estimator7292

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by estimator7292 1mo ago
Enron's stock was pretty good, too. Stock price is not a measure of success.
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by estimator7292 2mo ago
Literally everything about AI coding is hacked together. Top to bottom, from every player.
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by estimator7292 2mo ago
Why can't I use my bank's app, which I presumably already trust, to tap-to-pay? Why should there be a third party involved at all?
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by estimator7292 2mo ago
Allow me to offer a minor reframing: printing presses aren't about duplicating writing. The printing press exists to mass produce text regardless of how or where the content of the text was produced. LLMs likewise are text production
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
We are, quite notably, in a huge hiring crisis where vast numbers of programmers and researchers can't even get interviews. It really is not that simple
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
That's an incredibly impractical and expensive place to put it. Frankly, I don't believe you purely because it'd be $200 cheaper for the manufacturer to put the antennas in the shark fin on the roof with all the other antenna
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
No, it's wrong (and illegal) to hold ransom someone else's stolen property . The phone belonged to Apple. The phone was stolen (illegal). The stolen phone was then knowingly purchased as stolen property (illegal), and then the
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
N=1, but I had a drive show catastrophic SMART failures once. I figured I'd take the opportunity to tinker with the exposed serial port on the drive's PCB and wiped the SMART values. Funny thing was, I didn't actually obser
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
It's also completely wrong. Doc Brown's time machine did not require 1.21 gigawatts. Very explicitly, it's 1.21 jigawatts . Completely different unit. What's a jigawatt? It's a movie, neither jigawatts nor flux cap
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
Buy a $300 motherboard now in case you need future features, or buy a $100 motherboard now that does everything you currently need and then buy a second or even third $100 motherboard if you ever actually need those future improvements. The
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
Yes it did. Billionaires are a relatively new thing, but successful businesses were led by young people across the entirety of human history. And you should not praise someone for simply being a billionaire. That's a bad thing to b
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
How else would you deal with people who are too old to do the job, and too senile to realize they can no longer perform and should abdicate? Because we have politicians who can barely walk and talk on their own they're so goddamn old.
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
My company has tens of thousands of people on a waitlist for our new product. We had planned to ship this year, but we simply can't get enough memory at any price. Even if we cut the installed memory to bare minimum functional requirem
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
I see your point, however: EA sports has been doing this for literally the entire lifetime of gaming as an industry
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
At least "mentions of LOC" is now a great metric for "how clueless is this person"
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
Cloudflare gets a cut though, so it's valuable. As long as number go up, all good
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
Because due to Google having a near-monopoly on the entire goddamn Internet, a shocking number of websites and services will refuse to work with non-chrome browsers.
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
You and I wouldn't because we're engineers. An executive with ulterior motives would want to call it production for "Marketing"
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
"The Internet" as always actually means "the top six websites". The old internet still exists, you just have to look for it. There are still personal blogs and forums and webrings. It's just that you can't find
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by estimator7292 4mo ago
It would take 5-10 years to design and verify a RAM design that comes anywhere close to the performance of modern day memory. Plus millions in NRE.
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
We could, but then these companies would just go on ignoring the law like they do now. The current state of American governance has made it very, very clear that following the law is strictly optional if you have enough money or power
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
There's age verification and then there's "age verification" (mass surveillance dragnet) One of these is clearly a very extremely bad thing
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
Yeah, I'm none too happy with anthropic right now, but what's happening to Claude code is just your typical garden variety mismanagement of a project that grew way too fast for its owners to reasonably handle.
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
If you pay someone full price to do a job, they know they can't fulfil the terms up front, accept the work, deliver less than the agreed upon terms and still charge you full price, you'd probably call that transaction fraudulent.
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
Obviously, they already tried. Problem is that there simply is not a way to do this reliably. The models are all stochastic processes and the only real levers model designers have to pull involve asking the model to pretty please not do som
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
The fountains behind the counter get cleaned exactly as often as the ones in front (read: approximately never)
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
When has a legally mandated metric ever been gamed into a loophole? /s
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
I think it's mostly marketing. When all phones are identical glass rectangles, the only meaningful way to distinguish your product is by being the biggest, thinnest, highest IP-rating. Most of these metrics are entirely orthogonal to w
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
They'll notice if no Windows machines phone home from your IP address anymore. It doesn't matter so much what you switched to , more that you're no longer giving Microsoft those sweet, sweet KPIs
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by estimator7292 5mo ago
Nah, calling out morons and assholes is always useful

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