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Left out Charles Hamilton

It has been estimated by the researchers Lofts and Adley that Hamilton wrote around 100 million words or the equivalent of 1,200 average-length novels, making him the most prolific author in history. He is known to have created over 100 schools that were the subjects of his stories as well as writing many non-school stories. More than 5,000 of his stories have been identified, of which 3,100 were reprinted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(writer)

> massive overspend until someone notices and has to painstakingly go round checking what all your instances are for.

and when you reduce your companies AWS spend by 30% (which is usually easy) you get a good review/bonus/promotion. So not really much incentive to pay too much attention to cost until you can get recognition for doing so.

If copyright was shorter blockbuster movies could still recycle comic book characters from the 50s. It just means that any filmmaker could do it rather than just who can afford to pay Marvel/DC

Except that the timezone in British Columbia has now changed. Lets say you stored the appointment for November in UTC.

So you set the time to 10pm UTC to match 2pm British Columbia. But because the timezone for BC has changed that 10pm now matches 3pm in British Columbia

So the Dentist is expecting you at 2pm and you come along at 3pm

Because traffic laws work for cars and pedestrians. Anything else in between in fuzzy and hard to define or legislate

Did you read the article. Half the problem is the government regulations ( stairwells, elevators, parking ) that force the developer to build things worse.

I've also seen people using the term "slop" for low quality human-generated content (lowbrow movies etc)

One of my favorite tunes ever is from Northern Exposure: Expeditions

The Silence by Mike Koglin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDdM_0sotY

Yeah, I was/am a Depeche Mode fan

Definitely agree in some cases. eg where I live ( Auckland, New Zealand ) plenty of people read stories in the local paper or facebook that highlight every single incident in the Central city. So they are scared to go there.

Reality is thousands of white-collar workers (including me), normal locals and many tourists of all ages. Small number of homeless. But no more dangerous than any other city (and a lot safer during the day and early evening )

But if you did the exercise 10 years ago you'd find the lyrics were originally about the songwriter's daughter and the band tweaked it to be able the the band manager's hypochondriac ex boyfriend.

Then they hired a session singer to sing it and mixed in several takes and then adjusted the sound with various tools to produce just the right sound. Plus the Chorus was actually from some country song from 1972 that had been completely changed

and the actual "band" is actually just two guys who hire session players to do most of the music while they handle the keyboard and mixing

I'm using it too. Unfortunately their Android support is a little rough these days. Their official client stopped being developed and while there are options it isn't straightforward

They charge for a lot of things "by the hour". Things like S3, load balancers, storage.

Deleting those when a customer hits a limit will lose customer data or remove things that might be hard to add back. The "I hit my AWS limit and they deleted all my data" headlines will result.

and excluding those things makes the limit soft again..

20/68 is for human comfort/health.

Well it was bigger. But the people who used to get swept by MLMs are now selling drop-shipping, affiliate websites or blockchain.

A few do.

At the extreme end you'll get invited to conferences but further down you could have other products you are pushing. Even non-AI related that takes advantage of your "smart person" public persona.

Pretty common for authors to get people to pre-order their books so when they go on sale they top the chart for that day (the book's release day) in their category.

There is a difference between "aligning with" and "trusting with your life"

The problem is that even if the US elects some nice centrist democrats for the 14 years every country is going to be thinking "What if they elect Trump v2?"

I mean the US already re-elected him after the first time so it wasn't a one off. US allies are already increasing defense spending and diversifying supply chains (especially for weapons) away from the US.

Would you bet the safety of your country on the US being stable going forward?

Where I live (New Zealand) Microsoft is a much larger percentage of IT infrastructure than say Bay Areas startups.

Companies are already used to working with Microsoft. Building on Microsoft's cloud feels natural.

This policy has been shared a lot by the anti-AI crowd over the last week. They are celebrating it as a major site saying no to AI.

It seems a smaller "win" than most think. Just discourages wholesale rewriting and creation of new articles using AI. Assistance with editing is explicitly allowed.

Today perhaps. But in the past the artists money from selling records. So the tour was to promote the album, rather than the other way around

So what happens to all the other cops that believe that but don't say it?

Except you get exactly the same opposition in places where schools are funded by a higher level of government

and if anything you taxes will go down because they are now spread across more households.

her?

The same has played out with search engines like google for the last 20 odd years.

If some random person didn't like you they couldn't just casually (in 5 minutes) dredge up every controversial thing you ever said of that conviction from 15 years ago.

Exactly like this cartoon:

https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

I see it as a textbook approach of a show that built up the characters with "number of the week" episodes and then integrated the world-building and big arcs gradually.

Very hard to do and less common these days with shorter series.

oh and the actor will be getting royalties until he dies so you are are effectively waiting for that. Maybe get the episodes in a way that doesn't give him money.

It's the big thing right now. Have a look at the old HN front pages and you'll notice other topics/technologies dominated in the past.

There are a bunch of ways to manage bare metal servers apart from Nix. People have been doing it for years. Kickstart, theforeman, maas, etc, [0]. Many to choose from according to your needs and layers you want them to manage.

Reality is these days you just boot a basic image that runs containers

[0] Longer list here: https://github.com/alexellis/awesome-baremetal

I'm not sure what you mean by "he literally can't and he literally doesn't" but he's got PHD in CompSci and did everything at Google in the past from writing complex code himself to managing small teams to managing huge teams.

Exactly what do you think he can't do?

Certainly he's well qualified to manage a team of a few thousand (?) AI people and understand what they are talking about and get the best out of them.

Like Batman he has the superpower of money. If he has gaps he can pay (or otherwise arrange) for someone with those skills to 1-1 coach him in them.

He's not trying to become a top researcher, he's trying to learn enough to understand what they are talking about and be able to make decisions around say what areas should be pursued.