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It could be like resistors, different color stripes for each capability: transfer speed, maximum amperage, DisplayPort, thunderbolt, etc.

You mean USB-C, the standard that they largely led development of?

So there are 4 different current-carrying levels, from 2.5A to 5A EPR. There are 6 different transfer speeds, from 480mbps to 120gbps. There’s DisplayPort yes/no. There are 4 thund…

IDK, even if you take your analysis to the extreme and say only 1% of those children suffered actual harm, it doesn’t seem unreasonable that the cost would be > $725k each, measure…

> It’s good to reduce dependence on foreign supply chains. Huh? That’s quite a whopper to drop as if it’s an obvious truth. It’s good to diversify supply chains. Eggs-in-one-basket…

Sure, I’m both a professional and hobbyist prompter. But then, that’s been true for decades, since I made the switch from engineering to product. Only difference is I’m prompting L…

Sure, I agree, and it’s already figured out. The demoscene has been around for decades. That’s real programming. But I think you’re on to something important: framing programming a…

This is true, but as usual nobody can agree on what "doing it yourself" means. Few cars are manual steering, manual brakes, manual transmission. Few grappling bodies go all Greek-n…

And as a ffmpeg user with some old/weird hardware, I would much prefer click-and-hope support to no support at all. Ideally they’d have the resources for a real live human to hand-…

You’re free to label it as a demand, but unless you run a courtroom and swear them in, any failure to do so will not be perjury.

So an HTML page with a list of essentially every page on every site on the internet? What do you think, maybe a trillion URLs?

This is a weird complaint. Let’s say I ask “who created Linux?” Claude correctly tells me Linus Torvalds, and links to Wikipedia. There are probably thousands, maybe hundreds of th…

I mean if your argument rests on reading the minds of people you haven’t even met, I’m not super convinced.

I really dislike the rhetorical trick of framing any opposing argument as “apologist”. It’s the new “shill”; an attempt to attack motives rather than argument.

There are a lot of people for whom the choice is not “spend $20 every two years, or spend $200 today and never again” but instead “spend $20 today or just not have a working coffee…

The macro point is that complex systems are complex and have competing priorities, so it’s facile to say “I don’t agree with the decision, therefore any reasoning that supported th…

This reminds me of my partner, who always sets car air conditioning to 50F (the min) or heat to 90F (the max) because she thinks it makes it get cold or hot faster. And of course a…

Amusing anecdotes and musings about your stay (well, amusing to read, probably not to live). Since you’ve got a bunch of enforced idle time, maybe see if you can find the architect…

I want to own something here: this is the fourth time in a row I’ve brought you to the 29th floor when you asked for the third. I am creating a memory to always go to the 3rd floor…

Nice try, ChatGPT. Though I agree with GP: models and harnesses are being updated so hard to avoid any use of em-dashes that soon it will be a tell of human writing. The the pendul…

Ok, point to the one that makes it legal for humans to learn from copyrighted work?

It’s a fair point, but I’d argue “AI” is the whole stack, not just model weights. And AI is absolutely improving the whole stack in ways that make it smarter (from a consumer’s per…

I like their products, but I recently discovered that two separate keyboards that I bought a couple of years ago are not actually hot swap despite claiming to be. On the bright sid…

In the aggregate sure. But do you really think profit motive means they will be precise for every individual?

Seems like a forest / trees error. “If LLMs are conscious, it means matrix multiplication is conscious” == “If humans are conscious it means cells are conscious”. It’s possible for…