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by xienze 8mo ago
So, it can happen again is what you’re saying.
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by xienze 8mo ago
He’s at least getting companies to pretend like they’re going to try. That’s a starting point. Before, the best you’d get out of these CEOs is “LOL those jobs are never coming back, learn to code or whatever else hasn’t been outsourced full
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by xienze 8mo ago
> The people who would be concerned with that are by and large not stressed about paying house mortgages, replacing roofs or fixing cars. Well they should be, because actually putting 2/3rds of the workforce out of work in a short,
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by xienze 8mo ago
OpenAI is not going to pay off my mortgage, it’s not going to replace my roof, it’s not going to fix my car, and so on. Money is still going to be very necessary for goods and services.
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by xienze 8mo ago
IBM makes a lot of money selling mainframes to companies that have COBOL codebases dating back to the 70s or earlier. The main reason said companies still buy mainframes to run said COBOL programs is because it’s too risky to try to port th
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by xienze 8mo ago
> Should their homes be vandalized too for their lack of concern for the community? If enough people can be convinced that those cameras are somehow helping Trump, you’ll find a lot of people in here and Reddit saying “yes”, I’ll imagine
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by xienze 8mo ago
But that’s the point I’m making. You’re taking the claims that Donut Labs is making about it being a new type of battery at face value. Having someone verify charging characteristics isn’t that helpful without simultaneously verifying that
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by xienze 8mo ago
Because that's not independent verification that the device tested actually _is_ a solid state battery. Just that whatever was tested had certain charging characteristics.
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by xienze 8mo ago
Fairly important bit here at the end: > This project included independent charging performance tests on the energy storage devices supplied by the customer, which the customer identified as solid-state battery cells. > which the custo
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by xienze 8mo ago
> Why is this so damn important? Isn't it more important to end up with the best result? You’re wondering why someone would prefer to get the same or better result in less time for less money?
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by xienze 8mo ago
> If the case was “can Trump dissolve New York as a state” you would still have 3 justices siding in his favor with some dog shit reasoning. As a counter-example, if the case was, say, "can a college use race as a factor in admissio
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by xienze 8mo ago
You’re forgetting that the “art” part of it is writing sound, scalable, performant code that can adapt and stand the test of time. That’s certainly more valuable in the long run than banging out some dogshit spaghetti code that “gets the jo
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by xienze 8mo ago
> Also, if the US restores their democracy We don’t have elections anymore? When did this happen?
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by xienze 8mo ago
I think you’re making the mistake of assuming that this thing that we can’t really verify (because we can’t make sure <person voting> = <person registered> at the polls) isn’t happening, precisely because we can’t accurately ver
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by xienze 8mo ago
> Both things happen to a vanishingly small degree that it's not worth taking any action on either Eh, small thing there. Ever notice how when discussion about voter ID laws in the US come up that commenters from other countries are
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by xienze 8mo ago
> Regulating actual guns that are frequently used in crime? Unlikely. Well, two things. First, your phrasing implies there’s no regulations around firearm ownership at all, which is not true. Second, much to the chagrin of California and
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by xienze 8mo ago
> The seniors today who have got to senior status by writing code manually will be different than seniors of tomorrow, who got to senior status using AI tools. That’s putting it mildly. I think it’s going to be interesting to see what ha
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by xienze 8mo ago
How is caching implemented in this scenario? I find it unlikely that two developers are going to ask the same exact question, so at a minimum some work has to be done to figure out “someone’s asked this before, fetch the response out of the
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by xienze 8mo ago
I built a new server this time last year. My board does 6 channel RAM so I bought 6x32GB ECC DDR5. $160 a stick at the time. Just for grins I looked up the same product number at the same supplier I originally bought from. $1300 apiece. One
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by xienze 9mo ago
> You know we can also advocate for higher taxes, given that it's astronomically more meaningful for everyone to give ten cents than for me to give a few dollars, right? And you can ALSO voluntarily pay more in taxes while doing so.
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by xienze 9mo ago
> Personally, I want people on the high end of earnings (such as myself) to be taxed more so that a basic income scheme like this can be available for anybody who wants it. Charge me an extra $300/month and give it to some random 24
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by xienze 9mo ago
The problem I have with the way the EU doles out these punishments is that they like to spring them on tech companies after years and years of radio silence and then suddenly it’s “hey TikTok, we just determined you’ve been breaking the law
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by xienze 9mo ago
You’re getting downvoted but seriously, it took them this long to figure this out? I also suspect they won’t outright ban TikTok, but instead levy a multi-billion dollar fine and let it continue operating.
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by xienze 9mo ago
Do they have a choice?
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by xienze 9mo ago
> I guess I'm ignorant but why do we continue overspending worldwide? Social programs are popular with voters (well, the ones who benefit from them without paying sticker price), no one ever wants to take a step backwards in lifesty
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by xienze 9mo ago
A lot of people at $job, even ones who should know better, think they’re witnessing the rise of Skynet, seriously. It kind of makes the AI hype in general make a lot more sense. People just don’t understand how LLMs work and think they’re l
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by xienze 9mo ago
> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention In order for this to be “safe” you’re gonna want to confirm what the agent is deciding needs to be done
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by xienze 9mo ago
> It’s in the interest of the model builders to solve your problem as efficiently as possible token-wise. Unless you’re paying by the token.
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by xienze 9mo ago
They have been offshoring for decades. We go in cycles of execs asking “why the hell are we paying these entitled Americans so much when Indian will do just as good for peanuts?”, then offshoring, then realizing it doesn’t work that well. T
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by xienze 9mo ago
But remember, the company can always decide to just not employ US-based employees (including H1B) at all. Your job can be done elsewhere for a fraction of the cost, remember?

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