whynotminot

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by whynotminot 2mo ago
What you personally believe and perception within the United States are not the same thing.
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by whynotminot 3mo ago
Doesn’t Broadcom bring a lot more to bear here than just Verilog? Including relationships with the actual fabricators.
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by whynotminot 4mo ago
I’m a little surprised to see how much trouble people in this thread have had with the Cal Digit TS3. Mine works pretty well — have used it with three Intel MacBooks in the past and now currently two different Apple Silicon MacBooks. One of
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by whynotminot 4mo ago
> This model might trigger planned obsolescence legislation in some jurisdictions. As opposed to years of garbage Windows laptops at the $600 price point, which you seem to expect will remain viable longer than the Neo ... ? If any legis
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by whynotminot 4mo ago
What does “main” mean? Main processor for a flagship iPhone? Or main processor for a HomePod? There’s a lot of “main” processors for Apple’s devices at this point. I would be deeply skeptical of a brand new flagship iPhone <n> Pro hav
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by whynotminot 4mo ago
Big deal, smart for all parties, really. Apple standards will make Intel step up and become a better foundry partner. Apple will gain increasingly needed diversification. US supply chain gets a boost. Should be fine for TSMC in the short to
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
We seem perfectly fine splitting up some aspects of adulthood, like 21 for drinking.
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
Sure, raise it past the transition period. I’m tired of the pearl clutchers. Decide an age you’ll actually accept. That’s an adult. No more infantilization.
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
Bought and read the book and honestly the author is just as crazy as the rest of the executive team she skewers. I’m not too broken up that she didn’t get more money from my purchase.
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
Can we raise the age of adulthood from 18 to whatever acceptable age ends this discourse once and for all?
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
You’re describing all the advantages that Russia in theory had when it invaded Ukraine. That war remains in stalemate. With US support and the resilience and ingenuity of their people, Ukraine has persisted. > It is possible to land larg
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
> Sure you can take an easy/undisciplined target like Maduro. You think what the US military did there was easy? lol. Lmao, even.
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
I agree with your statement that human resilience can outlast a better army. But then you go on to say: > Which is why if China makes a move on Taiwan, the US can do nothing. If your opening thesis is true, then it's strange you fol
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
I think that says more about our political leaders than our military. Politicians choose the war and our military fights the battles. We're very good at winning battles. But some wars can't be won. The problem then lies in their c
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
Pretty sure anyone who fights the US military finds out pretty fast it’s a good military. It isn’t perfect. It has flaws. War is hard to get right in every dimension.
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
They bought them for the streaming service that came with it. Not for fake weights in headphones.
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by whynotminot 6mo ago
Love this kind of behind the scenes -- thanks for sharing! Personally, I think in a way you both ended up right. Content is king. But with the iPad (my favorite PDF viewer) as an important part of the Preview landscape now, I view the rig
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
I still love Opus but it's just too expensive / eats usage limits. I've found that 5.3-Codex is mostly Opus quality but cheaper for daily use. Curious to see if 5.4 will be worth somewhat higher costs, or if I'll stick t
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
As long as both companies remain stable and viable, there's probably limited upside to pouring more money into them. If they fail, and bring down the AI ecosystem with them, that is very bad news for Nvidia. So they've been there
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
You could get something smaller but have it closer to your face than 1m? The sort of “visual impact” a screen can have is mostly a combination of what percentage of your FOV it consumes. People think they’ve got a bunch of screen real estat
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
I get it. I’m scared too. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t.
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
> Actually it is not about this stage. It is about the sustainability of this when training data runs out This is an argument from 2024. Somehow, the models have continued to improve. If they stopped improving today they are good enough
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
Personally at this point my combined AI spend is the most expensive recurring monthly subscription I have, and that’s even with my company also paying for the AI tools I use at work. If it weren’t subsidized I would pay more. Wouldn’t be ha
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
What? SoftBank has been investing in them repeatedly for years now.
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
This lazy kind of post annoys me because it sort of groups any of us saying that this technology is profoundly different in with all the town criers who have said this kind of thing before — even if we have never said it before and were
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
I would guess there's not enough volume due to limited use-cases of the tech compared to more traditional screens. The typical e-ink uses cases boil down to e-readers, dumb-phones, and hobbyists, which is not a huge market. Anything ni
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
> In my org, oncall is just who gets the 2am phone call. They can *try* to contact anyone else if needed. Emphasis mine. > Claude is there as long as you're paying If you’re at a company that doesn’t pay for AI in the year 2026,
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
Do you know what on call means? It means Sam is 7 beers deep on Saturday night since you’re the one on call. He’s not responding to your slack messages. Claude actually is there though, so that’s kind of nice.
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
Yeah. Everyone sort of assumes that not having personally written the code means they can’t debug it. When is the last time you had an on call blow up that was actually your code? Not that I’m some savant of code writing — but for me, prett
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by whynotminot 7mo ago
The hallucination rate with the Gemini family has always been my problem with them. Over the last year they’ve made a lot of progress catching the Gemini models up to/near the frontier in general capability and intelligence, but they s

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