phutatorius
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- Comment on Left to Right Programming 1 day ago:
Yep, and my takeaway from it is “don’t distort your syntax in order to allow yourself to be more dependent on an IDE.”
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 day ago:
Yeah, there are some useful applications for ML. Less so for LLMs.
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 day ago:
And the risk of prostate cancer from age 60 on is quite high and increases with age, even if you’re not in a high risk group (other than age).
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 day ago:
What’s the false positive rate? You can dial up the sensitivity of any test if you don’t mind 10,000 people having unnecessary cancer surgery for every real case that’s detected.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 day ago:
There are instructions that are completely “type this” monkey see, monkey do. The majority of people who cannot follow such instructions should be wards of the state.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 day ago:
Docker’s an unnecessary extra step. Just install wireguard server on the VM.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 day ago:
Or by some other fly-by-night identity-verifcation company.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 day ago:
Even with an association of an identity to a VPN provider, there is no one-to-one correspondence between a person and an IP address.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 days ago:
Not so, more’s the pity.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 3 days ago:
The entire point of analog is that it’s “worse”
They’re savoring the patina.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 3 days ago:
Also, you could spool them with a pencil.
Which you only had to do to recover from a common media failure mode.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 3 days ago:
Vinyl has to be mastered differently (using the RIAA equalization curve) because vinyl is a crap medium. Low frequencies, unequalized, can cause the stylus to jump out of the groove. High frequencies tend to be attenuated. And it’s noisy as well, and the noise gets worse over time. The “warmth” afiicionados treasure is mainly harmonic distortion from the amp reconsituting the equalized sound.
On a solid system, there’s a lot more fidelity in the bass on vinyl.
See above. Bass has to be compressed in order to be written to vinyl in a way that doesn’t damage the record on playback. The amp then decompresses it before you hear it. Compression and decompression do not increase fidelity, instead what you get is a decompressed signal with the same reduced resolution as the compressed signal on the vinyl. In other words, you lose fidelity during the compression process, and information which is lost cannot be put back in later.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 days ago:
mainly fake nostalgia
Is there any other kind?
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 days ago:
I did a collaboration once where we were considering doing a limited release of a one-off song on an Edison cylinder recording.
Turns out that yes, there are firms that produce them, but those fuckers are expensive.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 4 days ago:
In other words, an asshole who tells the sociopathic rich what they want to hear.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 4 days ago:
It’d settle for it being neutral for us but bad for them.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 4 days ago:
If libertarian tech bros are against it, we must be on the right track.
We need a lot more candidates like Mamdani. We don’t need any billionaires.
- Comment on FTC Warns Companies(Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Discord, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, X and more) Against Censoring or Weakening the Data Security of Americans at the Behest of Foreign Powers 4 days ago:
I’m sure they’re not including Russia, Israel or Saudi Arabia, though.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 4 days ago:
Yep. Crying about the world no longer having billionaires would be like holding a funeral for a tapeworm.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 4 days ago:
The scammers are already all over it like flies on shit.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 4 days ago:
Now factor in the launch costs, and make sure to include the probability of launch and deployment failures.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 4 days ago:
And keep in mind that, if they don’t do it, the sun transmits energy to the earth for free.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 4 days ago:
Or make more use of renewables. Nuclear has never been cost-efficient, it’s just that the costs have been buried in state subsidies to the industry and its supply chain.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 4 days ago:
Someone wants public subsidy money.
Look at the ROI, and if the full lifecycle cost is greater than earth-based solutions, fuck 'em.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 6 days ago:
This is the dawn of the new Chinese century.
Betting on a totalitarian kleptocracy saving the world is as unwise as betting in the 1980s that already overworked Japanese wage slaves could be overworked even further.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 6 days ago:
Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing lead is real.
And if you ignore the theory of comparative advantage, not only is it real, but it also matters. Otherwise, not.
I also run a consistent payment deficit with my barber. Should that be corrected?
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 6 days ago:
But knowing what’s real and what’s bullshit is an absolutely essential prerequisite for progress.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 6 days ago:
No. I don’t think that either Trump’s idiots, nor the CCP, know more than I do.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 6 days ago:
the the talk of nationalistic races is just being used for investor buy in
Even more, it’s being used to milk the taxpayers for more subisidies that get translated (in a very lossy way) into more executive bonuses.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 6 days ago:
You see a new technology with flaws and just assume that those flaws will always be there and the technology will never progress.
Say you start with a prototype for a perpetual-motion machine. Then those flaws will always be there and the technology will never progress.
It is intrinsic in some technologies tthat they’re a dead end. That doesn’t mean all of them are, but some are just worthless crap and throwing more good money after bad isn’t going to change that.