StephenSmith

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by StephenSmith 4mo ago
I tried this last week and had the same experience. It was terrible and they got $140 out of me before I realized what it was (not) capable of. Their support was nonexistent as well.
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by StephenSmith 7mo ago
I find this language fascinating. On one hand, the Department of "War" gives the department an underlying, unspoken goal that it should be involved in war with something. On the other hand, it's very easy to fund the Departm
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by StephenSmith 7mo ago
I had to dig this up. Elon Musk signed an open pledge in 2016 to disallow Robots/AI to make kill decisions. https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/lethal-autonomous-weapo... He's now on X bashing Anthropic for
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by StephenSmith 7mo ago
Also, MicroVision, the company in OP's article bought the IP from Luminar. This feels like a circular venture capital scam. Luminar originally went public via SPAC and made a bunch of people very wealthy before ultimately failing.
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by StephenSmith 8mo ago
If the goal is to make US goods attractive to other countries and to decrease our trade deficit (not saying I agree with this goal), either the dollar has to become fundamentally weaker or the goods have to become more valuable. The latter
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by StephenSmith 11mo ago
Every country has rare earth elements. Just google "X discovers rare earth" where X is your country of choice and you'll find articles about how they have huge deposits. The underlying problem is the processing. China has
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by StephenSmith 1y ago
Lead poisoning.
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by StephenSmith 1y ago
Who actually wants a thinner iPhone?
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by StephenSmith 1y ago
Trying to buy a physical copy. It says "This product is not currently for sale." Would love to buy this.
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
I just wanted to highlight that he was also an entrepreneurship professor at NC State and shaped many students' views of what they could do with their lives. I was one of those students. I now own my own company as a result of his teac
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
We make an AI camera for residential home builders. I'd love to chat to see if there's any synergy here. bedrockwireless.com Ping me, stephen [at] bedrockwireless.com
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
When they use sound effects in news reports, they're called "nat pops." They're often used to make reporters sound like they're somewhere they're not. They can be very convincing.
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
Just learn dvorak or colemak - they're not hard to learn, have tons of benefits, and are readily available on all operating systems
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
And then refuted that with a different study at the end. Weird.
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
Most of the citrus growers are just selling off their land for housing developments. Florida is still experiencing high growth. A lot of that growth is older populations trying to avoid state taxes on their retirement income. These people
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
Now do POE
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
AKA kill half the worlds population
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
This video explains this fairly well (Hank Green). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk8pwE3IByg
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
Yes, but Waymo hasn't (yet) made Google $1 of profit and FSD is almost pure margin for Tesla.
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -Abraham Maslow
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
If you're in the market for a new-to-you car, then I recommend looking at the model years where they switch from wired car-play to wireless car-play and buying the previous model-year. Typically this difference of one model-year can ad
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by StephenSmith 2y ago
I recommend switching to any of the apps that support Podcasting 2.0 - The features are better and the index is not controlled by Apple/Spotify. https://podcasting2.org/
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
But character Design is. Here's a good summary of just how close a lot of the characters are. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1749183059877085396.html
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
I've seen a few arguments, but I still don't see how Gamefreak/Pokemon isn't just going to sue the crap out of these developers (Pocket Pair). Maybe they can get away with loosely copying the creatures, but they blatant
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
I mean, the guy built a DIY mailchimp. That seems hackernews relevant. There's tons of services like mailchimp that are all varying costs. A low cost DIY solution may be interesting to some people.
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
How obvious is it that the plane has entered non-icing conditions?
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
It took time to access the information. You had to turn on your modem and connect to the internet (took a while). Then you had to load up the information (took a while). Then there was the lack of good search engines, so you were worried
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
Earlier Thanksgivings also cause more holiday spending[1]. [1]. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/11/21/165655925...
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
This is the bigger headline than their Gemini release. AI is all about how much compute dollars it can generate for the cloud providers. Google is trying to make sure Microsoft doesn't monopolize AI compute.
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by StephenSmith 3y ago
There's an estimate they have 1.9M reservations. Even at 1k deliveries a day, that will take another 5 years. I doubt they'll hit that delivery rate soon.

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