stetrain

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by stetrain 6d ago
I can sell my copy of the book to a third person without interfering with your copy. And I can do so without the involvement or permission of the publisher or book store.
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by stetrain 6d ago
Ah, you could not have purchased a bag of Lays potato chips from the store on February 25th because I myself purchased a bag of Lays potato chips from that very same store the day previously!
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by stetrain 7d ago
That does diminish the sleep tracking benefits. It's still doable, but now it becomes "remember to charge your watch at least an hour before bedtime" which isn't as simple of a routine.
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by stetrain 7d ago
Check out Pedometer++
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by stetrain 7d ago
This is partly why iPhones have a feature to disable biometric unlock by holding the lock + volume button (same gesture as emergency mode).
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by stetrain 7d ago
I think they really need a separate product that can have no screen or a minimal screen and ditches the need for app compatibility. Just selling the Apple Fitness features without the screen for apps would provide a lot of value and let the
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by stetrain 13d ago
Yes, some people are trying to achieve this by arguing that physical media should stick around forever. I think the real solution is providing the same protections and rights for digital purchases as we had with physical media. That would b
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by stetrain 13d ago
Fundamentally we need controls on how both the state and private industry can store, use, and share such data. Playing whack-a-mole with each specific type of surveillance and company involved isn't really fixing the issue.
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by stetrain 16d ago
The part where people starting buying Mac minis just to run OpenClaw was a pretty sudden movement in the market. These computers aren't powerful enough to run big local LLMs but are still being purchased for AI workflows. A year ago yo
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by stetrain 16d ago
At this point it's basically like car models years. They rev them annually and make a few improvements but they're actually going longer between major redesigns. If they didn't bump the numbers every year people walking into
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by stetrain 16d ago
> Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about.
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by stetrain 22d ago
If you shop at places where many customers user credit cards, and those places don't change an extra credit card processing fee to customers, then you are effectively paying for those credit card fees whether or not you use one. Opting
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by stetrain 29d ago
This is only true if you consider those who write corporate press releases and post on LinkedIn to be real people. /s Personally I find writing of this type grating whether the source was AI or the amalgamated output of a committee of
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by stetrain 1mo ago
And when Republicans were in power they cut taxes and spent $2T on a war in Iraq. Cutting taxes without cutting spending raises the deficit and seems to be the GOP's most common fiscal policy.
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by stetrain 1mo ago
> as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Github and their parent company are active participants in pushing LLM-driven coding.
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by stetrain 1mo ago
githubstatus.com has been updated with an incident now: > Update - We are seeing an approximate 20% error rate across numerous experiences including Pull Requests, Issues, and others. Investigations are currently under way and we will be
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by stetrain 1mo ago
The GOP was not fiscally conservative before Trump either.
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by stetrain 2mo ago
The constraints and priorities for EVs and grid storage are very different. In a car it’s worth paying more for higher volumetric and gravitational density. For aircraft even more so. For grid storage, physical space is usually not the larg
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by stetrain 3mo ago
I find Tesla’s interface to be inferior as soon as you want to use an app they haven’t built. Like my podcasts app. Or receiving / replying to a WhatsApp message. Even the built-in text message support can’t handle replying to a group
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by stetrain 3mo ago
Have any CEOs been held criminally liable for bribing government officials lately?
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by stetrain 3mo ago
The positive viewpoint is basically like the Industrial Revolution or the post-WWII consumer/convenience boom. If productivity can increase significantly per worker, the result will be major overall economic growth. It might be sold to
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by stetrain 3mo ago
Sure, so the economic anxiety from people with careers in the horse and cart industry was fully justified.
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by stetrain 3mo ago
> Rich people are stealing all the jobs. The AI promoters are themselves saying these things because it is the positive case for their business, that other businesses can pay them for AI services that are cheaper and better than keeping
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by stetrain 3mo ago
The current market cap of SPCX and TSLA combined (~$3.8T) is about 3 times the total value of all BTC (~$1.3T).
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by stetrain 3mo ago
You can't shift productivity by 10X and expect the rest of the supply/demand equilibrium to stay the same, with you working 10% of the time and sipping drinks on the beach while retaining the same job opportunities and expected sa
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by stetrain 3mo ago
And some foods are a lot more water efficient than others to produce.
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by stetrain 3mo ago
> it's "when," not "if." That has always been the question since Elon started making self-driving claims back in 2016. If you believed him any time up until now you'd have been wrong and potentially own a ca
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by stetrain 3mo ago
Tesla's own expectation six years ago was that they would be selling 20 million cars annually by 2030: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-... Tesla's recent annual car sales: 202
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by stetrain 3mo ago
We have already reached the point where solar and wind produce new MW of power cheaper than any other power source you can build. Of course that energy generation comes with the caveat of being variable with sun and wind. It can still be a
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by stetrain 4mo ago
A big question about this push for AI/LLM features in products, and I think very related to public sentiment on AI, is that if these features were so desirable and useful why do they need to be so forcefully promoted? If these features

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