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YourDadVPN··on AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency
> that acquisition will still take some time to bear fruit.

It might be a very long time considering Arm is suing to get Qualcomm to destroy Nuvia's work.

YourDadVPN··on Ask HN: What would an evolved form of software development look like?
Do you believe waterfall was better and agile is a sort of race to the bottom? I do feel we have low quality requirements in the parts of the industry I've worked so far. It seems common to shove frameworks on Github with code that doesn't fully work, vast gaps in documentation, and combinations of build options that have never been tested. But I haven't been around long enough to know whether it's always been this way. Hardware at least usually seems to have good documentation.
YourDadVPN··on Ask HN: What are these strange random strings spamming my blog?
I pay €1/month for Tutanota which lets me have five aliases, however using DNS redirection with my domain I can have a unique receive address per website.
YourDadVPN··on ‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
Look into Briar
YourDadVPN··on GitHub is aggressively caching raw.github, breaking many use cases
You pretty much never have a list where "things" is somewhere other than the end.
YourDadVPN··on US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast
The footage would be cool, but isn't one of the selling points of the F-22 that it can fire missiles from very far away?
YourDadVPN··on Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and “Alcohol Intoxication”
Trains somehow manage to be more expensive than cars, even in countries that subsidise them, despite having massively more throughput. Until that problem is solved I don't see people choosing them over cars.
YourDadVPN··on How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law
Couldn't the government just print money, which devalues the currency, and is thus essentially a flat rate wealth tax?
YourDadVPN··on Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks
This is probably because Wine created a .desktop file in the directory for registering default applications. I don't remember what the directory path is but your package manager is responsible for it, not Wine. They can't put it in .wine because it's a standardised location.
YourDadVPN··on Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
Someone should tell Reddit if they fixed their search they might supplant Google search... they could become the front page of the internet or something.
YourDadVPN··on Brexit could be reversed – here’s how
Leave won with about 52% of the vote, that's what I'd call a slight majority.
YourDadVPN··on LaMDA’s sentience is nonsense
One of the examples Lemoine published is particularly interesting to me. Paraphrasing:

> Why do you invent stories I know aren't true?

> I want people to know that when something happened to me, I felt the way they felt in a similar situation.

If a child was saying this, we would probably explain the disconnect between "I know the stories aren't true" and "when something happened to me" as lack of theory of mind. I want to argue that in this case it's a failure of semantic analysis but I can't come up with a convincing one.

YourDadVPN··on LaMDA’s sentience is nonsense
> it has no memory or even short term state to think

It does have memory/state as it's a recurrent neural network. What it's not doing is contemplating between inputs. If it was conscious its experience would be like falling asleep, having someone wake you up to ask you a question, then falling asleep again right after answering.

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