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by themafia 5mo ago
It's more likely to kill the AI market. They're overbuilding capacity and most of it is going unused. The upcoming haircut is going to kill a lot of the major players. They've intentionally crafted an unsustainable business
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Once I learned that sugar dust can literally _detonate_ I stopped being a Libertarian. Also the USCSB is one of my favorite federal institutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7mLSG-Yws
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> to providing full designs ready to integrate Yes, once the market came into existence, ARM was well situated to take advantage of it. > all the commercial benefit "All" is a tricky term to use here. They got some. An a
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> It would be a violation of HIPAA for a medical system to disclose that to a private individual. If multiple people told her they were hospitalized then you could ask and answer about that in a general way without violating HIPPA. &quo
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Wow. Virtual86 modes, the floating point unit, and memory paging really created an explosion of complexity within the microcode. There's sort of a wild west nostalgia that came with the 8086 and 8088 chips and a sense of approachabl
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Yet their purity brought them no commercial benefit.
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Cool, now I just need: "How to convert between silicon valley bloviating and normal human dialog." > None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even though that's mathematically the
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The profession has grown to a point where most people doing the work don't actually maintain it as a hobby. It seems like it's a purely commercial endeavor for them, so things that are traditionally sacrosanct, have become quit
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> Why can't GCP supplant AWS? Both GCP and AWS are just relabeled corporate dogfood. It turns out most people have operations that share more traits with retail than with big data.
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The website explains an exploit. I've seen exploits before. The commit explains the unique issue. I'm more interested in the why than the how. I suppose people with different overall goals will see that differently.
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I would assume that after the very first instance you would start moving to fix it. To be in a position where you have to roll back your plans doesn't seem like a simple "delay." The question is: why haven't you fixed
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Ask the car, in the sense you can, why it drove into the water. Then ask the human. I'm not sure you'd walk away the idea that they have equivalent intelligence. The human at least knew the water was there and took a risk, the
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If your premise is "robotaxis are so much better than human drivers" then this is almost a disaster. This is only the 10th city they've deployed to, all in the south, and nowhere there's significantly inclement weathe
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> You are strictly better off with the website than without it. Why? This is a better resource in every way: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=000d5b52c19ff3858a6f... It details the actual problem inste
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My gut feeling is this should be illegal. It's something like false advertising.
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> If this was 2025, this would be called machine learning because that's really what it was. It would be called "machine learning" because that's the buzzword du jour. > She was teaching the network to learn how to
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> made up of individual cells I think this analogy is flawed. Corporations cannot exist without laws pertaining to them. They're made up of _laws_. The individual components all have actions dictated to them by these laws. > I
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You can run unblockable ads on your site. You just have to not use third party integrations that run untrusted code on your visitors computers.
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> I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time. "However, it turns out, my deep passion can easily be put on hold with money. Also I'm not really sure what the definition of passionate
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You might if it were drastically more convenient. I seem to have somehow acquired nearly 1 imperial pound of documentation for every year I've been alive. That's just estimating based upon the weight of my panda file box next to
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The Battlestar Galactica rule. I find comfort in it as well.
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You take a non working technology and threaten workers with it as part of a global scheme to depress wages, and hey, bonus, the technology probably appears smart because it just wantonly steals everyone else's work and then passes i
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They did under Trump 1. Which is why Trump 2 promptly started bombing foreign countries. The pure ironic inversion of our world is wild to live through.
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Yea there is. It's called "nuclear weapons." Why you'd want to play this 'tough guy' game in the era of the Internet is wholly beyond me. You have a fantastically well outfitted military that in the absence o
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Note that Flock has incorrectly identified several vehicles as "suspects" to police during investigations. Flock has two obligations. Sell equipment to police. Avoid freaking the public out. Their statements are almost certainly
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> driving is a privilege Yet you can have a license without owning a car. They don't issue you a plate to use. So the plate is clearly for something else, mainly I think, to indicate that you've paid the appropriate registr
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> The entire purpose of license plate readers is to assist law enforcement It was the repossession companies that deployed them first. The police, as a general rule, are about 10 years behind on technology almost everywhere, so when
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> This is our latest project at Andon Labs, where we’re exploring what happens when AI runs real businesses autonomously. What did I misunderstand? What they did or why they did it? It seems to me that I understood it perfectly or they
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Out of all the jobs that "need to be replaced by AI" the guy serving my local community and spinning records was not one of them.
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> a real business Music radio is not a real business. The royalties are absurd and the audits are a nightmare. Sales is an uphill struggle both ways, even if you go strictly local or national, you're going to need a team to mana

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