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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
I don't think "believes in" is the right choice of words. It's more like "can't rule the future possibility completely out so we should at least take some precautions", which seems entirely reasonable a
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
Unfortunately, those laws are not currently enforced. I see another reply is arguing that religion is inherently political. I disagree. Modern politics did not exist at the time the world's major religions were being formed. Attempt
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
This is exactly what's going to happen. Assuming no civilization-crippling or Great Filter events, anyway. At this point I fail to see how it could go any other way. The path has already been traveled, and governments (along with ma
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
That is all definitely amazing, but data storage is a fundamentally different process with far fewer constraints than continuous computation.
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
> I regularly have to ask people to repeat themselves or slow down I don't know how true it is, but there is a perception that Spanish is often spoken very rapidly by native speakers. I'm sure this is more true of some languag
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
The title resonates with me. The post does not. Cynicism is the mind's way of protecting itself from repeating unproductive loops that can be damaging. Anyone who ever had a waking dream come crashing down more than once likely under
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
My thoughts on this have always been a blend of your two 'they should not be deported' scenarios, with a slow, measured rollout. Sudden changes cause too much chaos, and you don't always know what works until you try it. Avo
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
> There is nothing complicated about this divide [...] You can't "not understand" I beg to differ. There are a whole lot of folks with astonishingly incomplete understanding about all the facts here who are going to conti
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
You know, I'm past middle age, have seen this brand everywhere for many years, and I only just now read about the individual Eddie Bauer for the first time. Interesting dude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Ba
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
As I said in my edit, "because people are irrational animals who too often prioritize our current feelings over everything else." Marginal improvements in quality which result in a marginal increase of cost/price often provid
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
To be generous and steelman the author, perhaps what they're saying is that at each layer of abstraction , there may be some new low-hanging fruit. Whether this is doable through orchestration or through carefully guided HITL by vario
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
Very well put, one of the more compelling insights I've seen about this whole situation. I feel like it gets at something I've been trying to say but couldn't find the right words for yet. Quality. Matters. It always has, an
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
Interesting business model. I have two questions: 1) Who do you see as primary competitors in this niche? 2) What is your model for managing liability in a situation where a naive, less technical (or plain lazy) customer lets one of these r
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
I strongly believe we will need both agentic and deterministic approaches. Agentic to catch edge cases & the like, deterministic as those problems (along with the simpler ones early on) are continually turned into hard coded solutions
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
I was using all lowercase as my default for internet comments (and personal journal entries) for at least a solid decade, starting from some point in the 90s. I saw it as a way to take a step back from being pretentious. I eventually ran i
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
The people who work in the datacenters don't want a long commute. Also, in a remote area, the third parties the owners require for continual maintenance will be fewer, take longer to respond, likely cost more, and may be less qualified
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
Except that they can talk with you, at length, and seem empathetic, even if they're totally unconscious. Which, you know, humans can also do, including when they're not actually empathizing with you. It's often called ly
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
Oh. Goodness gracious. Did we invent Mr. Meeseeks? Only half joking. I am mildly comforted by the fact that there doesn't seem to be any evidence of major suffering. I also don't believe current LLMs can be sentient. But wow,
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
You definitely have a point. It would not be rolled out all at once, everywhere. It would happen sporadically, starting with areas that have a higher tax revenue base. There may never be an international standard. There will be tons of
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
Well, we already provide dedicated lanes for multi-passenger vehicles in many places, nearly all semi-major airports have dedicated lots and lanes for rideshare drivers, many parts of downtown/urban areas have the same things... and it
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
Cameras also fail when weather conditions cake your car in snow and/or mud while you're driving. Actually, from what I just looked up, this is an issue with LiDAR as well. So it seems to me like we don't even have the senso
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
> open a laptop and work I'm still convinced we are going to need dedicated roads - or lanes at the very least - and dedicated parking/waiting areas for this to be feasible on a truly large scale. However, it may be easier than
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
> Yegge deserves praise for exercising agency and taking a swing at a system like this [...] then running a public tour of his shitty, quarter-built plane while it’s mid-flight This quote sums it all up for me. It's a crazy project
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
> Stay rested Steve, keep on this side of the manic curve please, we need you This is my biggest takeaway. He may or may not be on to something really big, but regardless, it's advancing the conversation and we're all learning
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
For me, Children of Ruin had more of a horror focus to it and left me with much more icky feelings than the brilliant positivity I felt at the end of the first book. It was still well done, though. I agree that Children of Memory is no
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
> volunteer non profit news organization [...] skilled journalists This could maybe be done with retirees or those who are mostly financially independent, as well as those who want to help run the nonprofit. The problem is that in the
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
I'm mostly convinced at this point that the jobs market will only be affected temporarily. This is really just another form of automation, speeding things up. We can now make more customized software more quickly and cheaply. The mar
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
Apparently, since the majority of top level comments right now - about 6 at the time of my comment - are making basically the same joke. I thought this place was supposed to be better than reddit in such ways. Do better, HN.
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by slfnflctd 9mo ago
Just when I think the demoscene can't blow my mind any further, it breaks through another unexpected wall. The part where he starts cutting into the cable threw me for a second before I realized where it was going, I actually yelled &q
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by slfnflctd 10mo ago
Don't forget vomit. For me, it's the worst smell by far in certain population dense areas. I will go to great lengths to avoid it.

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