creato

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by creato 6d ago
> I'm sure many of us would have made the same mistake. From the reporting and commenting on this incident, that is not the impression I'm getting. This wasn't one bad call after getting half way down the runway, this was
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by creato 12d ago
That the issue of slavery has weak explanatory power for what is happening today.
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by creato 15d ago
Just go back to 4.8. Opus 5 was a regression in every way I've noticed every time I have tried to use it.
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by creato 19d ago
There is not one mention of data centers in the article, and I highly doubt anyone is trying to put any significant computing capacity in SF.
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by creato 21d ago
Roomba was not competitive in the market, no amount of Amazon market manipulation would have changed that. Best case scenario, Amazon would have invested in making it competitive. Worst case, their engineers would have been absorbed into Am
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by creato 23d ago
Some of Evergrande's financial practices were somewhat ponzi-scheme-ish (new sales funded construction of previous buyers), and the US has imprisoned a few such schemers too.
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by creato 1mo ago
None of this is specific to GitHub. The exact same problems will sometimes happen any time users and developers communicate, which is a basic requirement of developing useful software. I doubt GitHub issues are worse than mailing lists or a
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by creato 1mo ago
Based on my personal experience and general observation, it seems like companies are both slow to hire, and slow to fire. So, paradoxically, both actions seem like they should signal "this company is going to be better in the future&
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by creato 1mo ago
You're conflating two things (probably intentionally, but I'll go with it). If you are firing someone without replacing (a layoff), then presumably, that person cost more than the value they provided, and so laying them off should
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by creato 1mo ago
If that's really all it takes, then it is not much of a moat.
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by creato 1mo ago
I don't know what timeframe we are talking about here, but 1 million gallons is how much 33 people in the US use in a year. It's really not that much water.
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by creato 2mo ago
They shouldn't be. But the point is, they are. OpenAI and Anthropic are paying many rights holders for access to their data (reddit, NYT, etc.). So distillation, among other things, allows Chinese labs to indirectly benefit from these
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by creato 2mo ago
> Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received on average three to eight times more subsidies than competitors in OECD economies. https://www.oecd.org/en/blogs/2026/06/industrial-subsidies-h...
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by creato 2mo ago
Disclosing private repos against the owner's intent is a much more immediate and significant business risk than violating the license of open source code. Maybe that shouldn't be the case, but it is.
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by creato 2mo ago
Israel can fly aircraft over their adversaries at will. Russia can't.
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by creato 2mo ago
Other than nukes, Russia does not have significant spare capacity. They use missiles and drones with months of their production. They fly bomber aircraft as close to the front as they can. They've burned through most of their cold war
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by creato 3mo ago
I would think that the shipping executives are less willing to take the risk to run the strait than the crews are. Being stuck for months with very little freedom, uncertain future, uncertain supplies, missiles and drones flying overhead, i
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by creato 3mo ago
I can see how something like this happens. We're talking about a 5 year old kid seeing something at school, and describing it to their parents. Who knows what the kid said? Then you have situations like the young kid that did bring a
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by creato 3mo ago
I don't think that craziness was baked into the model, it was in the prompt they used. So, easy to fix once they realized how stupid it was.
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by creato 3mo ago
> For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, firearms manufacturers seem to think they're entitled to instead stomp their feet and say "no, no regulation, you have to let me do whatever I want!". Who exactly is the
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by creato 3mo ago
It's a strategy to make their competition lose, but it's not a strategy to win.
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by creato 4mo ago
Even if you think this this is what OpenAI is doing, they surely don't think that. So why would he write that in his diary?
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by creato 5mo ago
I don't think Waymo needs to dominate the market to succeed. They just need to scale up (time)x(number of vehicles) enough to amortize the R&D costs of the self driving capability. Paying a driver is a big chunk of a taxi/Ub
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by creato 5mo ago
If this guy was still just a guy on a mailing list and otherwise living a private life, this article would be inappropriate to publish IMO. However, he's a significant public figure in the Bitcoin world (apparently). Still a gray area
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by creato 6mo ago
The idea is great in the same way the idea of a perpetual motion machine is great: I'd love to have a perpetual motion machine (or C++ modules), but it's just not realistic. IMO, the modules standard should have aimed to only supp
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by creato 6mo ago
It really doesn't matter as long as someone is living in it.
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by creato 6mo ago
It doesn't matter whether prices are going up or down, it matters if the price is more than the cost to build.
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by creato 6mo ago
It's pretty tiring seeing so many people push the bounds of acceptable behavior. It's pretty simple: should someone in your chain of management discipline you for setting aside that cheese? If yes, you are engaging in corruption
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by creato 6mo ago
Using this example: a computer was an unlikely purchase for a lower-middle class person in the US, but it wasn't totally unattainable. Many people in the US probably did it, and some of them probably found some positive return on that
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by creato 7mo ago
> other participants can alter the outcome and bet accordingly. Do you think it is acceptable that someone may have altered their behavior due to the outcome of a bet on attacking Iran?

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