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by 0xcde4c3db 4d ago
I don't think "plateaued" is the right word, but I do feel like there's been something like a logistic curve compression in the difference between smaller and larger models as the field evolves. For inference at least, t
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by 0xcde4c3db 4d ago
It would absolutely make sense for someone who enjoys cycling to buy a pedal-assist e-bike, especially if they e.g. moved to a hillier area, sustained an injury, or just started having their strength/stamina decline with age. (incident
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by 0xcde4c3db 9d ago
I doubt that's the only factor, but I agree that it's almost certainly a factor. The modern "tech" industry has filled our waking hours with unceasing demands to do something . Buy this product, watch this video, list
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by 0xcde4c3db 11d ago
True, but it's also the case that in some places and subcultures we're already at a point where meat with certain qualifications in some contexts is a Veblen good, and the rhetoric around it is very much a quasi-mystical blend of
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by 0xcde4c3db 11d ago
What really matters is that there's a coherent policy for assigning addresses, which is absolutely compatible with having multiple DHCP servers on the same subnet (e.g. each server configured to hand out non-overlapping IP ranges).
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by 0xcde4c3db 13d ago
I'm not a copyright lawyer, but my understanding is that you do not own a license when you buy a CD or cassette, you own a copy (strictly speaking, a "phonorecord" in US law). Copyright doesn't regulate the sorts of typi
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by 0xcde4c3db 21d ago
> Worse, in the context of DHHs rants, it comes off as racist - I don't get the sense he wants to throw out Norwegians from Denmark, for example. I think "primarily" is doing some lifting in "Denmark is primarily a co
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by 0xcde4c3db 21d ago
Right; it's not political in the sense of "vote for candidate/party/policy XYZ", it's political in the sense that Omarchy is distinguished by being a vehicle for DHH's opinions, and by promoting Omarchy on
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by 0xcde4c3db 21d ago
Also, the book that popularized "hello world" was very consciously advancing a programming-first pedagogical agenda, as opposed to building up a theoretical foundation first: > The only way to learn a new programming language i
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by 0xcde4c3db 23d ago
The problem is that once you draw "the line", then what? Warehouse a bunch of helpless people in overcrowded prisons? Bus them to some other less-draconian municipality? Forcibly drug them into quasi-submission and then turn them
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by 0xcde4c3db 1mo ago
Yeah, it's almost impressive how often hypotheses for what's causing rising obesity rates simply ignore actual data. I haven't been able to find it again, but a while back I stumbled on a journal article that was basically so
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by 0xcde4c3db 1mo ago
The implementation is superficially silly, but I think this can also be read as a meditation on exactly what distinctions we're making when we use terms like "program" vs. "process" or "input" vs. "de
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by 0xcde4c3db 1mo ago
I doubt there are many dyed-in-the-wool Republicans as such, but I'll bet there are many who still identify strongly enough with the old-school Republican messaging around rugged individualism and supply-side economics that they view t
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by 0xcde4c3db 1mo ago
That might run the risk of backfiring, by teaching people that hallucinations are obvious and thus easily avoided. Perhaps one of those things that only happens to other people who aren't so smart/skilled/savvy (car crashes,
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by 0xcde4c3db 2mo ago
We've been doing variations of "educate the general public about healthy dietary choices" for roughly as long as the obesity epidemic has been around. Shouldn't it have worked by now, if it were going to? As purportedly
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by 0xcde4c3db 3mo ago
As far as I understand it in retrospect (having grown up in a strictly PC household and later investigating "retro" platforms where SCSI was standard), SCSI was not inherently expensive. It's more that for PC platforms, ATA p
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
> The COVID vaccine was an example of very heavy-handed enforcement Do you have some concrete examples of this? I recall a lot of hyperventilating about the possibility of "vaccine passports" (complete with "mark of the
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
And even supposing that an administration doesn't fully trust Congress (or its ability to execute through parliamentary gridlock), there are a bunch of people in the executive branch whose whole-ass job it is to investigate this stuff,
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
Probably because it's implausible, trivial to fake, and there's no way to conclusively prove it's real without the original tweet still being up.
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
Being in bed with tax preparation companies is probably the main thing, but I also vaguely recall a statement by someone years ago (perhaps Grover Norquist or Dick Armey) that filing tax returns should be kept annoying simply for the sake o
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
I was sure this was wrong, but it's true: according to official state counts, Donald Trump won 49.80% of the popular vote to Kamala Harris's 48.32%. The top 5 was rounded out by Jill Stein (0.56%), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (0.49%), a
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
And Larry Ellison wants us all under the eye of AI cameras so that "citizens will be on their best behavior". I almost used the word "panopticon" there, but Ellison is proposing something strictly worse, in that there&#x
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
> Or do devs around the world just have to bite the bullet and learn enough English to be able to use the majority of tools? I'm a native English speaker, but from looking at various code bases written by people who aren't, I g
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
It's easy for any one agency or police department to cook the books, but I don't think that scales to the kind of huge shift across multiple categories and data sources shown in the article.
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
Yeah; it's not strictly accurate, but in a similar sense that it's not strictly accurate to call the typical copper Ethernet connector "RJ45", to say that a UDP "connection" occurred, or to say that a modem con
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
It's been argued that similar dynamics also inflate executive pay, although I'm not well-versed enough in the overall economic policy debate to know how well-established this actually is [1]. [1] https://www.epi.org&#x2
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
There's also "Free File Fillable Forms", which is part of the weird compromise that tax return prep companies like Intuit and H&R Block negotiated to prevent individuals being allowed to file directly with the IRS. It&#x2
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
> Hmm. I'm ready to believe you, but 2257 doesn't seem totally infeasible to comply with in a VHS world. I'm not saying that it was supposed to be impossible to comply with per se , but rather that it was supposed to be i
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
The commercial incentives around this are also terrible, given that the prevailing assumption is that a private third party will do the attestation as a for-profit service. It's practically guaranteed to add cost and liability for the
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by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
Lowe is known and (probably rightly, on average) lauded for his frankness in light of his expertise. He's sort of the chemistry equivalent of a Raymond Chen or John Carmack. I like him a lot overall, but I think he badly failed to &quo

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