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by themgt 11mo ago
It is infested with the cult of immutability Immutability is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it.
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by themgt 11mo ago
Last October, 17 Office Management Specialists (OMSs) from posts across broader China convened at U.S. Consulate General Shanghai for the third annual Greater China Office Management Specialist Workshop. Participants included OMSs from Emb
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by themgt 11mo ago
> So yeah, the clock ticked and now we’re in a new and exciting era for geopolitics and who knows what system will prevail in the end. What is certain is that the US abdicated their leadership. In fact John Yoo, most famous for authoring
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Capitol Hill is abuzz with talk of the "Athena" plan for NASA(arstechnica.com)
5 points by themgt 1y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 1y ago
Venezuela is a narco dictatorship failed state, but its true crimes are violations of the Monroe Doctrine. America's hegemony in Europe, Asia and the Middle East is in serious decline, so it's become all the more important to flex
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Signs of introspection in large language models(anthropic.com)
183 points by themgt 1y ago|126 comments
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by themgt 1y ago
America cannot possibly win the space race again, because it has already been won. This is sort of like saying Leif Erikson and the Icelandic Commonwealth won the "the new world race" in 1000AD. Whatever Columbus et al were up t
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by themgt 1y ago
The open not-secret has been, post-GFC and especially post-COVID, k-shaped recoveries and increasingly k-shaped economy. So it is both the best of times and the worst of times. Neither party has been remotely serious about trying to structu
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by themgt 1y ago
M5 Macs may be launching as early as today. Inference should see a significant boost w/ matmul acceleration.
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by themgt 1y ago
However, laws and regulations are also in place to prevent strategic interests from being captured or even threatened. The motivation is rather obvious and to the point. Where is this window dressing you speak of? And yet the sale was all
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by themgt 1y ago
Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), reportedly observed that the purpose of the Alliance was to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down. https:/&#x2F
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by themgt 1y ago
The other deserving a mention is Pkl. Common denominator of being backed by a FAANG and having a lot of real world use. https://github.com/apple/pkl
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by themgt 1y ago
There seems to be a lot of context missing from mainstream discussions of this. The broader context (afaict) is that after the trade war kicked off in April, the US and China agreed in Madrid in June to hold negotiations and otherwise not t
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by themgt 1y ago
I'm going to take the bold stance that the executive putting their political opponents on a TSA watchlist is bad, regardless of which party is doing it.
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by themgt 1y ago
You're talking about a counterdrone system that's at technology demonstrator stage. I don't think they even have any contract or timeline for delivering production systems. Meanwhile tech used in the Ukraine war is adapting b
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by themgt 1y ago
There's also a sort of anti-everything attitude that gets boring and lazy. Redis is about the simplest thing possible to deploy. This wasn't about "a redis cluster with elastisearch using an LLM" it was just Redis. I som
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Origin of our own species pushed back by half a million years(nhm.ac.uk)
1 points by themgt 1y ago|0 comments
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Illiteracy Is a Policy Choice(theargumentmag.com)
117 points by themgt 1y ago|17 comments
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by themgt 1y ago
It's just totally nonsensical to talk about price when Falcon 9 has no competition on price. SpaceX is rationally going to charge the highest price customers will pay. If a launch costs them $20m but no one else can do comparable kg-
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by themgt 1y ago
Now, SpaceX may be building a lot of profit into that $70m, but from the customer's POV it hardly matters Ariane 6 cost $5 billion to develop, more than NASA paid SpaceX for all of HLS development and lunar landing, and has had as ma
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by themgt 1y ago
The number of different national and international situations that get compared to Nazi Germany seems to reflect a paucity of historical imagination and desire to collapse every conflict into an manichaean analogy with modern civilization&#
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by themgt 1y ago
Ran across this interesting NYT article from 1908. After President McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist, Teddy Roosevelt demanded action against anarchist publications being sent through the postal service. And yet he clarifies this do
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by themgt 1y ago
But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times. My favorite poem, my -- my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote: "Eve
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by themgt 1y ago
Were this an academic symposium on lung cancer I would agree. But this is the internet where folks who know how to establish causality and understand research methods and proper citing are uncommon. As a utility monster my appreciation rea
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by themgt 1y ago
China with SMIC and Huawei's Ascend 910C would be an example of what you do if you want to pursue strategic autonomy. It's like asking "who exactly were you going to buy a 6th generation fighter from?"
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by themgt 1y ago
Interesting article by someone who once argued that state-sponsored journalists are legally combatants, "the Voice of Palestine—the official broadcasting arm of the Palestinian Authority ... will remain what it has become: a combatant—
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by themgt 1y ago
We made a pledge "to prove that a carbon-free future is both possible and achievable fast enough to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change", but it turned out generating a short AI slop video uses 110kWh of energy.
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by themgt 1y ago
You're missing a major component of the strategy actually being pursued, which is worth understanding whether or not you support the policy: U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli pulled together an all-star federal taskforce comprising agents fr
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by themgt 1y ago
Nor do I understand ... Saying how horrible the Russian regime is, while directly giving it more money. It's nigh on incomprehensible when political leaders' actions contradict their words, since politicians are always truthful.
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by themgt 1y ago
n.b. there's been a little speculation that Apple adding TensorOps to Metal 4 suggests M5/M6 may get tensor cores. https://x.com/liuliu/status/1932158994698932505 https://developer.apple.com

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