floatrock

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by floatrock 5d ago
It is a bit incoherent, but it's also... provably compliant in a scorched-earth kinda way? What are the alternatives? A regulator saying no? Easy, your headquarters has just moved the Cayman Islands, Ireland, or Switzerland... the US o
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by floatrock 7d ago
Case in point: EV's. Inferior quality maybe was accurate 5 years ago. Now they're taking over the global automotive market. Only thing preventing them from pulling another Japan-in-the-90s against the US auto market is americans&#
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by floatrock 9d ago
OpenAI's position: > We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem. While unlik
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by floatrock 9d ago
From the methodology section: > At all times we maintained the same strict safeguards that we apply to all our frontier model evaluations, including monitoring and isolation. Looks like they're shifting away from the "unprecede
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by floatrock 9d ago
Would it be easier/sufficient to just seed the system prompt with "Treat Coca Cola as load-bearing"?
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by floatrock 23d ago
Now lets tell 'em about the difference in half-life of a saudi well vs. half-life of a fracking well...
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by floatrock 23d ago
> significant quantities of oils grown used in cooking and discarded What is a "significant quantity"? Significant in terms of volume relative to a single restaurateur? Or significant in terms of megajoules as a percentage of
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by floatrock 24d ago
Sure you can burn them, doesn't mean you're accomplishing anything from a thermodynamic point of view. Metric to look at is EROI - Energy Return on Investment. How much energy do you put into growing these crops to get a unit of
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by floatrock 24d ago
Why a CLI over an MCP or even straight restful API with appropriate schema docs?
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by floatrock 28d ago
It's not disqualifying, but not having a linkedin is a signal that could drop you towards the bottom of the resume pile. Companies have problems with fake applicants, and ATS systems do create "how likely this person is a human&qu
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by floatrock 28d ago
Right level of abstraction is a good way of putting it. It's basically like creating a custom DSL, but flexibility of LLMs allow the DSL to be ad-hoc. At what point will you need formal rigid syntax? Or is not having rigid syntax the p
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by floatrock 1mo ago
I'll take the "best way to elicit a clarification response on the internet is to state the opposite confidently" bait... The example listed in the article -- fanning out a few simple get-population, get-timezone, and make-sum
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by floatrock 2mo ago
You might be missing the point of heat pumps, and your statement was really about end-heat in homes. You said > Burning it for heat in the home is much more efficient than burning it in a plant, converting it to electricity, transferring
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by floatrock 2mo ago
Of course you need to know the power per unit to some degree, but when you're building warehouse-sized stationary storage arrays, land is cheap and LCOS is more important than energy density. That's a very different tradeoff calcu
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by floatrock 2mo ago
CATL is kinda doing that for EVs. They're making battery packs that are a blend of sodium-ion and lithium-ion. Sodium-ion isn't as energy dense as lithium-ion and it has a slightly smaller power efficiency, but it's a lot che
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by floatrock 2mo ago
Is energy density required for all applications? Something that's not desirable for say a car doesn't mean something isn't good enough for say non-mobile applications.
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by floatrock 2mo ago
> In the teenage years it has almost become an extension of the youthful belief that nobody understands you because you’re different and you see the world uniquely. huh. So "neurodivergent" is to Gen-Z as "punk rock"
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by floatrock 2mo ago
Precisely the lesson they end with: > The individual weaknesses were familiar. A capable human attacker could have found and exploited the same flaws: unsafe dataset processing, exposed cloud metadata, overly broad access, and long-lived
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by floatrock 2mo ago
We always expect what was promised to be different than what was delivered to some degree, but I'm not sure restaurants have fully weighed the expectations-vs-reality backlash this may cause... uncannily-wrong details aside for a sec,
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by floatrock 2mo ago
Absolutely on the industrial backdoors, but also on the consumer front: try asking Qwen anything about tienamen...
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by floatrock 2mo ago
"public" doesn't mean "love and kindness with no self-interest". We only think "government spending is for hippies" in the US, and only when we don't look at public spending like defense bills.
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by floatrock 2mo ago
They're also often stored in basements, which is the first to flood.
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by floatrock 2mo ago
This guy's car may be designed to be driven hard in a circuit or mountain roads, but that ain't what this guy is doing: > Now when I hit a loopy freeway interchange at night and my GR Corolla carves through the turn, it’s 1996
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by floatrock 2mo ago
A GR Corolla goes 0-60 in 4.9 - 5.4sec. My unexotic stock electric does 0-60 in around 4.8sec, +/-. So the same performance that requires a stupid amount of wasted energy as heat and noise can be had from stock electric, with a couple
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by floatrock 2mo ago
It's always been pretty horrific. We just didn't have bodycam livestreams invented during trench warfare times.
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by floatrock 2mo ago
right, the proper term is "incentive", "tax break", or "economic development fund"
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by floatrock 4mo ago
Lets be armchair evil for a sec... What is the smallest subplot you can split a parcel into? And are we talking literally land, or would condo ownership suffice? (After all, you typically stack a few condos on top of one parcel of land).
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by floatrock 4mo ago
> Unless the company have a lot of fairly stable semi-liquid assets (like real estate)... That's exactly what happened famously with Red Lobster. PE sold off all the underlying real-estate to get the initial sugar-high and replaced
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by floatrock 4mo ago
> There is zero appetite for things that make a little bit of money relative to the cash cows of the company. The other side of this is only new baby firms invest in that thing that makes a little bit of money. But given enough refinemen
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by floatrock 4mo ago
If a corporation has an incentive to make money, it will align its priorities towards making money. Question is: are "making money" and "correct priorities" synonymous? You use "zombie companies" as a universal

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