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jimbob21··on How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
Likewise, perfectionism when it is unneeded can slow teams down to a halt for no reason. The balance in most cases is in the middle, and should shift towards 100% correctness as consequences get more dire.

This is not to say your code should be a buggy mess, but 98% bug free when you're a SaaS product and pushing features is certainly better than 100% bug free and losing ground to competitors.

jimbob21··on So where are all the AI apps?
Why would package be used as the standard? What person fully leveraging AI is going to put up packages for release? They (their AI model) write the code to leverage it themselves. There is no reason to take on the maintenance of a public package just because you have AI now. If anything, packages are a net drag on new AI productivity because then you'd have to worry about breaking changes, etc. As far as actual apps being built by AI, the same indie hackers that had garbage codebases that worked well enough for them to print money are just moving even faster. There are plenty of stories about that.
jimbob21··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
Actually, it does, at least for this case. The judge just said so.
jimbob21··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
They clearly were being digitized, but I think its a more philosophical discussion that we're only banging our heads against for the first time to say whether or not it is fair use.

Simply, if the models can think then it is no different than a person reading many books and building something new from their learnings. Digitization is just memory. If the models cannot think then it is meaningless digital regurgitation and plagiarism, not to mention breach of copyright.

The quotes "consistent with copyright's purpose in enabling creativity and fostering scientific progress." and "Like any reader aspiring to be a writer" say, from what I can tell, that the judge has legally ruled the model can think as a human does, and therefore has the legal protections afforded to "creatives."

jimbob21··on Nobody knows what's going on
How can gold exist without a state to insure its value?

Simple: demand.

jimbob21··on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
And her summary is literally a list of corporate buzzwords
jimbob21··on You can't stop the business, or why rewrites fail
How is more thoroughly understanding an important service pure waste? I could agree with inefficient, but definitely not pure waste.
jimbob21··on The office is a theatre for work (2019)
You've just described a technical director, so it is no surprise that he was promoted.
jimbob21··on The force that shapes everything around us: Parking
I am surprised that this was surprising to people. Cars are much bigger than people, of course you'd need bigger parking lots than seating space
jimbob21··on FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall
Wow you are uninformed.

>The value of the tokens is completely and totally dependent on a consensus of crypto miners doing their job within the parameters of the system, assuming you want them to maintain a price and trading volume that's favorable to the token holders.

Number of miners has absolutely nothing to do with trading volumes, not sure where you got that from. Miners don't maintain a price any more than a whale maintains a price.

>If the majority of miners suddenly go bust due to outside circumstances

The rest of the miners would step in and start making more money, actually.

>they decide to conspire together and attack the system, or conspire with some whales to perform a rug pull

Not much of a rug pull to sell the tokens you've legitimately acquired through mining or fiat buying. That's just selling. High volatility selling, yes, but still just selling.

>it's extremely likely that your tokens aren't going to be worth anything anymore. This applies to every token, including bitcoin.

Oh yes, Bitcoin has died thousands of times. Maybe you'll be right one day, but I doubt it.

jimbob21··on We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews (2016)
Did you later call and ask the officer if that was the exact second he decided you will get a ticket? Or were you merely persuaded by her saying that was what happened?
jimbob21··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
I'm not the person you're responding to, but yes I would argue academia is not the real world i.e. private sector companies. Its academia. There are a whole different set of rules because it is not a privately run for-profit company. And nothing ever happens specifically because that's absolutely par for the course in academia. There's a whole different culture there.
jimbob21··on Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
I would guess some sort of onomatopoeia, but I couldn't guess what its trying to imitate. Maybe an uncommon spelling of "pfft?"
jimbob21··on Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban
> The megaphone of lies convinces stupid people who have the right to vote. It’s clear they don’t have the intellect to vote responsibly, and that can be attributed to Facebook and Twitter letting any miscreant or moron ingest intellectual poison.

So instead of letting stupid people vote, you would prefer that their vote is manipulated and therefore cast for them? You would prefer a fascist state?

jimbob21··on FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood'
> Again: you can't get white activist gun owners to defend a licensed gun owner who was surprised and shot in his own home by police executing a no-knock warrant that wasn't for him.

