twoWhlsGud

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by twoWhlsGud 10d ago
/s Right, cause it's not like there's any Russian propaganda out there competing with it... /s
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by twoWhlsGud 12d ago
Exactly! I worked with a couple ex Xanadu acolytes at Apple back in the day. What they took away from the experience were the many inspirations rather than the project as a model for organizations. One of them brought him in to speak and he
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by twoWhlsGud 12d ago
It can certainly be seen as a simple prisoner's dilemma, but it's not in some very important dimensions. (E.g. given the core tech the most likely outcomes are not AGI but developed carelessly nonetheless capable of causing all
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How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?(arstechnica.com)
7 points by twoWhlsGud 2mo ago|0 comments
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by twoWhlsGud 2mo ago
Seventy-one percent of Americans say they don’t want an A.I. data center built close to where they live. Why?
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Is This the Fastest Opinion Shift in American Politics?(nytimes.com)
3 points by twoWhlsGud 2mo ago|7 comments
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by twoWhlsGud 2mo ago
As someone in industry who also teaches early career engineers once every two years, there seems to be a tailing off of enthusiasm in the latest cohort. Does anyone know of an actual data source from which one could draw actual conclusions
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by twoWhlsGud 2mo ago
If you are bad enough at building coalitions you can lose almost any election regardless of how evil or corrupt the opposition, is too : ) "FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg? REG: He's over there. P.F.J.: Splitt
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by twoWhlsGud 3mo ago
Interesting. In the Rust world extensions like Verus, I think, are trying to enable exactly what the author is discussing. Perhaps worth a look: https://github.com/verus-lang/verus
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by twoWhlsGud 3mo ago
Indeed - I look forward to the spa version of this that runs around yelling "Exfoliate!, Exfoliate!" : )
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by twoWhlsGud 3mo ago
And if you're wearing long sleeves and long pants, you can apply permethrin in a semi permanent way to your clothing to discourage ticks and mosquitoes: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/insect-repellent/
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by twoWhlsGud 3mo ago
"Everything means less than zero" (E. Costello) Social media seems to basically be a way of running A/B testing on the population until you find enough folks vulnerable to some sort of powerful misconception that serves your
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by twoWhlsGud 3mo ago
That seems like a small thing that I as a users of lenses would see as a benefit (more folks who could fix my lenses) even if I don't have the inclination to do it myself. Wonder why manufacturers don't do this? (The majors seem p
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
I got my TS3 after it had been out awhile and it's been great for me, also. Wonder how the current (TB5) versions are. They generally seem to take a few (?) years to really get the firmware working properly.
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
They weren't exactly hopping, but having a local store where you could get hardware support was a big deal, for me at least. I stopped buying Surface devices and switched entirely back to Apple for anything mobile when they closed the
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
yes, I dropped it because simply favoriting a song seemed to require streamifying my entire personal library, which I didn't want to do.
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
Look for companies with big fierce customers. This gives you an ally when you go to your boss to try to get the company to do the right thing. I moved from big tech to big manufacturing a couple decades ago, and it's the best move I&#x
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
Yes! Formal specs could be where the understanding of what exactly the system is supposed to do gets laid out - and ideally coupled into the verification process that the code produced actually does what it is supposed to (and nothing else.
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
I don't think things have improved much on that front since Colin Hughes gave a run down on Voice Control's problems several years ago https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2023/08/16/those-who-re
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
Princeton was that way in my lifetime (and I'm not that old : ) - corruption is not inevitable nor should honor be considered some sort of utopian dream.
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
As someone who went there (albeit many decades ago) I can tell you FWIW when I was there folks took it seriously. I literally knew of no one who ever cheated on an exam. And I'm pretty sure that anyone I knew who observed cheating woul
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by twoWhlsGud 4mo ago
The point of today's megascale corporations is to make it impossible for challengers to arise at all. They aren't always successful, but the direction of travel is pretty clear.
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by twoWhlsGud 5mo ago
The surface pro argues otherwise. Using Lightroom classic on the Pro is largely best done from the keyboard, but there are certain workflows where using the touchscreen or a stylus is much better than a touchpad. The fact that it's lim
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by twoWhlsGud 6mo ago
Is there a write up of this somewhere? Curious to read more...
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by twoWhlsGud 7mo ago
And birds didn't invent jet engines, so obviously we don't need those either, right?
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by twoWhlsGud 8mo ago
Interesting! Is there a pointer to an issue where this feature is described by chance?
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by twoWhlsGud 10mo ago
A bit old, but still relevant (from Dan Wang's book Breakneck which I am very much enjoying): In China, The Communist Party's Latest, Unlikely Target: Young Marxists https://www.npr.org/2018/11/21/66
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by twoWhlsGud 1y ago
This. If you are completely surrounded by light trucks as you grow up, then you are much less likely to ever think of actual cars (muscle or otherwise) at all . I grew up around 2000 lbs BMW 2002's (and the like) - a kind of vehicle t
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by twoWhlsGud 1y ago
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150192/tracking-30-... I don't see what's funny about 4 inches just in the last three decades. 8 inches over the last hundred plus years at seattle https:/&
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by twoWhlsGud 1y ago
Budget car buyers aren't driving the market - especially not the market for new cars. In the US income inequality has gotten to the point where most new cars are bought by upper income customers. And they want fancy SUVs. Budget car bu

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