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by wongarsu 7mo ago
The car seems like a great example of a technology with a lot of problematic side effects. Places that had a more measured adoption ended up a lot better than those that replaced all public transit with cars and routinely demolished neighbo
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
True on technicalities. If it isn't useful to the operation of the bombers in the region, why did it happen? And if it is useful that sounds like a UK base participating in the war
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
The internal conflict over corruption, water issues and handling of the protesters had a decent chance to cause meaningful changes in government. Starting a war and attacking their civilians put those chances to bed.
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
The C# world also has quite a few paid libraries, especially for UI stuff. Quite a few years ago I worked at a company using Delphi, and judging by their homepage they are still using it. A company making industrial machinery, with a tiny i
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
The rule of law is worse than might makes right? Or what do you perceive as the opposite of "might makes right?"
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
In GPL cases for software, making the offending proprietary code publicly available under the GPL has been the usu outcome. But whether you can actually be compelled to do that isn't well tested in court. Challenging that the GPL is en
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Most adults are terrible at answering 'what if' and 'why' questions. An AI assistant with search will do much better than the average parent That might not apply to the kinds of parents that hang out here though
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Most software written today (or 10 years ago, or 50 years ago) is not particularly unique. And even in that software that is unusual you usually find a lot of run-of-the-mill code for the more mundane aspects
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
The actual quotes are the best part: https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews#quotes Some quotes that stuck out to me: "I’ve been working on a scientific project for 6 years... with Claude I was able to a
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
> Do you have example of another area the government has higher profit margins than private industry? Public transit. Capturing enough money from fares is difficult, maybe impossible, but it's quite profitable if you can capture the
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
> Or any satellite malfunction and failure to de-orbit in time Last year they had one "dead as a doornail" Starlink satellite in space. [1] It's v1.5, so deployed sometime between 2021 and 2023. It should be naturally deo
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
It wasn't easy at all. Nobody except SpaceX could have done it at the time. This is the result of SpaceX being able to launch much cheaper than anyone before them, and being able to use these high-cadence launches to both implement and
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
The NT kernel is by far the best part of Windows. It's everything on top of it that has turned to crap
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
It's $5 for every month where you don't actually use it. If they are still subsidizing the hardware cost, that's probably where that money goes. If you actually use it you pay regular price for that month I don't see how
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Cleaning it while it's still hot is also a good strategy for pans. Obviously that has limits on how dirty it can be. But if everything went well while cooking it's fast and painless
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
You can still pay Microsoft money to get a desktop copy of Powerpoint, which will use your system fonts. Using google docs is entirely self-inflicted Granted, you now need to pay Microsoft a monthly fee for Powerpoint instead of a one-time-
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
On the other hand a lot of SpaceX's success can be attributed to applying modern software development methodology on spacecraft. They are very much doing agile development, betting on velocity enabling fast iteration. That has lead to
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Yeah, I think the idea of the law is fine. If you imagine "Operating System" to mean "things like Windows and iOS, or Desktop install of Fedora", "Application Store" to mean "Microsoft Store or AppStore or
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
The size of the age bracket also puts practical limitations on it. There is only one mandated bracket for everyone who's at least 18, preventing that attack on anyone who starts using your software after their 18th birthday. And if a 1
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
The California law only stipulates that there's an "accessible interface at account setup" to set the birthday or age at account setup, and an interface to query the age bracket. Plus the crap for "application stores&quo
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
AI facial recognition is smarter than what they are capable of. That's not the issue. It is much faster than a human, and state-of-the-art models make fewer errors than a human (though the types of errors are not the same). The issue i
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Yeah, I could see a world where it swings exactly the opposite way for software. Writing software for yourself is becoming cheap, but gathering requirements, getting alignment between stakeholders or marketing your software isn't getti
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
It's meant as a "yes"/"instead, do ..." question. When it presents you with the multiple choice UI at that point it should be the version where you either confirm (with/without auto edit, with/without
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
> That is simply "Assured Destruction" with absolutely no mutual drawbacks Nuclear countries would simply declare that they will launch nukes if any rod comes down on their territory. Even if you had thousands of projectiles in
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
A lot of asteroids are much less solid than we used to think. Some of them are big rocks, but many of them are just piles of sand- and gravel-sized material loosely held together by gravity. Clamps work great on the solid rock type, but man
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
You know what they say: the best planetary offense is a good asteroid redirect program It's also the best planetary terrorism, going by the plot of The Expanse
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
I don't find this very compelling. If you look at the actual graph they are referencing but never showing [1] there is a clear improvement from Sonnet 3.7 -> Opus 4.0 -> Sonnet 4.5. This is just hidden in their graph because they
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
The 1B number would contain multiple records per person. For example if I (as a German in Germany, ymmv) open a bank account online that involves a call with one of these companies where they take pictures and information from my passport a
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
It's pretty fascinating to look at the impacts this has had in the last 2000 years, or even just the last 200. Take construction work. Incredible improvements through power tools, gasoline-powered mobile cranes, etc. The productivity p
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Maybe my perception of 00s models is colored by nostalgia, hard to know. But I haven't been alive in the 80s, so my perception of them during the 00s should be pretty uncolored

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