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If GOTW, actually means GWOT and Global War on Terror, please have courtesy of reading your posts beforehand, and perhaps also not assuming a US audience.

Dwarkesh, is one of the better tech podcasters. Scott is well known for blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. Daniel resigned from OpenAI in 2024,and is known for prescient …

IDW - Intellectual Dark Web

I nominate this essay, as Paul Graham's least controversial. Perhaps, someone who works with or in the non-profit sector could provide a counterpoint.

Having lived in UK, France and Spain, I know that there aren't daily variations in consumer electricity prices, as there are in places like California. I don't have data if offices…

When you say 'defining languages', do you mean as DSLs or choosing appropriate existing languages? If DSLs, which language would you recommend for creating DSLs. Could you give a s…

Yep, I looked at it again. My desire to be impressed with grandmaster foresight got the better of me.

I think the move Rowson's referring to is move 9. Since in the essay he says "Yermolinsky offered a pawn as bait, and I very nearly didn’t take it because doing so would allow him …

Pure speculation, isn't the most interesting time period in the signal the transition from signal to no-signal (and back again)? How high is the resolution of the sensors? Is it po…

Yes, I know. But the tone of the whole article, is as if, they've found deep flaws across many VMs. They call something 'warmup" which I think has little or nothing to do with the …

It seems that the authors are not measuring what they think they are, or have explained it poorly. Most transitions from interpreter to JIT show speedups of x10 to x100, eg luajit …

How long were you at google for, and how long since you left? Otherwise, the numbers don't offer much insight.

I've googled generally and verbatim with various quotes from above and your name, and cannot find the essay. It sounds interesting. Can you post a link please.

The same real world react app went from 40MB to 20MB. They don't ship minified javascript to final app, but bytecode, which they say is 1/3 smaller (both minified). They have moved…

Why are you assuming other renewables is mostly waste/biomass? In the notes below the table, wind is cleary mentioned. My guesstimate would be that wind was a large proportion. I c…

At 12km/h it requires 5.59KW of sun energy to fall on the car (in total, not per sq meter as in original comment). Actual figure given on website is 5m2 of panels on car. Assume 1K…

We've both read the article. On rereading the article, its not clear if the stolen ID was present at all the crimes. My assumption was that it was not. I make that assumption, beca…

The multiple thefts are linked together via facial recognition in the Apple Stores and tied back to the stolen ID. If, it was just a single theft and the stolen ID was used on that…

Yes, I really read it. Do you have a different understanding/interpretation of the article?

Apple took the stolen ID used by the criminal. Then Apple incorrectly linked the details of that ID (with no photo), with images of the thief. Following further thefts associated w…

I can understand that. But, do you debate specific points in the article based on the views you formed by NOT reading it? I get that some comments can be interesting without readin…

The reason you don't see the role that facial recognition played is because you still have not read the article. I'm genuinely curious, as this is happening more and more on hacker…

No, a form of P-code that was Microsoft specific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_P-Code