monodeldiablo

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by monodeldiablo 2mo ago
I work in this space. The load on private APIs -- and the management costs in general of reselling government data -- are utterly dwarfed by the upstream costs borne by the government. The public __already__ pays for Google, The Weather Com
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by monodeldiablo 3mo ago
You annihilated your own argument with the inclusion of radiology. The only successfully deployed "AI" in use by radiologists (that I'm aware of) are bespoke image analysis models, not LLMs. And that space is rapidly fragment
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by monodeldiablo 3mo ago
A few hundred billion in salary and benefits reductions equates to millions of layoffs. At minimum, we'd be looking at something about the same magnitude as the 2008 financial crisis. That scale of workforce reduction would have profou
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by monodeldiablo 6mo ago
Leaks from within OpenAI have made it pretty clear that they've been struggling to achieve significant improvements lately by simply scaling up parameter size. Experts like LeCunn have also been vocal that blindly scaling up is a dead
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by monodeldiablo 6mo ago
I played a role in China's shift to renewables. It's been decades in the making.
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by monodeldiablo 6mo ago
I do run open models locally, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that they're functionally competitive. I'm extremely skeptical of anybody claiming they've obviated a $22/hr job with an open model. Qwen is a
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by monodeldiablo 6mo ago
It's not really even a question. It's an obvious boondoggle. The forecasted net new energy requirements for the AI buildout over the next couple of years are roughly equivalent to all of Western Europe's power demand today. T
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by monodeldiablo 6mo ago
$0.18/hr is the (massively) subsidized price of AI services. Once these companies are required to turn a profit for their investors, they'll raise the price. Then the math doesn't look so lopsided. We're already seeing t
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by monodeldiablo 6mo ago
His word choice about semicolons is problematic for other reasons, so I won't quote it here, but Vonnegut made his views on punctuation and story structure very known. An internet search will provide it to you readily. And anybody who&
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by monodeldiablo 6mo ago
You and Kurt Vonnegut seem to disagree here. He made liberal use of em dashes and hated semicolons. And he was a giant of literature. The problem with your definition of "good writing" is that it's entirely subjective. Just l
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by monodeldiablo 1y ago
This is just repackaged cognitive or dialectical behavioral therapy, with cutesy names like "whisper" and "virtue garnish" to make it seem novel. But if it speaks to people, I see no harm in that. If you're genuinel
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by monodeldiablo 1y ago
I don't know if you've tried Obsidian, but it's just a tool that sits atop your pile 'o Markdown files. No vendor lock-in or special databases. I use Syncthing to sync the files between devices and git to periodically ba
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by monodeldiablo 2y ago
Reach out to the NWCDC ( https://nwcdc.coop/ ) or NCBA ( https://ncbaclusa.coop/ ) for resources on how to draft bylaws and structure a worker-owned business that meets your needs. In my experience, they'r
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by monodeldiablo 3y ago
I'm a little surprised that there are so many takes like yours in this thread. I don't mean to pick on you, but you seem awfully certain the briber is more ethically in the right here. I wonder, would you feel the same if this was
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by monodeldiablo 3y ago
No-till organic farms exist.
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by monodeldiablo 3y ago
But it really doesn't. What it has is a lot of industry-funded "research" muddying the waters with ambiguous or misleading results. When I worked at Monsanto, the mantra was that __the burden of proof was on those alleging ha
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by monodeldiablo 3y ago
They're not mutually exclusive. I can boycott products made by sociopaths and vote/protest/run for local office.
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by monodeldiablo 3y ago
Only if you define "the maximum" as a 14 year old narcissist boy's fantasies. He didn't really get to know the joys of adventure or a loving relationship. By all accounts, his life was actually pretty empty, a hole he tr
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
Depositors will get their insured money back. Is there a commitment from the FDIC to make all depositors whole? If so, that's not typical.
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
Those numbers at the bottom of a cheque? Yeah, they include your account number. There's no inherent information risk to giving out an account number that justifies an outdated paper-based system. Especially when one considers the acco
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
I've known way too many lawyers, doctors, tech bros, and finance bros to believe in these silly platitudes. It might have once been the case that reward correlated closely to risk, but the economy has fundamentally changed faster than
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
I stand corrected³!
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
> So you get horrendous spellings if using Latin characters for the Slavic sounds, like you see in Polish. I'm not sure where you get this from. Several Slavic languages (Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, etc) use Latin-derived alphabets
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
A small correction to your correction: The letter 'ǌ' is actually a single character in the Croatian/Slovenian and Latinized Serbian/Montenegrin/Bosnian alphabets (go ahead and select it with your cursor!), as are t
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
I may be wrong today, but I took a peek awhile back and Solana's top N validators -- enough to exert outright control over the network -- were operated by companies from within the same 2-3 VC portfolios, which struck me as a shockingl
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
How is that any different than old school banking and finance? Using layer 2 for performance requires essentially opening an account with a trusted party. I don't understand what we've gained here.
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
One potential danger is that some of the more extreme therapies for gender transition are permanent and work best when used early. If a person's trans orientation is the result of a poorly formed sense of identity, as alleged by the ar
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
I find it very concerning that anyone would attempt to present puberty blockers as "non-permanent". Extraordinary claims like that require extraordinary evidence.
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
I actually live in Croatia these days and have some experience with zadruge (Yugoslav cooperatives). Many of the agricultural cooperatives still survive, but the worker cooperatives were largely converted into joint stock corporations in th
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
> That makes sense. Externalities will be less. I would love to hear how anarcho-syndicalists think that any remaining externalities can be managed without a state. Like, if I'm in a co-op with 10 people, I can still see us all deci

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