hankman86

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by hankman86 7mo ago
I would love to learn why some people can self-motivate to exercise while others would need coercive interventions. Such as to build cities in a way that some exercise is inevitable. Or put differently: is there really nothing that can be d
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by hankman86 7mo ago
Most teens are probably right.
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by hankman86 7mo ago
To rule out Alzheimers when you wonder whether your recent episodes of forgetfulness have an underlying medical cause. That aside, some moderately effective drugs have recently been approved that can slow down the disease in its early stage
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by hankman86 1y ago
I completely agree. The WebAssembly multi-threading programming model with its reliance on the web worker API is a pain to deal with. Google’s Native Client had native threading support, why can this not be replicated in WebAssembly?
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by hankman86 1y ago
I would love to see usage metrics on that. Probably well below 1% of all browsing sessions, quite possibly even less than 0.1%. Nobody asked to this. Interpreting websites for its users is categorically not what a web browser is for.
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by hankman86 1y ago
AI data centres can perhaps harvest some of the waste heat back as electricity.
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by hankman86 1y ago
We just did the opposite and ripped up our solar hot water system. We have a metal roof and a salt water pool. Problem is that these systems can and do leak. Salt water on a metal roof makes creates rust. With photovoltaic panels being dirt
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by hankman86 1y ago
Why has basic product management gone out of the window in this new era of AI enablement? Like on the most basic level: who ever asked for this, where is product-market fit for this kind of browser automation?
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by hankman86 1y ago
Seems like a low price to pay for eliminating the risk to have your production facilities overrun by Chinese invaders.
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by hankman86 1y ago
I have been wondering how culturally conservative societies would use future medical interventions that could shape people’s sexuality. Not necessarily the government requiring expecting mothers to subject the unborn child to some sort of “
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by hankman86 1y ago
Most do not have the cognitive abilities for these kinds of philosophical debates.
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by hankman86 1y ago
No. Down Syndrome leads to an objectively worse outcome for the affected individuals. And their parents, I might add. We should not let compassion for these people obstruct some basic facts. My only consideration would be the potential risk
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by hankman86 2y ago
To be fair, even outside of this sexual misconduct the CTO of SAP has not actually earned a high salary. Do you hear anyone talking about SAP when it comes to technological innovation? They are followers, not leaders. Not in AI, not in clou
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by hankman86 2y ago
You would not want to. After a high-profile scandal like that, there are too many people in the know. Not all of whom may be sympathetic to you for taking down a top executive. Your career is effectively finished. Negotiate a decent severan
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by hankman86 2y ago
No, it is supply and demand. And a good deal of culture sprinkled on top. Americans are much more prepared to accept obscenely high salaries for exceptional talent. In Germany by contrast, even the greatest software engineering genius will
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by hankman86 2y ago
SAP has had its fair share of bad executives. Mostly incompetent people, but occasionally also flawed characters. Their problem is that Europe has no IT industry that is equally mature as the one in the US. Among other things, this leads to
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by hankman86 2y ago
Bad leaver clauses are difficult to enforce. What this person has done may not be an undisputed breach of company policy. More like what observers would consider subjectively unethical conduct that is potentially damaging to the company’s r
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by hankman86 2y ago
At the end of the day, legislators need to weigh the consequences of regulation like the GDPR. Has it really helped people retain control over their personal data? I doubt it. Sure, companies like Meta and Google are compliant, have added t
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by hankman86 2y ago
The hallmarks of EU funded R&D projects.
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by hankman86 2y ago
They should — like scrapping bureaucracy and regulation that is hostile to innovation and costly for businesses. The AI Act, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the EU Supply Chain Law, the GDPR etc. are all well intended. Al
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by hankman86 2y ago
Looks like the typical EU wannabe competition to US Big Tech to me. Like Europe’s Google competitor, Europe’s cloud service, Europe’s operating system and so on. Like these projects, OpenEuroLLM will go nowhere. It is always the same approa
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by hankman86 2y ago
The uncomfortable truth is that pretty much any business can cut staff by 20% without impacting overall performance. Provided that you manage to weed out the tail end of the performance bell curve that is. Most of the time, reducing staff i
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by hankman86 2y ago
So that they can release a successor model with thinner bezels. In reality this may be to (1) to keep costs down and (2) to distance the iPad mini from the more premium iPhone Pro Max. All in all, this device leaves me wondering who this is
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by hankman86 2y ago
One would think that they avoid the embarrassment of releasing another device before their AI features are even available. But no.
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by hankman86 2y ago
Typical leftist nonsense. I want to see the travellers living in The Hague who let themselves be harassed into forgoing their holidays. Just a suggestion: perhaps a city council should busy itself with running the city, look after its infra
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by hankman86 2y ago
I like to think that students are well advised to spend their money elsewhere. Namely to pay back any student loans. To save up for home loan deposit. Etcetera. There are other (cheaper) ways to build a professional network. Local meetups,
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by hankman86 2y ago
Does Google actually consider Go to be a success? I get the impression that it failed in what it set out to be: a successor to C/C++. Or put differently, Rust has eaten Go‘s lunch.
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by hankman86 2y ago
Is this necessarily correlated? I would think that the potential to cause disaster is rather linked to whether AI is given authority to enact autonomously decisions, i.e. given access to critical systems.
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by hankman86 2y ago
Are there any independent statistics for how much AI based coding assistants like GitHub CoPilot improve an average software developer‘s productivity? I had hoped for something around 5%, which is not massive, but still a non-trivial number
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by hankman86 2y ago
It’s in maintenance mode. They may still support it for legacy Chrome apps (Chrome OS) and manifest-2 browser extensions. For the “drive by” open web, they had an origin trial for a while that you could register for and which would throw yo

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