theonemind

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by theonemind 23d ago
Article says it’s a symbolic/community building thing. People will do the first 6 meters, machines will do the next 74 meters to finish it
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by theonemind 1mo ago
It seems like a frontier model LLM could probably do it in day, probably less. Someone would have to read and correct it, though
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by theonemind 2mo ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it - H.L. Mencken
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by theonemind 2mo ago
Moby Dick is often quite high on the lists of greatest novels of all time. It seems to me that all of that stuff you think is not part of the good novel trying to get out is part of why it’s considered great, not merely good I rather take t
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by theonemind 2mo ago
It looks pretty clear LLMs don't get us there by themselves, no amount of duct tape, WD-40, etc. gets us past, say, the mathematical certainty of hallucinations. I mean, we don't know it any more than we don't know someone wo
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by theonemind 3mo ago
I suppose they started with 451 and decided it was too on-the-nose.
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by theonemind 4mo ago
I find the way that issue was opened incredible obnoxious, but it is baffling that the maintainers seem to have let AI loose on rsync. Like, why? Why try comparatively experimental crap when your fortune and reputation is made and you'
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by theonemind 4mo ago
The “wealth” will mostly be numbers in a database without an economy. Sure, they could have an island or disaster shelter, huge, elaborate, and well stocked, and own lots of land, but even the land ownership is a paper filed in an office wi
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by theonemind 4mo ago
I can't tell whether you're defending AI or blind optimism. I don't agree with either.
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by theonemind 4mo ago
I can charitably believe this comment is not disingenuous, however, there are effectively two options, which are Windows and macOS, regardless of three manufacturers making more Windows machines than Apple at number four with Mac. I would c
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by theonemind 4mo ago
I saw something about this. It would seem like it would be hard to obtain all of those licenses, probably impossible, and then if you want to go on to pirate more, that you licensed stuff kind of makes it look like you knew or believed you
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by theonemind 5mo ago
As someone who cares about such a thing and had no awareness of that, I would tend to disagree. Nytimes gets posted enough that I have encountered the pay wall, but the economist, I’d have had to guess. I also tried to look at the article a
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by theonemind 5mo ago
You seem to have inverted the ontological primacy of the human race and the economy. Once allocating atoms and energy is a solved problem, the economy is dead. There's a quote, "it's easier to imagine the end of the world tha
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by theonemind 5mo ago
It doesn't seem like it to me. I like watching Ed Zitron rant about it on YouTube. It's fun.
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by theonemind 5mo ago
Honestly, I wish they couldn’t subsidize with VC cash and such and offer below cost to begin with. Like I wish it were illegal. Basically this allows things like Uber, more or less putting taxis out of business and then being worse than wha
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by theonemind 5mo ago
I know you’ve received plenty of feedback about the subscription being a dealbreaker. There would be no point in me adding that but I would say that I could see myself paying $50 for one version of this without upgrades. Maybe half price fo
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by theonemind 6mo ago
I think the average idiot can take a really strong business and weaken the bones for some quarters or years of extra profit, possibly insane profit, before lack of focus on what really made the company strong starts to erode the fundamental
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by theonemind 6mo ago
Leaf blowers and cars driving past are exactly the kind of thing that ANC works well on, a fairly constant noise. It doesn’t block out other kinds of things well. At least it always seems to go that way for me, so I can’t relate to your com
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by theonemind 6mo ago
That happened to me twice . So I went one more round than you and got the same result again. It seems more like an unreliable product than a fluke.
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by theonemind 6mo ago
I bought two pairs that each lasted one year. I think this explains it.
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by theonemind 7mo ago
I don't think caring much about special effects is necessarily universal. Good special effects add almost nothing to my enjoyment, and bad special effects detract almost nothing.
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by theonemind 7mo ago
I've found mostly the opposite. Some well arranged windows are quite a nice anchor, I'm working on what's there in front of me. It's like bowling with bumpers in place, instead of the ball going in the gutter, the struct
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by theonemind 10mo ago
You made me think of this quote: "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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by theonemind 1y ago
WinRAR has a lot of great features as an archiver and compressor. It can create parity archives, and has a lot of other great features if you look at the manual Granted it doesn’t have compression advantage over 7z, but those flags and feat
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by theonemind 2y ago
I got like 740 on the verbal SAT and I’ve never seen it
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by theonemind 2y ago
They've always used copying as one of their signature moves, see zune vs ipod, win3/95 vs mac, early Internet explorer based on spyglass/NCSA mosaic, Novell eDirectory vs ActiveDirectory, C# vs Java, F# vs Ocaml, and many mor
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by theonemind 2y ago
It's useful. It's not science. Those two statements don't have any contradiction. "Pseudo-science" sounds like a dismissal without further evaluation beyond "is it science?" In practice, it's more use
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by theonemind 2y ago
What do you find strange about someone saying they defined a function? Just curious. I can't find anything strange about the wording or conceptual understanding likely behind such a statement.
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by theonemind 2y ago
The early death of smokers tends to save a long, expensive period of end-of-life care. I believe smoking deaths reduce health care costs, ironically enough.
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by theonemind 2y ago
That sounds like sour grapes from a CEO that only and very simply got out-played at a CEO's main job of overall strategy. Even every employee working 80 hours a week still couldn't paper over complete CEO strategic failure. He&#x2

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