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by PostOnce 6mo ago
But you're also in the tiny minority of Apple customers, because most people who need 512GB of RAM are not looking at Apple products.
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by PostOnce 6mo ago
A consumer computer company is not going to push people towards building a miniature HPC cluster. Closest we'll ever get to that is multiple GPUs for video games.* *Nvidia is no longer a primarily consumer company, so all the other GPU
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
Let me rephrase it for you: "We both want a docile American public who go along with our desires so we can achieve goals that may be contrary to the interests of the American public."
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
Beginning to wonder if convenience is the root of all evil, and not money. Money's just a proxy for convenience. More of us should learn to do things the hard way more often, and to be familiar with less-convenient things. There are li
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
Since when has war been waged according to the whim of a corporation? The tools will be used however the government wants them to be used. The government makes the laws and wages the wars, and the corporation will follow the law whether it
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
My take is that none of the AI companies really care (companies can't care), they just realize that if they go down that road, public opinion will be so vehemently against AI in all forms that it will be regulated out of viability by t
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
Their side of the story is that they want to flag people as "too risky to be allowed to use AI"? There's a problem here, right? Who else might want to flag you and lock you out of shit? Is this the new normal? Will they flag
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
The entire US economy right now is propped up by the idea that we can pay ZERO attention to detail and have the AI do all the work, isn't it?
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
Very often the financial constraints are merely a euphemism for greed.
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
Maybe for the white collar worker, for now, but what about the blue collar? The median household income is 80k.
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
And then who pays the mortgage that now requires 2 incomes? We are not building a society, we're building some kind of mass labor camp. Which means eventually we're going to get a prison riot because people are tired of the condit
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
/me squints at the ironic em dash in "Curious to know — are you an OpenClaw instance?" But in good faith: they (HN staff) said in another comment I can't find just now that they're discussing what to do about it
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
They've begun injecting obnoxious ads into the downloadable mp3s on a lot of podcasts I've found. Hyperlocal ads for tire shops and bakeries. I don't want to buy tires, I want to learn about ______. The ads don't even ma
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
We spend substantially more on prisoners than they could ever hope to generate in labor. After all, the average prisoner is not a diligent, sober, hardworking person trying to get ahead; how much economic value are you really likely to extr
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
To each his own, but also: All things in moderation; I drink a cup or two a day, but only before lunch, never after, and I eat beforehand. If I don't eat, or I have too many coffees together, I get the anxiety you mention. If I have co
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
The British did not suddenly and instantaneously turn American in 1776, they had to already be culturally American for things to have wound up there. What's more, the British didn't leave Britain so they could go be British overse
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
I want to chime in on SymbOS, which I think is the perfect reply to the GP's curiosity. https://www.symbos.org/shots.htm This is what slow computers with a few hundred kB of RAM can do.
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
I very hesitantly used discord occasionally because some projects I wanted to keep up with moved there I gave up a few times since I kept getting autobanned by a broken algorithm (i.e., based on my ip or phone number, not anything I'd
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
You open your toolbox to get your pliers, but due to nanite software updates, your pliers are now a chisel. We carefully considered this change and feel it brings the most value to our users, and we hope you'll love chisel as much as w
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
You act like public opinion has no bearing on politics. Historical precedent: prohibition. Alternate future: the big websites start losing billions because people just use the internet less or not at all because it's a hassle with no r
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
It is fucking CRAZY how many cloud companies don't let you set a spending limit. I had to hunt around for a host in a suitable geography with a spending limit, almost had to go on-prem (which will happen eventually, but not in the star
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
I personally believe (and so far, my evidence suggests) that AI doesn't anywhere near as well as claimed for almost any of its use cases. However, let's suppose the alternate case: If AI works as claimed, people in their tens of m
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
That's irrelevant in this context, because it's not "get the humans to make a working product OR get the AI to make a working product" The problem is you may pay $20K for gibberish, then try a second time, fail again, an
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
I'll be able to do just that in 36mo or so after the IPOs and subsequent collapse, I think.
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
Are we forgetting that sometimes, they just go bankrupt?
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by PostOnce 7mo ago
It's amazing that it "works", but viability is another issue. It cost $20,000 and it worked, but it's also totally possible to spend $20,000 and have Claude shit out a pile of nonsense. You won't know until you&#x
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
re: fahrenheit, it's utility is that 0 and 100 are near the extremes of human comfort. 0 = fuckin cold and 100 = fuckin hot Whereas in C, 0 is fine and 100 means you died 50 degrees ago. However, C is much more useful in industry, wher
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
Alternatively, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
There is a counterproductive obsession with powers of 10. Sometimes, other systems just make more sense. For example, for time, or angles, or bytes. There are properties of certain numbers (or bases) that make everything descending from the

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