convenwis

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by convenwis 4mo ago
He was right in a sense but $6b market cap is nothing to sneeze at.
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by convenwis 4mo ago
I don't necessarily think that these companies have much room for market cap growth but it is definitely interesting that right at this moment the value of local has gone way up due to Claude Code (plus Cowork and competitors). I suspe
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by convenwis 4mo ago
"It's just too easily available to take the lazy option and just let it do the thing" This seems to me to be one of the key problems for AI usage in general. Students have this problem where it can be incredibly helpful in ac
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by convenwis 4mo ago
I think that this just emphasizes how much Ive needed Jobs as a constraint. The early stuff they did together was genuinely good and changed the industry for the better. But his later work after Jobs got sick seemed significantly worse. Def
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by convenwis 5mo ago
I know this guy is doing this on actual Mac hardware but curious if there is a point of view on the best older Mac emulator out there? Ideally I'd like to run this on a current Apple Silicon Mac. It is hard to understand what is the be
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by convenwis 6mo ago
Is there a writeup anywhere on what this means for effective context? I think that many of us have found that even when the context window was 100k tokens the actual usable window was smaller than that. As you got closer to 100k performance
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by convenwis 7mo ago
Good is relative but first token was clearly the biggest limitation.
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by convenwis 8mo ago
I live how people used to talk about air gapping AI for safety and now we are at the point where people are connecting up their personal machines to agents talking to each other. Can this thing even be stopped now?
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by convenwis 8mo ago
Oh, I love paper maps. Snowbird is trying to get rid of the paper maps and it drives me nuts. They still print a few but mostly you can't get them on the mountain. Seems like a totally misguided environmental idea.
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by convenwis 8mo ago
This is from a few years ago. Apparently he retired: https://www.kuer.org/arts-culture-entertainment/2021-10-22/j... Since I've been skiing this has been how I've experienced all the terrain. His maps ju
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by convenwis 8mo ago
This is interesting because Anthropic seems to allow Opencode to do this but no one else. And the lead on opencode won't comment ( https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/417#issuecommen... ). I am cu
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by convenwis 9mo ago
I've been thinking a lot about the fact that so much of our software has become engagement driven. E.g. Duolingo isn't optimized for learning a language, Facebook isn't optimized for connecting with your friends and family. I
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by convenwis 9mo ago
Yep, I agree. Should have been more clear that it used to be their philosophy. It isn't nearly as much.
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by convenwis 9mo ago
Oh, I totally agree that things have changed and that philosophy doesn't exist much any more. Should have been more clear on that point.
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by convenwis 9mo ago
This is the thing I've found amazing about people's complaints about Apple and AI. Historically the strength of Apple was that they didn't ship things until they actually worked. Meaning that the technology was there and read
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by convenwis 10mo ago
The particulates from tires are pretty bad and EVs' weight makes their generation of particulates much worse.
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by convenwis 10mo ago
CAFE also had the unintended consequence of helping SUVs because as "trucks" they didn't count against manufacturers.
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by convenwis 10mo ago
There were some weird but large benefits to manufacturers for SUVs over minivans (didn't count against fuel economy standards, based on less expensive platforms). Those are mostly gone but the scale and preferences that they generated
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by convenwis 10mo ago
I know you are right here but it is also true that many real New York apartments have crazy things like the hole in the sheetrock.
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by convenwis 10mo ago
There are unquestionably some cases where Lidar adds actual data that cameras can't see and is relevant to driving accuracy. So the real question is whether there are cases where Lidar actually hurts. I think that is possible but unlik
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by convenwis 10mo ago
No idea about his feelings but believing that they will be dominant wouldn't have to be the reason he chose them. I could easily imagine that someone would decide based on (1) they offered enough money and (2) values alignment.
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by convenwis 10mo ago
I'm amazed airlines haven't put up press releases detailing what is happening with their fleets yet. It has been a few hours so presumably they know and in the US at least this is a crazy busy weekend for travel.