BobbyTables2

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by BobbyTables2 4d ago
How is Europe similar then? I’d expect the US spends vastly more energy on transportation (individual vehicles) and housing (larger, more AC, etc)
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by BobbyTables2 4d ago
I suspect they know exactly what they are doing. And the non-techies who have seen Terminator and other movies blindly line up behind them…
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by BobbyTables2 4d ago
If AI wasn’t a thing would Nvidia be worth 1/10th is current value? Gaming is lucrative but not THAT lucrative…
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by BobbyTables2 5d ago
The first “computers” were humans…
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by BobbyTables2 5d ago
How is it possible for particles (with mass) to exceed the speed of (massless) photons in a medium? I don’t mean in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum. Just seems weird that something with mass could outpace something without… Why ar
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by BobbyTables2 5d ago
We’re certainly not trying 15x harder to prevent car accidents as done to prevent another 9/11. Prior we had metal detectors for people and hand luggage x-ray. Now we have x-ray backscatter for people, ID and facial photography, and a
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by BobbyTables2 6d ago
Agreed. It would actually be a fairly perverse argument to claim that most AI output is somehow NOT owned by the AI provider… Why wouldn’t they claim ownership of the AI output? They likely already claim ownership of the “transformation”
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by BobbyTables2 6d ago
Agreed. Companies don’t like trade secrets and proprietary information potentially being laundered to their competitors…
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by BobbyTables2 6d ago
The AI not being human doesn’t escape ethical consideration - OpenAI employees are culpable for what they build. This was academic research. Could just have easily been trade secrets and proprietary data.
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by BobbyTables2 7d ago
This is worse than asking an intern to fix a shipping product…
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by BobbyTables2 7d ago
Yes, I’d prefer that investors know that the new executive is not going to continue the same crap and same level of poor judgement. Want them to know the replacement is looking to do more than wear a golden parachute. Imagine if investors
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by BobbyTables2 7d ago
We might even get to relive history the way things are going…
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by BobbyTables2 7d ago
$2000 for a phone? In this economy? Feel like a $2000 computer in the 1980s made a lot more sense, even if damn expensive back then. Certainly would have lasted longer!
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by BobbyTables2 12d ago
In my experience, hotels in other countries also take a copy of the passports of all guests. Also learned “know your customer” laws require US people to give passport + SSN to a foreign bank who then reports it back to the US. Given that
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by BobbyTables2 13d ago
Don’t Lamport timestamps require all nodes to be known in advance? Powerful concept but impractical and far too unscalable to be used globally.
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by BobbyTables2 13d ago
I expect soon each website will have its own browser, compiled as WASM which will be launched in order to render the JavaScript and HTML on the website.
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by BobbyTables2 13d ago
I died of dysentery shortly after being born. Makes Oregon Trail seem easy…
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by BobbyTables2 15d ago
Would be interesting to do a FFT of pixels in the sequence of images and see if anything is in there. Just because the brightness fluctuations aren’t noticeable doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
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by BobbyTables2 17d ago
More like a company that had hundreds of millions of dollars and a couple decades should have fixed it by now. If only Podman could beat Docker in advertising…
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by BobbyTables2 17d ago
I didn’t know that theory but makes sense. When I was little, I was surprised to find that using a Game Genie made a lot of Nintendo games instantly become boring.
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by BobbyTables2 17d ago
I suspect first-sale doctrine doesn’t allow such. However, if content is “licensed” instead of “sold” …
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by BobbyTables2 18d ago
What’s really hilarious are the companies that treat software like a hardware product. “We’ll design it, test it, release it, and never touch it again !”
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by BobbyTables2 18d ago
Have always wondered, why can’t nested functions just be normal functions inside a namespace? It seems silly to expose a tiny helper to the entire compilation unit when it is only meant to be used inside one function…
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by BobbyTables2 19d ago
Looks like Kalshi lost its bet…
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by BobbyTables2 19d ago
I assume MouseKeys was cheating ?
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by BobbyTables2 19d ago
Windows does similar normal monitors. Often just a color profile, sometimes more…
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by BobbyTables2 20d ago
At least the title “founder engineer” on a job requisition provides a nice immediate red flag… No need to guess!
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by BobbyTables2 20d ago
It’s also strange if one steps back a bit further… Think of the total cost of human development, education, etc. to make them “ready to be hired”. These efforts drive a host of side industries (teachers, daycare, medical services, etc.) AI
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by BobbyTables2 20d ago
I’ve always wondered if some people can “draw on a whiteboard” in their mind. I certainly never could…
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by BobbyTables2 20d ago
That’s exactly how it is for me. I can somewhat imagine a simple square or triangle but only more like feeling it in the dark without fully “seeing” it. Anything more complex, like a pretzel is out of the question, just disappears/ins

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