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Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents(axios.com)
96 points by sgustard 1mo ago|38 comments
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by sgustard 1mo ago
What's "obvious" is she was chief ethicist at the most unethical companies on the planet - it's like being a lawyer for the mafia - doesn't inspire longevity, either via scapegoating or preservation of one's ow
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by sgustard 1mo ago
Exactly, imagine the huge sums of liability insurance Google is carrying to make payouts when the worst-case scenario happens. That financial burden is a prime driver of their operational safety record.
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by sgustard 1mo ago
Mostly I found it odd to open with a comparison of hobbit to human ages when it's well known that hobbits can live to 130.
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by sgustard 3mo ago
"best not to blame the students" There are dozens for every one who didn't get the opportunity to attend an Ivy. The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. I'll note as a hiring manager the college degree wo
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by sgustard 3mo ago
"Blindly trusting" is not the same as "learning some new questions to ask about the validity of the given claims". The Midjourney announcement is not providing detailed medical credentials either.
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by sgustard 3mo ago
> never been so much backlash against data centers Backlash against the proliferation of space junk still has plenty of room to grow.
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by sgustard 3mo ago
> explain the thesis It's all laid out in this insufferable a16z piece if you can see past the ego-stroking. https://www.a16z.news/p/spacex-and-the-sentient-sun
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by sgustard 4mo ago
https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Acyclica_...
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by sgustard 4mo ago
Tried this? defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.05; killall Dock
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by sgustard 4mo ago
Original Singapore results from Debug in 2019 - "greater than 90% reduction in release areas": https://blog.debug.com/2019/11/singapore-collaboration-achie...
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by sgustard 4mo ago
Well, making throw-away things you never use could also be the definition of a hobby ... and hobbies are arguably good, and differ from "work" in that your goal is not to ship a product, but to scratch an itch. For some people AI
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by sgustard 5mo ago
I used to drive a 2001 S-class ... easily counted nearly 100 physical buttons within reach of the driver. In theory you could use the 10-digit keypad like an old flip phone to enter a physical address into the navigation, but is that really
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by sgustard 5mo ago
I've definitely worked places where I used the company Xerox machine to print up 50,000 "Unionize Now" fliers.
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by sgustard 6mo ago
Yep, I've co-founded several companies and sold them for near $1B in aggregate. My investors and customers are on there, sometimes posting nice things about us. So I give it a thumbs-up and move on. Nothing worth rage-bating about. Mos
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by sgustard 6mo ago
See also Asimov's The Last Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
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by sgustard 6mo ago
I have been to Rome and Taipei and Johannesburg, and crossing the road is terrifying lots of places.
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by sgustard 7mo ago
Would love to enumerate those commonalities. Run by a psychopath? Commitment to violent lethality? Burning billions of dollars for uncertain goals? (ok there's one)
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by sgustard 7mo ago
Here's the extracted text https://pastebin.com/LS2LpLZ7
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by sgustard 7mo ago
The old argument for being locked in to legacy software costing 6-8 figures a year was that you had no choice. Now you have a choice! Clearly that is better, and everyone should evaluate that choice on its merits, and the stock market sees
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by sgustard 8mo ago
Blatant AI author. Here's a better article by humans. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o
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by sgustard 8mo ago
Sounds like it's not unheard of in the UK: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1fabd0c/how_does_you...
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by sgustard 8mo ago
I have more confidence that if I reply "never contact me again" to AI it might actually obey, unlike any people that have spammed me.
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by sgustard 8mo ago
At least in the screenshots I did not notice absurdly large window corner radii.
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by sgustard 9mo ago
I just Googled "kids magic show in Durban" and his ad showed up in the top slot (sorry if this post has swamped your ad bill); and as a bonus, the Gemini AI blurb also touted him: "For kids' magic shows in Durban, look f
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Zodiac Z13 Decryption(colab.research.google.com)
5 points by sgustard 9mo ago|1 comments
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by sgustard 9mo ago
I really thought this would be about our company CFO who appears once every winter season, gets all lit up at the holiday party and then disappears until next year.
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by sgustard 11mo ago
SAE automation levels are the industry standard, not FSD (which is a brand name), and FSD is clearly Level 2 (driver is always responsible and must be engaged, at least in consumer teslas, I don't know about robotaxis). The question is
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by sgustard 11mo ago
CAISO's own documents quote battery capacity in MW. So I don't think you can just blame journalists. "Battery storage capacity grew from about 500 MW in 2020 to 13,000 MW in December 2024" https://www.caiso.co
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by sgustard 11mo ago
Well the faster you get off the grid, the cheaper it'll be for the rest of us. All PGE's problems are caused by running powerlines for you through fire-prone kindling wilderness.

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