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by binoct 7d ago
What does it mean to not be good at being a car? It’s a terrific car if you want a great handling convertible at a low price point. As you said, it’s fun. It’s not good at moving a lot of people or things, or going really fast, or lasting
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by binoct 18d ago
> it just misses a base load component right now. I’m sympathetic to the intent of your argument, but man, that’s a hallava gotcha there. Other than nuclear there isn’t a compelling story for a base load source of green energy. And all
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by binoct 29d ago
It’s more that unwanted disclosure of sensitive business numbers is a product-class limitation at this time. While undoubtedly some models are better than others, expecting them not to leak information in high stakes output is unseasonable.
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by binoct 29d ago
I hope you don’t plan to cut back on reading legal documents crafted by any LLM before executing them.
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by binoct 2mo ago
I don’t see any screaming and waving arms in the parent. It’s a passionate but well reasoned and carefully presented case. If that is to be dismissed as zealotry we’ll all need to stick to writing journal papers to avoid the label. If anyth
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by binoct 2mo ago
The weights are in the meat
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by binoct 3mo ago
Thanks, that was interesting to learn, I’d never thought about how odd the phrase sounds as-is. There’s a fascinating complexity to what constitutes constructive feedback, criticism, or dismissal. And to when it’s okay to provide one, the
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by binoct 3mo ago
Here here. This was a joy to wake up to and wish I hadn’t stumbled into the comments.
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by binoct 5mo ago
A new bug appears, it’s in an encryption layer. You solve this by deciding to disable the encryption layer because user experience is better without the errors. You write it up as a recruitment piece for your engineering team. There may be
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by binoct 5mo ago
As pointed out in the article, naproxen is an NSAID like Ibuprofen, though slightly more COX1 selective. It likely has a somewhat lower risk of serious renal and cardiovascular events, but higher risk of GI bleeds. There are some studies
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by binoct 10mo ago
Neither WebRTC or WebGL are remotely ‘useless’. Very fair though to say that you would prefer to have them disabled and/or whitelisted for certain sites.
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by binoct 10mo ago
Calling the industry largely a scam is pretty strong. Of course for the small minority of technically competent people with interest and time it will always be cheaper to do something yourself rather than pay a business to accomplish the s
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by binoct 10mo ago
Not really. The majority of data center water withdrawal (total water input) is consumed ("lost" to evaporation etc...) with a minority of it discharged (returned in liquid form). I believe it's on the order of 3/4ths
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by binoct 11mo ago
Best comment by far. The post suffers from making good points about the lack of rigor and narrative nature of the book, but then does exactly the same thing to claim the opposite conclusion the book makes.
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by binoct 11mo ago
Thanks, you have helped at least me think a bit differently about this. I still believe primary energy is a valid way to look at the problem, but see more clearly how easily it can lead an uninformed audience to a bad conclusion. And on hea
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by binoct 11mo ago
Ah, seems like I was missing some context where the fossil fuel and anti-renewable folks have been using the term in arguments against trying to change. I’m not sure of Smil’s politics but to be fair, there’s nothing in that quote that is i
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by binoct 11mo ago
Primary energy sources are what they are, both your comment and the linked article seem to imply discussing them should lead to a deserved punch in the face. Can you help me understand why? As far as I can tell, your link argues that if we
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by binoct 1y ago
Details of this situation aside, the take "doing x is pointless because lots of other people are doing it" is a bit rough.
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by binoct 1y ago
So there’s another force at work here that to me answers the question in a different way. Agents also massively decrease the difficulty of coming into someone else’s messy code base and being productive. Want to make a quick change or fix?
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by binoct 1y ago
Thanks!
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by binoct 1y ago
What does Germany use to manage microorganism growth in it's water distribution system? As I understand cloramine/chlorine is used to keep the small amounts of microorganisms that will always be present in water and pipes from gr
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by binoct 1y ago
As I imagine it, Einstein would no be happy with fixing a couple bugs and making a state machine. Einstein would add a new unit test framework and implement a linear optimizer written with only lambdas to solve the problem and recommend rep
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by binoct 1y ago
So this is a really good example of small sample size intuition being a big challenge. Fatalities happen on the order of billion miles driven - obviously people don’t come to that. Take a few thousand miles of positive experience sets a sta
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by binoct 1y ago
Launching in other cities with new problems gives experience dealing with new problems, and the meta-learnings transfer to better processes for adapting to new issues. But yeah, ice and snow are definitely major new environmental factors fo
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by binoct 1y ago
One of my favorite things to question about autonomous driving is the goalposts. What do you mean the “stated goal of full self driving”, which is unachievable? Any vehicle, anywhere in the world, in any conditions? That seems an absurd g
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by binoct 1y ago
Glad it worked for you. Not everyone with sleep apnea is an overweight alcoholic. Plenty of drugs help with diseases involving muscle tone, why is that so surprising?
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by binoct 1y ago
Those who can tolerate the general CPAP experience, have bed partners who tolerate it, and don’t experience detrimental effects should absolutely use it when there are no comparable solutions. However there are lots of perfectly legitimate
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by binoct 1y ago
The comments here are really interesting to read since there are so many strongly stated different definitions. It’s obvious “steaming” and “batch” have different implications and even meanings in different contexts. Depending on what the t
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by binoct 2y ago
Scientific research doesn’t have to directly impact personal decision making to be useful and interesting. This study provides a data point suggesting a link between having tattoos and skin cancer - it’s certainly interesting to the medical
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by binoct 2y ago
It’s common in this type of statement for “A member of the public” to refer to any person rather than just one person.

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