tqi

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by tqi 7d ago
I don't think the NYT cares where the outrage is directed as long as they get their clicks
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by tqi 13d ago
"potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage" The global economy is over $126T this year (ecommerce alone is like $7T) how can something as scary sounding as AI swarm taking over the internet cause so little dama
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by tqi 13d ago
> What if they were just holding toy guns, innocently going from one kid's house to another? What if Waymo thought the guns were real, called the cops, and the cops screwed up and shot one of the kids? I'm always confused by ho
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by tqi 15d ago
How does this work for the innumerable products out there just thin wrappers around claude?
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by tqi 17d ago
> “We’ve tried to approach what happened assuming there was no ill intent,” Torres of CAMP wrote in the Thursday letter. “Still, after nearly 35 years of stewarding this alley, we have to ask: How does the erasure of four longstanding co
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by tqi 17d ago
"If you drive your own vehicle, it goes where you want it to go" I think privacy conscious folks like yourself consistently overrate how much purchase this argument has. I am perfectly happy to forgo this in exchange for a suffici
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by tqi 19d ago
I think eventually, some form of self updating llm memory will replace skills, but in the meantime it is token inefficient for the model to have to parse the entire repo from scratch every time, and skills are an imperfect way to shortcut s
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by tqi 19d ago
That's... not what an ab test is.
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by tqi 22d ago
tbh this is how i remembered that time as well. If you look at recommended system requirements for something like Max Payne (in 2001) vs Unreal Tournament 2003, everything had basically doubled
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by tqi 1mo ago
I would argue that many companies would in fact be better off disappearing for a year, rather than constantly thrashing the company to chase the latest trend. And judging from the ZIRP hiring sprees and tokenmaxxing, CEOs are more often the
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by tqi 1mo ago
I feel like we are basically reliving the COVID era supply chain crunch, that it's basically inevitable that in 18-36 months more capacity will come online and prices will crash back to earth. Whether OEMs like Apple pass these savings
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by tqi 1mo ago
I wonder if apple could or would offer a subscription for a OSX VM that you could remote into? That plus a neo would be an excellent combo for me
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by tqi 1mo ago
Everyone hate paywalls, ads, and aggregators. So what business models are even left? Are we just going to have patron supported echo chambers and propaganda from now on?
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by tqi 1mo ago
Not even attempting to control for these factors makes this seem more like a push poll than an actual study
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by tqi 1mo ago
Yeah agree, share of wealth definitely went up for folks who had the money to be invested in the stock market. My recollection is that some combination of stimulus checks / COVID dynamics made it much harder to hire low wage workers, s
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by tqi 1mo ago
Its interesting, I thought it was pretty well established that COVID era stimulus helped lower earners make real gains, even adjusted for inflation, while higher earners who did not get stimulus checks lost ground? From page 36 of the paper
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by tqi 1mo ago
Nah management consultants are leeches. If they really thought their clients could turn it around with One Simple Trick (that only 22yo ivy league alums could see) they would close up shop and move into PE.
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by tqi 1mo ago
tldr ad funded industry claims key that ceos of competitors for clicks are "hated by young people"
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by tqi 1mo ago
Sure but that's a pretty far cry from G.P.S. is terrible and is hurting your brain
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by tqi 1mo ago
> “I don’t think there’s enough research yet to say G.P.S. is terrible, that it’s hurting your brain,” Hegarty said. But it’s clear that turn-by-turn directions prioritize stimulus response over cognitive mapping. Articles like this one
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by tqi 2mo ago
>the strategy is transparent, he's trying to commoditize his closed rivals TBF, I think the same can be said for something like Apple's "commitment" to privacy, in that their own ads business never took off so they le
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by tqi 2mo ago
"If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, you're the asshole."
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by tqi 2mo ago
The irony hopping into a popular post to promote your own tangentially related blog post where you rail against "advertising" is papable.
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by tqi 2mo ago
What's your point?
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by tqi 2mo ago
Potato potato
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by tqi 2mo ago
Well yeah, have you seen how badly some of you people drive?
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by tqi 2mo ago
"Ultimately, people will vote with their wallet" Seems like a bad way to legislate this, since everyone else on the roads pays the price for cut rate self driving
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by tqi 2mo ago
It's called consentual sex
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by tqi 2mo ago
A right to privacy also includes the freedom to forgo privacy in return for other benefits.
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by tqi 2mo ago
No one in history has ever had an opinion independent of "influence"

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