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by api 10d ago
Windows file I/O has always felt slower than Linux, Mac, anything. Still does. I don’t know what’s wrong with it or why it’s unfixable. SSDs make it tolerable… not by fixing it but by being fast enough to hide it. Back in the spinning
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by api 10d ago
I find Explorer slow and frustrating, while Finder works but is basic and cumbersome and useless for anything more than basic opening or moving. I remember outstanding file managers way back in the MS-DOS days. Sidekick, QuickDOS, and Norto
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by api 10d ago
Much better than my response, and why schools should keep it at a distance until they figure out how to teach the first thing.
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by api 10d ago
Not really. I see it on social media though… the way I saw fascist and fascist adjacent ideas blossoming on social media in the 20 teens. It feels like it’s coming the way I saw fascism coming in 2014. That makes me think first we will fini
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by api 10d ago
There is a racist video game on whitehouse.gov. No we are not Nazi Germany. Yet. But the ideas are absolutely popular in certain places and it takes a lot of deliberate ignoring not to see it.
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by api 10d ago
I wasn’t talking about people who want social services like Sweden or Norway or more progressive taxes. That’s why I used a double qualifier of “authoritarian communism.” That being said, I see that kind of rhetoric and adjacent rhetoric ar
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by api 10d ago
The history of Opium is likely more relevant.
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by api 11d ago
I think we can judge fascism by its fruit. Authoritarian Communism and its variants mostly fail by the same standard: lots of misery and death. A good principle here I think is “a thing is what it does.” It effectively banishes all the soph
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by api 11d ago
I use AI a lot and find it fascinating and probably the most exciting thing since discovering the web. I’m not sure I disagree with this. Schools need to figure out how to integrate it well in a way that both helps kids learn and teaches th
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by api 11d ago
I get this but there’s this thing called the contact hypothesis. Friendly contact with people makes it harder to hate them. I’ve heard many stories of people who were once racists or some other kind of bigot losing that attitude from living
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by api 13d ago
You win HN for today. Shut it off until tomorrow.
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by api 13d ago
The number of planned data centers and the scale is pretty nuts. Here's what you have to believe: - AI demand is at least several times larger than what can currently be satisfied, or will grow. (This one I can buy, but...) - AI chip
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by api 15d ago
There are economies of scale but there’s also a data center bubble (probably) so there might be some selling dollars for fifty cents going on.
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by api 15d ago
Zitron reminds me of a lot of people who got oversized reputations after the 2008 financial crash. They predicted it, or could spin past statements as predicting it, and rode off that. But from that point on they basically assumed this role
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by api 15d ago
It's more likely that this is from the training data if they're being trained on reams of Internet stuff.
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by api 15d ago
> every implementation idea rediscovered five times and wrapped in a new README That's open source since forever, unfortunately.
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by api 15d ago
With AI Apple is doing their classic strategy I guess: wait and then follow with something that learns all the lessons the pioneers learned. They're letting everyone else pay for model training, with the obvious end of the road being o
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by api 16d ago
There are probably people in Apple who think desktop is dead or pro-only and didn’t think many people would want a lower end cheaper Mac. Why wouldn’t they just get an iPad?
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by api 16d ago
Reading the comments: Why do so many people still think NAT equals firewall when they're not directly related? I guess it's because they're normally packaged together for practical reasons. They're both packet handling f
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by api 16d ago
Firewalls, both at the perimeter and locally, was what patched over this. NAT had nothing to do with it. You can have firewalls with no NAT just fine. You can also have NAT with no firewall. NAT is not about security and never was. It'
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by api 16d ago
Uhh... you can have a firewall without NAT, including one at the perimeter. This is a very common misunderstanding. NAT and firewalls are separate concepts. You can also have NAT with no meaningful firewall -- a port remapping NAT that allo
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by api 16d ago
I think looking at a for-profit corporation to take a moral stance is like expecting the police to plant trees, or the local school board to pave the roads, or the DMV to run health policy. It's the wrong type of organization for that.
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by api 16d ago
Apple has a huge opportunity here to lead the market for machines to run local models if they step into it. Their stuff is already better than what nVidia is offering with stuff like the DGX Spark. It's a niche market but it's a m
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by api 17d ago
Last post in this thread for me... We won't go back. That's the thing, the false option. I think you underestimate how much being poor sucks. I personally call this the "it's better to reign in hell" principle. So i
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by api 17d ago
I'm not saying nothing will ever change. That's a misreading. I'm saying asking people to sacrifice will both be rejected and will not do enough, and that the only answer is changing where we get energy. Environmentalists h
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by api 17d ago
If that's true it would mean fixing this injustice would just even out who gets to have what. It would not meaningfully reduce consumption, certainly not enough to make a huge difference in CO2 emissions. (There might be one exception
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by api 17d ago
> It's not poor people who stand to lose from degrowth, it's the ultra rich. Trivially false, and I think this is the root of it. I'm lazy so I asked Claude Fable, but what it gave me is in the same ballpark as a blog post
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by api 17d ago
Yes, I've read tons of stuff like this. It won't work. You can absolutely trim a lot of fat from the modern lifestyle, but then you'll be left with a residual. Meanwhile the developing world will keep developing and we have n
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by api 17d ago
Get in a time machine. Go back to 1970. Make sure world starts phasing out all coal power by 2000, replacing with nuclear and what renewables are available then, and make sure modular scalable reactors are available for China so they use th
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by api 17d ago
The AI companies should have their AI fix their crappy inefficient crawler code.

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