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swexbe··on The taxman will eventually come for AI, too
So essentially the value of capital increases? Sounds fair.
swexbe··on Lessons from America’s astonishing economic record
Most people live in metro areas.
swexbe··on Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)
Only for the not so lucrative market of car owners without car alarms. Since all new cars are outfitted with one I would guess this would be the n% least willing to spend on their cars.
swexbe··on When Will the Housing Market Crash?
The point is when boomers start dying en masse there won’t be as many to replace them.
swexbe··on We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
Most new compilers build on LLVM/GCC, no?
swexbe··on Japan eyes AI adoption as OpenAI CEO visits PM Kishida, talks up local expansion
A well designed system will have fail safes.
swexbe··on Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis
Are non-religious homeless shelters any better/worse? Obiously not all christians are saints and not everyone who calls himself a christian follows christ.
swexbe··on Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter
Wearing shorts is a bit declasse.
swexbe··on Calling Purgatory from Heaven: Binding to Rust in Haskell
As always, depends on what you're writing :)
swexbe··on The case for banning children from social media
Libertarians hate to hear this but the government actually regulate lots of things, not just drugs. Many of these regulations are very successful.
swexbe··on Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
Rosetta binaries for linux are provided by Apple for use in VMs.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

swexbe··on GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
Would be fun to make it role play as a HTTP server (or some other verbose protocol) and connect it to an actual tcp socket. I wonder if it would work.
swexbe··on The electric vehicles we need now are e-bikes (2022)
Is it really kids doing this? At least in my city it's very clearly organized. A day or so after it's been stolen it will have made it's way to somewhere in eastern europe.
swexbe··on What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide
So if your company tanks the day after the tax year cut off you're suddenly stuck with billions in debt and no assets? Seems like a pretty good reason to put your money elsewhere.
swexbe··on What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide
No, the problem is that suburbs are the only thing we build anymore. Fresno has doubled it’s population since 1940 while 10x increasing it’s land usage.
swexbe··on Command line functions around OpenAI
If this is the case they need to up their abstraction game.
swexbe··on TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4
User: Turn off email notifications for LinkedIn.

ShitGPT: Are you sure you want to turn them off? LinkedIn notifications helpfully provide you with the latest news about your workplace and collogues past and present.

User: Yes, turn them off.

ShitGPT: Did you know that research has proven that employees with LinkedIn notifications turned on earn 10% higher salaries compared to their peers? Do you still want to to off notifications?

User: Yes.

ShitGPT: What is your reason for wanting to turn off notifications? Your answer has to be at least 400 words long.

...

ShitGPT: No, the words 'fuck openai' copied 400 times is not a valid answer.

...

ShitGPT: Error Too many requests in 1 hour. Try again later (of course you'll have to start over, tee hee)

swexbe··on Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
Like what?
swexbe··on Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
The vast majority of 13 y.os do not have access to drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
swexbe··on Why northern Europe is so indebted (2021)
What do you think would happen to the value of your home if the government, say, shut down the public road connecting it to the rest of society? What about the public water/electricity infrastructure?

If you don't own property, you might still benefit from these services. But they don't affect your net worth.

swexbe··on Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London
The ”safer” your car is, the more dangerous it is for everyone else in traffic usually.
swexbe··on Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London
Wouldn’t joules be more indicative of damage caused?
swexbe··on Community’s 25yrs without a newborn shows scale of Japan’s population crisis
It’s both much more expensive and more time consuming to have a child today compared to <60s.
swexbe··on Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems
Your brain is analog. Trying to emulate this with a digital computer is bound to come with some computational cost.
swexbe··on Apple delays bonuses for some divisions as it scrutinizes costs
These companies often have a lower turnover and are therefore harder to get a job at.
swexbe··on Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda
FF7 could never have worked on n64.
swexbe··on Crab crisis in Bering Sea a sign of ‘borealization’
You can say this because their environmental destruction wasn't enough for you personally to be worse of than them. If that's the case for future generations, they will almost certainly be angry.
swexbe··on Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake
This would makes sense if everyone was self-employed. But the demand side of housing is decided by salaries which do not necessarily follow productivity.
swexbe··on Men Without Full-Time Jobs Are 33% More Likely to Divorce
This seems very bay area bubble to me.
swexbe··on Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?
Seems like a pretty risky investment. Especially as fewer and fewer people will have anything to gain from the NIMBY policies artificially increasing prices.
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