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by wisty 2y ago
The home-baked solutions it replaced where even worse hyper comlex dung though. Graph databases are a hard problem, so the solutions are never going to be as nice as key-value with an index.
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by wisty 2y ago
20% loss isn't really "huge", is it? 10% of power is lost to distribution anyway. Batteries can also lose 10%. The issue with hydrogen isn't producing it, it's that it's an absolute nightmare to transport and s
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by wisty 2y ago
> A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism Has anyone ever seen Facebbok as idealistic? As far as I can tell, they've always been basically Amazon (the borg that will win at all costs) but a little more trivial, cool and
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by wisty 2y ago
Nah, the religious war people will complain about Elon, and maybe vague accusations of poor general quality (not untrue but no-one cars about the door gap, poor tolerances are only an issue in the drivetrain, and Tesla's drive train is
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by wisty 2y ago
Tariffs might hurt Elon but ceding US influence to OPEC (including Russia) by threatening to leave NATO and the UN? What happpens with instability and a lack of US influence in the Middle East?
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by wisty 2y ago
Asset is a weasel word. You think Trump takes orders from Putin? He's too much an egotist, and he sent the Javalins to Ukreain when lots of the establishment thought it was a bad idea since the experts thought Putin wasn't mad eno
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by wisty 2y ago
Chickens are social animals and require a pack. A dozen seems excessive though.
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by wisty 2y ago
Rule based systems can fall more into the side of AI than ML.
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Yes. But the interviewer isn't asking something in "non-autistic language", they're farting out their mouth, and you need to just fill the space with something that sounds good.
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by wisty 2y ago
> What they're really asking, translated to "blunt and frank communication" mode is: "Why should we even care that you applied?" I think you just made that up. There can be plenty of things the interviewer could
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by wisty 2y ago
Possibly due to overregulation. The power company wants to cut corners. The government wants to prevent that. So there is constant lawfare between governments and highly regulated companies, with neither really caring if it leaves the custo
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by wisty 2y ago
Neoliberalism fails because of what economists call "the theory of the second best". Neoliberalism fundamentally assumes that the best practical system is as close as possible to an ideal free market, but it's not, due to loc
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by wisty 2y ago
People more or less mail themselves parcels all the time, with online delivery.
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by wisty 2y ago
You could argue that 14 years is a little short, especially for books which can get adaptations that pay more than the book. OTOH preventing adaptations stifles things. Imagine if Tolkein had managed to lock down his orcs and elves like Dis
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by wisty 2y ago
Left libertarian would be more likely, I think?
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by wisty 2y ago
Talk is cheap, so it's easier than actions. If it was important enough to people, they'd act, even if there were some costs and inconveniences. That's the difference betwen people saying what yhey want, and their revealed pre
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by wisty 2y ago
Western models are also both trained for "safety", and have additional "safety" guardrails when deployed.
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by wisty 2y ago
A very smug comic. It misses 2 main points: 1. The system we have seems to have done a pretty good job, since people are choosing its products, rather than products created by another system. 2. A lot of people will rarely make a larger sac
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by wisty 2y ago
A lot would probably be loan words anyway, and they're words many English speakers would also need to learn. Array, socket, database, loop, float, function, etc. If the stack overflow examples are in English, you might as well use it.
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by wisty 2y ago
Bribery, conflicts of interest, etc are IMO similar. We don't let a manager give a family member a juicy contract without some oversight, and these corrupt budget games should be treated in a similar way. Everyone knows it's rampa
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by wisty 2y ago
At a guess, Nvidia stock prices are basically fiction at this point (are there lots of short AND long selling - IIRC butterfly spreads?). A good fundamental analysis is probably very hard to get right, and the game is probably just guessing
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by wisty 2y ago
To continue the analogy, now everyone with a dream and a credit card can buy a shovel and have a shot.
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by wisty 2y ago
Yes, a global market of 5 big LLM (ChatGTP, Llama, Claude, Mistral, Qwen ... any other big ones?) is not exactly good for Nvidia. If every well funded start-up can have a shot, then they buy more GPUs and the big players will need to buy ev
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by wisty 2y ago
You can get a pretty good accountant for $100k I think. They could vet the AI decisions and take responsibility.
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by wisty 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble... Managers play games because they are looking out for their own team, not the company's bottom line. Budgets constrain this. Overspending is bad, but
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by wisty 2y ago
Managers have a budget. They can't save it, and may spend big on consultants to create a buffer for their team when cuts hit. This is especially true in government, and big companies are similar. There is only one person who really can
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by wisty 2y ago
Crypto fans and gold bugs miss a very important point - if their favourite currency were to get big, banks would hold it as an asset, and issue loans in exactly the same way as any other currency. Do you want interest and the conviniance an
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by wisty 2y ago
Clickbait paper titles considered harmful?
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This is often a bit of a cop-out. Any time a criminal is caught, people want them to do hard time, but people believe we're too hard on crime if you don't use examples. People think the government should spend less, but are far le
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by wisty 2y ago
Not too shocking really: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1322248/ > Aiming to pour a “shot” of alcohol (1.5 ounces, 44.3 ml), both students and bartenders poured more into short, wide glasses than into

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