trimbo

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by trimbo 5d ago
> Those who realize how much you can accelerate your research with the help of AI will succeed. Yes, but, in the last week we saw an AI lab front-run[1] the research of mathematicians doing what you suggest. The lab threw something like
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by trimbo 12d ago
Okay... Pop Tarts are also Kellogg's, not a tobacco company. But let me pick some other examples. Eggo waffles predate RJ Reynolds getting into this by 10 years. Twinkies were introduced in the 1930s. I'm not defending ultra-proce
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by trimbo 12d ago
> In the early 1960s ... Huh? Ultra processed foods got very popular long before the 1960s. Wonder Bread came out in 1921. Kellogg came out with corn flakes in the 1900s. Etc.
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by trimbo 1mo ago
And just like the 90s, every major tech company is making their own RISC chip[1]! Apple Silicon, Tensor, Graviton, Axion, Cobalt, Grace.... [1] - Though not exactly since they're all ARM ISA at the foundation.
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by trimbo 2mo ago
I don't think companies expanding their business should be the only reason to sell. Apple was a desktop and laptop computer company when they released the iPod. Nokia was a company making rubber products when they started making cellul
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by trimbo 2mo ago
> project a decade into the future can increase costs A very good point. I don't agree we can blame Trump for HSR though. 2/3 of the time that has passed have had Democrats in the white house. HSR is nearly all pure-California-
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by trimbo 2mo ago
The thing is, everyone's interpretation of "environmental impact" is different. To one person it can mean, "don't put the construction garbage in the river." To another it can mean "not one single Delta Sm
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by trimbo 2mo ago
The Brick has been helping me with phone overuse. getbrick.com (I have no association with the company) On your laptop, route those sites to localhost.
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by trimbo 3mo ago
This video about Shoreham was my entry into the Proper People's channel. If you like this kind of abandoned structure exploration, I recommend checking out their other videos.
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by trimbo 3mo ago
> Hard disagree. When you've had to chase through a change in untold and actually unknown numbers of duplications of code in different permutations and fix them because they are all on fire simultaneously, you'd disagree too. T
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by trimbo 3mo ago
> Not a fan of this trend of "cleaning" GPL licensed software > Wether it's technically legal or not, it's disgusting behavior IMO. GNU was originally developed to "clean" UNIX from the AT&T license.
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by trimbo 3mo ago
> So where is all the productivity going? Where is the value? Infrastructure doesn't produce value overnight. How long did it take the Interstate System to provide measurable value? I asked Gemini. Supposedly increased national prod
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by trimbo 4mo ago
Yes whoever made this website apparently doesn't understand how LLMs are being used for massively profitable consumer products like Instagram.
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by trimbo 4mo ago
Yup, adopting Go is exactly what I've done too. Typed, garbage collected, fast to compile and run, stdlib that includes just enough to work out of the box. I really don't like writing it by hand but for the LLM it's perfect.
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by trimbo 5mo ago
You can choose not to ship the 99.
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by trimbo 6mo ago
> They also included 2,000 prompts based on posts from the Reddit community r/AmITheAsshole, where the consensus of Redditors was that the poster was indeed in the wrong. Sorry, anonymous people on reddit aren't a good comparis
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by trimbo 6mo ago
> this is going to destroy world economy on every angle Oil prices were around $100 for a lot of the early 2010s. It's been three weeks. Calm down.
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by trimbo 6mo ago
> Universities typically are in the public sector side of the equation... and the public sector doesn't pay any non-administrative role the Big Tech rate. There's absolutely no reason government couldn't pay competitive ra
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Three Engineers Charged with Stealing Trade Secrets from Leading Tech Companies(justice.gov)
8 points by trimbo 7mo ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 8mo ago
> It was 2008; "big box" software was largely seen as obsolete to the vast majority of developers. Well, I'm just reporting it as I understood their decision in the moment. I was working on The Sims at that time, and I ass
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by trimbo 8mo ago
In 2008, the app store was launching, and physical software was still sold at Targets, Walmarts and other large retailers. A 30% margin was roughly what retailers would make off of physical software sales. By setting the App Store to be the
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by trimbo 9mo ago
Steak is the meat that people pay the most attention to in this regard! People will pay hundreds of dollars for a few ounces of steak solely based on how the cow was raised and fed. For steak, I disagree with the article about stigma of eat
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by trimbo 9mo ago
You should be commended for being principled and sticking with what you believe. Thanks for your candor.
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by trimbo 9mo ago
> Which was about when it became clear it was 100% down in the gutter without coming back. Did you sell all of your stock?
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by trimbo 9mo ago
I wonder what Steve would think of the time it takes to apply minor OS upgrades to iPhone and Mac!
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by trimbo 11mo ago
> coal is expensive and unreliable Please elaborate. China is building an absurd amount of new power plants, and most of that has been coal, with last year hitting a new high of coal deployment[1]. Why would they do that if it's exp
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by trimbo 1y ago
> Which is fine as well if that's really the case (which I don't think it is, Europe apparently makes up ~1/3 of Apple's total Airpods revenue). So your belief is that, if DMA didn't exist, Apple still would not
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by trimbo 1y ago
And Apple is now saying "That's fine, we'll instead adhere to the law by having our product do less. Don't buy it if you don't like the reduced featureset." Someone at Apple did math on this and it's not w
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by trimbo 1y ago
Real miss by the NYT here in not finding and interviewing people who were still using it in 2025!
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by trimbo 1y ago
This article is lacking detail. For example, how is the data sharded, how much time between indexing and serving, and how does it handle node failure, and other distributed systems questions? How does the latency compare? Etc. etc.

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