ahartmetz

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by ahartmetz 12d ago
Don't forget probabilistic.
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by ahartmetz 13d ago
In which case I redefine "pay" as "torrent it with a very respectable upload ratio".
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by ahartmetz 13d ago
I don't know what you mean with family roadtrips being prohibited? Maybe too expensive, that's all I can think of. Cheap motels are rare and, obviously, fuel is much more expensive. All other necessities are easily available and l
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by ahartmetz 13d ago
I'm more surprised how cheap it is in browsers because I know it's not that easy - they are really really good at it. Pure text rendering is therefore rarely an issue.
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by ahartmetz 13d ago
My point is that many websites are using way too much technology for what they need to do, with correspondingly long load times and choppy runtime behavior.
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by ahartmetz 13d ago
Yeah, but if your website with, you know, text and stuff, doesn't do any stupid and unnecessary crap, it doesn't matter where the nonexistent unnecessary yet expensive code doesn't run.
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by ahartmetz 13d ago
Since long before LLMs, so nothing of value was lost.
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by ahartmetz 13d ago
Do you actually read that LLM crap? I don't. You don't have to.
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by ahartmetz 14d ago
A new A380 is more expensive (rule of thumb half of official list price, so about $220 million), and airlines were not talking about retiring A380s yet at the time. So it even made economic sense.
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by ahartmetz 14d ago
Seems close to impossible for existing designs. The wings are commonly almost entirely full of fuel at max fuel, and I doubt that taking the capacity hit is an option even in newly designed planes.
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by ahartmetz 15d ago
Nefarious and default aren't incompatible properties. If companies (especially large, public ones) were benevolent by default, a lot of laws and institutions would not be needed anymore.
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by ahartmetz 15d ago
It might come down to that they don't care (enough). They could probably do it if they had to (hire a lot of professional editors and authors to train models), but AGI seems more profitable and also a better "story" for inves
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by ahartmetz 15d ago
/// Rule: every block leaves exactly as long as it arrived, whatever /// is being held back, or the output would run short. Uhm yeah, that is "literally what" territory.
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by ahartmetz 15d ago
In addition to all that, I find the quality of writing in average current scientific papers atrocious, too. Look at some from earlier than mid 80s or so, they are so much better.
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by ahartmetz 15d ago
If I read something like that, I always recommend getting psychiatric help. FWIW, I don't think that spiritualist communities need to be driven insane in the same way that hooligan communities don't need to be driven to violence.
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by ahartmetz 15d ago
3. Publish or perish, scientific publications (count x impact factor) as careeer credits. What a terrible yet hard to kill idea.
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by ahartmetz 16d ago
I think Hoyerswerda is to this day best known for something that happened in the early 90s: Local neo-nazis rioted against and physically attacked some foreign contract workers and asylum seekers while the local police watched and did nothi
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by ahartmetz 17d ago
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Obama were OK, too. Clinton probably overrated, but not bad.
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by ahartmetz 17d ago
Well, obviously it's only censorship if it happens to their people. This is a completely different situation.
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by ahartmetz 17d ago
That is a weak variant of the "Trump is playing 4D chess" argument. No, he isn't - he is an idiot, he's playing tic-tac-toe, and he's losing.
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by ahartmetz 17d ago
We're already doing it and making progress. It's not instant and we still have delayed consequences to deal with, so short-term fixes also make sense.
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by ahartmetz 17d ago
With a few caveats, though they do tend to get fixed over time. For example, frame rate. Higher frame rate is better, the end, right? Wellll... Latency and hitching are annoying to measure, so for a long time, they were pretty much ignored.
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by ahartmetz 17d ago
Probably, by replacing alcohol in places where people gathered during daytime.
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by ahartmetz 18d ago
Not for the festivals that I know. They are either always profit-oriented or always not. There are or were (RIP Melt Festival) great ones of both types.
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by ahartmetz 18d ago
Presumably they are trying to farm karma / reputation, which (I think, mostly) doesn't work if they need to switch accounts all the time.
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by ahartmetz 18d ago
I've seen it. Walls of text with stereotypically worded non-summaries that just repeat all of the code in words, mutating values all over the place instead of the obvious canonical one place that touches related values... Yeah you can
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by ahartmetz 18d ago
Definitely Rocket League, the new Doom games (upgrades and glory kills are out of place though), Brutal Doom, racing sims like Dirt Rally and Assetto Corsa - difficult as heck but lowering expectations kinda works, the Half-Lifes, Hollow Kn
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by ahartmetz 18d ago
TFA talks exclusively about being hated by the right people. If you are only hated by the right people (yes, I made an adjustment there), it's probalby not because you are a jerk. Come on.
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by ahartmetz 19d ago
He could have gotten $5bn ten years ago (for great justic... quarterly results) and then have his lunch eaten by Epic and GOG. He clearly doesn't understand how to do current year capitalism.
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by ahartmetz 19d ago
>Big picture Well, if you juuust let the rich get richer, something (intentionally left unspecified) will trickle down on you.

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