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by xg15 8mo ago
Kind of reminds me of "nucleation sites" in physics. I think one factor that's missing from the explanation is the extensive media and political coverage that solar panels got: There are probably very few people by now that d
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by xg15 8mo ago
I remember two Gamescom visits. First one was I think during the releae of the first Oculus, when still hardly anyone got to actually try out VR headsets. An absolutely HUGE area in one of the main halls, the queue going once around the ent
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by xg15 8mo ago
I wasn't following the project very closely and so might have missed something - but could someone explain what happened there and where all those billions went? The idea of an immersive, persistent, multi-user virtual reality is not e
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by xg15 8mo ago
> LLMs can build an idea into a prototype in a weekend Just to nitpick, because I think the difference is relevant: "Idea to prototype in a weekend" was possible for a spirited coder already before LLMs. Now it's "I
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by xg15 8mo ago
Feels to me like this is good old "if a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure". I.e. happiness is a good measure to identify other things in your life: If something makes you unhappy, address it, if something mak
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by xg15 8mo ago
Yes. Another pattern you can observe throughout the years of the conflict, right now again in Lebanon: When Israel rejects an offer, they get a better offer. When everyone else in the region rejects an offer, they get a worse one.
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by xg15 8mo ago
Also, the conflict around "the area from the river to the sea" in it's entirety is something like 140 years old, with western countries having played a driving role since the very beginning. The Sudan conflict on its own has
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by xg15 8mo ago
> It just doesn't fit into one person's head anymore. True, but I think it doesn't have to, at least not everything at the same time. You can still usually understand the ins and outs of a specific component/service
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by xg15 8mo ago
https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-03-16/ty-article/.pre...
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by xg15 8mo ago
> this is war 101, every day. Except this situation has been going on like this for 60 years - with Israel, or the other western states having absolutely no plans to change anything about it (except making it even worse).
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by xg15 8mo ago
> Only relevant because the conflict is often portrayed in terms of European Colonialism or US race dynamics. What do you want to tell with this? That there are no race dynamics because some people have a lighter skin color? No "J
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by xg15 8mo ago
We actually didn't, if much of that A/B testing was to find the optimally "engagement maximizing" i.e. maximally addictive UI design.
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by xg15 8mo ago
> It's far more legitimate to just discuss how much A/B testing should negatively affect a user. I don't have an answer and it's an interesting and relevant question. You don't have an answer on "how much
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by xg15 8mo ago
> The framing of A/B testing as a "silent experimentation on users" Sorry, but how is A/B testing not exactly that? The experiments may be on non-disruptive things like button color, but they're experiments no
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by xg15 8mo ago
> Every few years a new tool appears and someone declares that the difficult parts of software engineering have finally been solved, or eliminated. To some it looks convincing. Productivity spikes. Demos look impressive. The industry co
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by xg15 8mo ago
That's all well and good, but then why introduce gambling-like mechanisms (with real money) in new areas where people have not been looking for them, like lootboxes in games or randomized trading cards? It's a bit as if ice cream
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by xg15 8mo ago
If someone opposes regulation on X, the first line of rhetoric defense seems always to be "oh, what is 'X' even? Does it even exist? Is Y also 'X'? You don't want to ban Y, do you?" In this case, if the fo
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by xg15 8mo ago
Thanks a lot for the info. Yeah, it makes sense that if you need pure helium anyway, you probably wouldn't create an entire second supply chain for impure helium.
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by xg15 8mo ago
And what gives you the confidence that the amount of apos will stay tiny?
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by xg15 8mo ago
> because for most people a phone is not a toy (or at least, not just a toy) - it has their communications history, their bank information, their passwords, any many more. And it's really easy to steal people's phones on the s
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by xg15 8mo ago
The Hindenburg wants to know your location Edit: oh right, know your chemistry...
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by xg15 8mo ago
From the article I thought the helium was used mostly for cooling (where I imagine the purity wouldn't be that important) But what other processes do the fabs use the helium for then?
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by xg15 8mo ago
> Smart Brevity Only knew it as the "Axios style" so far and was always weirded out by it. Their articles read more like a form letter than an actual text. Good to know it has a name.
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by xg15 8mo ago
The unshuffled song: https://youtu.be/qwQLk7NcpO4 :) (Same here - though at least so I learned about the Amen Break.)
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by xg15 8mo ago
What irks me a bit at the way the Bitter Lesson is interpreted is that seemingly it didn't just throw out handcrafted model/feature generation, but also any attempt to interpret the learned models and features. Like, in theory,
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by xg15 8mo ago
We have no idea what "drafting partner" means in that case. Maybe the person isn't a native English speaker or is for whatever other reason insecure about their prose? It would be sad if they couldn't make their argument
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by xg15 8mo ago
> Like I want something where it’s secured by a username and password, that i give to a server i am registered with - and that server handles the encryption business. If the server rotates keys, that’s for the admin to figure out and ex
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by xg15 8mo ago
As those social justice groups like to say: "everything is political"...
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by xg15 8mo ago
Waiting until Trump discovers that the earth rotation service exists and forces them to insert a negative leap second just because he can.
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by xg15 8mo ago
The paragraph "The ImageNet Moment" stuck out to me. It's so stuffed of the current AI-isms that I have a hard time seeing this as chance.

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