lbriner

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by lbriner 8d ago
I suspect there is a name for thinking that, "if I do something, it will get resolved quicker". Lots of us won't just sit there and wait for someone to come and tell us when it is fixed because we don't trust that other
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by lbriner 11d ago
I think a large part is being close enough to existing utilities to save the installation costs of 40 miles of cable, telecomms etc (all duplicated of course). However, some data centres are built in the middle of nowhere but that is potent
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by lbriner 11d ago
Clearly, it's both. Surely tech has a bad image and Flock does whatever they've done, but just because "one data center caused sludge" nowhere near equals "all data centres cause sludge", which is the implicati
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by lbriner 11d ago
They had an article about Australia embracing AI data centers to be suppliers of the future and not just customers and one big pull is "the vast amounts of land in Australia" then said that one of them is being built within 100m o
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by lbriner 12d ago
That is an unfair conclusion. These people run complex networks like the rest of us, they probably have a range of detection systems and, also like the rest of us, an almost impossibly large attack surface to consider internally and on thei
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by lbriner 13d ago
It is not so much the eco-system, it is the need for a full food-chain of animals to keep populations in-check. We like deer but without wolves or large cats, the deer become a pest but we don't like wolves and large cats because we ar
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by lbriner 13d ago
Judging by the seats, perhaps making it as light as possible. Existing airframes are relatively light but let's be honest, they aren't trying to save 500g here and there when they have massive jet engines to get everything airborn
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by lbriner 13d ago
After having my first child (a girl who is now nearly 3 years old) these stats impact me so much more. My first roll was a girl in the Iraniam plateau in the 18 century who had a 33% chance of dying before they reached 5. She managed to liv
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by lbriner 14d ago
A text editor is very personal to your use-case and experience, which is why not everyone likes any particular editor. Before I knew about multi-line cursors, I wouldn't have cared a less about whether an editor did that. Now that I kn
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by lbriner 20d ago
It is often not worth optimising in the early days. You don't know how popular it will become, you might not know how many DNS records you will hold, it was possibly written in an earlier language and ported as-is. At the point someone
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by lbriner 20d ago
I don't think it is necessarily corruption. That is an easy accusation to make but what actually happens when someone joins a government? You learn a whole tonne of stuff you didn't know about what is broken and need fixing and yo
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by lbriner 20d ago
And we can't even manage to plant those in most countries!
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by lbriner 20d ago
That's not true. We will always have laws and to someone without the training, the legal side is best left to professionals.
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by lbriner 20d ago
You can already get small portable air conditioners but until recently, most people with low incomes wouldn't spend £300 on something they might only need for 4 weeks per year and needs storing the rest of the time. That might change o
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by lbriner 20d ago
There are a few different scenarios that people fit into: * Lack of focus and discipline: Good founder, huckster, good at sales but won't scale with the business when it needs to start focussing. * Fearful and nervous: Might start a bu
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by lbriner 21d ago
There is no such thing as "just split" there is 20+ years of legacy decisions and even if the split is relatively clean it is still probably 1 years work for 200 people for maybe a marginal improvement. The real money is going to
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by lbriner 21d ago
> Enforce penalties Really, everyone should know by now it is not as simple as that. We already have lots of laws that are not enforced (fully or at all) because there is a cost to enforcing the law - time and money. Some random person u
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by lbriner 23d ago
"Yeah but they would say that, they are part of the system " Sadly, there is no way to counter a conspiracy theorist because if you question or counter then you are just part of the conspiracy too. Governments know that they need
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by lbriner 23d ago
When I was younger, I remember thinking, "a few degrees, what difference does that make?" Then when I grew older I realised that in Climate science a few degrees is the difference between survival and annihilation. A few degrees w
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by lbriner 23d ago
It's a bit of a non-headline. We are a period of massive up-take from people who aren't really familiar with what works well for their use-case and how much that costs. I have tried fable, gone back to sonnet, tried to use agent m
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by lbriner 23d ago
Been happening for years. You are not talking to a Developer but someone employed to do "support" who 1) might not know much or 2) think they know a lot but they don't 3) can't tell you the actual reason so try and BS an
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by lbriner 1mo ago
The ability for a computer to keep your attention for very long periods of time is an order of magnitude greater than the time you would purposely spend on TV or Newspapers. I can usually stomach 2 to 3 hours tops on TV even with Netflix, P
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by lbriner 1mo ago
What makes me kind of angry is this is a totally and easily fixable problem but for whatever reason, the people who could do something about it have no desire for improvement and would happily let the cost and inconvenience continue. Not on
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by lbriner 1mo ago
It's not a hat, it's a helmet!
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by lbriner 1mo ago
The problem with independent candidates is that they will never be able to influence Parliament enough to make anything happen, they will just be dominated by the big parties. Short of banning people from being part of a political party (wh
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by lbriner 1mo ago
The thing I most miss: Being hungry, going into McDonalds and seeing what they had on the shelf ready to eat now. Bic Mac, Quarter Pounder or maybe 2 Hamburgers. Now? In the queue behind 23 other bespoke orders while they try and service th
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by lbriner 1mo ago
I think what has already gone wrong with US Air Command having drone pilots for foreign wars based in shipping containers in Texas. Starts off as surreal/not morally challenging, and then it sinks in, these are real people. Also, I am
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by lbriner 1mo ago
Elimination doesn't mean there are no incidences of it, it means no new cases diagnosed in England. This is a result of reducing the cases so much that the chance of catching it drops to virtually zero. Drug users have a range of cle
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by lbriner 1mo ago
Wikipedia is completely non-interactive so of course the experience is different. Do you want to look up something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis and try and understand that from Wikipe
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by lbriner 1mo ago
There are a surprising number of articles like this along the lines of, "we started using AI tools and ended up spending millions per year". On what planet do people start paying for things without keeping an eye on the costs and

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