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I don't relate to it myself, but I see it in people around me. It appears that's something that may not be limited to but is very prevalent in adults with very high functioning aut…

We're not that far into this new era and I already see people go back to hand-writing the important bits and manually designing their architecture because it turns out that unless …

The problem is not that subtle, the only somewhat subtle point is that people don't differentiate between the datacenters of yore that were built sort of well and sustainably and t…

Upgrades also take time and may not be a good idea seeing how the current AI buildout is financed. There is a certain amount of capacity right now and AI behemoths have the financi…

That's not always a thing and doesn't help with fires in the rest of the complex. Backup generators, fuel depots, power distribution, large-scale cooling infrastructure all pose fi…

The Star Trek computer doesn't feel uncannily human, that would be a good starting point.

If that loud sound is roughly boom-like in shape and texture, and caused by an object moving faster through its medium than the speed of sound of its medium, then they are, in fact…

There are 28 000 passenger flights in the US every day, imagine the noise under major corridors if a large percentage of them was supersonic.

> Of course, but if you haven't read them you also shouldn't cite them. But if you build on them you should have read them. I don't know about the specifics and I don't know if Sch…

They can be pretty great, but not for just servers. Hetzner and others serve that market segment much better.

It's just good business. They know intellectual property is only meaningfully enforced outside China against entities outside China, why wouldn't they use that competitive advantag…

I wonder, is there an appetite left to remain a democracy, or more like an appetite for an autocrat who pays a little more attention to the façade and doesn't go out of his way to …

The model provider would be like a union, at least if unions had absolute control over their members, could take them all away at any time forever with no substantial negative cons…

I suppose if it all works out it'll end up way more expensive than the employees the models displaced ever were. These kinds of technologies usually end up as an oligopoly at best,…

I suppose people did learn that it isn't that bad or costly after all and the risk and the bandaids are still better than the cost of being the first to try and fix software supply…

I just finished building a Core One+. It has a number of printed parts, but it also does have a bunch of injection molded ones, and they've just replaced another printed one with i…

But why would I want those directories visible in my home dir?

They don't even really do that IME. If I ask Claude or ChatGPT to generate terraform for non-trivial but by no means obscure or highly unusual setups, they almost invariably halluc…

That sounds like just what I want, that ought to have great battery life as well. Very promising, if someone were to build a nice light laptop around it...

Not saying I'm not considering it given the current political climate, but I'm spoiled by my Macbook Air. The Thinkpad I've been issued for work costs about the same, runs hot like…

The "eat raw" part seems at least partially misguided, since our ancestors apparently started cooking the heck out of their environment pretty early, didn't consume much unprocesse…

Aren't transformers protected these days? I thought they had all been outfitted with automated safety disconnects ages ago pretty much everywhere. Obviously most transformers going…

Gaming PCs are very often desktops, though I think those tend to be used more like consoles nowadays, not general purpose computers.

No, I'd be dead anyway. Still curious what these things can do, seeing as some people buy them for that purpose.

Hypothetically speaking, how useful would something like that be in a nuclear weapon fallout scenario? Can such a contraption detect the important isotopes and give the user an acc…