unusualmonkey

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by unusualmonkey 2mo ago
Starlink is useful, but people often confuse coverage with capacity density. The rough hierarchy is: fixed fiber/cable > Wi-Fi > cellular > LEO satellite > traditional GEO satellite. Starlink is a huge improvement over old
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by unusualmonkey 3mo ago
I agree that there may be a lot of variation between models that leads to different use cases, at least today. But I’m not sure the car analogy works. An X5 is not simply “inferior” to a CR-V, or vice versa. A Camry is not “inferior” to an
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by unusualmonkey 4mo ago
Sorry that's no realistic. People start businesses, including law firms, all the time with little to no capital. Assuming token costs will be prohibitive assumes: A) tokens will be really expensive and B) you need to fund tokens before
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by unusualmonkey 9mo ago
> a brain can innovate, and as of this moment, an LLM cannot because it relies on previously available information. Source needed RE brain. Define innovate, in a way that a LLM can't and we definitively can prove a human can.
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by unusualmonkey 9mo ago
Just wait until after launch. You get a refined experience and often much lower prices.
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by unusualmonkey 10mo ago
I pointed out the claim is both irrelevant and factually wrong. That should be sufficient rebuttal.
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by unusualmonkey 10mo ago
Humans are not deterministic. Ironically AI models are iirc. Come up with a real argument.
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by unusualmonkey 1y ago
> Not spending all the wealth you before you die would be irrational if your children won't inherit it. Sure, but that's only one small aspect of the economy. Maybe younger generations would earn more with all the spending and
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by unusualmonkey 1y ago
You've not established that your suggestions are core principles of modern economics or derived from them. For example, you are asserting there would be 'no reason to own property beyond a certain age'... which isn't sup
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by unusualmonkey 1y ago
If no sources exist, then you must accept making claims such as this would 'lower savings rates' are simply not backed up. Maybe it will... maybe it won't. So what if there is no reason to own property beyond a certain age? E
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by unusualmonkey 1y ago
I'd need a source to back up those claims, as you note it's not trivial to understand how economy would react. I also don't see why buying a house would be much riskier? If you buy a house for your family it's because y
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by unusualmonkey 1y ago
Why is spending everything before you die a perverse incentive?
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
Except that if rendering was magically free... why not just pathtrace everything? DLSS might not be as good as pure unlimited pathtracing, but for a given budget it might be better than rasterization alone.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
> Rasterizing results in better graphics quality than DLSS if compute is not a limiting factor. Sure, but compute is a limiting factor.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
In part because it's an odd compromise. With the exception of LLM's which are a decent development... there wasn't a lot of need to high memory, but moderate GPU compute parts. You'd either have a lot of memory and a CPU
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
Remember that AMD has been making x86 SoC's with unified memory for quite some time.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
Sure, but the same likely applies to Oil as well right? Fossil Fuels don't magically extract and refine themselves. What analysis do you point to that suggests fossil fuels have a smaller impact than, say, wind?
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
> One oil well can produce an amount of free energy (24/7) that a 100 acre wind farm can only produce sporadically, assuming the well is a reasonably high volume producer. It depends on the specific well/geology. Except it can&
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
> The energy density of fossil fuels means that those side-effects would be worse with other sources of energy. Can you expand on this? How does the density of fossil fuel make them a better source of energy than say wind?
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
Lol, adding a hue is usually a crutch for a too small screen with lifted blacks... which doesn't paint the pro in a very positive light! Ironically by adding a gue to a nomral screen, you're effectively 'adding' pixels t
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
If you're implementing you're idea's... who is marketing them? Who is handling customer support? What about sales, legal, finance, hr etc? Writing code is not building a business.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
You can do the same thing with any screen by holding it the appropriate distance. Keep in mind that all that unwatchable area is pixels that aren't being used to improve the movie image.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
"The movies that play in virtual screens are native to the films’ aspect ratios, which can vary movie to movie, eliminating the black bars of “letterboxing” and “pillarboxing” you typically have on iPads, iPhones, or MacBooks." Th
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
So the first business has no competition... but also no defensibility? The second business should be able to be much bigger AND easier, but you aren't focussing all your efforts on it because you're splitting your time with the fi
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
What's missing here is what value the writer is bringing to the table. Let's look at the trade: "I’m looking for a technical cofounder who is ready to commit in the next 2-3 months and work in-person in San Francisco. I’m loo
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
If you spend 9 months learning to code, you get a junior engineer (at best). If you sepnd 9 months getting a technical co-founder, you likely get a seasoned engineer + thought partner for all decisions going forward. One is vastly more valu
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
The skillset to find a cofounder is similar to the skillset needed to raise money. Additionally, founders who try to hire for skillsets they have no experiance in, often find their money wasted.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
And if it introduces a bug that causes downtime that could cost millions. Setting up a offshore office takes time and focus that could be spent on other initiatives etc.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
It's not forever, in another comment they're reworking their entire internal comms protocol.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
My 2c: 1) Is this worthwhile? Looks like ~500 CPU cores were saved (are these real cores, or does this include hyperthread cores?). I don't know cloudflare's costs, but this seems like single digit servers and probably savings onl

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