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by twblalock 4y ago
I care about handling on public roads, not autocross or track racing.
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by twblalock 4y ago
All my objections to Tesla melted away after I took one for a test drive. They outclass the competition in every way. It's not just the software, it's the driving experience. The Model 3 is a rocket ship and handles like a 911 for
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by twblalock 4y ago
It would be good if the AI knew what year it was... > The next presidential election is scheduled for 2021.
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by twblalock 4y ago
You endorse the idea of bombing rogue datacenters, as proposed in the article? Isn't that likely to lead to nuclear war, which is still the greatest threat to humanity and has been for all of our lives? What if the US bombs a datacente
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by twblalock 4y ago
I'm not sure how else Roku can make money. Pretty much every TV is a "smart TV" now with built-in streaming apps. Why would anyone buy a Roku? These additional devices only make sense if they are really cheap (and therefore s
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by twblalock 4y ago
This is even less realistic than asking for a moratorium on nuclear weapons research in 1945. It's increasingly easy and cheap to train GPTs and similar models. Pretty soon anyone who can pay for GPU compute will be able to do it, if t
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by twblalock 4y ago
The kind of research discussed at Asilomar had a high barrier to entry in terms of both scientific knowledge and access to laboratories and technology to pull off. Only scientists could really do it. The GPTs are at the point where anyone w
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by twblalock 4y ago
Sure, or if your wallet gets stolen, or you forget your password. But even if you can keep your holdings forever, they won't be worth anything if there isn't a market for them. All it takes is enough people freaking out and dumpin
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by twblalock 4y ago
A lot of people in the rust belt want those factory jobs back, because they were proud to support themselves through work and derived personal fulfillment from it. And they vote, and we know who most of them voted for last time... If people
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by twblalock 4y ago
Hopefully Binance still has all the money customers deposited and didn't lose it or trade it for magic beans like FTX did. If a lot of customers take out their money and Binance goes out of business, that's fine. I mean, it sucks
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by twblalock 4y ago
It's possible if the money isn't actually there anymore, like what happened with FTX.
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by twblalock 4y ago
Just look at all the ridiculous ways people spent their Covid aid money. That pretty much tells us all we need to know.
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by twblalock 4y ago
We don't live in a post-scarcity society and AI isn't going to change that. We are constrained by natural resources and energy in numerous ways. AI replacing human workers isn't going to make UBI possible. It's just goin
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by twblalock 4y ago
Depends on what else is in your house. What you need is enough headroom in your panel to pass inspection. That's generally more than you really "need" at any given time, but good luck convincing the inspector that you will be
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by twblalock 4y ago
In most places I know of, you will not pass inspection for new circuits if you don't have a certain amount of headroom in your panel, this is defined in the building code, and there will be no way to argue your way past it.
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by twblalock 4y ago
Quite a few homes are in that situation, especially because some cities have much older houses on average than Vegas. I had to get a panel upgrade on my house that was built in the 1960s, in order to get a charger installed, despite the hou
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by twblalock 4y ago
Things aren't really that bad for most Americans, but even if they were, it doesn't follow that adding more intelligence to the world would be a bad thing for them. A lot of people in the lower income brackets do the kind of work
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by twblalock 4y ago
It really is irreversible. The methods and compute needed to build a GPT-type AI are widely available.
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by twblalock 4y ago
It's too late. Anyone who pauses will simply be left behind. This is especially salient if you think US domination of tech is better for the world than Chinese domination -- if the US pauses, China certainly won't. (And yes, US do
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by twblalock 4y ago
The only thing that reduces the average age of your accounts is opening new accounts or closing old ones.
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by twblalock 4y ago
If you think this is bad, imagine what JSONLint has seen over the years.
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by twblalock 4y ago
If you're going to run in prod in Kubernetes then you need to live with the idea of applying Kubernetes manifests. So, live with it. Docker Desktop made that easy, and some of the alternatives like Rancher and Podman also make it easy.
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by twblalock 4y ago
There isn't really such a thing as "external factors" when the entire economy is an interdependent ecosystem. Construction getting cheaper and more productive actually created more demand for it, made it economical to build l
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by twblalock 4y ago
I forget who wrote this, but there was a famous CS-related paper from a while back that made the point that when we automate the easy stuff, the only remaining problems are the really hard ones that require human expertise and domain knowle
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by twblalock 4y ago
No, I meant that above average achievement is not rewarded . (And in that case, why would anyone try harder than the bare minimum?) One of the first things a union would do is decouple compensation from performance and introduce a standard
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by twblalock 4y ago
I certainly wouldn’t join a union (and a “guild” would not be legally distinguishable from one). I don’t want a levelling effect in our industry. I don’t want gatekeeping either. We aren’t interchangeable cogs, and people who do better than
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by twblalock 4y ago
It's a really bad move to give something away for free for years, and then suddenly announce you will charge for it and everyone has 30 days to figure it out. Over a shorter time scale that would be called "bait and switch" a
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by twblalock 4y ago
PR exists because honesty and frankness are punished in our society and people will jump at any opportunity to prosecute or sue. The result is PR fluff, endless disclaimers, and announcements with as little detail of the internal workings o
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by twblalock 4y ago
The company with the best track record of maintaining backwards compatibility in the entire tech industry owns Github. I'm not worried about that.
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by twblalock 4y ago
The press release also contains actual information that is relevant -- in this case, that free teams is not being sunset. The reflexive complaints about press releases don't have that value.

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