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by trabant00 9mo ago
Yawn, another article which hand picks success stories. What about the failures? Where's the graph of flying cars? Humanoid house servant robots? 3D TVs? Crypto decentralized banking for everyone? Etc. Anybody who tells you they can pr
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by trabant00 11mo ago
> the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts That is also possible and even usual with open source. The di
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by trabant00 1y ago
> It feels like we have sometimes accreted an amalgam of these pithy takes based on very small, one off, studies (never replicated) that let us comfortably assemble an affirmation of our broader takes. The patterns are there and are hard
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by trabant00 1y ago
> “It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.” If we go by the above then Sagrada Familia is far from perfect. I guess it depends on taste but I found it extremel
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by trabant00 1y ago
> Failure to prove dolus special This one is sufficient for me. And I think classifying it as genocide is a big mistake if your goal is protecting the civilians in Gaza. An easily proven wrong accusation overshadows the fact Israel could
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by trabant00 1y ago
I was hoping for a review from a server perspective. That's where Debian shines in my opinion. I feel like the desktop part is a secondary priority for them. That's not a criticism, there's no other distribution I would use i
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by trabant00 1y ago
I define AGI as the only real AI that can exist. Anything less is just mimicry. To give a stupid/simplified example: a truck driving specialized "AI" would not be able to decide when to stop or not when somebody steps in fron
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by trabant00 1y ago
> I don’t think there is a single key to intelligence but rather that, unfortunately for both the philosophers and dreamers, intelligence is a vast, complex collection of simpler processes. I don't think intelligence can be separate
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by trabant00 1y ago
Might not be worth much but I just want to thank you for being willing to put in the work to make such discussions possible even though clearly (wink) the vast majority of comments don't want to have a discussion. I would have shut it
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by trabant00 2y ago
If you watch TheQuantifiedScientist you must have found out by now that optical sensors on the wrist have no chance of ever being accurate enough for health and fitness tracking. No matter how much they massage their algorithms they simply
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by trabant00 2y ago
I personally hope they stay well away from fitness stuff. I think all those big companies having a go at it for years has sufficiently proved that a wrist device can not be accurate enough at tracking steps, sleep or even heart rate. While
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by trabant00 2y ago
The reason they don't is they have a narrative they want to push. The entire thing is deeply flawed, from sitting vs standing when in fact it's white vs blue collar. There's plenty of sitting blue collar jobs that are brutal.
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by trabant00 2y ago
This comment has me puzzled for so many reasons. Which candidate or party wanted Romania to get into a war with Russia? I don't think this issue was mentioned at all during the entire campaign because nobody is even thinking about that
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by trabant00 2y ago
A bit of context: the presidential candidate in question was predicted below 1% on all polls days before the election. He declared a campaign budget of absolute zero. He had no posters, no tents, no apparitions on TV, absolutely nothing. Af
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by trabant00 2y ago
I personally tried a lot of dev fonts several times over the years but keep coming back to dejavu sans mono, which is always missing for some reason from showcases like this. I find all the others to be imbalanced. Too wide, to skinny, too
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by trabant00 2y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." I am sure there are plenty of people who misunderstand or misinterpret statistics. But in my experience these are mostly
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by trabant00 2y ago
Psychology is IMO in the state alchemy was before chemistry. And there's no guarantee it will evolve beyond that. Not unless we can fully simulate the mind.
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by trabant00 2y ago
I myself was wrongly banned more than once by automated systems. Google even identified gmail pulling email over pop3 from another gmail account as an attack! Hilariously bad. But think about it from the other perspective. Can they involve
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by trabant00 2y ago
A long time ago I operated an email blacklist. Since then I don't just trust by default when people shout "they banned me for absolutely no reason, I swear!". I am not saying anything about this case, I just notice people on
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by trabant00 2y ago
A bit off-topic but the number of IT workers still using small 1080p monitors in 2024 is absolutely shocking to me. If you are one of the "I don't want a monitor that is too big" people: a larger (30+ inch diagonal) monitor a
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by trabant00 2y ago
Type of article: country X or company Y or city Z has it bad for such and such decisions, policies, culture. My rule of thumb for these kind of articles: if they don't mention external factors they are not worth reading. An entity&#x27
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by trabant00 2y ago
There's an unspoken premise here and I'm going to question it. Avoiding tension, conflict, hard words and other things of the sort is not always the right choice. Sometimes letting conflicts play out gets you the best outcome with
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by trabant00 2y ago
> The Need for Chaos trait is particularly damaging for individuals who also feel that they’ve been failed by society This is the main trait and cause in my experience. Individuals who for faults of their own which they don't recogn
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by trabant00 2y ago
One thing I know for sure about marketing to engineers: they are only human and vulnerable to the same tricks. They have particularities of course, but every consumer group has them. For example I've seen this play out multiple times d
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by trabant00 2y ago
Mediocre software engineer / very good amateur motorcyclist and mediocre bodybuilder. 20+ years of experience in all of them.
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by trabant00 2y ago
This is not the most popular idea these days but talent differences exist and they make a huge difference in the outcome. In my profession and in my hobbies I've seen plenty of people with 20+ years of experience who are quickly overta
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by trabant00 2y ago
Look up how much bash is in the k8s codebase. :)
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by trabant00 2y ago
But if the destruct is jammable it's not a real fail safe.
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by trabant00 2y ago
Any fully autonomous drone that can be produced in the near future will be easily foolable. And if it has a remote fail-safe deactivation system the enemy can figure it out and deactivate it too. So you solved absolutely nothing of what a w
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by trabant00 2y ago
> No need to remember server IPs Umm, DNS? > with feedback, the project will move closer to the goal What goal? That was the question you replied to.

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