would be more consistent, which is a big deal with solar. That al

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