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Often attributed to Stalin in reference to the mass production focus of the Soviet war machine. https://quotees.co.uk/war/joseph-stalin-quantity-has-a-quali... When you treat scale as a design criteria, you get a different product

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This isn’t surprising. The population overall is aging. Millenials are now the largest cohort and are approaching middle age. Until recently we’ve seen the number of insured individuals rise consistently and our medicine continues to advance. More older adults have access and need more healthcare

Sounds like GDPR?

It has nothing to do with economics being an imperfect science and all to do with the nature of collecting real time data. Anyone who can collect accurate real time data can make $$$.

Oh no.... making a tiny Apple Park would be on brand wouldn't it. There's already that Apple Store where the roof is a MacBook...

"No shit" everyone else says

Probably there are a few different types of AI psychosis. The one I've seen a few times seems to be caused by a lack of epistemic norms that would keep someone grounded, e.g. searching for counter-evidence instead of evidence, combined with AI being more than happy to supply evidence no matter how tenous. Even without AI there would be problems from these types since it's very hard to convince somebody that they are wrong when the entire way they form beliefs is not sound but with AI it's just impossible.

I wish we lived in a reality where Framework was anywhere near rich enough to acquire them. I'd love to have models on a chip that I could swap in at a whim. That would do the opposite by eliminating moats.

I guess there's a tiny chance AMD makes something like that happen. It seems like a great way to get people and orgs to pay a few hundred bucks every 6 months or so.


Thanks!! I have voice mode working on the MacOS app - working on getting it going on Safari as well :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knowable-the-visual-ai-tutor/i...


I'll agree to disagree; It's moot. I respect your view. Zfs, rSync were just basic examples. Where you need to schedule snapshots, and than sync them bash will always be my go to. Using both is great.

I don't use Linux (and haven't since kernel 3.x) I come from the Unix side of things, FreeBSD is my daily driver and server OS of choice. I'm not keen on Python and would rather use something more Operating System agnostic. Ruby, I would prefer much so but like so, Python still requires a package to be installed, tends to be de-facto, but you don't you have Sh so if the operating system is hosed, those are normally always available. I've encountered work systems where backups were performed work, based on a bash script and everything else on the system was bricked. Niche case scenario's I suppose.

I don't disagree, the popularity of Python does make ease that if someone leaves someone can pickup where they left up. I just had to shred my own (Tcl) PXE server project this week that I created for my the VisualFX company gig I'm currently working. Wish they told me up front on how now they are wanting it being Python based. It's soul destroying to get it thrown back in the face "we must use python" only for a LLM to regurgitate what you've worked on for a hard year flawlessly only for it to produce a python equivalent in seconds. Maybe that's why I am bias against python because it's "It must be python" but I guess back in the 80's it was "It must be perl", I'm only 37.


I do realize that. I'm not making a comparative judgement here. I'm mentioning that fsd as a feature is pretty amazing to me. Elon does over promise, but seems to at least partially deliver (as opposed to total vaporware).

Subsidies (via tax or lack thereof) on aeroplane fuel is one that really does get overlooked. Yet on the other hand, use a few gallons in a car and you're demonised as a climate villain in name and taxes. Nobody factors in life of the car, the cost to dispose and replace the batteries in electric cars, or the whole aspect that cars made today are less serviceable than cars of old that its gone from being able to rebuild the car in your garage to waiting for spare parts from a dealer as it's all just replace or scrap today. So much focus on the short term, without focus on the larger picture and impact.

You can get this in Morocco yet there's never any articles about that ... it's almost like they're leaving out a major reason why they like Japan and it's not that the cities are walkable.

That's because you're trying to snarkily jump into a conversation you don't understand.

User `flanked-evergl` is asking why do you need a whole new format for this instead of just using json. And the answer is because everyone needs to agree on how to specify the format in the json, which `crote` suggests is as simple as doing `{"schema": ..., "data": ...}`.

There's your format. If you want everyone to agree on the `{"schema": ..., "data": ...}` pattern, you can no longer accept just `[]` as a return type. Every response has to include the schema.


love it, going to try it out

If they came out with nutri-paste that gives you all of your nutrition in a grey slurry drink, and replaced everything in grocery stores with it, people would complain

And presumably there would be similarly thousands of posts saying things like "I love my nutri-paste, it lets me skip the boring part of cooking my meals straight to the eating and getting calories and vitamins which is the real purpose of eating anyways"


I don't think "manipulating" is valid. A bit over a third voted one way, a bit under a third voted another, and a third didn't vote. The third that didn't vote was saying "sure, whatever".

For anything more complex than linear shell scripting, I prefer ruby --disable-gems these days. As you say, Python is horrible for composing and executing shell commands, but Ruby's FileUtils#sh (combined with %W{} array literals, %x{} output capturing and regular #{} string interpolation) provides a pretty low-impedance interface.

I don't know if this is sort of a nerds vs normies argument, but sometimes I think we get stuck on AI and not the simpler ideas it represents.

Things are easier to validate in person so there's a sense you understand the context. If you go to a painting club because you want to learn how to paint better, and someone or someone(s) show up with photography instead. You don't hate photographers you're just there to do a specific thing. Or say a club that uses traditional woodworking tools. You may not hate power tools or the people who use them, but they're not invited to the club.

I wonder if all the noise is around a need for better tools. Some level of consternation is good to signal that there is a problem in need of a solution. Hopefully there are solutions to this that aren't too invasive, but I think the counter-argument that it's wrong to have a like preference for human generated content is like - I think it should be ok to want to try and specifically define what a community is for.


It's amazing what you can get used to.

Ah yes, freely admitting that you want or want others to shoot AI researchers/workers.

> People scoff at road construction (or rather, road widening) as a solution to congestion. I don't think anyone is under the impression that kilometers driven would go down as road bandwidth goes up.

It is a solution to congestion because a part of the past congestion was that people were stuck at home and gave up on the trip overall, because it would take so long.

> Maybe some people who would have otherwise used public transport opt to drive instead.

Then presumably comfort increased. Also, add bus lanes.


This has been a solved problem for at least two decades. Use ASN.1 and choose your encoding rules accordingly: JER when you need JSON, XER when you need XML, and switch to BER when you need to reduce transfer costs.

why do you want your watch to manage a grocery list? seriously

I am not assuming anything, this "I live in, where the bike lanes do exist, yeah, the cyclists will pass right by, so you don't even notice them unless you're at the intersection where they are." indicates that you don't notice cyclists passing by (they are vehicles too).

Those that acted in their own self-interest thrived, and others died.

Most governments kill their homeless people. Why hasn't this one?

Yeah, it's unfortunately fun to theorycraft the data and over-intellectualize a bit. Sorta takes the sting out of the reality ya kno?

> “It’s important to note all of our data remains our data,”

Despite all the negative attention about "palantir taking your data", this kind of data privacy is actually why so many organizations choose Palantir over the large AI providers. Palantir uses OSS AI models which don't feed back into the large lab training data and sets up firewalled instances per customer to give them total data sovereignty.

(and no, I have no financial stake in Palantir)


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