Viewing profile — pstuart

Your assessment is depressingly reasonable. I have a thesis that people need stories to inform and inspire them. I also believe that this problem is technically solvable, and that …

If things don't change, those in power in the US will succeed in making the second a reality. There is a "replacement" crisis but it's being addressed by pearl clutching and those …

And at the turn of the century it was all about dot coms.

Upgrading would make that a nice to have. 8 years or so and battery tech should have an affordable higher capacity unit that could give new life to it. I got a refurbed Nissan Leaf…

It was never about saving money. It was about sabotaging programs they were ideologically opposed to, stealing data, and possibly messing with internal investigations into Musks "u…

The cartridge could be a small mac-mini type unit connected and powered over thunderbolt. If it included like an m5 or m7 with 64GB of memory and a PCIe5/6 4TB Nvme it would be ama…

Do you think there's room for reducing power requirements? Obviously shrinking the process is a win, but is the existing implementation a "just make it work" phase that has opportu…

This was does. It's great for stress relief and a change of scenery.

I'd say library builders are focused on specific capabilities and doing so as cleanly and efficiently as they can. App builders just want to build stuff and make it work and move o…

TIL -- dear god that's terrifying. I get that there's likely a lot of valuable and legitimate work that could come out of it, but I wouldn't trust Zuck as far as I could throw him …

What's a president? King Trump II has been our leader as long as I can remember!

Same, but it was a video diving deep into the recent news about the surge of refugees into Spain -- very enlightening. Found it. It's Cody Dahler who is a cheeky commenter on "curr…

Too many people will see this type of thing and go "I don't smoke weed so this is not a problem for me"

It's a fascinating proposition but I see a couple of issues with it: 1. Most of us do not have the volume of training material that gwern has 2. Most people likely would not need t…

Getting a usable PRD is often the bottleneck.

The press operates at two distinct tiers: owners/editors and reporters. The former leans towards the oligarchs, the reporters tend to lean the other way.

What every admin in this century has done is to avoid declaring what construes "winning" -- which is rather convenient to them as far as how they are to be judged on waging that wa…

We had to destroy the village to save it.

That's silly! Everybody knows it's the shape that shows the intelligence, not the circumference!

Born a bit earlier. I remember growing up in the shadow of possible nuclear war and remember having nightmares about it. And it would have happened for real if not for one man's re…

It would be a mistake to confuse simple for dumb. His comment about making it easy for junior engineers was about pragmatic software engineering and being able to deliver product a…

Likely but it may be asking too much to condense copypasta into generics -- but the tooling does improve on each release.

Yeah, I amended that note on another reply in this thread.

Sure oil is always an intention for anything in the Middle East (except for Israel feeding the desire for the Apocalypse). I just did a search to confirm my assessment and it point…

In the past, yes. Because this admin has only one person who calls the shots, it was started because he wanted it. Reports indicate that Bibi played on his ego, and recent "success…