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by themafia 9mo ago
> These are very much things of the future. I thought it was hyperloop. I thought it was suboribital taxis. I thought it was underground taxis. I thought it was self-driving semi trucks. Or was it solar roofs? Or powerwall? Wait we
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by themafia 9mo ago
The value of money halved in the past 5 years. Salaries did not double in that same time. That's why they're doing this. They can. Laissez-faire is the current regime of capitalism we live in.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> It makes me pine for tarballs built on boxes w/ compilers installed and deployed directly onto the filesystem of the target machines. You're effectively describing Gentoo. Just a personal opinion but it's awesome.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Repositories require at least one but probably multiple additional semantic layers and client side filtering that can take advantage of it. Otherwise all you have is a large uncurated catalog with a "take it or leave it" strategy
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by themafia 9mo ago
> but everything gets much easier It also gets more fragile. If your ISP can't or doesn't issue you a prefix for whatever reason then your entire IPv6 network stops working even internally. This is even more pertinent if, li
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by themafia 9mo ago
You can have /both/ a ULA and a Globally Routable address. In practice it works just fine. My internal DNS points to the ULA for internal connectivity and my hosts use their global addresses for external connectivity.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> because my CPU was 5 years too old apparently. And yet Nadella writes this: "For AI to have societal permission it must have real world eval impact. The choices we make about where we apply our scarce energy, compute, and talent r
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by themafia 9mo ago
> or you run into bullshit like new /64's being assigned every 24 hours It'd be nice if DNS servers supported this. Save the 64 host bits in the zone and just use whatever 64 prefix bits happen to be issued right now. Oth
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by themafia 9mo ago
Eminent domain can apply to intellectual property. There is even plenty of US precedent for this in nearly the same circumstances. Then again their need for defensible IP is precisely why ASML would almost certainly never make the partner
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by themafia 9mo ago
> US can't make these machines. The US is pretty dynamic. So is every country. To the extent it appears not to be there is usually some entity with it's thumb on the scale.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> It's a mechanism to distribute profits to shareholders With different consequences and historical outcomes to more commonly used mechanisms. > Do you invest in companies that don't distribute profits Does every company tha
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by themafia 9mo ago
> failed upwards "became monopolistic entities."
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by themafia 9mo ago
On a single trial? No. This does open the door to more strenuous legislation of the core products though.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Neither is violently undermining our Constitutional order. Ah, the "ends justify the means" then? Is this something you want applied _against_ you? Seems reckless. > These folks should be on notice that they will be pro
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Protesting is absolutely something you can and should be able to do casually Then you are going to be identified and your conversations monitored. This is precisely the outcome the article is complaining about. I find that expectatio
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by themafia 9mo ago
It would help if they stopped holding demonstrations in front of facilities with huge amounts of facial recognition technology. Protesting is not something you should do "casually."
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by themafia 9mo ago
I still have a choice to not use systemd. The systemd people didn't inhabit and then try to kill sysvinit or runit or any of the other competing technologies.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Instead of a 17 paragraph twitter post with a baffling TLDR at the end why not just record your screen and _demonstrate_ all of what you're describing? Otherwise, I think you're incidentally right, your "ego" /is&
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by themafia 9mo ago
The problem is this analysis and the mindset of a shareholder are about as far apart as you can get. The market likes to pretend it is "sophisticated and knowledgeable." It's a slot machine and as long as the handle pullers
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by themafia 9mo ago
It's clear that on Hacker News many people have made absurdly deep investments into this "technology." There's going to be a long period of pearl clutching we have to dig out of until we get back to the standard hacker
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by themafia 9mo ago
This person works for Cloudflare. What else are they "vibe coding?" How long until Cloudflare shuts off half the internet due to a "mistake" again? How much longer are we going to accept that these are mistakes?
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by themafia 9mo ago
> the onus is on them to make it reliable. That is not a plausible outcome given the current technology or of any of OpenAI's demonstrated capabilities. "If Bob's Hacksaw Surgery Center wants to stay in business they have
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by themafia 9mo ago
You are _absolutely_ going to die in the next 30 minutes. When it doesn't happen will you still be happy?
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by themafia 9mo ago
> it stuck to its guns It gave you a probabilistic output. There were no guns and nothing to stick to. If you had disrupted the context with enough countervailing opinion it would have "relented" simply because the conversati
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by themafia 9mo ago
Monopolies destroy everything. This isn't a binary it's a spectrum. You don't even need total control of the market, just extreme dominance of it, to see this effect begin.
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by themafia 9mo ago
People assumed they could "modernize" software engineering, but, at the end of the day, it's still mostly engineering and very slightly about software. People optimized for the wrong thing.
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by themafia 9mo ago
No one is blaming LLMs. Their presence in this situation casts a conspicuous shadow though.
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by themafia 9mo ago
That it could "debase shared reality?" Or that using it as a single source of truth was fraught with difficulties? Has the latter condition actually changed?
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by themafia 9mo ago
"Doing your own research" is back on the menu boys!
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by themafia 9mo ago
> and has the potential to debase shared reality. If only. What it actually has is the potential to debase the value of "AI." People will just eventually figure out that these tools are garbage and stop relying on them. I cons

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