Zigurd

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by Zigurd 3d ago
If you use streaming at all, you can't defend against all data collection, but you can minimize it. Don't put your TV on your network. Use a streaming box and keep it powered off unless you're using it. Not just turned off, b
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by Zigurd 3d ago
You are right it won't work, but a race with China is in the imaginations of politicians taken in by AI CEOs scaremongering. The Chinese are probably willing to stand by and watch the US overbuild AI data centers.
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by Zigurd 4d ago
Everyone uses the example of stadiums, but the occupancy rate of stadiums makes the economics of the network and backhaul iffy. I would guess only the biggest NFL stadiums get it as a showcase. Maybe parts of Manhattan, too. Chinese cities,
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by Zigurd 4d ago
Most of what passes for 5G in the US is the same old but full duplex with wider channels. Calling that 5G obscures the fact that millimeter wave 5G standalone is a totally different beast, and a huge network engineering challenge. It may se
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by Zigurd 4d ago
All of these are true: the cops are untrustworthy; a bust like this gets overhyped and both the government issued information and the reporting are inaccurate; pedantry about select fire modes is pointless; Americans have a right to buy mil
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by Zigurd 5d ago
Whether they can be credited with caring or not, one party didn't follow Netanyahu into war casually, even fecklessly.
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by Zigurd 5d ago
Their lack of self-awareness is striking. Very often an insurgent would love to make half the revenue of the incumbent. He's not pointing out a problem with improving social media, he's pointing out the problem of being the incumb
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by Zigurd 5d ago
The answer depends on scale, and appropriateness. If you've got enough engineers, you can do platform native code. The results will look better. Appropriateness often comes down to is the code doing deep platform API things, with senso
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by Zigurd 5d ago
I hope the point is bigger than a nit to pick, but a plain slot machine is still bad. Social media used to be good or at least interesting in a good way. Maybe it can be again.
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by Zigurd 5d ago
It can be good in the way that meals with green vegetables aren't consumed as voraciously as cheeseburgers and fries. It depends on the quality of what's in the feed.
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by Zigurd 5d ago
Although Bluesky is tiny, they are the biggest and most stable proponent of letting users control their feed. Even if they don't grow big, being half the size of a toxic social media platform is a damn good business model. Somebody can
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by Zigurd 6d ago
What does FSD stand for, remind me.
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by Zigurd 6d ago
Fascism and racism are more than personal failings when you splash around hundreds of millions of dollars to, for example, get neofascists elected in a German state.
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by Zigurd 6d ago
He is the archetype of creation by exhortation. How many people destroyed their health trying to make FSD work by the end of this year for 10 years?
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by Zigurd 6d ago
All of Waymo's vehicles are fitted with the Waymo driver hardware by a contract manufacturer who builds low volume car models for several big brands.
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by Zigurd 6d ago
Conveniently the same CM builds the Jaguar SUVs and fits Waymo hardware to vehicles.
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by Zigurd 6d ago
Waymo uses lidar, radar, cameras, mics, and other sensors. They also have extra extraordinary geospatial data. And they have years of operational experience. They also spend $1 billion a year on R&D. while they are probably at least bre
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by Zigurd 6d ago
I used to commute on the redeye from Boston or New York to a Philips office on the opposite side of Amsterdam from the airport. The impressive rail network of course had a big station right at the airport. The first time I hopped in a taxi
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by Zigurd 6d ago
It's a common practice for the dispatch software used in both company issued and personal smart mobile devices to log accelerometer data and score the drivers for smooth driving. Whether that's a reliable proxy for safety is anoth
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by Zigurd 6d ago
If you make the wrong decision about which car to buy, your insurance can cost hundreds of dollars a month. Cutting that substantially is as good as banning non-automated driving. Cars that aren't automated will plummet in value. The t
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by Zigurd 7d ago
If you bought a house on Clarion Alley, would you be a douche bag and paint over the murals? That's the actual question about this situation. What is your hypothetical about?
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by Zigurd 7d ago
It doesn't deserve a response. It's self refuting. The likeliest situation is there was no formal arrangement. The decent thing to do was to come to an arrangement whether there was a previous arrangement or not. You can be perfec
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by Zigurd 8d ago
Has anyone Loopt sama into this discussion?
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by Zigurd 8d ago
Or people outside the US distrusting US technology? There is a confluence of trends pointing away from US based tech. It will take a crazy amount of work to restore trust.
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by Zigurd 9d ago
Only after being refueled by 15 other giant rockets.
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by Zigurd 9d ago
Optimus robots will arrive in Robo taxis to install your Tesla solar roof which will also receive Internet and XAI LLM service from orbiting data centers. When? By the end of the year.
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by Zigurd 9d ago
A lot of people also forget that the Bill of Rights is a list of thou shalt nots addressed to the government. In other words it doesn't just claim to not be a list of everyone's rights, it is structured and written to not be such
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by Zigurd 9d ago
Sometimes the comparison can't be made directly because the US Constitution embodies the concept of unenumerated rights.
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by Zigurd 9d ago
It seems nonsensical that the government could have the power to lie to and defraud the people while poisoning them. That just renders other rights meaningless.
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by Zigurd 9d ago
Some software companies sort of stumble into treating their customers as hostages while others make an art form of it. Computer Associates, which is part of Broadcom now, has been doing that for decades.

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