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by themafia 9mo ago
> It's funny how useful water is for power generation. It's gravity that does the generation. Water is convenient because it's weight per unit of volume is very high. Higher than most things we can get our hands on and i
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by themafia 9mo ago
> government mandate will force enough demand that manufacturers can enjoy some economies of scale So you want the government to pick winners and you want to do business with a monopoly? This is the opposite of what you would want. If t
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by themafia 9mo ago
> this much is clear to most people. There are more computers now than there ever have been. More people in more parts of the world have them than ever before. If you have this perspective you may just be locked in a first-world corpor
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by themafia 9mo ago
> AI-generated code AI "generated" code requires a large base of training data to draw from. If we all stop writing code then there will no new code written. Just rehashes of stolen ideas. There is no long tail to this indus
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by themafia 9mo ago
> but the speed tradeoff If you only care about a single metric you can convince yourself to make all kinds of bad decisions. > Nobody is lying. Nobody is being honest either. That happens all the time.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> accrue massive technical debt The primary difference between a programmer and an engineer.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Not once in my career have I experienced a showstopping issue with systemd. I cannot say the same for sysV. I have had both ruin days for me. In particular the "hold down" when it detects service flapping has caused issues i
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by themafia 9mo ago
So if you give people money they'll endeavor to tell you precisely what they think you want to hear. I would be much more impressed if this wasn't based solely on self-reported results.
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by themafia 9mo ago
There are active forks of the SDK. What are you talking about? You're mad at me for razzing a corporation in the name of open source? Did I accidentally leave "hacker" news? Or is this "hope to get a job in the valley&
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by themafia 9mo ago
> that suggests upstream has to accept contributions Which is why I said they should be forked. There's nothing that suggests "upstream" has any actual significance. > I presume you have at least followed your in princ
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by themafia 9mo ago
Inflation from December 1996 to today makes the $500/mo equivalent to $1000/mo.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> In the 2G era [...] ...you could just listen to calls in the clear. Pager traffic was completely unencrypted as well.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Corporations love open source when it delivers working code to their doorstep. They hate open source when it comes to actually maintaining and managing a community of developers who really do care about and use the core product. So they cr
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by themafia 9mo ago
Use a VPN next time. Does it still happen?
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by themafia 9mo ago
The only private companies with this power are monopolies. Effective competition would destroy this behavior. So the real problem is the government _intentionally_ and _illegally_ allows monopolies to form so they can get access to this w
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by themafia 9mo ago
> We aren't going to remove the security state What security state? They aren't doing this for anyone's safety. This is the surveillance and parallel construction state. > What needs to happen is accountability. No ag
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by themafia 9mo ago
You don't have to eat them. You just have to erect significant barriers to hoarding wealth, particularly in off shore devices, and you have to create constant pressure to ensure that stored wealth is best re-invested in the economy
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by themafia 9mo ago
Private equity and retirees with everything in a 401k.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Isn't it a possibility that our lifestyles have changed in ways that have reduced the amount of Vitamin D we have historically received? Are we incidentally measuring the sum result of our social choices?
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by themafia 9mo ago
> taking the user by surprise. And surprise is really what you want in computing. ;)
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by themafia 9mo ago
> and rewording it Using the probabilities encoded in the training data. > In that sense they are not compressing the data You're right. In this case they're decompressing it.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> radically different nature of our AI interlocutor It's the training data that matters. Your "AI interlocutor" is nothing more than a lossy compression algorithm.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> almost certainly 'yes' with an LLM LLMs can handle search because search is intentionally garbage now and because they can absorb that into their training set. Asking highly specific questions about NYC governance, which can
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by themafia 9mo ago
> heavily impaired The level of impairment doesn't matter. They are impaired. There is no standard or testing which reveals the minimum level of impairment that one can safely do the job. So, you don't do it impaired, at a
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by themafia 9mo ago
> You're moving the goalposts No. I'm not. I'm being realistic about the technology. You're artificially limiting the scope. > so would a human This is goalpost moving 101. The question isn't would a huma
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by themafia 9mo ago
> based on my experience The data completely disagrees with you. > Like I said, if you have better data I'm glad to see it We all have better data. It's been here the entire time: https://www.nhtsa.gov/resea
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by themafia 9mo ago
> and that data clearly shows that the experiment is successful in reducing crashes I disagree. You need way more data, like orders of magnitude more. There are trillions of miles driven in the US every year. Those miles often includ
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by themafia 9mo ago
You do whatever you feel like. You get sued. You drown the court in expensive lawyers. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> I'm not against constructive criticism of Waymo. I feel like you have to say this out loud because many people in these discussions don't share this view. Billion dollar corporate experiments conducted in public are sacrosa
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by themafia 9mo ago
> It's likely that a fully-attentive human driver would have done worse. > a huge portion of human drivers What are you basing any of these blind assertions off of? They are not at all born out by the massive amounts of data we

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