BenFranklin100

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by BenFranklin100 15d ago
This rant reminds me why Linux has limited penetration. Its user base is made up of opinionated users who view compromise along the way to something larger as a moral failure.
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by BenFranklin100 18d ago
We need to go nuclear with the newer type of plants. Built at scale, they are cost effective. Otherwise we are cooked, perhaps quite literally.
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by BenFranklin100 27d ago
As long as we acknowledge that is your perspective, and in my opinion based on 30+ years of experience, is one that is typical. Most people on the data side, enjoy their work and are well paid, perhaps not near FAANG standards, but they do
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by BenFranklin100 27d ago
Your post sounds like it is made by a disgruntled misanthrope. I lead teams of biologists and data scientists and both are part of a vast team, each of us playing our bit part, myself included. If your desire is to be the center of attentio
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by BenFranklin100 1mo ago
Again Nick, you don’t understand the nature of the problem. In the vast sea of biology, protein folding is well circumscribed problem. Klaus Schulten’s group and dozens of other groups were already making good progress since the nineties ch
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by BenFranklin100 1mo ago
I can’t overemphasize how happy I am that people are taking the surveillance threat that Flock represents seriously. Ordinarily, the “I haven’t done anything wrong so I have nothing to worry about” fallacy tends to dominate the discussion.
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by BenFranklin100 1mo ago
Yeah buddy, asking for a backdoor to all my private files on iCloud is just a noble attempt to protect children. What else are you selling?
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by BenFranklin100 1mo ago
“Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today. By automating the loops of discovery, the
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by BenFranklin100 1mo ago
From the self-stated bios, this group consists solely of CS guys. No biologist, physicist, linguist, chemist, biophysicist to be found. Based on this observation alone I call nonsense. These is AI bullshittery. These guys aren’t close enoug
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by BenFranklin100 1mo ago
I imagine elements in the Taiwanese govt are pushing a massive drone network to turn the nation into a porcupine.
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
You find NIMBYs on Hacker News as well unfortunately.
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
I’ve sat through enough city public hearings to know what the author claims isn’t true. People don’t care if the building is gorgeous; they will still oppose it simply because they hate new homes in their neighborhood. If making the buildi
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
I don’t know why the difference. But if noise is a problem I would suggest buying different nib types and experimenting with those. Amazon has a wide selection, including rubberized ones that will make writing on the iPad nearly silent.
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
Pro Tip: In addition to the Paperlike protector, one can buy a range of different nib types from Amazon and experiment to find a one that suits you best.
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
Across a decade, I’ve used a Paperlike on five different iPads ranging from the iPad Mini, standard iPad, iPad Pro, both Gen 1 and Gen 2 Apple Pencils plus other styluses and never once experienced the problems you suggest. I’m making this
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
Would it make economic sense to strip it down and sell for parts? That’s how it’s done now for older data centers, where the obsolete equipment is sent off to China, stripped down for parts, and sold on the secondary market. I’ve picked up
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
How did you do this? The in-house setting will revert back to new reddit.
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
Because it’s AI, man.
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
Get one of these: https://www.andar.com/products/the-helm?variant=397924980491... Pricey, but the lip covers the edge. My current one is 4 years old and lasted a couple of generations of Macbooks.
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
The fish rots from the head. It’s Zuckerberg.
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by BenFranklin100 2mo ago
This and and other thing like Zuckerberg’s desire to integrate facial recognition into Meta’s Ray-ban glasses puts him in squarely in the lead for world’s creepiest human. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
Even for logged in users, it keeps reverting back to the new reddit no matter how many times one update the setting in preferences. It’s a user hostile shitshow.
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
No I am not. The discussion is about investment spending on AI. It’s actual less than $2T IIRC, which makes my point even more.
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
Calls to mind a quote attributed to Cardinal Richelieu, 16th century Secretary of State for France: ‘If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him”
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
For context, the US alone spends annually a bit more than $2T on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That money is widely dispersed both geographically and socioeconomically. $2T is not as much as one may think. I think we should let i
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
Rest assured, this will likely come with no small amount of grift. The Trump administration has already installed political appointees in America’s federal R&D organizations including the NIH and NSF. They have final say on funding deci
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
I can’t decide if you’re ignorant or duplicitous. Go read up on zoning and educate yourself. I don’t have the time to debunk all this nonsense. For instance, it is not generally legal by right to build up to five stories if made of wood. Fa
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
At the local level. And yes, these local zoning laws are strikingly similar in their opposition to multi-story residential.
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
American zoning forbids taller ~6 story residential building and trades open green space parks for shorter, 1-2 story buildings. The lower density means people are further away from the few parks that do exist too.
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by BenFranklin100 3mo ago
The take home message: “While modern AI models have expressed some capabilities in certain fields such as coding, cybersecurity research, language translation, etc, no AI model is capable enough to replace the critical thinking and common s

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