That's patently false at the very least. Everyone I've talked to said it was a horrible act and those officers deserve legal charges.

jimbob21··on The Best Way to Hug Someone, According to Science
Dumb to write this article and not include graphics that demonstrate the hug types.
jimbob21··on M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance
The 5950x costs $750, you can buy it on Amazon right now for that. Much less than 1k. Also, you're comparing single thread performance on only one website. In every website it kicks the M1 Pro's ass on multicore, as it should with 16 cores. https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-pro-vs-amd-ry... It can also beat it by a hair in single core depending on the benchmark.

Don't be disingenuous just to win the argument.

To actually prove your point, you need to look at GPUs. A 3070 is ~$1100, so there we go, already we've broken his $1600 budget, and we have bought none of the other parts (which would total at minimum ~$1000 more).

If you go 5900x plus 3070, you're pretty much right in line with M1 Pro, but it will cost you around $2500 to equal the Macbook pro. So an upcharge of $1000 to $1500 for the price of being a mobile workstation, as well as all the Mac software. Not really unreasonable.

jimbob21··on Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
Anything wrong with Opera or Opera GX?
jimbob21··on Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
> Lowering orbit is not easier than raising orbit, it takes the same delta-v.

Why is this? From a layman's perspective it seems like gravity would be a massive form of help here and therefore lowering orbit should require much less fuel.

jimbob21··on Ford Mustang Mach-E Was Norway’s Best-Seller in May – Report
>I feel like when most people think of American Cars they think of big GM's

This might be more correct if you specify the UK has this opinion, because it definitely isn't a generally held opinion elsewhere.

Everyone in the US definitely thinks of Ford as a quintessential American car company. The F-150 is the most popular truck in the US, and used to be the most popular vehicle of any type sold.

jimbob21··on Coinbase Drops Promise of Token’s Cash Backing That Wasn’t True
Coinbase is already on NYSE, Circle to follow. Agreed, much more legitimate than bitfinex.
jimbob21··on Coinbase Drops Promise of Token’s Cash Backing That Wasn’t True
That's exactly why the Fed would be best for an actual perfect stable 1:1 USD to Token equivalent. They can print and delete money at a whim, it will always be worth 1 dollar.
jimbob21··on $600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date
Keep in mind that previous attacks like this were dealt with by simple hard forks ie. current ethereum vs ethereum classic.

If the federal government mandates their citizens pay taxes on crypto, it most definitely should come with federal help in catching criminals.

jimbob21··on Dating in Delhi when you're poor
Sure.

> will reduce the comments I see on the internet that try and compare Delhi/Mumbai squalor to LA

You want to reduce comments comparing your city's poorness to another city's poorness.

> It's not really enough...you should experience it for yourself

You're saying I can't talk about poor areas I know about because they're not as poor as your city. That's gatekeeping being poor, plain as day. But more than that, it totally shuts down all conversation about why your city might be so poor. What is happening in your advanced poor city that isn't happening in other cities?

jimbob21··on Dating in Delhi when you're poor
Did you actually read that comment about Toronto? He immediately prefaces it by saying it isn't in the same realm, but can relate because he's poor in his area as well.

I don't think that YOU realize that it is okay to relate to common feelings without being the most of that thing. The guy from Toronto doesn't have to be the most poor person in the most poor area in order to understand their feelings and talk about his.

You're gatekeeping being poor. What a weird thing to be elitist about.

jimbob21··on Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter
Can you give a link to the best setup?
jimbob21··on A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
You'd be fine with doing a number of people's dishes every single day, dishes that are never cleaned by their user, for multiple hours with no pay because you're in dishwashing mode?
jimbob21··on Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum
So for anyone else that found that completely odd, the whole story is that he sued someone who sent him a DM with a gif that purposefully triggered his epilepsy and caused him to seize. The words "you deserve a seizure" were definitely not the basis of the suit.
jimbob21··on How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?
Seems like they just hacked the one affiliate, not the whole org. I don't think it was FBI undercover blow up the entire northeast oil supply type of conspiracy
jimbob21··on 21st Century Baker's Tent
What tent do you use
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