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by unsigner 22d ago
In capitalism, incentive usually is aligned with price. The industry doesn’t have incentive - the incentive arrives with higher prices, which is what we’re discussing in the first place.
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by unsigner 1mo ago
Their thing is improving the models; it would be extremely counter-company-culture to bet on models plateau-ing. Maybe wise in terms of hedging, but still difficult to pull of as a company decision.
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by unsigner 1mo ago
This is not strictly true. I enjoy optimizing code to the point of obsession, but I can't find economic (daily-job) justification to spend time on this. Lately I've had several extremely productive and enjoyable sessions that go l
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by unsigner 3mo ago
This sounds like "government issue Revolut". Which would be... low-key nice? Not a nefarious scheme, not a revolutionary future of money, just something to replace a certain part of your financial life without tying it to a commer
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by unsigner 9mo ago
Of course they care about oil spills - this is why all the oil tankers in the last weeks were attacked when empty.
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by unsigner 9mo ago
Peacetime technology from people who ignore the shooting war next door. Do you really want to build your energy system on huge soft targets? This looks much more vulnerable than solar arrays or battery installations to small-to-medium warhe
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by unsigner 9mo ago
Freely available and openly editable maps might be one of the things that we take for granted, but are simply an abberation of a brief period of peace and civility; now we'll return to the default hobbesian state of affairs. See also:
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by unsigner 10mo ago
An Apple Watch with a cellular connection, paired with Airpods, fulfills some of the role of a small iPhone - you can make calls, listen to music, and even do some light texting if Siri likes your accent.
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by unsigner 11mo ago
The ICE has tanks - can you provide a link? Words have meaning. Maybe some armored cars, but tanks?
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by unsigner 1y ago
Congrats on the release. I was wondering what the zstd team is up to lately. You mentioned something about grid structured data being in the plans - can you give more details? Have you done experiments with compressing BCn GPU texture forma
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by unsigner 1y ago
how do you "take cash" over the Internet?
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by unsigner 1y ago
Dead business? The Mac is something like 30 billion in revenue per year, and 10 billion in profit. The entire "generative AI" "industry" is struggling to reach 30 billion in revenue even with their creative accounting (m
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by unsigner 1y ago
they are not talking about perplexity; the endless rumor mill talks about perplexity. The same that has them buying everything from Disney to Porsche to Nike for decades.
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by unsigner 1y ago
I've heard the phrase "through Apple new technologies achieve their final form", possibly not official Apple but one of the Apple choir bloggers (Gruber?). There were smartphones before iPhone, now all smartphones are black f
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by unsigner 1y ago
I prolonged the life of my terminally ill dog using EPO. It wasn't exotic or expensive. Probably that means it's already in wide use for humans, too.
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by unsigner 1y ago
The Bulgarian translation I read was a valiant effort by a guy who ran the Bulgarian "science fiction and fantasy BBS". (Yes, that kind of BBS, with the dial-up modems, XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM etc.) (Yes, it was mostly for
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by unsigner 1y ago
I agree with the experience of assembling something from pieces is valuable. But if you don't want that, there's no need for "online tutorials for beginners" and that shouldn't be counted as an additional appeal. It
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by unsigner 1y ago
you're not wrong about most of this, but anti-semitic? he's very openly Jewish
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by unsigner 2y ago
if( price sensitive ) return iPad; else if( know what you're doing and you know it needs a Pro ) return iPad Pro; else // I guess I'll be browsing and watching movies?? return iPad Air;
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by unsigner 2y ago
You have discovered the one real practical application of crypto.
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by unsigner 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this - this will be an inspiration. Everybody knows about FPV quadrocopters used on the battlefield, but there is an increasing focus on terrestrial vehicles. They look nothing like the Boston Dynamics robodogs crossed wi
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by unsigner 2y ago
video games are guilty of this too, and the proliferation of Unity and Unreal is partly due to an overoptimization for prototypes
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by unsigner 2y ago
Dude, you’re a bigwig at atlassian. Fix JIRA.
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by unsigner 2y ago
Relatively sensible and privacy-preserving compared to what I first imagined - cameras and AI AI AI
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by unsigner 2y ago
I don’t regularly take buses to the other side of Europe to eat some gelato and gawk at cathedrals for a weekend. A lot of people use cheap airlines as cheap entertainment.
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by unsigner 2y ago
Barely. The Sukhoi Superjet trickles out of the factories, and the other two projects have been delayed again and again.
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by unsigner 2y ago
Nice try, AI trainers.
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by unsigner 2y ago
Quite contrary, people are gleefully machine translating Wikipedia to make more Wikipedia (in different languages). And arguing for it.
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by unsigner 2y ago
This is also how search in IDEs should work. Each new search term should open a new results panel, with space for the source code on top, and a list of hits at the bottom. Results panels are in an infinite horizontal row.
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by unsigner 2y ago
Or, more drastically, another way of saying it’s useless.

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