umeshunni

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by umeshunni 6d ago
There's a class of people in the West who have forgotten that wars happen and that defense is necessary. American especially benefit from two oceans separating them from the rest of the world and having never seen a war except on CNN.
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by umeshunni 7d ago
Not to mention the crime risk of cash
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by umeshunni 13d ago
I believe it now uses the MAI models
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by umeshunni 15d ago
I was inspired to learn programming when I first saw Logo on my school computer in the 80s. Till then I thought computers were something that only offices had and grown ups used. Not sure how any of this can be measured at scale but I&#x27
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
Today I noticed that Amazon Pharmacy decided to blank out my prescription info that I was screenshotting to send to my doctor. WTF.
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
> it's been an absolute nightmare for a tourist to play along. But the solution to this should be to simplify the tourist experience and to allow payments from foreign banks and cards. Traveling to China has a huge hassle in the la
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
It's the EU equivalent of the California Prop 65 warning that tells you that every building causes cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_California_Proposition_65...
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
saved you a click: It's Chartreuse
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
But in this case, that's essentially what's happened. No one gets legitimate telemarketing calls anymore. They're all scam calls from some slave compound in Cambodia.
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
The other challenge I assume is that many boat owners are retired and presumably have little or no taxable income
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
Why would they need multi TB frontier models?
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
> Twitter used to be profitable. Twitter posted a profit in only two of its eight full fiscal years (turning profitable in 2018 and 2019) In its last year (2021), Twitter reported a net loss of $221 million on $5.1 billion in revenue.
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by umeshunni 1mo ago
1. The employer is providing it to them to do their day to day work, like they provide a laptop and internet connection 2. This is from a 2027 fictional scenario, not current state
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by umeshunni 2mo ago
> But not real for only car outside of California. Tell that to the millions of people in EU and China who have EVs as their only car. I swear Americans live in the 50s in 2026.
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by umeshunni 2mo ago
BYD is selling millions of cars and will be #5 globally this year. They're doing fine whether or not racist westerners take them seriously. At the same time, western manufacturers are closing factories and begging for EU bailouts.
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by umeshunni 2mo ago
and Google Translate: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09849
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by umeshunni 2mo ago
> the winner will be whoever burns their models to ASICs fastest. I don't understand how this works when the models are evolving so fast that your burned ASIC is outdated (or at least not top of the line) in a few weeks.
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by umeshunni 2mo ago
You would be surprised how many enterprises are allowed to use only Copilot for all tasks due to Microsoft deals.
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by umeshunni 3mo ago
Considered that there are organizations like the Taliban and Boko Haram that rule entire countries and regions and have anti-education as a principle, yes it's those cultures that I reach for.
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by umeshunni 3mo ago
Internalized self loathing is a thing
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by umeshunni 3mo ago
There's a reason most of the western world isn't capable of building anything these days.
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by umeshunni 3mo ago
Not Above My Back Yard - NAMBY?
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by umeshunni 3mo ago
Pelicans hate biking in the rain (as do I).
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by umeshunni 3mo ago
no - they blame it on AI
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by umeshunni 4mo ago
> In the data I've seen, the US and European countries have a more negative view of AI than China and developing countries. I think that's more a sign of the relative state of these economies and the rate of progress. In develo
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by umeshunni 4mo ago
There's a class of people who'll run with it - the same people who were protesting 5G towers 5 years ago.
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by umeshunni 4mo ago
Very similar to the pro-illegal immigration crowd
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by umeshunni 4mo ago
This has probably been true only in the last 300? 500? years. Before that, things were the same for 1000+ years for most of civilization, barring any large invasions from neighboring kingdoms, or some far away empire (mongols etc).
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by umeshunni 4mo ago
It's entirely possible that he's changed and his pulse of the market has changed in the 10+ years since that decision.
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by umeshunni 4mo ago
Underwater data centers: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-powers-ai-b... "Flying cars" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/joby-flie...

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