tbrownaw

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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
A merger would be more orderly, especially if overall capacity only needed to go down by part of what's in the chunk being cut out.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
But without a sense of urgency the marks might stop to think first.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> there is no doubt on the meaning at all Which flag? Or, what kind of flag? Or does it matter?
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> Who would have to be threatened so much to cancel this? What? The government of the host country said some of the themes were potentially at odds with their national policy, and they weren't sure they liked some of the people in
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
I don't think the local plants and animals there match what used to be typical around the world prior to our current ice age.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Have we ever actually tried?
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
You are conflating three very different things. The thing with Anthropic and the military was about whether vendors can tell the military what operations it's permitted to do. It has no bearing on the commercial sector, and isn't
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
It's an AI-enhanced "the script had a bug in it".
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Weakening predictions until they become unfalsifiable seems like an odd approach to being taken seriously.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> The conventional wisdom is that it was the combination of (1) exponentially more compute than in earlier eras with (2) exponentially larger, high-quality datasets (e.g., the curated and hand-labeled ImageNet set) that finally allowed
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Maybe present it as proving out technology that could be helpful in building a self-sustaining Mars colony?
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Meh. The Internet has always had a high noise floor, AI here just takes an existing problem and makes it slightly worse.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Is 10k followers a lot?
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> left/right fuel intakes in cars Are I believe chosen by intelligent humans who are deliberately trying to keep the lines at gas stations balanced.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> It's harder than you think to argue for a house price decrease when it's the singular asset that most older adults have most of their wealth tied up in. The only thing they can exchange it for is another house or an alterna
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> The flipper zero can't "hack" anything. It can only be used as a tool to perform hacking, by a skilled individual who is doing all the work/discovering an exploit. Has nobody hooked one up to an agent loop yet?
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> Radha Stirling, chief executive of London-based advocacy group Detained in Dubai, said Dubai police had "explicitly confirmed they are conducting electronic surveillance operations capable of detecting private WhatsApp messages.&
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Visible light is a bit less than a petahertz, so no.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
There's been plenty of times that I catted a binary file and broke my terminal settings. Sometimes fixable by running `clear` (without being able to see what I'm typing), sometimes not. And I know PuTTY has a setting for what stri
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
So zero validation after that change?
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Writings are fixed once written, and don't update themselves as the world changes. Writings are subject to known biases such as publication bias, and so relying on them reduces the range of what you can consider. Therefore, writing is
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> "The game," of course, is made up of players and if no one played that way there would be no game. You don't have to hate someone in order to, er, apply incentives against whatever it is they just did.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Infinite indeed, need to keep it topped off as it all boils away.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Things inside this house are indeed outside that house.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Closer to the sun (high solar power density) and smaller (lower gravity)... I think we actually have one of those nearby?
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
> Anyone on HN knows that network pipes are inherently shared, somewhere. So? The end users aren't the ones with the power to enforce QoS policies on that contended link.
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. Sure, anything it does can be done better with specialized tooling. If you know that tooling. The memory thing sounds like an implementation limit rather than something fundamentally unsolvable. J
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
Was there an experimental control? How does that bang compare to the bang from an equally-inflated balloon full of ordinary air?
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
It's a particular variety of "everyone else is wrong (and maybe a bit stupid)". Like, sure, sometimes you get popular nonsense like recovered memories or accidental fires can't be as hot as intentional fires or shaken-ba
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
The "e" in e2e encryption is a computing device, not the device's user's brain.

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