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The Root of the Root of All Evil(computerenhance.com)
2 points by starbugs 8d ago|0 comments
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by starbugs 13d ago
Count the number of Os in October correctly
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by starbugs 20d ago
> I suspect, as we continue forward, humans will slowly start to adopt the language of LLMs, or at least certain language quirks that come from interacting with LLMs. Or we'll do the opposite and even deliberately use some words tha
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by starbugs 29d ago
> Life on earth today has objectively never been better in the history of our entire species. Try to retain some perspective. The typical relative privation argument trap
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by starbugs 3mo ago
> But you can do away with all that messiness of all that exchange and just have AI micromanage the economy. AI should be able to figure out how much to produce, how to limit waste, who should get what, etc. in a very fair and efficient
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by starbugs 3mo ago
> I would say that it is more likely than not that a graphics card exhibits some form of consciousness. But I am a panpsychist, I believe an individual atom has some form of consciousness. Fair enough point. But then I guess you'd a
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by starbugs 4mo ago
It's a pointless debate in a scientific, left brain sense. Who can prove that you aren't the only consciousness in the universe and you are basically dreaming your experimental results up? Experimental verifications exist only in
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by starbugs 4mo ago
> When the consciousness itself not understood and well defined in the first place, it is pretty pointless to debate if something is or isn't conscious. That's like saying if matter itself is not understood and well defined (wh
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by starbugs 6mo ago
> blocking a door for a few minutes. Or betting against many trains and throwing a hopefully fake body onto a busy line. Not necessary. If you just bet against them being punctual always, you'll have a 80% plus success rate.
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by starbugs 10mo ago
And centralization is ineffective long term
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by starbugs 1y ago
> The problem is, even as you ignore the internet, it goes on without you, and yet your ignoring it doesn't make you immune to it. I recently moved and had a lot on my list in real life generally for about six to nine months. I stop
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by starbugs 2y ago
> The amount of DRM and locking down Amazon bolts onto its ereaders and ebook formats feels insane to me. I can understand the profit motive but god damn. I don't. I would be much happier buying ebooks without DRM and I would buy su
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by starbugs 2y ago
> "Apple Intelligence" meant whatever Apple marketing wants it to be. Now "GPT 5" is also a marketing term. You are paying for the abstracted experience and brand. Not a specific model or defined capabilities anymore.
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by starbugs 2y ago
I didn't try it yet, but it seems you should be able to do that via their GitHub repo: https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts
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by starbugs 2y ago
Parent asked why it's not a good proxy measure for reliability. You admit that it isn't. > Yes, TÜV does not assess reliability of a car, but road-worthiness So, great - that's all I tried to say to start with. Now enjoy y
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by starbugs 2y ago
Oh, wow - as soon as real information is required, you pull out. Didn't expect anything else.
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by starbugs 2y ago
If that's the case, then please cite reliable sources about the exact issues that occur and what Tesla did or did not do to mitigate them or let them slip. If you'd have those, you could have posted them earlier here in the thread
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by starbugs 2y ago
> I just take note what companies do No. You are obviously not doing that. You take note of what the media emphasizes in an obvious press campaign that oversimplifies the actual information to a degree where it becomes borderline useless
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by starbugs 2y ago
You can mark whatever you want with your bright and bold marker. It doesn't make your argument more sound. If you are worried about the brakes, brake hard occasionally to avoid rust. Alternatively, you can charge the car up to near 100
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by starbugs 2y ago
Look, HN people don't like Tesla. A lot of German people in positions of power don't like Tesla. Suddenly an article appears that explicitly highlights Tesla vehicles as not passing TÜV because they allegedly have quality issues.
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by starbugs 2y ago
> My 25 year old car aces the test all the time You wouldn't do a regular service right before the TÜV appointment, would you? Also, this doesn't sound environmentally friendly to me.
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by starbugs 2y ago
If you translate the article and read it, you will find that there are a lot of reported issues with the headlights. It is hard to find exact information on the actual issue in detail, but I'd suspect it's about the calibration of
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by starbugs 2y ago
Have you ever brought a car through the German TÜV?
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by starbugs 2y ago
> https://www.adac.de/news/tuev-report-2025/ This is about what cars made it through the German TÜV. Not about reliability.
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by starbugs 2y ago
What you describe sounds more like an attempt to classify aspects of the "Big 5" personality traits in some kind of binary system. Your "fact-based" persona seems to be low in agreeableness while the "story-based&#x
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by starbugs 2y ago
> Opt-in makes the data useless - not just in terms of the huge drop in quantity but because of the fact it introduces a huge bias in the data selected - the people that would opt-in are probably not a good sample of "typical users&
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by starbugs 2y ago
Well, nowhere wouldn't be that bad actually. At least, you wouldn't be that far from home. In practice, you go somewhere. But you usually end up in some place in the middle of nowhere in between your departure point and your desti
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by starbugs 2y ago
> The fact that you have passed audits isn't a guarantee (or even an indication) that you don't have major security vulnerabilities. Please explain that to my IT department.
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I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash [video](youtube.com)
79 points by starbugs 2y ago|20 comments
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by starbugs 2y ago
> design tokens > styling hooks You mean variables. I don't get why the marketing speak is necessary. I also think it's detrimental to what we've built as engineers. Please stop. It's neither a token nor a hook, it

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