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by smolder 2mo ago
Supermassive black holes are generally at the center of galaxies, like a tiny yolk in an egg. That's not a hard rule. For instance, they can theoretically be ejected and make a mess if a few galaxies collide. But yes, it's harder
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by smolder 2mo ago
Interesting that you use the phrase "quality vs quantity". Normally, I think of precision being on the side of "quality". As in, you carefully make a thing to meet a certain standard instead of making a lot of them. In t
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by smolder 2mo ago
Some people don't want to use cloudflare on principle. Like that putting the whole internet behind cloudflare or AWS is a bad thing, in principle.
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by smolder 2mo ago
Or just have an LLM write the same thing for next to nothing...
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by smolder 2mo ago
I just tested out chatjimmy and a bit and it did some misinterpretation of my prompts, E.g. "write me a python script to generate insults for a name given by command line" had multiple of the same insult in the insult list, and it
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by smolder 2mo ago
Right. Gentle reminder that tuna has dangerous amounts of mercury in it specifically because of humans burning coal , not because the ocean was always so polluted.
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by smolder 2mo ago
"Common sense" might also mean "do the simple thing" which, given how cheap it is to invest in renewable energy sources like solar farms, and how much room we have to build daytime capacity that way without large scale s
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by smolder 2mo ago
There is no meat proxy subverting discourse. There are just a bunch of dumb disinterested people in the way of a real community.
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by smolder 2mo ago
Don't spread ignorance like this.
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by smolder 2mo ago
This is a weak argument but I hope you develop it into a better one.
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by smolder 2mo ago
Yeah, a proper mini NES would just be a dongle that attached to a cartridge. It's not hard to make an NES equivalent. It's kinda weird that people want these "authentic" things, since you can emulate them in a toenail f
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by smolder 2mo ago
Fake, boring, non-accomplishment.
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by smolder 2mo ago
> Are these people cooked? Yes. This is a weird kind of denial about the LLMs that cost nation-state levels of energy doing human nerd work. They aren't perfect at all, but there's very little reason to be anything but a prompt
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by smolder 2mo ago
Blah blah. Software engineering is now prompt engineering. I'm not sure what the point of this article is.
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by smolder 3mo ago
The example I always go to for oddly unsuccessful games, (good at least, I don't know about excellent,) was Super Monday Night Combat. It was something like Valve's Deadlock, a 3D MOBA game more than 10 years earlier, with a bit o
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by smolder 3mo ago
I understand what you're saying. I hold a different view of what is well made or not. Commercial success isn't the only measure. I believe dark patterns detract from the cultural value of a thing, which is how they came to be call
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by smolder 3mo ago
What makes it obvious to you, that LoL is well made? Userbase? Is candy crush obviously well made? Perhaps it is well marketed, more than well made?
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by smolder 3mo ago
RIP phones
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by smolder 3mo ago
You want an mp3 player with no DRM lockin and proprietary store and so on? Sorry, that's not competitive anymore. That will not happen for the same reason people don't make affordable dumb TVs anymore. The manufacturer needs a way
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by smolder 3mo ago
There's basically no such thing as "bare C++" anymore. On any modern machine you are relying on piles of code. You can't just write to registers to edit vram and output video like on some 80s computer. It all happens on
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by smolder 3mo ago
That's a cool quote but utterly useless. You have a strong opinion and no argument.
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by smolder 3mo ago
Yes, ultimately the problem is that the law is vague or inadequate. The courts have their definitions of fair use, which are their best efforts at interpreting the law, and I have mine, which is different.
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by smolder 3mo ago
Yeah, I can't AB test against a world without copyright at all, but I think there's sufficient evidence to believe that a lot of stuff would never have gotten done without copyright to ensure it could be done gainfully. The import
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by smolder 3mo ago
I assume they meant that gaming is the main market segment it serves, which from my understanding is correct. The X3D chips have great performance in games, which are generally constrained by memory latency. It's, of course, still a ge
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by smolder 3mo ago
Right, it's about incentivising intellectual work. While I have big issues with the copyright system, like all the extensions lobbied for by Disney and friends, it did enable a lot of good work to happen.
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by smolder 3mo ago
Chinese Communist Party or Communist Party of China makes little difference. There is a clear convention and no clear reason to change it.
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by smolder 3mo ago
As far as I'm concerned, the courts are wrong, and training on ill gotten copyrighted material is not fair use. Given the clear value of highly trained LLMs, the investment they have taken on, and the amount of disruption to the existi
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by smolder 3mo ago
ASMLs machines can easily be "one of the most sophisticated" without stepping on LHC or ITERs toes. I'm not sure ISS qualifies anymore. I would have went with JWST.
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by smolder 3mo ago
I wish I could say that funding the US or Israel or China was better. It's not all equivalent, but pretty much every major country is supporting atrocities in one way or another, today.
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by smolder 3mo ago
Fuck off

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