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by dibujaron 16d ago
"Blue collar workers and service industry workers aren't in immediate danger of being replaced by AI" I wouldn't be so sure about this; robotics is advancing rapidly. I do think there'll be a substantial market for
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by dibujaron 18d ago
The OP could've done more to explain it, but it really is a fascinating subject. Saba is an extremely steep island which, for most of its history, had no point of access except for a set of 800 stone stairs called "the ladder&quot
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by dibujaron 19d ago
excel can edit csvs, definitely, no problem at all. It will lose any formatting and column size adjustments if you save back as csv, but that's expected.
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by dibujaron 1mo ago
I'm not an expert but I think this sort of thing is relatively traceable for two reasons. One, datacenters are difficult to conceal. Two, the supply chains for many of the relevant materials are difficult to conceal. Some of those supp
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by dibujaron 2mo ago
North Korea is geopolitically useful as a buffer state between the United States' sphere of influence in South Korea, and China. China has defended it pretty determinedly, historically.
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by dibujaron 3mo ago
This article makes Odin sound extremely well-known. I've never heard of it before, and I feel like I keep up with programming topics pretty diligently. Admittedly I don't work at the systems programming layer, but I've defini
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by dibujaron 3mo ago
I read recently that corporate taxes used to be a lot higher on large conglomerated companies, which used to deter monopolization somewhat. Under this automatic-stake idea, it'd be interesting if the government's stake in corporat
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by dibujaron 3mo ago
If it is, would that bad? Seems like a person who might really have strong personal investment in the situation. Using the oil companies' profits to try to shrink them, seems good.
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by dibujaron 3mo ago
If it's actively building the next generation of itself, I'd say that counts. It's more like a parent raising their kid well than it is like a parent modifying their own mind, but the result is still that you have a better mo
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by dibujaron 4mo ago
a heightmap is three-dimensional, where the third dimension is usually represented with color or contour lines.
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by dibujaron 5mo ago
Does this strike anyone as bad api design to anyone else? I don't know what their definition of "much" is and it may not be the same as mine. behind the scenes they must have a real number like page_visits_in_last_30_days, wh
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by dibujaron 5mo ago
It's hard to know who was right. All of these things can be true: it made it back ok; it had a high chance of making it back ok; it should've had a much higher chance of making it back ok. Most of the concerned people were stressi
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by dibujaron 7mo ago
A less cynical explanation: It's heavily trained to ask follow-up questions at the end of a response, to drive more conversation and more engagement. That's useful both for making sure you want to renew your subscription, and also
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by dibujaron 9mo ago
It's true that track maintenance is costly but it's mostly costly because there's a whole lot of track to maintain; many hundreds of miles of it, often in hard to reach areas. This looks like it'd be a few hundred meters
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by dibujaron 9mo ago
The funding model where, if I understand correctly, the construction contractor gets paid less (maybe none?) up front but gets 0.75ca per passenger-kilometer traveled on the system, is cool and does seem like it'd help align incentives
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by dibujaron 9mo ago
Not sure what you mean. apt-get, yum, and even things like snap act like app stores for free apps, no?
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by dibujaron 11mo ago
When you're new it can be hard to tell what to ignore; it makes it tempting to pick a simpler framework that you can entirely grasp. Also any published examples, chatgpt etc won't be aware of the subset you've chosen to use w
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by dibujaron 1y ago
Ideally: there's a train close enough to walk, or a bus or tram that's nearby that runs frequently, is clean, and doesn't get stuck in traffic because there's not much car traffic. Slightly more realistic: enough people
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by dibujaron 1y ago
Scott Alexander has issued many studies in his time and is surely aware of this phenomenon. He was very cautious even in this study to calibrate for this sort of noise; see the section about Michaels you know.
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by dibujaron 1y ago
Heh, both figuratively and literally quixotic. He's on a quixotic quest, but he's literally fighting against windmills.
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by dibujaron 1y ago
The airline websites that I've used are remarkably bad with their UI/UX. Far from any grandma being able to use it, definitely. I can rarely get through the process without some inexplicable error or missing field that I can'
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by dibujaron 1y ago
The loaded cars can go coast to coast, but trains are broken up and reorganized often in yards, especially in places like Chicago. this is efficient because two cars from LA headed to Toronto and NYC can travel together until Chicago and on
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by dibujaron 1y ago
Thinking Machines was chosen over the Cray because they had more visual appeal. Sheryl Handler the CEO had (has) a real flair for and it showed; they were neat looking machines
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by dibujaron 1y ago
Why would they need a bigger tunnel? Monorails are usually built to a smaller loading gauge than conventional rail.
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by dibujaron 1y ago
This is well written, readable, and seems logically consistent. However it fairly directly conflicts with the account of Jan Ruff O'Herne: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Ruff-O%27Herne Does anyone know how to
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by dibujaron 1y ago
This is not the case for LLMs running on GPUs (which is most of them); GPUs are non-deterministic for this use-case due to the floating point math involved. there is no way to get perfectly deterministic output from OpenAI despite the prese
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by dibujaron 1y ago
I mean, the subway is still a train. it's just two transfers instead of one?
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by dibujaron 1y ago
I love this story. anyone know why it's titled Lena, and not something like MMAcevedo? I can't see any reference to Lena anywhere in the story.
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by dibujaron 1y ago
This is an interesting perspective, thank you for sharing. We often hear that (compared with Europe, I suppose) America's two parties are relatively far right. Interesting to see the opposite opinion.
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by dibujaron 1y ago
It was an enormous cost, but given that there was an elevated highway there before, I don't think "remove the highway entirely" was a real option; it'd be like trying to delete I-5 from Los Angeles. Burying it was the ne

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