dukeyukey

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by dukeyukey 7d ago
Being able to fly at all is a much better passenger experience than not having that choice in the first place. And I'll bet that flying first class today is far better than 50 years ago.
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by dukeyukey 14d ago
Would you put it past Trump to use gold stores as a threat?
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by dukeyukey 15d ago
What makes you think that? It says Lake Ontario here in the UK.
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by dukeyukey 20d ago
The US has the lowest percentage of it's population being immigrants in the Western Anglosphere. Like it's beaten by all of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Germany and France too, plus a while host of smaller
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by dukeyukey 24d ago
Did you read his comments on this? It's not to actually do LLM research stuff, it's to trigger and unlock ideas.
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by dukeyukey 26d ago
AI companies are doing this at a far lesser scale than libraries are, are you implying doing it less is worse?
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by dukeyukey 26d ago
If someone was ok with Nazis killing Jews but not Soviets, I am going to think they don't believe it's the killing that is the problem.
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by dukeyukey 26d ago
Rare and valuable books are not going to be in the giant pallets AI companies are buying. Most public libraries do not have professional archivists or anything like that, not so charity shops, or booksellers.
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by dukeyukey 27d ago
I imagine they know the public would react like the public is reacting. Like obviously this is not worse than what libraries and thrift shops do daily, but it is bad optics.
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by dukeyukey 27d ago
Can you explain why AI companies destroying these is worse than a library or bookseller destroying these?
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by dukeyukey 27d ago
It's more that, we don't need to preserve a million copies of the same mundane book. Losing a few copies to AI training is fine.
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by dukeyukey 27d ago
If it were legal they may well do that as a public branding exercise. Google already tried and got punished for it!
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by dukeyukey 1mo ago
Europe is a big place. Domestic air con is ubiquitous in Italy, rare in the UK. But even in the UK, places like shops and offices will usually have air con.
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by dukeyukey 1mo ago
I mean do we not want food to be stored for tough times? And the people who do this storing should get paid for it?
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by dukeyukey 1mo ago
Unless you're French.
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by dukeyukey 1mo ago
Not a single country has a fertility rate of 6 children per woman. And the highest middle eastern country is Yemen at 4.3. The next highest is Iraq at 3.1.
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Tract Postmortem (2025)(buildwithtract.com)
1 points by dukeyukey 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dukeyukey 2mo ago
They also say it seems to work well up to 500k a day, which is quite a bit.
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by dukeyukey 2mo ago
To be fair they also say > Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite.
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by dukeyukey 2mo ago
The UK is still the world's 5th largest economy. It's a large domestic market, just not a hyperscale one.
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by dukeyukey 2mo ago
This is bizarre to me, because the energy markets in my country (the UK) are bent to benefit solar and wind over all else. We banned oil and gas exploration, and even regulated out coal from the entire market. It's extremely hard to se
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by dukeyukey 2mo ago
That is not the answer (plenty of profit in solar), it's probably that society is literally older and so people don't like change as much.
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by dukeyukey 2mo ago
People hate the idea of solar in currently-unused space. Even if that space is bare desert. So you can get a big PR boost if you propose "solar, but on a thing" (roadways, water, and now trains).
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UK home to third largest number of billion dollar startups in the world(smeweb.com)
5 points by dukeyukey 3mo ago|0 comments
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by dukeyukey 3mo ago
If I (a Brit) moves to the US, I'd absolutely get a Yorkshire-branded tea caddy filled with teabags on my desk. Sometimes you need to live up to the stereotypes.
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by dukeyukey 3mo ago
If you already know what the inputs/outputs are, why should you spend days or weeks of your life typing it out rather than giving it in a well-specified and tested form to an LLM to get it done a hundred times faster?
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Random Lives(random-lives.github.io)
2 points by dukeyukey 3mo ago|0 comments
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by dukeyukey 4mo ago
NASA? JET? CERN?
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by dukeyukey 4mo ago
I recognise that makes it politically tricky, but "creates almost no jobs" and "creates lots of jobs, but dispersed elsewhere" are two very different statements. And for data centers the latter is true, and the former is
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by dukeyukey 4mo ago
To a point, yes. Otherwise you are at the mercy of whoever's compute you use.

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