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by api 18d ago
You’re right but it’s a point I’ve tried to make for years to no avail. The V4 limit is one thing that does this. The other is DNS, which is inherently hierarchical because it’s a tree. The whole structure of the net and the web promotes th
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by api 18d ago
If you can’t help, it’s okay to look away. People sometimes get mad at this, like it’s callous or privileged, but what’s the difference between focusing on problems you can’t help and slowing down to stare at a car wreck? If you don’t slow
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by api 18d ago
Beef is extremely resource intensive. It’s one of the least efficient to produce foods. So some of this is inflation but some is surely costs going up for that reason. Look at world and US population across that time frame. Supply and deman
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by api 18d ago
That’s just stupid.
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by api 18d ago
Is the justice department allegation true? Or is it just that this group provides privacy and security stuff and that group happened to use it? If I sell hammers and someone buys one and bashes someone with it, it’s not my fault. If I sell
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by api 19d ago
I agree with you about the technology. It’s the most exciting thing to me since discovering the Internet in the early 1990s, or since the web. Unfortunately the big AI companies seem to be run by showmen and weirdos whose brains have been s
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by api 19d ago
Extremely small or very heavily quantized LLMs can generate hilarious results. You can also get wild shit if you dial temperature really high.
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by api 19d ago
A major problem with closed mobile platforms is that if you have an App Store monopoly, why do you need to care? It's why all the app stores are absolute trash. Not sure how Apple handles DMCA but I know they're known for capricio
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by api 19d ago
Environmentalism comes in at least two forms. IMO they are entirely different things. One form is science-based and concerned with finding out how to engineer our civilization to be more sustainable and compatible with the Earth's ecos
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by api 19d ago
Integrated RAM with tensor processing seems like the end game for silicon that's actually efficient at running AI models. Or integrated flash with TPUs? That would be awesome. Flash your model onto a model-processor and run it.
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by api 19d ago
The modern term for this is accelerationism: allow things to get worse or even make them get worse to force the Big Change that we "really need." Usually that big change makes things worse, unfortunately, because magic does not ha
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by api 19d ago
No, not really, though that's been tried and hasn't been that successful. Hasn't worked when either the left or right have tried it. What I'm doing is arguing against the us-vs-them conspiracist framing and pointing out
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by api 19d ago
(Thanks for knowing about ZeroTier! BTW my opinions are 100% my own, not those of my employer yada yada.) I have a rule: if we are still talking about a problem, it's a hard problem. It's true in engineering but also in other fiel
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by api 19d ago
I run these things in VMs, and as a user in the VM, and give them access to just the tree I want to work on via mounting. I use Parallels on macOS for this but any VM will do. That way my actual primary machine is at least strongly isolated
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by api 19d ago
We definitely have problems, but I'd check those stats. When you do that, you see something interesting. There are three things, the "three devils" as I heard one article call them, that are largely responsible for the percei
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by api 19d ago
That'll change. They'll get as many knobs as e.g. photoshop for image editing. You'll also be able, if not already, to use your own voice to communicate the emotion and tone you want but then have it re-render it in the voice
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by api 20d ago
That’s totalitarian communism. Parent is talking about social democracy with a larger safety net. I’m not aware of gulags in the Netherlands or Sweden but maybe I haven’t looked hard enough. I was just in here a while ago calling leftist cl
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by api 20d ago
They work so well for some they are miracle drugs, and for others they do nothing or have negative effects. This is typical. We still don’t fully understand why or even why they work at all.
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by api 20d ago
Says someone living better than an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Get off social media and the world is suddenly less dystopian.
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by api 20d ago
We blocked YouTube, and when we did our kids were suddenly alive again. They had friends, went outside, did activities, played. We also blocked TikTok and lots of other stuff before they discovered it, thankfully. We do allow Netflix, Amazo
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by api 20d ago
Except that when you comparison shop, you are helping construct those incentives. When you sell your labor you want it to cost as much as possible. When you buy the results of others labor you want them to be as cheap as possible. The syste
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by api 21d ago
I can type a URL on today's iPhone just fine.
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by api 21d ago
The smoking gun here is that they actually hired psychologists and experts in creating addictive stuff from e.g. the gambling industry. It clearly shows that their intent was "make this as addictive as possible." Then they ignored
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by api 21d ago
Solar would make it worse because the religious dogma says we must de-industrialze and do degrowth. Replacing fossil fuels with solar or anything else is like wearing condoms or using PReP instead of abstaining from sex. To the faithful tha
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by api 21d ago
There are even more reasons to phase out fossil fuels. They are non-renewable, meaning the more we use them the more we have sunk cost in an energy infrastructure that in the long term can only get more expensive and more scarce. That'
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by api 21d ago
My previous post sucked because I didn’t say the second part. I’m worried that this is a harbinger of dollar collapse. Inflation doesn’t show up evenly everywhere. It shows up in assets and hot areas first.
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by api 21d ago
I grew up thinking there was a decent chance we would run out of oil and civilization would collapse. EVs were not a thing and I remember reading about how an economical battery big enough to give a car good range was not possible, and that
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by api 22d ago
Isn’t this just inflation? We are in a highly inflationary environment. Everything is going up in nominal terms.
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by api 22d ago
That could be said about everything including things usually not associated with futurism like romanticism. Everything carries at least a little political baggage. I was responding to what seemed like the implication that futurism was fasci
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by api 22d ago
That’s Italian futurism, which was a specific movement. I think the term was being used more broadly here. Go find some Soviet space art, or mid century American “space age” stuff, or less dark forms of cyberpunk / cyber culture from t

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