Retric

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by Retric 4d ago
Supersonic passenger aircraft were operated profitably and no longer exist. There’s levels of R&D required for many technologies where the question goes beyond could this be profitable to what are the risk vs reward that this specific p
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by Retric 5d ago
> do you accept the premise that most modern corporations are centrally planned economies under the rulership of monarchies, oligarchies, or general authoritarians? No stock owners are ultimately in control of public companies. That doe
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by Retric 5d ago
I do blame management for letting these people through the interview process and then not firing them. But that’s independent of the fact they exist. Training doesn’t solve every problem, the worst programmer I ever worked with that a PHD
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by Retric 5d ago
Many people were and still are simply terrible developers. Hand those people an LLM and they don’t suddenly become competent, but they do start slinging more code.
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by Retric 6d ago
The issue is it’s also “Being attentive.” We don’t have NTSB reports for every car accident, so trying to draw the line on which behaviors are actually desirable is just a tautology with things that minimize accidents not some actual list.
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by Retric 6d ago
> Why would I fail to include driving with untreated narcolepsy in my definition? It’s an illiterate example not a literal one. The point is trying to state the full set of behaviors that represent safe driving will fail. > The defin
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by Retric 7d ago
Population level statistics let you look for statistical aberrations that you can’t detect at the individual level. Further suppose you define “good driving” as a set of behaviors but failed to include narcolepsy or similar medical conditio
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by Retric 7d ago
Good here is in reference to the average crash statistics. Most drivers are safer than the average, because you can’t go below 0 and some people are really bad.
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by Retric 8d ago
From a pure statistical perspective the first scientific paper shouldn’t update your beliefs as much as the independent replication study. People don’t behave this way, but a high percentage of all papers have known flaws and that goes up e
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by Retric 11d ago
Murder is bad. This kind of harm is murder.
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by Retric 11d ago
Suggesting the death penalty when these crimes kill people is not advocating for a new type of punishment. Treating a burglary as more severe than a multi million dollar pension fraud seems backward by any metric beyond the social status of
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by Retric 15d ago
The distinction is meaningful because the process described here isn’t bound by the same constraints, resulting in meaningful consequences. Suppose we flipped the initial stings and fed that into the process. There would still be meaning t
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by Retric 15d ago
Any sequence could be meaningful or meaningless depending on the grammar involved. Open a word document in photoshop and the program has no idea what it’s dealing with. The reason the language term in LLM is meaningful is how the training,
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by Retric 15d ago
Words and symbols alone don’t make a language. Zipper and and? and coin is pimple, Ocean! run bumper.
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by Retric 17d ago
Either approach can work. Smaller pieces cool faster without the need to cut up a very hot potato and it’s obvious you’ve done it correctly. The fork approach generally works fine, but it’s not obvious when you mess up. Same deal with hotdo
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by Retric 18d ago
The correct response to irresponsible AI use in the workplace is maintaining standards and rejecting poor quality. Performance improvement plans as a fair warning followed by firing people works for incompetence or laziness, AI doesn’t chan
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by Retric 19d ago
“Reducing the baseline cost always has a limit of zero, while the upside from new features is infinite according to your leadership and investors, so it is very hard to argue against.”
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by Retric 19d ago
You’re assuming performance has zero impact on customer retention, spending, etc which is demonstrably false. Further future costs aren’t bound by the current customer base or fiscal quarter. Insufficiently optimized code kills companies i
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by Retric 20d ago
In my experience optimizations actually preformed tend to have ridiculously high ROI because they are so rarely prioritized. Better performance = saving money + better user experience.
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by Retric 20d ago
Pre-existing word like “Word” “Excel” “Apple” etc. We know about “Xenon” because they used the internal name outside the company. There’s zero difference between an unofficial and official branding when you’re using it in press releases.
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by Retric 21d ago
Failing to defend trademarks for such similarity named and closely related products has extremely high risks.
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by Retric 21d ago
Wow, you’re right. Xeon vs Xenon I had always assumed with chip names that similar it was an Intel product. How on earth didn’t they get sued?
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by Retric 21d ago
Xbox 360 used an Intel CPU. PS3 used the Cell processor but it’s debatable how much that was an asset vs handicap. Total PlayStation sales dropped for that generation vs both PS2 and PS4. The manufacturing costs didn’t fall nearly as fast
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by Retric 21d ago
My grocery store and Walmart are both charging ~4$/lb, where exactly are you getting 1.25$ ground pork? https://www.walmart.com/ip/Smithfield-All-Natural-Fresh-Grou...
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by Retric 24d ago
You can microwave a meal by tossing it into the microwave and walking away, you need to actually participate in cooking a steak and then clean up several surfaces. The stake is conservatively 10x as much effort and time is money, plus micr
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by Retric 24d ago
If that’s true you should be able to provide actual evidence of a 10 min 30 second cooking time listed on their box art. However it’s clear that microwave meals are generally designed to have shorter cooking times for simple convenience and
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by Retric 24d ago
Nope: https://contenthandler-raleys.fieldera.com/prod/392493/1/0/0...
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by Retric 24d ago
Not on a per tree basis. Young forests sequester more carbon per year because you aren’t losing old trees, however sustainable harvesting changes the dynamics here. IE a 50k year old natural forest is very close to carbon neutral, but you
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by Retric 24d ago
No, a 3 foot tall sapling and a 300+ foot tall monster are both one tree but have very different impacts on the climate. Fast growth commercial forests have high density because the individual trees are relatively small with a vastly smalle
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by Retric 24d ago
Marie Calendar pot pie, the instructions list 5-6 minutes of time in a microwave. https://contenthandler-raleys.fieldera.com/prod/392493/1/0/0... They do want you to let them cool, but that’s true of an

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