stephc_int13

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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
I am wondering if Zuckerberg somehow stumbled upon the old Decimation thing on Wikipedia one late evening and decided it was a good idea to try. I don't really understand the rationale otherwise, hiring is hard, and they are not forced
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
Almost nothing is fully automated yet. So the answer is tricky. In the beginning, they are irrelevant, but at some point, edge cases are everything you have to deal with.
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
People who enjoyed programming at this level (myself included) were not really that happy but most had to transition into a job that didn't value some the skills they patiently acquired and were machines never attained the highest leve
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
The cash part is not even the worst, even if this is obviously ridiculous for free/open source projects. The bad UX is really what irks me. Enough that I may entirely opt-out of the Apple ecosystem forever, and I don't think I am
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
"The ones with 10 hour shifts and mandatory overtime? Yea, I don't think it's the _line_ that's making them miserable." The whole innovation was about making the jobs as simple and repetitive as possible so humans w
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
The assumption is that orders of magnitude more people will benefit from the efficiency gains, like it was the case in agriculture automation or factory work automation. In those cases, that led to a transition period, nowadays only a small
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
I believe that any kind of partial automation is going to make the job more soul-crushing. Ford style assembly lines made the work of the factory workers more miserable. Partially automated cashier did the same thing. I don't think the
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
I never liked trackpad. I am an avid RTS player, the mouse is by far the superious input device. Besides, I never work on a laptop. And this is a lame excuse. Smooth scrolling should also work when using keyboard with and pageup/pagedo
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
I am not entirely against the whole notarization thing. If it is good for the end-user, it is usually also good for the ecosystem a a whole, trust is valuable. But ffs, they are rich enough to make this a lot less painful and hostile for de
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
Zed is "almost there" for me. The theme builder is good and easy to use, and I only needed a few minutes to make my own. Syntax coloring is almost there, but still lacking (I use C/C++) Small visual adjustment like line heigh
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
Many predicted it for a long time, the US will always be a great power, for structural and geographical reasons, but it won't keep the position it had for almost a century. The good thing about China is that apart from Taiwan they have
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
It is also a nice place to catch brown crabs and forage mussels and oysters during the low tide.
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
No, in this context I meant delta-compression in the case of local roll-back. The entire gamestate has to be rolled back when using this style of netcode, regardless of bandwidth, reducing the size of snapshots in memory can also reduce mak
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by stephc_int13 5mo ago
Have you considered the opportunity of using delta compression on snapshots? Like the internal state of the physics simulation, most of the gamestate itself don't change between frames. Using delta compression on the whole structure is
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
Translation: We know that many of you don't trust us and that our image has degraded a lot recently, but we need you to trust us. Show, don't tell. Snatching this contract with the military was not a good sign of things to come fr
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
Maybe, I think there is a lot of uncertainty about valuations of AI labs in the near to medium future. OpenAI crashing would be good news and bad news for Anthropic investors.
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
My opinion about this is that Google see it as a way to weaken OpenAI, and few other side benefits, including the option to acquire Anthropic. And it may very well be bad news for OpenAI.
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
Big AI labs are losing money. Open Models is making the pricing equation a lot trickier for them.
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
Industrial empires naturally have this tendency, once their power level is putting them in the same playground as small states, they become different entities, fighting for their own survival. The concentration of power of bureaucratic stru
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
One element that seems to be rarely discussed is the link between obesity and mental health/happiness. Of course, access to cheap and addictive food is likely the first trigger. At the same time obesity seems largely involuntary while
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
The economics would be different in say, North Korea, don't you think?
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
I think this is bad news for hackers, spyware companies and malware in general. We all knew vulnerabilities exist, many are known and kept secret to be used at an appropriate time. There is a whole market for them, but more importantly larg
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
Miti is basically a second government with real power, finance and expertise, and they appear to bet on the correct things, it should have happened earlier but from what I have seen they are moving faster than EU on the semiconductor and ro
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
Maybe I am slightly paranoid or reading too much dystopian fiction, but the collar thing does not seem to really be about cows, if Thiel is involved. More like a portable prison, fully decentralised and highly technological.
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
I think that many signs are indicating that Japan will re-emerge as a major technology powerhouse in the coming decades. And being confronted early to demographic transformation will end-up being an advantage. On the opposite side I think t
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
Fully agree and this something I only fully realised quite late in life. One of the implications is that at any given point in time, the vast majority of human knowledge is living in people's brains and cannot be stored. The seemingly
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
Generational knowledge loss is often either discarded as irrelevant, illusory or misunderstood. It is not a new phenomenon and can easily be traced back to antiquity. Because _reality has a surprising amount of details_ the entire humanity
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
The most difficult part is always to find the vulnerability, not to fix it. And most people who are spending their days finding them are heavily incentivized to not disclose. Automatic discovery can be a huge benefit, even if the transition
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
The economic angle is not as clear cut as the authors seem to think. There is an abundance of mediocre and even awful code in products that are not failing because of it. The worst thing about poorly designed software architecture is that i
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by stephc_int13 6mo ago
"Each benchmark was run multiple times, and I’m using the median to get rid of any potential outliers." This is not how you should do benchmarks. Don't take the median, you don't even need to do any "warming up&quot

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