loudmax

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by loudmax 1mo ago
> unless you consider that socialism = "social safety net measures", which it isn't I agree with you that socialism, properly understood, ought to mean something much broader than a social safety net. But not everyone sees
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by loudmax 1mo ago
I think this is more about tribalism than conservatism. There's nothing inherently "conservative" about opposing renewable energy. The political movement that's currently leading the Republican party shouldn't be un
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by loudmax 2mo ago
This is an important conversation to have and we should pretty clearly about what the issues are. I didn't see any objection to LLM assisted development in the abstract. The objection is to relying on proprietary AI providers in genera
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by loudmax 2mo ago
> Hopefully a solution similar to what was done in Hong Kong can be found. Citizens of Hong Kong lost their right to free speech and their ability to select their own leaders. If you publicly criticize Xi Jinping in Hong Kong you will go
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by loudmax 2mo ago
The short answer is no, it won't work on your home computer. In it's current form it needs something like 594 GB of memory, far outside what you can reasonably run on normal consumer hardware in 2026. If you have really high end h
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by loudmax 2mo ago
The employer selects a financial company to manage the 401k. When you switch jobs, you can roll the 401k from the previous employer into the new one, or into an IRA (Individual Retirement Account). Usually the financial services company wil
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by loudmax 2mo ago
Absolutely this. If you think about different types of objections to nearby data centers and do some pretty minimal research, you come up with a reasonable set of solutions that most people would agree on. That's not what people are do
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by loudmax 2mo ago
We also need immigration because it grows the GDP, makes for a dynamic and resilient economy, increases scientific and technological output and raises the standard of living. Immigration is what made America great.
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by loudmax 2mo ago
Incidentally, here's a recent article about how the economics of ambulances are broken in the US: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are If municipal emergency services in yout area don't co
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by loudmax 3mo ago
Agriculture uses orders of magnitudes more water than data centers. A 50% cut in water use by data centers will have nowhere near the impact of a 5% cut in water use by agriculture. But data centers can generate orders of magnitude more rev
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by loudmax 3mo ago
It is common sense, and with literally any other administration in the past century it would seem like a good idea. I have zero confidence that this particular administration has any interest in regulating the industry for the good of the c
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by loudmax 3mo ago
This is very exciting. Congrats to Tom on the accomplishment. To be clear, this is an attempt at a decipherment. This is not proven, and we shouldn't consider Linear A to be "solved" until experts in the field have reviewed t
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by loudmax 3mo ago
Musk has more money than most of us would dream of, but the game isn't over until it's over. Speaking just for myself, I've lost respect from Elon Musk. I admire Musk's accomplishments, especially Starship and the Falcon
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by loudmax 3mo ago
That is ascribing far too much strategic thinking to this administration. They're just not capable of the kind of planning and foresight that would require. The administration's planning is much more along the lines of, Will this
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by loudmax 3mo ago
For me it was torrenting a 7G ball of weights leaked from Meta and running alpaca.cpp (an early variant of llama.cpp) on my desktop computer in early 2023. I started asking it questions about the Roman empire and it answered me in English!
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by loudmax 3mo ago
The AI-driven data center roll out raises some legitimate concerns that really ought to be considered and discussed at the political level. I doubt that a blanket ban on data centers is the right approach. These are the data center issues a
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by loudmax 3mo ago
I'm very open to the idea that consciousness is substrate independent. I have a hard time seeing why molecules could produce consciousness from an electro-chemical path, but not from a purely electrical path. Having said that, it shoul
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by loudmax 4mo ago
My personal preference is Interstella 5555 is Daft Punk's best music video. Edit: Jinx! Gracana beat my reply to an 11 hour old comment by four minutes.
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by loudmax 4mo ago
Being isolationist or global imperialist implies articulating different strategies and values. This is an administration that has neither of those.
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by loudmax 4mo ago
Humans don't handle all corner cases. People can be slow to react to completely novel or surprising situations. There will be corner cases where humans generally do better than a machine, but the simple rule to slow down and come to a
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by loudmax 4mo ago
Ideally, robot drivers will some day be better drivers than humans in all road conditions. They'll be able to coordinate fast lane merges and busy intersections by subtly adjusting speed without vehicles having to stop. Imagine a busy
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by loudmax 4mo ago
While it's theoretically possible that this technology could work effectively, given the people involved, this project is probably a complete bamboozle that will divert funds away from enforcing the deportation of immigrants. In that l
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by loudmax 4mo ago
Author Philip Pullman published a version of the Grimm fairy tales in 2012. These stories are intended for a modern audience, but in my opinion, Pullman does a good job of preserving a fair amount of the original scariness and general weird
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by loudmax 4mo ago
Yes, my Prius Prime handles highway speeds perfectly fine on battery. In fact, the acceleration is great in pure EV mode. It just doesn't have much range: only about 25 miles on my 2018 model. Newer models advertise up to 44 miles on
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by loudmax 4mo ago
My Prius Prime PHEV has a range of about 25 miles on battery. My daily commute to work is about 10 miles each way, so I can get to work and back on electric alone. If I happen to need to make a longer trip, then my car switches to gas. I pl
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by loudmax 5mo ago
The Chinese knock-off TwinScan is almost as good as the original and far less expensive. Because of course it is.
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by loudmax 5mo ago
That is a very reasonable definition, but having grown up playing Dungeons & Dragons, making good decisions strikes me as Wisdom, not Intelligence. Very "intelligent" people can use those smarts to justify or rationalize all k
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by loudmax 5mo ago
If you're paying for a subscription, the company might sell your data. If you're using a commercial service for free, they are certainly selling your data. Having said that, you're right to be suspicious of commercial ser
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by loudmax 5mo ago
Or the third solution: a carbon tax. That is a tough sell in the current environment. It's a regressive tax, so opposed on both ends of the political spectrum. People on the far right don't believe in climate change, and people on
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by loudmax 5mo ago
I was thinking the same thing. The stuff ASML does to produce a light at exactly the right wavelength is bananas. Making of stream of molten tin, and shooting each droplet with a laser, twice! Then bouncing the light through a series of sup

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