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mdorazio
·12 dni temu·discuss
This seems likely to be worse. How do you screen out people who point an LLM at your values and ask it to answer your questions in a way likely to appeal to a recruiter using an LLM to score the responses?
mdorazio
·24 dni temu·discuss
An AI written post talking about the importance of human connection in the age of AI is hilarious.
mdorazio
·29 dni temu·discuss
My favorite is how if you buy a “premium” ticket that comes with a checked bag they still try to trick you into paying for a checked bag (again).
mdorazio
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I believe it’s still a single section, so probably around 250 (at least that’s about what it was when I was there a long time ago). Compared to the 1000+ who take 61A.
mdorazio
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Not true. App Store is less than 1/3 of services revenue.
mdorazio
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
This is not correct. Here's Pfizer's 2025 annual report [1]. Total expenses for the year were $55.1 billion. Advertising expenses were $2.7 billion of that, or just under 5%. R&D expenses were $12.1 billion, or just under 22%. They do have a lot of SG&A, but the large majority of that is not going to marketing.

[1] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000078003/908eb6a...
mdorazio
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Worth noting that LA does not have freeze cycles. I wonder what the pothole formation likelihood is as a result.
mdorazio
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
In addition to snmx999's point, you're also not specifying that you want to wash your car at the car wash (as opposed to washing it in your driveway or something, in which case the car wash is superfluous information). The article's prompt failed in Sonnet 4.6, but the one below works fine. I think more humans would get it right as well.

I want to wash my car at the car wash. The car wash is 50 meters away and my car is in my driveway. Should I walk or drive?
mdorazio
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I don't think it is, though. Where is the car? Do you want to wash your car at the car wash? Both of those are rather important pieces of information. Everyone is relying on assumptions to answer the question, which is fine, but in my opinion not a great reasoning test.
mdorazio
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Determined how?
mdorazio
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
The uproar over AI data center resource use has been rather bizarre to see and feels vaguely luddite. As this article points out, frivolous things like golf courses are far worse users of fresh water (and land) than any amount of AI. And on the electricity side, forcing the US to actually build more power generating capacity and infrastructure is a good thing in my book. Once the AI hype dies down we can use that for BEVs and other useful things.
mdorazio
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
Are you sure it was actually a 40mph zone in that section? Austin has plenty of school and construction zones with lower speed limits that most drivers completely ignore.
mdorazio
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
737 MAX. That whole saga was because of Boeing trying really hard to not certify a new airframe so that they could quickly push out a competitor to A320 Neo. The result was hundreds of deaths.
mdorazio
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
EB-5 is intended to create businesses and jobs in the US as part of the process. This is just straight-up "give us money and we'll give you residency".

On the other hand, it's not out of line with programs in other countries (ex. NZ's golden visa program)
mdorazio
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Chat? No. But the strength of Teams is that it lets you do everything else you want in an integrated communications app - voice, video calls, calendars, viewing (and editing) documents, etc. At a reasonable price that Microsoft isn't going to crank to the moon.
mdorazio
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Please note if your goal is minimizing carbon footprint, burning wood instead of other biomass is probably not a great idea [1].

[1] https://www.pfpi.net/carbon-emissions/
mdorazio
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Varies by year, but top 1% share of income is around 21% right now in the US:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/income-share-top-1-before...

i.e. the US tax system is still fairly progressive despite what many people think.
mdorazio
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Do you think train operators should make a quarter million a year to drive the same train on the same route every day?

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=train+o...
mdorazio
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw
mdorazio
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
You’re conveniently ignoring what “reserves” means in the GENIUS act. Unlike regular banks, Circle can use US Treasuries instead of cash so that they earn interest and prop up US government debt at the same time. It’s a clever scheme, but not the same as being forced to hold fiat reserves.

Many other banking regulations also don’t apply. No FDIC insurance and most importantly none of the regulations that apply to true fiduciaries since they are only “custodians”.