benwad

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by benwad 5mo ago
Seconds later: > OpenAI CEO's company announces partnership with The Mars Volta
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by benwad 5mo ago
The set of training words for "anti-Europe" was weird though. "Belgian Congo atrocities" is just one way of referring to that period of history ("Congo Free State" might be a better match). And then "Marga
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by benwad 7mo ago
It reminds me of the time the band KLF burned £1 million in cash as a performance piece. They obviously regretted it afterwards.
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by benwad 1y ago
I've always wondered why only Linux can do 'true' containers without VMs. Is there a good blog post or something I can read about the various technical hurdles?
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by benwad 1y ago
Personally I think the strategy of starting with luxury cars and getting cheaper was a good one. The bigger profit margin of luxury cars could be fed back into R&D to make cheaper electric cars viable. Of course, that's the ideal s
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by benwad 1y ago
Which union are you talking about?
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by benwad 1y ago
If you buy a machine to play the piano for you, you won't learn how to play the piano. You'll just become really good at using that machine.
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by benwad 1y ago
That's not the case at all. People all around are constantly making art just for the sake of it. Most of it won't ever even be seen by other people. Removing the financial incentive will definitely change the landscape (for the wo
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by benwad 1y ago
How did gay marriage revolutionise the market for involuntary marriage?
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by benwad 1y ago
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of Peter Jackson's LOTR movies released in 2001, made $887 million in its original theatrical run (on a $93 million budget). It would absolutely still have been made if copyright was only 20 years.
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by benwad 2y ago
I wonder which will come first - total government automation, AGI or full self-driving?
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by benwad 2y ago
Because Hunter S Thompson is a talented writer, and an LLM is a statistical method for generating text that looks like other text. An LLM isn't going to ingest all of Hemingway and write Hell's Angels.
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by benwad 2y ago
Then why bother making this site?
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by benwad 2y ago
Does the Vision Pro support SteamVR or OpenXR or anything for games? Because if not then it's not really competing with the Quest 3. I only use my Quest 3 for games, and the Vision Pro's selling point seems to be as a way of looki
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by benwad 2y ago
The purpose of the homomorphic encryption is that they can compare similar landmarks without seeing the unencrypted image data on the server side.
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by benwad 2y ago
The guy who started a video conferencing app called Loom (2 years after Zoom came out) then miraculously sold it for almost a billion dollars has no business calling anyone an "NPC".
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by benwad 2y ago
We have a similar issue in the UK. The government has refused to provide enough resources to process the backlog of asylum applications, so people are left in limbo being housed in hotels with no legal rights to work or anything. It costs w
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by benwad 2y ago
I'm guessing Turkish residents probably use a VPN.
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by benwad 2y ago
In the 00s there was a popular wine called "old git". It generally means someone grumpy and cantankerous, but in a playful way (otherwise you'd just call them a c***). So it makes sense for a self-effacing joke about Linus To
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by benwad 2y ago
They've been saying this for years, I'll believe it when I see it.
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by benwad 2y ago
We've had four: May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak.
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by benwad 2y ago
Proprietary charging cables lead to more e-waste, which is a public externality as well.
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by benwad 2y ago
I broadly agree with you, but all of those things are generally done inside the home, and I don't think anywhere legislates that you can't have a knife at home.
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by benwad 2y ago
Tell that to PostgreSQL
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by benwad 2y ago
My guess is it's also down to the proliferation of cross-platform UX toolkits that allow for A/B testing of every single component. Making a cool UX thing that requires native OS features would go against that philosophy. And, as
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by benwad 2y ago
It's not about making people suffer. Eich used his wealth to lobby for something that many people find objectionable. Mozilla is quite an ideological company (many who work there are probably somewhat driven by the "mission"
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by benwad 3y ago
The whole point of those peoples' jobs is to do due diligence. If they're blindly trusting the next person/machine down the line then they're abdicating their responsibility.
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by benwad 3y ago
It's true that Jimmy created value, but so did the people who chopped the trees and mined the graphite (or however you get graphite). But it's unlikely that Jimmy got the wood from the person who chopped the tree - they got it fro
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by benwad 3y ago
I just looked up Houston's commute time and all[^1] the[^2] sources[^3] I found seem to say otherwise. I also found this[^4]: Apparently Europe's cities with the longest commute time have about the same commute time as Houston. No
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by benwad 3y ago
MAMAA is a more recent acronym - Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet. Updated FB/Google's names, dropped Netflix (because it's really more of a media company), and added MS.

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