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by brookst 7d ago
Wait how is review capacity not increasing? AI review is not a substitute for human review, but it is helpful. I’d posit that more code reaching review has already had an AI pass done by the submitter, and then many/most reviewers use
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by brookst 7d ago
You really believe there will be less demand for AI in the future?
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by brookst 7d ago
It will be really fun if it turns out that AI simulating quantum effects in a classical computer genuinely is quantum and only collapses to classical with human observation. (yes, I know why it doesn’t work that way, but it would be fun if
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by brookst 7d ago
Same meta as many businesses for hundreds of years: use capital investment to hire labor, use labor to produce goods (including breakthroughs), sell goods and leverage patents. How many patents do IBM/etc have?
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by brookst 7d ago
Wait, how does one of these new extended range EV’s have the complexity of both systems? To me it looks like it has the complexity of a pure EV with generator in the back seat, and the charging cord plugged into the generator. Which does aw
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by brookst 7d ago
It’s the banknote thing: at some point a great forgery costs more than the real thing.
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by brookst 7d ago
Fair point on the forwarding being non-disable-able. But I don’t see any privacy issue there. The forwarder provides observed obfuscated ID and location, which seems less fraught than even the signal strength metadata returned to cell tower
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by brookst 7d ago
I’m surprised. I’ve definitely seen random people claiming total extinction next week, starting years ago. Then again those guys (why is it always men?) with megaphones on street corners going on about the end of the world are nothing new.
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by brookst 8d ago
Religion does pretty well with the long term risk of hell if you die, the antichrist, etc. a substantial portion of human output has gone into those things over the millennia.
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by brookst 8d ago
Are you saying at anything that can solve longstanding math problems necessarily has the means, motive, and capability to kill 8 billion people in just 3 years?
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by brookst 8d ago
Or, read it, and remember the openai researcher who deeply, truly believed GPT3 or whatever was sentient. The fact that people working in the space think it’s going to (eradicate poverty / usher in utopia / kill us all) is not a s
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by brookst 8d ago
Apple (and Google, and most others) process wake words on device. Imagine the technical complexity and expense of a billion devices streaming audio that is like 0.01% wake words.
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by brookst 9d ago
Mesh network typically means… a network. Unidirectional, best-effort, randomized IDs are not a network. And of course you can block the tracking yourself, even though nobody is actually tracking because Apple can’t tell who owns what ID. Ju
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by brookst 9d ago
Never buy hardware based on expectations of future features, especially if there’s no promise from the vendor.
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by brookst 9d ago
That is not how AirTags work. They do not reach out to Apple servers at all. AirTags broadcast an encrypted ID. Phones build lists of ID’s they’ve seen and send the list to Apple. There is no routing, no ability to send arbitrary data, no a
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by brookst 10d ago
Sure, agreed on both counts. But to the extent government officials have a duty not to lie to the public, that duty extends to facts, not political opinions. I find the courts a perfectly reasonable way to adjucate e.g. the actual water vol
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by brookst 10d ago
That’s like saying no programmer relies on computer science. Sure, at some level of expertise you’re not sitting there saying “oh, I should name variables sensibly and encapsulate functionality because computer science says to”; they are do
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by brookst 10d ago
Classic odds/stakes. What do the odds have to be of a surprise quantum breakthrough before the stakes are serious? 1 in… a million? A billion?
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by brookst 10d ago
There’s a map/territory error in conflating the right to accurate information (or the obligation of government officials to not knowingly lie) with court determination of what accurate information is in any specific case. We have a ver
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by brookst 11d ago
Do you get to specify the plane it goes on? Can you purchase it untraceable, the way you can you a plane ticket with a prepaid card, check in and check luggage without any ID?
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by brookst 11d ago
Nah, they’re pro-De Beers
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by brookst 11d ago
And it can even be LLM work. Just write a good requirements doc for document creation, including links to good readmes, maybe a style guide for your personal style.. and you can have quality docs with near zero tax. Sure, hand editing each
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by brookst 11d ago
Kind of an uncharitable title. The “longer way” was faster, used less gas, and produced less CO2 (though at very marginal rates for all).
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by brookst 11d ago
I like that the saying cuts both ways: you can read it as dumb people seeing legit science as a conspiracy, or that dumb people mostly believe conspiracy theories because they’re picking at random and there’s one truth but thousands of made
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by brookst 11d ago
And the “right” answer is exponential, so it seems like it must be possible to do geometrically. Though I admit my geometry is weak enough that I don’t see how.
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by brookst 11d ago
Do the smaller browser makers pay more for big bounties?
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by brookst 11d ago
Not following that. The report is the upstream resource the exploit needs. The value of iron ore is definitely not the value of the steel made with it. Or maybe I misunderstood your view?
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by brookst 11d ago
There may be a middle ground between the current maximalist copyright regime and ending copyright altogether.
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by brookst 11d ago
Yeah, suggestive but hardly proof
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by brookst 12d ago
When you make some dumb mistake, is it typically intentional?

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