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I think music videos, then MTV, then the internet/youtube all gave ways for fans to see a band without actually going to see a band. Live gigs are expensive, require a bit of plann…

“But they can’t match Intels performance” used to be the rejoinder of the Intel crowd. Now we’ve come full circle.

It’s not like stock photos of infeasibly attractive people eating ludicrously overstuffed burgers were ever interesting or believable.

The US bombed North Vietnam into dust, but because they didn’t occupy it with ground forces they simply rebuilt and kept coming. You can’t win a war with just air power.

> What the hell is the point of human interaction if the "human" just forwards a chat bot's response Forwarding an AI response (or any canned response) sends the message that they …

Mods might be amused to be described as fairly godmothers.

Glid vs glided, slid vs slided are examples of the inconsistency of the English language. Glided is more common than glid, and slid is more common than slided. Linguistics says tha…

If you constrained the inputs of Apple or Nvidia then their sales and profits would tumble (just look at what happened to Apples stock price in the last week because of the memory …

It’s an odd kind of bubble that slowly deflates over the course of a year.

> Quantum experiments you're always looking at some medium that detects or measures or whatever the original interaction. So you're only interrogating the detector, not the origina…

Observations keep poking holes in those hypotheses (I’m not sure they even count as theories). We keep finding black holes with anomalous masses, or black holes that formed too ear…

Headline is unnecessary clickbait, the mean was still signaling that something was wrong.

> What's there, that politicians don't know already? They need to be ‘reminded’ of the issues that ‘campaign contributions’ are contingent upon.

Have you seen Microsoft’s price over the last year. If AI doesn’t pan out they’re going to be the next IBM.

Installed by default is their moat. Trying to arrange a video conference on other platforms means making sure that everyone has the client installed, which can be a real headache. …

> But you don´t get to to that. You can, and for tax purposes you must. The bean counters hate that you can’t deduct capex.

We’re gonna need a bigger wall.

“ It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of wanton brutality which civilized humanki…

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> Non-exclusive use of farmland or wasteland (or even - at least until maintenance complexity is considered - offshore) isn't a major barrier Not now, but with solar power output d…

> The reason they couldn't because they didn't have the metallurgy and the machining to create pistons, valves, etc. It was a turbine. You don’t use pistons in a turbine. They lack…

It’s not just government money. Factory workers wages in China are still a lot lower than western countries, and they have a lot fewer labor rights. Also, the government hinders as…

> On this benchmark, a pure LLM generated an accuracy score of zero. Adding RAG, prompt engineering, and agentic AI raised accuracy to the 10+% range. That's awful. The AI in Datab…

The rush hours are the worst. You're lucky if you hear two songs in 30 minutes it's so crammed full of ads.

> We can then add in an existing dataset of _known_ incidents, indexed by the same common features, as a training/validation set. Beware of the Anna Karenina principle. Well behave…