kergonath

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by kergonath 4d ago
Lucky you. On some parts of my commute, in an urban area of 10M people, I am happy if I get some 3G.
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by kergonath 4d ago
> an exageration but AI's contributions in iOS aren't visible If you want to ignore them, that’s right. In the real world, they’ve been talking about ML and how it’s making pictures or such-and-such aspect of the OS better for
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by kergonath 4d ago
> ML research was a rather known quantity, or the separate "Neural Engine" CPU explicitly aimed at existing ML pipelines wouldn't exist. No, not really. Transformers were just one of the possible directions. Silicon design
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by kergonath 6d ago
Brilliant essay. Thanks for the link.
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by kergonath 6d ago
Not necessarily. Both NMS and Minecraft are still selling quite well a decade or more after release. Not to mention things like WoW (22 years and still millions of daily players).
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by kergonath 6d ago
To be fair, it sounds like you got a decent play time for a one time purchase ages ago. It’s ok not to love everything. Personally, I like to do the expeditions, and then maybe a couple of hours after. It’s not the focus of my game library,
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by kergonath 11d ago
> Everyone yells loudly about how bad the us is, but then you realize that the whole world voted with there feet that every other alternative is worse. The main problem right now is that the US are not the US for which we voted with our
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by kergonath 11d ago
> These were not wars! These were American offensive aggressions against sovereign countries that lasted years if not decades for the people in power to suck resources into and out of the military complex andfor their own agenda. I don’t
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by kergonath 11d ago
> we can say that it's a process started long time ago and now simply accelerating and escalating after Ukrainian conflict and confiscation of a european partner assets? For France, not really. It was De Gaulle and his successors wa
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by kergonath 12d ago
> But I believe you can relax, because this is all nonsense. Tell that to Iran. Or Canada. Nobody in Europe is certain that he won’t do anything stupid in Greenland, either. We’re already in a trade war (mostly one-sided but still).
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by kergonath 12d ago
Typically they move gold to allies when it’s safer to keep the reserves away (e.g., it’s really hard to imagine the US getting invaded, but that happened to almost all European countries in the last century or so) or when politics become un
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by kergonath 12d ago
> Does anyone in power anywhere actually think China has finally overtaken the US hegemony? No, not really. For now we are headed towards a multipolar world rather than a hegemony.
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by kergonath 12d ago
The US lost these wars politically. This has always been the US weakness rather than pure military power. The US was better at getting what they wanted through either soft power or threat of military action than as a result of actual interv
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by kergonath 12d ago
> Also to note, why was the US trusted before? Trust was never absolute. What we trusted was that the US would act rationally to further their interests. The US benefited tremendously from economic development across the world (industria
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by kergonath 22d ago
That could be cockney, though.
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by kergonath 22d ago
> What if the chef forgot to add salt? That’s a perfectly valid reason for complaining, then. Politely, of course, but the chef might use the feedback.
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by kergonath 22d ago
> Also Europeans are not, I think, accustomed to asking for salt, or ketchup, on already seasoned food. I would expect to find salt, pepper and mustard on the table in a decent restaurant, in my corner of Europe. Not ketchup, though, exc
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by kergonath 22d ago
> Sure, but not the way West conducted it, by going and killing generations of people. But they did. Look at Xinjiang, Tibet, and the history of Manchuria, among others. They did it to themselves as well, like most backwards dictatorship
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by kergonath 22d ago
You can normalise by surface area, which makes defects rate comparable across processes. At least to a first order approximation, keeping all other parameters constant, bigger chips are more likely to have a defect because they have larger
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by kergonath 22d ago
On the contrary, it is actually good. For all the hand wringing when someone’s favourite platform loses out on a Geekbench comparison, the benchmarks are quite consistent, even across platforms, and track SPEC results fairly accurately. Of
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by kergonath 23d ago
Yeah. Billionaire techbros and neofascists love to mis-read Tolkien, but this is a much better picture of the future they want to bring. Down to the mystical doom cult of Peter Thiel and the techno-feudalism on Mars that Musk wants. Of cour
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by kergonath 24d ago
Stuff that ends up on the home page was not just submitted: it was also upvoted, otherwise you would never see it outside of the news feed (which is full of noise and bad crap anyway. Seriously, go have a look and you’ll see that filtering
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by kergonath 26d ago
I don’t think that’s really it. Plenty of engineers care about elegance and functionality. I think calling them engineering-led is a disservice to engineers in general. Everything out of Google is Rube-Goldberg machines held together with d
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by kergonath 26d ago
(For those who did not get it, it’s the first line of Neuromancer).
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by kergonath 27d ago
> We also have the classic example of PHP with numerous not safe stdlib ways to use mysql. I think it goes without saying that emulating PHP is rarely a good decision.
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by kergonath 1mo ago
:D (For the record, I read DF quite often as a Mac-minded techy weirdo, I just happen to disagree on this particular issue)
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by kergonath 1mo ago
I’m sorry, this is going to be a bit long but you made good points. > The EU mandate for AI watermarking is likely the first step in the direction of prohibiting AI for specific use cases. I am not sure how practical that would be. The c
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by kergonath 1mo ago
I have, and I still do this occasionally. I don’t believe the plant on my desk (I don’t have a rubber duck) is intelligent. I don’t need it to be intelligent, either. I also do it with a LLM every now and then and, while it’s feedback is mo
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by kergonath 1mo ago
I can’t speak for them, but I do this occasionally. Every now and then among the propositions there are one or two that did not come to my mind and that are actually quite good. I still write the whole thing myself, I just ask for advice oc
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by kergonath 1mo ago
> After I read this post, (seeing they introduced it in August) I think it has to do with the watermarking. The power of confirmation bias… > Try it on a paragraph … the connections between sentences feel clunky now. We might have a d

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