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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Really? I watch a lot of long-form YouTube while doing the dishes, and occasionally poke at the Shorts. Some funny, mostly dumb and I move on. Maybe a generational thing, but for most of the latter half of the 20th Century most folks had to
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Some quick Googling tells me Instagram has something like 3B users who spend an average of around 30 minutes a day in the app. Rewind 30 years or so, how long did the typical New York Times subscriber spend with their paper every day? Was
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
In what sense do you mean Instagram is “addictive” to a neurotypical adult?
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Exactly! But this was not just obvious in retrospect, it was what Intel was saying to the market (& OEMs) at the time! The only way I can rationalize it is that Intel just "missed" that servers hooked up to networks running in
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I think the difference was that replacing Itaniums with Xeons on the roadmap didn't seriously hurt margins (probably helped!) The problem with mobile was that it fundamentally required low-margin products, and Intel never (or way too l
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Also for the gap between CPU speed and memory speed to matter enough for it to be worthwhile.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
The cartridge-style packaging of the Pentium II/III’s was also peak for the lineup. My favorite PC I ever built was a dual-CPU Tyan motherboard that eventually held two screaming fast Coppermines. Needed a university copy of Windows 20
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
In the end, Intel did cannibalize themselves. It wasn’t too long after the Itanium launch that Intel was publicly presenting a roadmap that had Xeons as the appealing mass-market server product.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I wonder what their engineers thought.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Itanium was bonkers in lots of ways—very cool in others. But this market segmentation idea just seems absolutely insane to me in a way I’ve never had anyone satisfactorily explain. It requires Intel to voluntarily destroy the commodity ec
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
They also started to slip behind AMD in the Pentium 4/NetBurst era, but got their footing back with Core (a more direct descendant of the P6 than the Pentium 4!) Around the same time, but I’d classify as separate stumbles.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Because of the branding change, history will remember the Pentium (P5). It was really the Pentium Pro (P6) that put Intel leaps ahead on x86 microarchitecture, a lead they’d hold with only a few minor stumbles for two decades. Bob Colwell (
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Right: They’re gambling addicts. That’s a distinct fact from, “Gambling is a physiologically addictive behavior for typical humans.”
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I’m saying society should tread extremely carefully in attempting to regulate citizens’ potentially psychologically addictive behaviors.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I don’t gamble, but if I did, I am fairly certain it would release little to no dopamine for me, win or lose. I don’t smoke, but if I did, I’m also fairly certain I would find it hard to stop.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
If something compels behavior vs. behavior remaining a free choice, a liberal society can and should treat it like any other source of compulsion. Personally, I am leery of any technical definition of “addictive” that operates outside the t
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
As someone who values a liberal society, I hope we’d be exceedingly careful in what we label “addictive” in the same bucket as oxy or nicotine. I also hope the reasons are obvious.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
As the author lays out, the thing that made coroutines click for me was the isomorphism with state machine-driven control flow. That’s similar to most of what makes C++ tick: There’s no deep magic, it’s “just” type-checked syntactic sugar f
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Not “take over the world” level misalignment. I mean, “We can’t assuredly prevent our models from generating unlicensed IP or degrading pornography without blunt approaches that alienate our core audience”.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
MIT Prof. Emeritus, Theodore Postol, has been trying to warn about this basic, mathematically proved fraud for many years now. Indeed, there are any number of very smart people who made up their mind 40 years ago in opposition to Reagan
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
If I were to get conspiracy-minded: Sora had to be shut down because it was the clearest, most consequential demonstration that OpenAI’s models are running way, way ahead of their ability to align/jail them effectively.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
They were free to use it and did. Their employer, the Federal government, was free to fire them, and did.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
The Prologue was part of the EV bloodletting at Honda.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Per that link, the BYD Dolphin is €30,000 and the VW ID.3 is €36,000. That’s a 20% premium. For that, you get more range, faster charging, and better highway driving, even aside from the brand premium. That doesn’t seem like a slam dunk to
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I don’t mean to pick on this particular comment, but broadly the EV enthusiast community is severely underestimating what would happen to the sticker price of a BYD that could actually be sold in the United States in alignment with a real m
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
It’s highly impractical to import cars less than 25 years old into the US for anything beyond “show & display” licensing, and that’s only for select models. Modifying them to meet US safety standards and then getting them approved is ar
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Are you kidding? To the extent this was “crafted” it was by an LLM from somebody’s notes in a prompt. The other day, someone linked back to this 2018 post on finding a cache coherency bug in the Xbox 360 CPU: https://randomascii.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I’m not arguing the merits of the policy. I’m arguing that if the Big Beautiful Bill contained a $70B slush fund for the administration to hand out to its tech buddies, ProPublica would have gone wall to wall.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Here’s an article on their front page today on a few thousand dollars in campaign contributions, no allegations of fraud or anything illegal: https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfons... The Teamster
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Compare 600+ stories tagged for the Trump administration: https://www.propublica.org/topics/trump-administration …with 16(!!) since 2020 on Biden’s term: https://www.propublica.org/topics/biden-adm

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