zdragnar

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by zdragnar 6mo ago
You just need to stomach slavery, violent repression of political dissidents, live organ harvesting and a handful of other unpleasantries.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
I don't think it's really helpful to tell people they're holding it wrong, especially when you hear the problem a lot. Maybe, just maybe, the tool isn't suitable for all problem spaces.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
Always depends on your configuration but I've not had issues with arch or fedora getting comparable battery life to Windows in a long time.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
It didn't really add anything to the conversation, and if I wanted to know what an LLM thought, I'd ask it. The reason for the rule is people come here to interact with other people.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
It's what you get when you create sycophant-as-a-service. It will, by design, feed all of your worst fears and desires. LLMs aren't AGI, and I'd go further and say they aren't AI, but admitting it is snake oil doesn&#x27
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
My last job did something similar. An AI blurb feature was researched and built and costs a good chunk of resources to run for no reason other than being able to tell investors AI was being used. I proposed a solution using simple heuristic
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
I suspect the intent (hope) is that by then there will be more fabs running in the US and that we won't have cut our legs off at the knees. It's pretty hard to see a significant chunk of chip manufacturing being onshored by then t
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
The labs I was in weren't connected to the Internet at all, only a local intranet. Though, they were all running pre-oracle solaris if memory serves, so I'm probably dating myself a bit.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
That only counts if the unique selling proposition is that AI are better suppliers or customers than humans. What is more likely is that people enjoy the novelty of the experiment, which is not something that will be reproducible for long.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
Nobody says the phrase when they are calling people to look at a system's incentives. They use the phrase as a response to personal criticism excusing and rationalizing their own bad behavior. It is a deflection of personal responsibil
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
Most circuits with standard plugs on them are 15A in the US. A single space heater will fully utilize one.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
You need to overprovision solar and wind capacity by at minimum 5x for northern latitudes' winter months compared to the summer, plus another few multipliers to keep storage topped up, or invest heavily in HVDC and massively overprovis
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
By making it illegal, it has already been regulated. The IRS also requires reporting and taxing all income, even that which was unlawfully gained.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
Not necessarily. Many employers who don't require a college degree can be reluctant to hire someone who is "over qualified" because they are more likely to quit as soon as they get a better job, and they are more likely to ke
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
Edit: apologies, I just noticed my original comment said "all" instead of "many". That definitely isn't case as you noted. Original: Animal and plant sciences: 53% Biochem: 42 Biology: 51 Chemistry: 42 Engineering t
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
Nearly half of college graduates age 22-27 are underemployed (i.e. such that bachelors degrees have jobs that only require a high school diploma or less): https://archive.is/wrDde According to https://archive.is&
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
It's also aphyr, who is incredibly popular. Take one very popular author, have him write a series of posts on the zeitgeist everyone can't help but talk about, and yes, the outcome is that his posts are extremely popular. I still
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
As a kid I built a pneumatic musket with both 20 oz and 2 liter bottles and filled them up to 80 psi repeatedly, and never had one pop. I wouldn't recommend going that high for a carbonated drink though, unless you like to live dangero
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
The annual minimum wage (at the federal level, not counting states with higher) is around $15k. There are about 267 million adults in the US. That is double current federal and state welfare spending. I'm dead tired right now so I&#x27
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
What protest? If the site is illegal in the UK, he has three options: 1) add age verification to comply 2) cease operating in the UK by blocking traffic 3) operate in violation of the law, making travel to anywhere the UK has jurisdiction d
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
I'm not saying John Deere isn't responsible for their own bad behavior. I'm responding to the bit about John Deere not admitting wrongdoing. It'd basically be legal malpractice for a lawyer to allow their client to do su
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
There's tons of folk remedies that do absolutely nothing useful at all, too. When you don't have any reliable medicine, you take whatever you have on hand and hope for a placebo effect. Eventually, you find something helpful becau
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
That, and some people hate being on the receiving end of the output. The old "if you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it".
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
The whole point of settling is to end legal action. Admitting wrongdoing will be used as evidence against them by others who weren't party to the original suit. Any future suits will have far higher settlement costs, if plaintiffs are
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
That's not why the author calls them bullshit machines. > One way to understand an LLM is as an improv machine. It takes a stream of tokens, like a conversation, and says “yes, and then…” This yes-and behavior is why some people cal
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
Fewer people are needed to work megafarms, but the basic needs for these services don't go away entirely. As a result, moving people to the urban centers still leaves you with all the things that you hoped urbanizing would get rid of-
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
And yet, farmers still need roads, and hardware stores, and grocery stores, and hospitals, and HVAC and plumbers and before you know it, you need villages for all the people those people depend on, along with their families.
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by zdragnar 6mo ago
There's a fair number of ai generated 1.5 hour or so collections of blues songs on YouTube, and some are actually pretty decent. I suspect the human in the loop guides the lyrics to keep them sensible and the voice from being too muddl
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Is it unreasonable to not appreciate an insult?
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Why spend more money just to trawl through BS contributions? Cutting off the nonsense would be both cheaper and have the same result. More funding for more development of open source is a good thing, but more money to ease the burden impose

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