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by tasty_freeze 5mo ago
electricity is a major cost. that 1.5B/mo is part for renting the hardware, part paying the lease on the building, and a significant part (I have no idea what %) is paying for the electricity.
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by tasty_freeze 5mo ago
You should take this as a data point where your gut intuition has failed you. It is really condescending to dismiss their choice as motivated by vanity rather than assuming that other people might have done their homework and made a rationa
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by tasty_freeze 5mo ago
I used to work with a brilliant and humble guy. He got accepted to MIT at 14, but his parents made him go to community college for a year to give him a little more time to mature. He then went to MIT and graduated after three years, then we
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by tasty_freeze 6mo ago
I've read a number of consciousness books and this idea that the brain is inpainting the blind spot. I know Dennett in his "Consciousness Explained" book of 30+ years ago did his best to debunk that idea. The problem with inp
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by tasty_freeze 6mo ago
I got into computers in 1978 when I started high school and they had two Wang 2200 computers, each with a whopping 8KB of RAM. Although I was 14 I asked my parents for a subscription to Byte. Every so often I'd get an offer in the mail
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by tasty_freeze 6mo ago
I did this in 1985 on SOROC terminals we had in my first job out of college. However, it depended on the dip switch settings that were under a little door on top of the keyboard.
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by tasty_freeze 6mo ago
People often think they have mic-dropped utilitarianism by saying things like, "Oh, so if two people get a lot of joy by beating up a third person, that is ethical because it is overall net positive?" A few things wrong with that.
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by tasty_freeze 6mo ago
I know nothing about the drama, but treating "utilitarianism" as if it is one thing or that a particular person or group's position is identical to utilitarianism seems ironic in the context. It is like claiming all pizza is
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by tasty_freeze 6mo ago
I started playing electric bass in college, around 1984. I too used the record and lifting the needle technique. The only reason I'm commenting is that early on I learned a LOT of Police songs. Why? Because (1) the songs were already i
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
That was me at the time kicking the tires to understand what it was good at or not. If I actually wanted to indent a file by four spaces it would take me less time in my editor than to prompt the LLM to do it, even if the LLM had been capab
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
Amazon did try to add that line item and the administration pressured them to remove it. And you are making a very big assumption that either Costco or their suppliers absorbed the cost of the tariffs. Because I don't have a link handy
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
Sometimes LLMs astonish me with what the code they can write. Other times I have to laugh or cry. As an example, I asked claude 3.5 back when that was the latest to indent all the code in my file by four more spaces. The file was about 700
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
Systemverilog has an operator precedence table with 16 levels. https://www.academia.edu/figures/3550818/table-2-operator-pr... Writing a recursive descent for this would require writing 16 functions, and you'
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
Four years ago the world was coming out of covid and supply chains were screwed for years. Much of the inflation was not due to any particular policy, but just fallout from what COVID did to world markets. The reasons for high oil prices no
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
I read the book when it first came out. In 1986 I took a job at a new company and Carl Alsing, who was the manager of the microkids (and had written every bit of microcode for machines that came before that) was in the office next to my cub
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
Domestic cats kill on the order of 100x as many birds as windmills do. Fossil fuels also kill millions of animals every year (not just birds), and harm the health of humans. Even ignoring the long-term effects of CO2, fine particulates caus
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
I'm always gobsmacked when Trump says things like, "We need to get rid of all the wind turbines! They are killing all the birds! Look at the foot of any tower and you'll see nothing but dead birds!" Is there a single per
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
I read the summary but not the paper and it seems like it has nothing to do with physical design. This is a means of making the elaborate/compile/simulation performance of the language faster. Say someone wrote this code: wi
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
What kind of performance impact does it have? Obviously it depends on the specific program, but let's say the worst case scenario, something like a recursive implementation of the factorial function.
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
If you are in your terminal home, then yes, selfishly one would want the value to go up. But if you ever plan on moving to another home, sure dropping prices mean you get less, but it also means you pay less for your next purchase. If you
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
You are strawmanning what I said. I said "Many of the workforce he laid off were content moderators" but you are arguing against something I didn't say, which was that those Musk laid off were mostly T&S people. Those are
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
I have mostly been using the Claude Sonnet models as they release each new one. It is great for getting an overview on a pile of code that I'm not familiar with. It has debugged some simple little problems I've had, eg, a complex
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
Many of the workforce he laid off were content moderators -- I've read it was a serious effort with a large number of people doing thankless work. There is now way more anti-Semitic content on X, more racial insults, etc.
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by tasty_freeze 7mo ago
> How would you even know? The people who have claimed for decades that there is rampant cheating have spent years and millions of dollars and have found so little that it actually proves the case against their claims. Further, it has be
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Considering the scale that we are burning oil and gas, our sequestration efforts would have to be comparable. Continuing to burn oil and gas and trying to recapture it is madness, like realizing you are driving way too fast and instead of t
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Knowing nothing about your code, I'd suggest checking if the code uses the DAA instruction. It is by far the trickiest thing to get right. Don't assume well behaved code -- what happens if A=0x5C and B=0xF4 and you execute "a
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Isn't there a max filepath length? Or does find not ever deal with that and just deal in terms of building its own stack of inodes or something like that?
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Not at all -- it was a funny and more polite way to say, "Don't just repeat things because they give your dogmatism a boner."
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
I thought it was more creative than sloppy. Don't forget that many ordinary phrases were once jarring mixed imagery. To "wear your heart on your sleeve" was coined by Shakespeare; we still use it because it "stuck"
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by tasty_freeze 8mo ago
It was more sprawling than deep. It was a series of trenches connecting "rooms". I know they also had "water features" at some points, but the water would soak into the ground pretty quickly then be a mess for a few days

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