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by spamizbad 2y ago
Actually what Russia is doing is already much worse. What's the US equivalent of the first and second Chechen wars? China and the US are probably the closest analogs right now.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
The realignment is less about globalism vs nationalism + multi-polar world and more about creating a tolerance for expansionist nationalism whereby we establish an agreement with major powers to divide up the world for open conquest, with R
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by spamizbad 2y ago
I'm not a fan of Trump but I don't think you can let Biden off the hook on inflation either: Biden should've reversed course on tariffs, and not added his own, but didn't - likely a political calculus to avoid appearing
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by spamizbad 2y ago
But the AI-public Internet timeline is more like 1995. if all web search disappeared in 1995 it would've been a massive loss, despite how primitive search engines were back then.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
It seems self-evident it will, and it's largely self-reinforcing. Less documentation/examples of new tech -> New model doesn't have enough info on new tech to be useful -> Less uptake of new technology -> Less docume
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Reminds me of how a bunch of eye-tracking research originally done at MIT to help create smart devices for autistic people to pick up on nonverbal communication got cancelled and repackaged in the adtech space.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
They have a high market value outside of academia. Inside academia though they are all underpaid and overworked, and the modern version of “tenure” might carry prestige but it doesn’t carry the privilege it once did.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
You can't means-test a parking space. You could, in theory, set parking prices based on the value of the land its by.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Gotta give them credit actually: A company that's been around for a 14 years has managed to keep their codebase small.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Why was this guys wife so important to have around the office at SpaceX if she wasn’t an employee?
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by spamizbad 2y ago
> Year over year gains in computing continue to slow. This isn't true in the AI chip space (yet). And so much of this isn't just about compute but about the memory.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Glad to know my tax dollars are getting spent on the new flavor of virtue signaling. Insane this was some super high priority.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
That sounds like a job better suited for your local paper. The scope of national politics is far greater. But even if Wired did, it still wouldn't be "doxxing", which used to imply publishing not just names but addresses and
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Is it? Because as soon as the ban went into effect and phones started to ring Congress very quickly changed its tune. If it was genuinely a national security threat you absolutely would NOT bend after a few hundred angry constituency calls.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Like AI, there were exciting classes of applications in the 70s, 80s and 90s that mandated pricier hardware. Anything 3D related, running multi-user systems, higher end CAD/EDA tooling, and running any server that actually got put unde
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Well there's two sides here. Consumers of AI do have sensitivity to pricing. Many OpenAI customers "ration" their usage. I imagine lower costs open up new demand for these people. On the Service side: it seems to have reduced
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by spamizbad 2y ago
But there are thresholds of commercial viability in all of this. DeepSeek's technology gets you over that line with less sophisticated hardware. There's already some pretty impressive work being done with folks using just a pair o
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by spamizbad 2y ago
This is just a baseless conspiracy theory that I have, but I do wonder if they intentionally avoided certain avenues of research because it could erode the “moat” major tech firms have by dramatically reducing the capital costs required for
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by spamizbad 2y ago
It's important to understand that most CEOs (the good ones and the bad ones) are dilettantes. This doesn't mean you should ignore them, but it's worth running their "takes" past actual subject matter experts who can
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Demand isn’t there yet and most AI products are still not fully mature. It will take time.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Long term: Likely true. Short-to-medium term: Nope.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
The Soviet Union did exactly that during the cold war - hell it lifted entire semiconductors - but it ultimately amounted to bupkis.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Was open-sourcing Linux a cynical, offensive move to devalue commercial Unix (a scheme hatched by duplicitous Finns)? But more seriously, DeepSeek is a massive boon for AI consumers. It's price/performance cannot be beat, and the
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by spamizbad 2y ago
> You had American models generating ethnically diverse founding fathers when asked to draw them. This was all done with a lazy prompt modifying kluge and was never baked into any of the models.
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Boy do I feel for that candidate. As a manager, while this is not the kind of question I'd ever ask, if I saw a candidate work through a problem like this I'd take it as a strong signal for a possible hire. Ghosting is a dick move
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by spamizbad 2y ago
It depends on the definition of “right” As software becomes more essential to a business its reliability becomes more important. If your customers can tolerate defects or downtime it’s a signal that: A) you’re not providing any real value B
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by spamizbad 2y ago
What do you consider the “old internet”? Because I find older Zoomers and millennials have different ideas of what that means
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Interesting trend I've noticed: Tiktok's users tend to like its algorithm, and its probably the app's most valuable assets, but western tech executives tend to hate it and speak of it with derision. This stands in stark contr
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by spamizbad 2y ago
Ditching a native framework for something JS-powered and running everything thru a cloud server sounds like technical decisions willfully made by engineering leaders.
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DD was just easier to use for everybody, has lots of useful baked-in things we liked to use (apdex scores), and was intuitive enough that non-devs could design their own dashboards. We also found it way easier to collect metrics, traces, an

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