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by gmueckl 4d ago
Here's a grim shower thought: how bad does it have to get before one can justify going to war with governments that are willfully ignoring climate change and endangering all of humankind as a result?
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by gmueckl 4d ago
Human wake word recognition isn't infallible, either. How often in your life did you respond because you thought somebody called your name and it wasn't actually the case?
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by gmueckl 4d ago
They did that, but I think the 10 day deadline is quite heavy-handed. Also, would it be too difficult to offer a review and critique of a revised design (draft) to make sure that the matter can be resolved without further escalation?
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by gmueckl 4d ago
This is a tough one. The main culprit here is that trademwark law forces the trademark owner into an active defense posture to avoid losing the trademwark. This is very different from patents or copyright. So, in a way, IKEA was forced to w
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by gmueckl 6d ago
What's wrong with stating my opinion when it's relevant to the topic? I feel like you are somehow irritated by what I said. Are you personally invested in this discussion somehow? You have a point in calling me out on jujutsu. I h
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by gmueckl 6d ago
The combination jujutsu/piper is proprietary. As I understand it, sapling as released is also not the entire internal system used at Meta. Git was an improvement over SVN in some aspects, but a monumental regression in others. There ar
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by gmueckl 6d ago
It's great to see some moves to break up this great calcification around git. Gut greatest contribution to version control was stagnation. The space was evolving with great fresh ideas before git became a quasi-religion among the early
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by gmueckl 8d ago
Isn't that just a form of Dunning-Kruger effect related to the parts that person is bad in? It looks good because they don't have the depth of knowledge/expertise to see the deficiencies.
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by gmueckl 8d ago
Replce "best" with "most fit for purpose" and you're right. The future won't be a one size fits all kind of deal because hardware availability constraints will eventually punish oversized models even more. I th
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by gmueckl 9d ago
I was talking about the burden on small companies. You are looking at different scales already. Also, I'd take fire safety over GDPR if I had a choice. That is much easier to get a handle on.
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by gmueckl 9d ago
Some examples: - CFCs are completely banned (Montreal Protocol) - drag-reducing swimsuits - some Persistant Organic Pollutants were completely banned (Stockholm convention) It can be done.
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by gmueckl 9d ago
I know all of that. Still, I can't make the overall numbers for Germany work out in a way that gets to a customer base of any scale for plumbers.
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by gmueckl 9d ago
No plumber I know is able to deal with more than a thousand different clients in eight years. This is so absolutely unrealistic it's laughable.
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by gmueckl 9d ago
It's rare that a simple format description can give so many hints about the evolution (or lack thereof) of this system: - The MP3 file encoding a stereo signal with one being audio-rate encoded digital data makes this just the latest l
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by gmueckl 9d ago
Thousands of customers? Your numbers are out of touch with reality.
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by gmueckl 9d ago
You assume that the business is about developing software and will have a public facing API. That's a very narrow perspective. The vast majority of businesses aren't this. Even a plumber who types up offers and invoices on a compu
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by gmueckl 9d ago
Some of my personal data has leaked. Some of it has to be public because of some laws. Fire safety is less onerous and less complex.
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by gmueckl 9d ago
Well, wait until you are at the receiving end. It can get nasty pretty quickly. What does each one of your systems store exactly? Do they allow configuration of reasonable data retention policies for PII? What do your systems log? How do yo
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by gmueckl 9d ago
The regulation doesn't mean batteries have to be made swappable with just bare hands. Common tools and some simple, easily undoable gluing is still acceptable. It gets a battery replacement from a process that risks breaking glass part
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by gmueckl 9d ago
There is a subtlety here: on the one hand there are decisions that someone decides on and tries to enforce. On the other, there is collective behavior and what it does and doesn't tolerate - societal norms. The later forms in various w
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by gmueckl 9d ago
You got it backwards. Society is simple the collective that forms transitively from you, your connections, theirs and so on. You are pointing at a tree and missing that it's standing in the forest.
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by gmueckl 9d ago
Society could take control back. It's not impossible. History has examples where people took control away from small collectives, although it wasn't always strictly lawfuly or even peaceful. To take it to the extreme, billions of
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by gmueckl 9d ago
Advancing the state of the art takes so many resources that it can't happen underground, at least for now. Slap enough controls on the means and the handbrakes are on. So your doomsday scenario could be preventable. The crux is that en
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by gmueckl 9d ago
Society abides by a lot of rules that you also learned to follow, mostly while you were raised. Why else would you even wear a deodorant?
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by gmueckl 9d ago
Here's a very strong take on the situation, more for discussion than a true representation of my own beliefs: The ML models will be trained as long as we as the human society in charge allow them to be trained. Progress only happens if
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by gmueckl 10d ago
Dyno is really freakish and I can see a couple of pain points if someone tries to use it productively. A IMO glaring one is that dyno::poly is a boxing type that will happily take your value type and shove it on the heap while nobody's
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by gmueckl 11d ago
Polymorphism in C++ can only be correct on pointers and references (which are pointers internally). Stack-allocated objects and polymorphism only combine if the object is initialized as its true type and a pointer or reference to it is hand
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by gmueckl 11d ago
I find that it helps a little to maintain an iron grip on the design. Take the time for really detailed change planning. Be pedantic and push back against every little thing that seems wrong or even a little odd in any plan document the LLM
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by gmueckl 15d ago
I just don't see how people who are truly cautious and methodical can persist in an environment that is defined by a pressure to produce "progress" as fast as possible. The competitive race tends to weed out people who slow d
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by gmueckl 15d ago
Frankly, the US car industry hasn't set the bar very high. They were not very innovative in the last couple of decades. I think the European industry is a better benchmark, and even then the result is pretty clear.

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