dlcarrier

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by dlcarrier 5d ago
I predict that in five years, half the businesses currently running in the US will be bankrupt or merged into another business, and in ten years, the same will happen again. I can pretty confidently make this prediction, because it's
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by dlcarrier 5d ago
It's the employment market waking up to the lack of value of the universities' credentialing. The universities themselves don't have a competitive market to speak of, because their customers are so heavily subsidized† that t
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by dlcarrier 7d ago
The Apple Vision Pro was a rare early entry into a field. Usually they wait until the technology is established and the userbase is just starting to take off, as is currently the case with folding phone displays. Samsung has already worked
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by dlcarrier 7d ago
Is an inner screen camera really worth it? There's already a camera cutout on the outer screen, plus you can open the phone and use the full-size camera with the outer screen, which results in much more flattering imagery than the wid
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
I once bought an overnight train ticket from France to Italy, instead of spending more on a high-speed train ticket and a hotel night. It would have been a great idea, if the train didn't have its heater stuck on, in August, and a bro
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
Property damage is often explicitly listed by municipalities as a reason to call 911. They might not care in New York or San Francisco, but in most small towns they usually try to catch vandals in the act.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
It's usually on the web page of the local police or sheriff department.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
It mostly involves sorting out Python dependency version conflicts. Also, it takes a lot of compute. It still involves training a model, which for a very small model requires a GPU with several times more ram than the final model size, w
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
I don't think they're accusing Chinese organizations of violating copyright or patent treaties, they're more so observing undesired behavior and pushing for domestic strategies to prevent it from happening.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
They had three Sonic TV shows in the 90's alone, plus three more since, and four movies within the last decade, and that's just the Sonic franchise. Is he just now realizing that the people who watch it weren't all playing t
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
Hire an engineer and buy a beefy GPU. The foundation models aren't better enough to justify their high costs over open models.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
The craziest part was that Google was pretty far behind other LLMs in development. Even the initial release of Gemini was one of the worst foundation models ever open to the public. I can't imagine how anyone could have communicated
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
The terms customs uses are completely unrelated to normal human words for things. They have a 21-page document ( https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/202... ) describing the diffe
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
Mostly because Canada is allowing Chinese vehicle imports, which US auto industry is not happy about. There's also some pressure from US video streaming producers and distributors, after Canada expanded regulations for television and
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
The company made famous by designing and manufacturing the Nazi uniforms currently has over a thousand stores, including hundreds in the US, and earns billions in annual revenue.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
They don't in this case, because there's plenty of other airlines offering competing service, but when disruptions do prevent air travel, for example with the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, travelers cruising to their destination w
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
It practically is, considering that "looks good on TV" seems to be a much higher priority than "usable".
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
That's a common source of bottled CO2 sold, for example, to carbonate soft drinks or make dry ice.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
You can tell that the model was trained on images from real-estate listings, because what's visible through the windows looks like a picture of a house from a real-estate listing.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
Being able to afford remodeling your house is one thing, but being able to get permission to remodel your house can be a far more difficult proposition.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
Her lackey got more prison time than she did, even though he was following her orders.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
Ocean liners use several times more fuel per passenger mile than airliners.
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by dlcarrier 8d ago
Something similar happened to someone in my area who was letting her kid play alone at the playground inside the apartment complex. She even had the door open so that she could hear her child playing, but CPS said that she should be able
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by dlcarrier 10d ago
The less useful biometric identification gets, the more we seem to use it. My bank sent out an a announcement that they will support voice identification, right after a news story went viral of a scammer using a voice cloning model to steal
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by dlcarrier 11d ago
Fun fact: It's expressly illegal to move around the cabin when the seatbelt sign is on while taxiing, but not when in the air. Turbulence is probably the leading cause of injuries and deaths from modern air travel, but taxiing incident
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
That's what I thought they were. What do they purport themselves as?
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
Normally I'd be recommending some kind of Sci-Fi or Fantasy series, but based on your reading list, here's a couple of books from the boring science genre that I actually finished, so they have to be at least somewhat worthwhile:
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
Is a self-driving EV ever parked, or is it just standing?
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
As far as I know, the earliest legal definition of AGI defines it as earning $100 billion in profits.
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by dlcarrier 14d ago
My favorite is Germany itself. Every country seems to have a different name for it, with a completely unrelated etymology.

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