AdamN

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by AdamN 4d ago
> A wiki is largely indistinguishable in structure from an SEO link farm Not just indistinguishable but the same. The only difference really is the intent of the owners/authors and (possibly) the quality of the content.
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by AdamN 4d ago
> I think there's a difference between "photography will change art--we need to be ready" and "photography will change art, therefore stop photography." That wasn't the critique. The statements then were th
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by AdamN 4d ago
That's focusing on low class drug use. Elite drug use leaves a very different trail and has a different impact.
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by AdamN 5d ago
That's why you have agents to clean the code written by the other agents.
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by AdamN 5d ago
We're not jurors or NTSB investigators - this is just a public messageboard on a tech-focused platform. It's totally fine to speculate and wonder here ... and to be corrected respectfully.
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by AdamN 5d ago
It's one of those situations where any one risk not occurring probably would have ended up with no excursion but all risks present at the same time made this outcome.
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by AdamN 5d ago
There have been big changes over the decades on that but the counterfactual is also that you could imagine lots of crashes from confusion in the cockpit during critical times if two pilots are working towards cross-objectives or are more oc
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by AdamN 7d ago
If so that's an extremely good thing
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by AdamN 7d ago
That's been proposed before btw and game theorists can justify that as being more stable in some ways. However it reduces the power of the incumbents (so why let it happen?) and the odds of having an irrational actor with nukes goes u
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by AdamN 7d ago
Even when buried wouldn't their orientation shift over time from geological forces?
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by AdamN 8d ago
As has been said before we've been cleaning up garbage code for generations and that doesn't look even close to changing anytime soon.
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by AdamN 8d ago
both. And it's important to remember that. Luck being a main force (which is really true for almost any outcome good or bad). The other forces being talent and labor.
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by AdamN 9d ago
I like this tidbit, "Emperor Nero is rumored to have had the last sprig."
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by AdamN 9d ago
Man shearing this one is a pain in the a$$. Hand me the sticking knife ...
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by AdamN 9d ago
Only give the permissions you want the device/agent/human to use - no more. Same for anything whether you trust it or not (or somewhere in between).
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by AdamN 12d ago
Furniture in general is a low turnover industry and tough. One of the ironic reasons that Ikea/Wayfair do well is their stuff looks good but is basically garbage and can't survive a move or two so people are forced to buy from the
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by AdamN 13d ago
His sister (at his behest??) decided to lean into a smaller number of projects for his money. It does seem like a miss that they couldn't keep it going. There's enough money in Seattle that it should have been doable with the ri
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by AdamN 14d ago
There's a great book from a different line that delves into this as a form of what the author calls 'manifold objectivism'. In short, there are some big concepts like Christianity or Islam that people refer to as if it'
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by AdamN 14d ago
It seems like the different AI companies should lean into their 'blend' in terms of AI speak. The analogues for me are spaghetti sauce or coffee. Starbucks for instance has a particular roasting style that you can guess 100% of
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by AdamN 14d ago
Apple is working from the 'desktop' up to beefy servers with 64GB+ RAM. Nvidia is working from the 'datacenter' down to beefy racks with terabytes of RAM. There isn't really an overlap yet. Individual Nvidia cards
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by AdamN 14d ago
That's their point
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by AdamN 14d ago
Reminds me of when I ordered Salade Marché in Paris and it was a large slice of paté with a frisson of endive on the side :-)
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by AdamN 15d ago
accelerometers can do that job. Also it can stop the jamming every once in a while to check.
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by AdamN 15d ago
My sense (I could be wrong) is that once that amazing engineer really understood the class of problems (i.e. he handled it multiple times) and was really comfortable that they would in fact be able to communicate plainly about the decisions
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by AdamN 16d ago
kremlinology is the term for any political intelligence gathering that's all second-order. In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data and even then there were so many moving parts t
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by AdamN 19d ago
It is funny :-) Moving to Germany from the US was like entering a timewarp. PayPal is still real??? People use it?? I get it now but it's a pretty big miss that GiroCard couldn't figure out how to displace them after all this tim
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by AdamN 19d ago
I'm lovin' RTP. I've used it a few times between IBKR and Chase and it works very well, even for some hefty sums.
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by AdamN 19d ago
Not by default. Deutsche Bank for instance makes you select it and I'm guessing most people are afraid that choosing instant means a fee so they leave it off.
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by AdamN 19d ago
Agree that nobody considers it a sweetheart but you're wrong on the ex-US issue. Paypal is big in Germany for instance and I literally know nobody who uses Paypal in the US (maybe for eBay stuff??)
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by AdamN 19d ago
I often think of my experience at Citibank 15 years ago when I closed my account at the branch. The teller said 'sure thing, just put your debit card into the device and enter your pin'. I did that and he said ok I'll close

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