justapassenger

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by justapassenger 8d ago
Their support for advertisers is one of the worst in the business.
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by justapassenger 1mo ago
It’s not that frontier providers won’t keep on making good/leading models. It’s whether you absolutely need the latest capabilities (at the cost of very high prices, sending your data to them, and being totally at the whim of 2 compani
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by justapassenger 1mo ago
Sure, same for building a model in an economically sustainable way. But barier to entry is surprisingly low (expect for the huge amount of cash, of course). That’s fairly surprising, given how extremely powerful that tech is. 10 years ago i
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by justapassenger 1mo ago
You basically need both. Parameters and good post training. If you keep on growing both, you’ll have good models. LLMs are still surprisingly “easy”. You need maybe a couple dozens of right people, a lot of good quality data and a lot of GP
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by justapassenger 2mo ago
For any dense populated area, starlink cost explodes exponentially to support customers there, while fiber/5G is linear. You cannot just put more satellites on top of cities, as they aren’t geostationary (which is why they’re fast), so
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by justapassenger 2mo ago
Remote areas of USA (and other third world countries when it comes to the communication infrastructure) + companies that operate in remote areas (logistic, resource extraction, etc) + military are main customer base.
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by justapassenger 2mo ago
I’m pretty sure rest of starlink customers will get similar treatment in the future. Their potential customer base is limited and it’s only ISP that literately burns their backbone network every few years and has to replace to keep it runni
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by justapassenger 2mo ago
You do realize that sponsored stories aren’t modern invention? Magazines were full of it too, sometimes disclosed, most often not.
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by justapassenger 3mo ago
Closest analogy to distillation is api reimplementation, without which current software industry wouldn’t exist. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with distillation.
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by justapassenger 3mo ago
There’s huge issue with that approach. It’s not a multi trillion dollar business.
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by justapassenger 3mo ago
Because benefits are much higher than risks.
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by justapassenger 4mo ago
I love my macbook neo. I have more powerful macmini at home as my daily driver, but neo is amazing for me basically as a companion to my corporate laptop. I use it: - to take as my personal device when I travel - do personal stuff when my c
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by justapassenger 4mo ago
What have the Romans ever do for us?!
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by justapassenger 5mo ago
2 more, most important reasons she was sentenced: 1. She stopped making money for rich people. 2. She herself wasn’t rich enough. Leon is too rich, and he keeps on making money for the right people.
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by justapassenger 5mo ago
EV batteries are expected to offer about 60-70% of capacity at 20 years. I think that's really good compared to general wear and tear of the car. But let's go back to the original point, about being able to UPGRADE (not repair&#x2
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by justapassenger 5mo ago
Useful life of most of the cars is on par with their battery longevity, as long as you have proper thermal management and your usage patterns are not outliers. Focusing on being able to upgrade battery (and to be clear - upgrade, not replac
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by justapassenger 5mo ago
You’re describing extremely valid approach for a hobby. Less for a business.
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by justapassenger 5mo ago
That's why you split tasks and do project management 101. That's how things worked pre-AI, and old problems are new problems again. When you run any bigger project, you have senior folks who tackle hardest parts of it, experience
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by justapassenger 5mo ago
It’s also THE playbook of the Silicon Valley.
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by justapassenger 7mo ago
1. Because people like it. 2. “Social media” is not the right term to describe those apps anymore. There’s nothing social about them - just an algorithm feeding you stuff. True social media aren’t that different from forums - places where y
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by justapassenger 7mo ago
Watches are now roughly in the same spot as phones - form factory is largely complete and each new version is a small iteration over previous generation, with changes that most people don’t care about. That being said - feature I LOVE added
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by justapassenger 7mo ago
Tesla does it to map the areas to come up with high def maps for areas where their cars try to operate.
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by justapassenger 8mo ago
Last true step change in computer performance for general home computing tasks was SSD.
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by justapassenger 8mo ago
I'm 200% sure it's subsidized by Tesla and they have a deal that any losses they'd get Tesla is going to pay Lemonade for them.
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by justapassenger 8mo ago
China has a luxury of being able to not really care about the cost when it comes to what they view as a strategic advantage.
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by justapassenger 8mo ago
I miss the old school monopolies, where MS was a bad guy because they dared to include browser. And yes, I do legalese details of that are much more complex. But it just makes no common sense.
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by justapassenger 8mo ago
> 2) The "Russia is weak" thing; it is vastly exaggerated because it is 4 years that we hear that "Russia is on the verge of collapse" but they still manage to handle a very high intensity war against the whole West a
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by justapassenger 8mo ago
AI code review to me is similar to AI code itself. It's good (and constantly getting better) at dealing with mundane things, like - is the list reversed correctly? Are you dealing with pointers correctly? Do you have off by 1 issues? W
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by justapassenger 8mo ago
Ironically - bad ones will effectively try to kill you less. That’s the thing about any automations that are just aides. Humans are extremely bad at monitoring machines, and if aide system is good enough that trick you into thinking it’s ac
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by justapassenger 8mo ago
It’s NOT self driving. It’s level 2 driving assist. Really good one, but that has nothing to do with self driving. You are driving the car all the time, it’s only assist that can (and will) try to kill you (and others) with 0 notice if you

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