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by stouset 3mo ago
Honestly this is because an enormous segment of the population has offloaded their critical thinking skills and moral evaluation to large media conglomerates, who mostly serve the interests of those at the top who would not benefit from the
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by stouset 3mo ago
You don’t want detonation, but you do want deflagration.
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by stouset 4mo ago
I’m reasonably familiar with cryptography but the formalism of obfuscation given here makes no sense to me. > The precise formalism typically used, indistinguishability obfuscation, says that if you are given obfuscations of two differen
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by stouset 4mo ago
Food has gotten progressively cheaper. At the same time, both the compensation demand for farm labor have plummeted. Demand for the output of knowledge work can increase while demand for those who produce it falls. “Knowledge work” is not
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by stouset 4mo ago
And what happens when the “investigations” are malicious, politically motivated, and prosecuted by a DoJ that’s been bent to the will of a tinpot dictator, and adjudicated by overtly political actors?
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by stouset 4mo ago
I honestly think the opposite. Successful nations haven’t had enough young people to care for the elderly because they’ve all been employed as knowledge workers. Knowledge work is going away rapidly. The only work that will be left are thin
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by stouset 4mo ago
> I hate all the justifications used to fly long distances across oceans with only 2 engines, or only 1 engine. Which is why I specified that it’s equally as safe for airlines operating under ETOPS.
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by stouset 4mo ago
There have been zero lives and airframes lost due to independent double engine failure during trans-oceanic ETOPS.
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by stouset 4mo ago
Personally I prefer a livable climate and affordable power over yet another datacenter for AI or mining crypto.
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by stouset 4mo ago
If we build a terawatt of green energy capacity then turn around and immediately use it for datacenters rather than to replace fossil fuel generation, we haven’t gained anything. If anything we’ve lost out .
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by stouset 4mo ago
Which is not and never will be an issue for airliners transiting oceans under ETOPS.
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by stouset 4mo ago
You mean the justification that they are, in fact, just as safe?
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by stouset 4mo ago
IIRC you don’t even need the -r flag since -j incorporates its behavior (minus newlines).
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by stouset 4mo ago
It’s an obsession with literature and/or typography nerds specifically. Option-shift-hyphen types an em-dash, option-hyphen an en-dash. You can also hold the hyphen key (on a Mac or iPhone) and it will allow you to select either. Em da
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by stouset 4mo ago
This is a pointless and infinitely losing arms race. LLMs will learn to use hyphens instead of em dashes, and so what? You’re going to start using em dashes again? Just focus on not producing slop.
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by stouset 4mo ago
How about another analogy. Self-driving cars are going to supplant human drivers. What do you think this is going to do to Lyft and Uber drivers, for whom this is already a job of last resort? Do you think the ability to be driven around by
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by stouset 4mo ago
Why on earth do you think that AI is going to be set to work solving your needs, when you serve no further economic purpose? AI will certainly be used to enrich the lives of a select few. It’s great to be in that group, assuming you don’t
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by stouset 4mo ago
"There are somewhere around 21 million horses in the United States of America. If I'm made obsolete, that means the automobile is doing the work of 21 million horses. I don't understand what you mean by obsolete." I don&
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by stouset 4mo ago
> I can ask AI to do something and it can… work on it for an hour, and basically do what I want Again, you are excited about the future of a technology that is rapidly making you obsolete. It is not going to go how you think it is goin
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by stouset 4mo ago
It was never about principles. It was always about justifying getting the things they wanted.
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by stouset 4mo ago
If anything, Apple was likely happy for this. It let them rip the band-aid off on the transition but shift blame to the EU for people annoyed by having to switch adapters and accessories. There is zero chance that Apple wasn’t going to do t
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by stouset 4mo ago
What does this have to do with my comment, or the one above it?
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by stouset 4mo ago
You are a carriage horse excited about the invention of the automobile, thinking “it will free me up from so much labor!”
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by stouset 4mo ago
That’ll all be really cool if you’re in the 5% of the planet that can afford it.
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by stouset 4mo ago
Speed is relative, so if you accelerated away from the sun at 0.999999c hoping to hang out in a slow-moving stream of solar neutrinos, you’d remove the energy needed for them to interact with the weak force. They’d be all around you, but yo
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by stouset 4mo ago
Probably! And even potentially some orbiting the planet. They’d be part of the cosmic neutrino background, neutrinos around since the big bang which have had their velocity red-shifted to Newtonian speeds. But they interact with things even
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by stouset 4mo ago
That would be a wild thing to accomplish, given that neutrinos are created at relativistic speeds, have virtually zero mass, and don’t react with anything but gravity and the weak force. Whatever gravity “trap” you make is going to pale in
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by stouset 4mo ago
> And I said MacBook Neo was wrongly priced since the beginning Given that the price change is broadly in line with the rest of the lineup, were all of those products mispriced since the beginning too? Or is it possible you’re simply che
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by stouset 4mo ago
This kind of broad mid-cycle price update is essentially unprecedented for Apple. Their price points are extremely reliable, and even only occasionally do they tweak an individual product price up or down during a refresh. I’d wager the odd
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by stouset 4mo ago
Apple is notorious for their prices being extremely stable for a given SKU. If anything, this is Apple getting out ahead of where they expect memory prices to be long-term, so they can rip off the band-aid once and don’t have to do it again

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