scarab92

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by scarab92 8d ago
Either are possible. They have been collaborating on this solution for a year, and Astra was trained in February this year so it’s entirely possible the direction of their research was in the training corpus.
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by scarab92 23d ago
Why would China care if Taiwan blows up its fabs? The talent is still there, so they could rebuild, or recruit the talent to work for Chinese mainland fabs instead?
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by scarab92 28d ago
The cost of producing memory IS low, and is continuing to fall. It makes zero sense to rebase your mental model of the tradeoff between RAM versus developer time because of a temporary shortage. In a few years time you’ll look silly for hav
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by scarab92 1mo ago
This is why I would never invest in Stripe. The moat protecting their high margins is temporary. Competitors will obviously improve their developer experience over time, and then win on price. Stripe are stuck. They know they need to lower
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by scarab92 1mo ago
Adyen will likely overtake Stripe as well. They are at $1.4T already and growing fast. Stripes fees are uncompetitive, even their negotiated rates, so businesses tend to leave them as their volume grows.
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by scarab92 1mo ago
I find those advocating for censorship of right wing voices to be pretty unconvincing, and often acting in bad faith (like this article and its cherry picking) Reddit and Blue Sky are almost entirely left-wing rage-bait and conspiracy theor
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by scarab92 1mo ago
The default feed is orders of magnitude more visible than the cherry-picked low-follower-count users that formed the basis of this article. There’s a tremendous double standard here. The offensive right wing content is something you’d have
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by scarab92 2mo ago
Wikimedia has enough cash in the bank, to fund wikipedia forever from interest alone. At this point, 100% of all new funds raised in the name of Wikipedia are actually being diverted to other projects. It’s incredibly deceptive, borderline
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by scarab92 2mo ago
If it’s really that important to people, they should be able to raise donations for that program in particular. Raising funding for Wikipedia, then diverting 90% of the funds for pet projects is dishonest at best, and most likely fraudulent
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by scarab92 2mo ago
Is there a way to make the ChatGPT live experience less dumbed down? It just wants to stay at a superficial level, while annoyingly mimicking human traits like “hmmms” and “umms” I’ve found the better approach is to dictate into the text ve
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by scarab92 2mo ago
Payment processor margins are already very high, especially considering they are basically low-tech utilities. If the US had functioning antitrust laws it would be looking at their margins and be considering whether to break up some of the
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by scarab92 2mo ago
Most of us don’t have economist subscriptions. Maybe you can just tell us what you mean by not neutral? I find Grok to be far more academically honest than the other models. The other models seem to be much more aligned with public opinion
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by scarab92 2mo ago
Give me an alternative that isn’t trying to shove left wing ideology down my throat and I’ll use that. So far, only xAI makes any attempt to be neutral in its answers.
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by scarab92 2mo ago
Didn’t California effectively legalise shoplifting? That seems objectively pro-crime.
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by scarab92 2mo ago
I’m pretty sure that’s just motivated reasoning. Everyone self-assesses their own beliefs as more accurate, especially as social media over-exposes us to the worst of the worst examples from “the other side”. I’ve never seen any actual rese
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by scarab92 3mo ago
Amazon already delivers to the house next door to yours. The incremental cost of an extra stop is near zero. The efficiency of home delivery vastly exceeds people going to the shops themselves, even if they are stopping at multiple shops.
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by scarab92 3mo ago
Not convinced. Creativity is much easier than reasoning and discernment. Rarely do I need people to be more creative when problem solving, what I need is better judgement.
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by scarab92 3mo ago
I suspect there is a lot of selection bias going on as well. Forums like this, reddit, X, readers of news sites etc tend to be filled with people that don’t have much going on in their lives, have a lot of free time to comment, are less lik
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by scarab92 4mo ago
Very rarely is it appropriate to brainstorm widely. You want to start with a high level of discernment, focusing on the most plausible theories first, then broadening only if necessary. If someone started out with crazy low-discernment idea
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by scarab92 4mo ago
People opposed to data centres remind me of people opposed to mask wearing. Both are attempting to dismiss something useful and important, over trivial and manageable issues, mostly for culture war reasons rather than rational reasons.
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by scarab92 4mo ago
I don’t care about the hypocrisy as much as the entire anti-datacenter Luddite movement being based on anti-intellectualism to begin with. Datacenters provide very high utility with very low per capita externalities. There’s really no reaso
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by scarab92 4mo ago
People opposed to data centres remind me of people opposed to mask wearing. Both are attempting to dismiss something useful and important, over trivial and manageable issues.
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by scarab92 5mo ago
They still get more engagement on X than on Bluesky. Also, cross positing the same content on multiple platforms isn’t time consuming. This is clearly EFF violating their stated commitment to political neutrality, and providing only a super
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by scarab92 7mo ago
It’s worth keeping in mind that 16 hours was their single highest day of use ever, not their typical daily use. I’m sure I’ve spent 16 hours on Netflix or League of Legends in a 24 hour period before, yet my median daily usage is 0 hours, a
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by scarab92 8mo ago
Society pretends that human doctors are better than they really are, and AI is worse than it really is. It's the self-driving cars debate all over again.
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by scarab92 11mo ago
Because the fine amount is specific to the harm done by one product line, in one market. Whereas Apple’s profit figure reflects their total profit across all products and all markets combined. It’s meaningless comparing these, because it’s
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by scarab92 11mo ago
Is that the profit for the App Store specifically, in the UK specifically? If not, you’re comparing apples to oranges.
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by scarab92 11mo ago
The compound is located right next to the Thai border, on a section of river that juts into Thailand. Small parts of the compound actually appear to be within Thailand, at the border resolution Google maps uses: https://www.googl
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by scarab92 11mo ago
The Model Y has been iteratively improved since its introduction like any other product, and remains the best selling car in its class in most western markets. This argument makes about as much sense as saying Apple hasn’t released a new ph
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by scarab92 11mo ago
What makes sodium-ion batteries so much cheaper than LFP batteries? Isn’t lithium only about 15% of the cost of an LFP cell to begin with?

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