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It is if someone forgot to prompt their harness "don't pull in unnecessary dependencies".

The "get rid of a working car" is particularly suspect, and reminds me of the "cash for clunkers" scheme which was basically a giant sop to the auto industry. Why not just have EVs…

Certainly not the case for hybrids like Priuses. The battery system lasts 10-15 years and 150k-200k miles. Any ICE car on the market now should be expected to last a lot longer tha…

"But Trump and the Postmaster General cancelled that and went to use gas guzzlers instead. I wonder how that is working out now." What makes you say that? The biggest impediment to…

Is this a reference to C. S. Lewis's "Abolition of Man"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abolition_of_Man (text available at https://www.basicincome.com/bp/files/The_Abolition_of…

Decompiling / disassembling and annotating old software, making sure it can build cleanly back to the original binary, and then look for bugs or subtle issues. Another one I did wa…

I kept running into it looping two nights ago or else getting trapped in a reasoning loop it couldn’t escape from. Switching to Pro helped, but I ultimately had to use GLM-5.2 to r…

Oracle products (including VirtualBox and MySQL) are banned in our workplace as well. We do not want to deal with licensing nightmares because someone accidentally downloaded the J…

PBS and the rest of the broadcast industry could just offer streams of their channels over the Internet. It’s a choice they make not to. (Disclaimer: used to work at PBS on the tea…

I would gladly pay $100,000 for local K3 running at 18,000 tok/sec.

The chatjimmy demo is using a model that needs 6-18GB of VRAM. That's not exactly trivial. I could see it being feasible to get a Qwen-3.6-27b type of model done on something like …

If you make really nice, high quality goods, you often want common people who would appreciate them to have it as opposed to an ultra wealthy person who is buying a door for their …

The one I saw was 9a-12n and 2p-6p China time. (China is one time zone.) Nearly irrelevant for US/Eastern unless you’ve got major insomnia.

Because someone with access to those things has no need for rabbit ears. Broadcast TV today is a stream of bytes. The same stream can be delivered via cable, satellite, a cell phon…

A farmer was complaining to me that the quality of manure he gets to spray on his fields has declined as it now goes through some process which extracts certain apparently valuable…

Broadcast TV seems laughably irrelevant. It’s difficult to find official numbers, but under 1% of US households have no cable, satellite TV, home Internet, or a cell phone. The lat…

You mean Beijing working time zones?

Déstabilise orbits - definitely, but the same would be true of a star or other celestial body. But our risk of getting sucked into a black hole is really tiny. (Although personally…

The most demoralising part of using LLMs is that now I spend most of my day on SDLC - even hobby projects.

The current breeds of horses the Amish use are far stronger and healthier than they were even 100 years ago. For example, current draft horses are so strong they can outperform mul…

Every craftsman I know expresses discomfort that the only way they can turn a profit is to sell goods to wealthy people.

The good news about black holes is that even if one transited the solar system, it would be extremely unlikely to come anywhere near earth.

Because data a user doesn’t want you to train is probably much better data?

And if GPS fails, you can’t land at those airports under instruments conditions. Your flight plan has to take this into account and be ready to go to an alternate.

Right. A new DC will just be another brownfield in 20-30 years. We don’t need more of those. New DCs should be built in Quebec next to hydro plants in places absolutely nobody live…