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by woooooo 8mo ago
Also, we already have Iran on sanctions and every possible diplomatic hostility short of war. What should we rationally ask for from our government? Invasion?
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by woooooo 9mo ago
The point of the story to me was, with a clear idea of what they want, the person got a year's worth of Big Tech done in a few hours with Claude. Could have been a couple days with a tight team, either way, the problem wasn't the
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Enduring survival properties aren't the same as enduring beneficial properties. Feudalism and slavery stuck around for quite a long time and were mostly forced out against their will.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
At big tech companies "were still finding alignment" is code for leadership not being able to make decisions and unblock execution.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
The key words in the quote are "not everyone is aligned". It's not about execution ability.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Bear cartel is a bunch of curmudgeons without tons of VC money. If they are being unfair, its purely for love of the game.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
2024 was right after voters had seen Biden at that debate, while all the "responsible" people insisted he was sharp and smart. It really was more unique than its given credit for.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
HN trusts the community by giving us green text for the new accounts.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Qing suffered a century of unequal treaties before they fell, they were the bullied and not the bully. (They were also medieval and isolationist which further hurts the comparison IMO).
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by woooooo 9mo ago
"The Defence Ministry of India reported: 88 killed and 163 wounded on the Indian side, while 340 killed and 450 wounded on the Chinese side, during the two incidents.[6][7] According to Chinese claims, the number of soldiers killed was
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by woooooo 9mo ago
If we add up "damage to countries around it" in the previous hundred years, I think Japan doesn't look so great. China conducted one several-week war against Vietnam and annexed Tibet, both over 50 years ago. Other than the
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by woooooo 9mo ago
The upper quartile are in the US and they're not allowed to buy Chinese cars, so you are right by default. That notwithstanding, Xiaomi cars are nicer than Teslas. They're called "the Apple of China" for a reason.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Yeah, I hear you and I also added a parenthetical that the incentives aren't always the same. In an organization of high-minded individuals, the information asymmetry goes both ways, I've been a manager and a dev and I tried to be
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Both, actually, but in the case I'm thinking of the devs with the strongest leadership skills in terms of organizing their peers to make things happen were completely invisible to management who were playing a different game. Just lik
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by woooooo 9mo ago
In other large orgs, the managers are in a parallel universe playing status games while the devs self-organize to get anything done. The soft skills involved in doing that wind up being completely invisible to the status universe.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Assembly isnt how they work under the hood, but its the highest fidelity interface we have. C as "portable assembler" is targeting the surface that chip designers give us and the one that they try to make fast via all their micro
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by woooooo 9mo ago
That becomes a problem if you let the shell script mutate into an "everything" script that's solving tons of business problems. Or if you're reinventing kubernetes with shell scripts. There's still a place for sim
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by woooooo 9mo ago
If you get all the data on fast SSDs in a single chassis, you probably still beat EMR over S3. But then you have a whole dedicated server to manage your 14TB of chess games. The "EMR over S3" paradigm is based on the assumption t
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by woooooo 9mo ago
The issue is when all the spending gets you is more complexity, maintenance, and you don't even get a performance benefit. I once interviewed with a company that did some machine learning stuff, this was a while back when that typicall
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Obviously I and most westerners are on the side of the angels for this incident but we also hear lots of calls in the West to ban "Russian and Chinese bots", or "pro terrorist views" or whatever. Principled views should
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by woooooo 9mo ago
I am confident that the number of broccoli eaters exceeds the number of heroin users.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
I've seen some straw-men in my day but "OP wants to shift all agricultural production to heroin" might be an all-timer.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Setting aside the bad analogy, real people are much more likely to eat broccoli than to do heroin.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Ok, but are we losers who cannot compete culturally? Where's the faith and confidence? We can't compete with AI slop?
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by woooooo 9mo ago
Isn't that just "culture"? Let the best content win? It used to be that the USA was comfortable competing and winning along these lines.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
No but you can call out to Google or DDG APIs.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
I think parent comment was talking about hype vs reality rather than disagreeing with you. "We're not hiring but AI is in the news" = "We're not hiring because of AI! Don't sell our stock!" It's ind
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by woooooo 9mo ago
But that's just software that also runs fine locally. A few tools with a local LLM can do it.
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by woooooo 9mo ago
> If however you use a zero-copy format, the CPU can skip data that it doesn't care about, so you can 'exceed' the 6 GB/s limit. You still have to load a 64-byte cache line at a time, and most CPUs do some amount of r
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by woooooo 9mo ago
I'd love to see a source that he was there to coordinate an attack on the US embassy. Did the Iraqis invite him for that purpose?

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