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2 maanden geledendiscuss

i have to be honest, each time a friend or co worker has demod or explained their “smart home” setup, i have always been pretty underwhelmed. a lot of complex doodads, money, and seeming never ending troubleshooting, to solve what seem to me at least, as a bunch of narrow frivolous problems that don’t really inconvenience me very much.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

i feel a lot of people in tech have this incuriously deterministic attitude about llms right now… previous <expensive capital project> revolutionized the world, therefore llms will! despite there really nothing to show for it so far other than writing rote code is a bit easier and still requires active baby sitting by someone who knows what they are doing

3 maanden geledendiscuss

both my kindle and wife's work great and we have been using them regularly. they are actually very well made and durable devices.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

as a clickhouse architect, i can’t help but feel they would have been better served by understanding their db’s native capabilities better before jumping into implementing this.

row level access control, resource quotas, scheduling policies, session settings, etc. all could have been used in concert to achieve a very similar outcome with a dozen or so ddl/dcl statements.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

or just at any point in the last 20 years to the present works too

5 maanden geledendiscuss

the problem is as a means of cash it’s inferior to existing systems in pretty much every dimension. more expensive, slower, more risk, higher volatility. the cash story for crypto is not good.

6 maanden geledendiscuss

premise is wrong. have seen a number of claude/codex disasters that never make it to production with clients, yet consumed an enormous amount of human time and bandwidth.

expertise and effort is and will continue to be for the forseeable future essential.

talk, like this, still cheap.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

i bought a builder license from newegg in 2017. unfortunately i was not diligent about saving the product key. this was actually the third time i had been in this scenario after changing hardware. no idea why it wouldn’t work this time around.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

i recently upgraded a computer. windows 10 deactivated itself due to the hardware change. i tried everything i could to reactivate. microsoft support told me my only solution was to buy a new license. microsoft treats its customer with contempt.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

i think the author is pretty clearly making the point the trade off is not worth it to him. which is not all that suprising given that seems to match the preferences of most people given the popularity of apple hardware which has for a very long time been on the far end of the irreparable, but smaller, quieter, etc, spectrum.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

lol no it won’t

8 maanden geledendiscuss

every generation thinks they live in unique times. that there existed some idyllic lost time innocence. it’s a fantasy.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Electrifying the economy is not a path to 0 pollution.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

No sympathy for Larry here! Just the point that development is going to coincide with some level of increased pollution. Even an electrified economy with 0 carbon emissions is going to be ecologically devastating after all the mountain top removal mining has gathered the materials to make it possible.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Would you accept 0 pollution if it meant you had no electricity, electronic devices, or access to transportation? All of those things create pollution.

10 maanden geledendiscuss

It undermines the value of decentralization itself given intermediaries tend to pop up in all of these various platforms and become the dominant way to use them.

11 maanden geledendiscuss

Why is water used for golf a waste vs other uses?

vorig jaardiscuss

Major city police are typically some of the highest paid public employees of any area. Often with a more generous pension tier than what is given to other public employees. Ie starting pay for SFPD is $115k-$164k https://www.joinsfpd.com/entry-level-program

vorig jaardiscuss

Am I missing something? Predicts AGI through continuous learning in 2032? Feels right around the corner to me.

> But in all the other worlds, even if we stay sober about the current limitations of AI, we have to expect some truly crazy outcomes.

Also expresses the development as a nearly predetermined outcome? A bunch of fanciful handwaving if you ask me.

vorig jaardiscuss

Except for Finland nobody has actually created a long term geologic disposal site. Like so many problems, the issue is dominated by political coordination, not physical limits.