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by jrmg 4d ago
Its stock could crash without causing–as long as its cash flows continue–a credit crisis through its investments and commitments Uh, that’s a pretty load-bearing as long as its cash flows continue . The two things are surely correlated.
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by jrmg 9d ago
In the 90s, how long did people expect it would be until consumer computer hardware would be able to do this so quickly?
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by jrmg 9d ago
To keep tax revenue equal, property taxes for those who purchased recently would go down, and property taxes for those who’d purchased in the past would go up. The housing market would become more liquid because people would move out of hom
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by jrmg 9d ago
Okay, even if you don’t agree with me that it’s far fetched, claims of ‘X is doing Y’ usually require some evidence that X is doing Y to be considered credible.
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by jrmg 9d ago
The TV will join that automatically without asking you because they have an agreement with the network provider. This seems far fetched to me. Have you seen evidence or reliable reporting of this?
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by jrmg 9d ago
And your credit card company investigates and accepts your chargeback requests?
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by jrmg 9d ago
It looks like someone is downvoting all the people who say they wouldn’t buy a car without CarPlay in these comments! What a weird attitude to have.
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by jrmg 10d ago
I’m struggling here: OpenAI’s primary bet here has been chain-of-thought monitoring (opens in a new window). It is based on an appealingly scalable idea: a lot of the model’s capability comes from a verbalized reasoning process (chain-of-t
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by jrmg 10d ago
A lot of skepticism here, but, anecdotally, we bought a Prologue without even test driving a Blazer. I knew they were essentially the same car and that maintenance-wise it probably made more sense to get the Blazer from a GM dealer - but it
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by jrmg 11d ago
Is this the only piece of hardware that can be repurposed like this or are there other crypto mining (or AI?…) devices that have similar potential?
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by jrmg 11d ago
I wonder if the fact that these random obscure wikis are being used implies that the agents first tried more obvious services like Tumblr, Neocities, Blogger, Reddit etc. [edit: oh, or HN obviously!] It just seems so likely - trying the mor
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by jrmg 25d ago
Note that this post was written twenty years ago, in 2006 - it just wasn’t published until now.
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by jrmg 26d ago
I don’t think any reasonable person would think I am claiming that every ‘tick’ makes things better along every possible axis for every possible person. It’s pretty obvious that judging whether America’s ‘ticks’ have been towards ‘a freer,
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by jrmg 26d ago
You can make a credible argument that the American society is less free, less equal, and less equitable than it was at its founding? There are just so many ways in which this seems crazy to me. I feel like you think you’re luring me into so
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by jrmg 26d ago
The USA started from and has come back from way worse in the past. Some dark, dark things happened in the USA, and almost every progression had a corresponding backslide - but the tick-tock has always ticked further towards a freer, more eq
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by jrmg 26d ago
Intelligence is compression That’s a controversial statement.
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by jrmg 27d ago
I’ve long held the opinion that humans ‘over’-value complexity . It’s why we can spend so much time tasting, analyzing, and enjoying fancy coffee or whisky - despite the fact that almost everyone is repulsed by them the first time they try
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by jrmg 1mo ago
Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted. Well over half of Google’s traffic is IPv6 in the USA, and it’s recently become over 50% of all Google’s traffic worldwide at weekends. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/stati
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by jrmg 1mo ago
You can build and distribute apps (up to and including selling them on the App Store) in Swift Playground on iPad. The full iPad SDK is in there. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swift-playground/id908519492
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by jrmg 1mo ago
So many stores and (all?) banks require two-factor login now, where an SMS sent to a phone is the second factor. How do you cope with this?
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by jrmg 1mo ago
Can you imagine a what would have happened if the car charging infrastructure would have used your regular 120/230V plugs? This isn’t a great example because, on the ‘other side', car chargers also have different size cables bet
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by jrmg 1mo ago
Will we be able to get pictures of this? I presume that if the answer is ‘yes’ we will do so, and I’d like to see some!
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by jrmg 1mo ago
Weak, dynamic typing. Dynamic method binding at runtime (method calls really are message-sends). 'Traditional' object orientation with inheritance (although delegation and dynamic mixins are also core concepts, and the class hiera
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by jrmg 2mo ago
The article is arguing that your color coding is misleading because the ‘purpose’ of the tokens doesn’t seem to be what a plain English reading of them would suggest. They’re not a representation of ‘why’ the process ends up at a correct an
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by jrmg 2mo ago
The article doesn’t argue that they do reason.
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by jrmg 2mo ago
I don’t really have any doubt that these are ‘real’ - but the article author has, to me, a strange amount of confidence in video game ‘grading’, especially since he himself is an expert: From what they could see, there was very little doub
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by jrmg 2mo ago
This magazine only covers stories that are at least three months old.
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by jrmg 2mo ago
You’re in luck! https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter/archive/
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by jrmg 2mo ago
The worrying thing is that many supporters, and, I’ve come to believe more and more, many of the leaders and upper echelons of organizations on the right actually believe the exaggerated rhetoric is the truth.
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by jrmg 2mo ago
‘Q’ by the pseudonymous ‘Luther Blissett’ is a great historical fiction book about the period that really gets into what was happening in Europe in the 16th century. The Peasants’ War isn’t even the half of it. European Christian history is

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