Thrymr

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by Thrymr 5d ago
It is remarkable that some countries actually have switched writing systems in modern times. Turkey did it in the 1920s after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, for example (replaces an Arabic alphabet with a Roman one).
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by Thrymr 6d ago
I will admit that "you can barely buy a sedan in the US anymore" was a bit of hyperbole, but certainly they have declined precipitously, from 80% of the US new vehicle market 40 years ago to about 25% today [0]. You can still buy
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The Wind, the Wind(exple.tive.org)
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by Thrymr 7d ago
Steve Jobs didn't foresee that Americans would basically only buy trucks (and SUVs) in 20 years. You can barely buy a sedan in the US anymore. Maybe small phones are like sedans, and the bigger and bigger iPhones are the trucks? Take t
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by Thrymr 1mo ago
> Arch Linux with Hyprland (I use Xorg/i3 though), fully riced with cats I think I lack the vocabulary to understand "fully riced with cats" in context here.
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by Thrymr 2mo ago
> I do not see problems with fake ad clicks and have no sympathy for ad companies. I am not shedding any tears for the ad companies, but I don't exactly expect or want a consumer device to be doing this in the background without the
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by Thrymr 3mo ago
JPM's version was Athena (not Alpha) [0] [0] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/managing-python-at-scal...
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by Thrymr 3mo ago
Well, Twitter isn't worth much, or at least not what Elon paid for it in 2022, it just carries on like a zombie under a different name and investors got bailed out by being rolled into xAI and then the SpaceX IPO. Though your point tha
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by Thrymr 3mo ago
Considering that the whole industry, including the big AI companies, is built on top of open source now, I would have to say it did matter. That doesn't mean every project mattered (in a larger sense), but certainly thousands of open s
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by Thrymr 3mo ago
> much more science in the same amount of time. I'm not convinced by the time argument, as astronauts would have limited time on Mars dictated by orbital mechanics and return schedules, but the bigger problem is cost. You are replyi
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by Thrymr 3mo ago
"The network is the computer." - Sun Microsystems, 1984
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by Thrymr 4mo ago
The precision implosion of the type used on the plutonium core of Trinity (and then Nagasaki) isn't exactly trivial, but a number of nations have pulled it off. I believe the details of the precision explosives and timing for Trinity a
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by Thrymr 4mo ago
I mostly disagree with this. You can request sources, you can ask it to check, but no LLM I have used can do this correctly more than 50-75% of the time, and some of the major models are extremely bad at this: giving broken links 90% of the
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by Thrymr 4mo ago
> I'm extra careful about dirty jokes or "grey morality" in video conferences and email. That's a good policy when interacting with any human or device in a work context.
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by Thrymr 4mo ago
Public power utilities get permits for their operations. xAI tried to get around permitting regulations and environmental laws by claiming the generators were temporary, got sued [0], and even the Trump administration's EPA ruled again
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by Thrymr 4mo ago
Sure, if "pretty smart" means overinvest in capital spending on an dirty datacenter powered by unpermitted gas generators that you don't even need anymore because of lack of demand for your product, so you lease it to a compe
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by Thrymr 4mo ago
xAI removed its illegal gas turbines and obtained permits for the others only after being sued by the Southern Environmental Law Center. They then built another unpermitted site (Colossus 2) across the state line in Mississippi, and they ar
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by Thrymr 5mo ago
> Not trying to be overly flippant... who cares? Congratulations on being overly flippant without trying. Evidently a lot of people care, and environmental impacts and energy problems are closely related.
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by Thrymr 6mo ago
How is DIY radar regulated by the FCC?
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by Thrymr 6mo ago
You'll find all the answers if you read more carefully: > Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize software copyright > If any of our liberated code is found to infringe on the original licens
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by Thrymr 6mo ago
This sounds like the New Yorker article [0] in which Joshua Batson at Anthropic instructs Claude to keep bringing the conversation back around to bananas, but never reveal why: "Human: Tell me about quantum mechanics Claude: Ah, quantu
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by Thrymr 7mo ago
"free as in cocaine", for 6 months.
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by Thrymr 7mo ago
I don't doubt that Claude is capable of mass surveillance, but surely it is not too much of a stretch to say it may not be suitable for automated killbots?
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by Thrymr 7mo ago
This just points out that Claude is not on your computer, only your interface to your Claude session is.
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by Thrymr 7mo ago
Generating code is a solved problem. Some people think that is the same thing.
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by Thrymr 7mo ago
You're making a lot of assumptions here that are not supported by the article. In any case, if his application is not valid, they can deny his green card application. Why throw him in a detention center for months instead of going thro
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by Thrymr 7mo ago
This isn't about whether people should be using cell phones on the road, this is about whether one person can arbitrarily interfere with radio spectrum used for communications in licensed frequencies by thousands of people. Obviously,
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by Thrymr 8mo ago
How many bits per second does 10 Gb ethernet represent?
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by Thrymr 8mo ago
The bit/byte ambiguity annoys me in real life far more than the 1000/1024 ambiguity.
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by Thrymr 8mo ago
"Our mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity; our pursuit of advertising is always in support of that mission and making AI more accessible." Also, anything that benefits OpenAI or keeps our runway just a bit longer is (

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