Jean-Papoulos

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Comment · 3 days ago
SO's motto was to ignore the particular constraints of your use case, rewrite your question for you and then answer that (often marking it as a duplicate).

No wonder no ones uses it anymore, its environment is actively hostile to new users.

Comment · 19 days ago
>These systems aren’t going to get popular enough to make a big difference in anything.

They already are in a few countries.

Comment · 19 days ago
I don't believe this is real. I'm in Europe and installed 4kW with 4kW of storage for a total of ~3.6k.
Comment · 20 days ago
>it will improve the quality of the code

That does not mean the product becomes more useful. I could rewrite Windows 1-to-1 with better code quality and no one would care because it still provides the exact same features. Unless "better code" means "better features", better code is useless.

Comment · 20 days ago
Re-discovering databases from first principles.
Comment · 20 days ago
Can someone post the actual data sources for this ? I keep seeing people claim this and even post graphs, but 0 sources.
Comment · 24 days ago
The goal is to do everything good enough, and if possible almost as good as purpose-built. So yes, every other format is better when looking at specifics. But JPEG XL's goal is the best average.
Comment · 27 days ago
They didn't, it just needed a restart. From the first reports the first car's software genuinely glitched out because of the new track/rain/etc and had to be restarted, the other cars got anti-traction control triggered because going this slow for this long unspools the turbo, which got so bad the detection software made a false positive.
Comment · 1 month ago
>the event that really kicked things off was the explosion of Santorini

That was centuries before. Volcanic winter(s) for sure occurred, but they would be distant memory if anything by the time of the collapse.

Comment · 1 month ago
Software is more than 10x more complicated than a bicycle though. Like, this is orders of magnitude off ; we're talking about comparing something purely mechanical to Turing machines inside Turing machines.
Comment · 1 month ago
>While this underlying RT, found in a jumbo phage, had been identified in previous studies, Claude appears to be the first to notice the system’s defining features—an associated array of non-coding DNA sequences and an additional accessory protein of unknown function.

So they investigated an already known thing. Not exactly "discovering a new system"... Anyone with money to throw at this already-known thing would have gotten those results I assume.

Comment · 1 month ago
If we have AGI, it can just solve all the memory issues in the existing codebase instead of rewriting it all.
Comment · 1 month ago
We have no idea how many of these engineers work on the mobile app. This comment is somehow both AI slop and human slop.
Comment · 1 month ago
Google is guilty of this across their whole range of product. We hear a lot about Youtube, but it's the same for Ads and Android. I had my developer account banned for a copyright issue, and to this day I don't know what the issue actually was.
Comment · 1 month ago
“If [virtualization is] not built into a broader AI operation stack, the value is even lower again,” Pickering said.

For the love of god keep Gen AI off of infrastructure...

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