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by Animats 5mo ago
Raise them, more likely. NVidia says that GPU hardware prices won't decrease until at least 2030. The world is out of fab capacity.
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by Animats 5mo ago
True, the Mach E mostly just shares the name. The E-Transit really is the same van with a different power train. It ought to be taking over fleet sales, but it only sells about 12K units/year, vs. 162K for the fuel powered version. The
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by Animats 5mo ago
From the article: "clerical errors, natural disasters, and pension fraud were better explanations for the proportion of centenarians “discovered” in these discrete regions of the world." That was discovered in Japan around 2010.[1
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by Animats 5mo ago
Nice. Those are small parts, though. The interesting part is the E-axle. BYD builds a unit with an integrated motor, differential, axle, and wheel hubs. That, plus an electronics box and battery, is the power train. This simplifies vehicles
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by Animats 5mo ago
I have an original HP11C within reach. Still works. Had to replace the batteries this year, after 20 years. If you replace the batteries, get the good Panasonic silver cells from Newark, not "compatible" alkaline cells. The silver
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by Animats 5mo ago
Wait, is AWS just reselling access to some AI company's servers, or is AWS running the models on their own hardware?
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by Animats 5mo ago
Mobile, yes. Not sure about desktop.
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by Animats 5mo ago
Is this the hardware you have? [1] That's some kind of encryption box. It has a "zeroize" button, to clear the keys in an emergency. It might have something that forces uniform latency to make traffic analysis more difficult.
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by Animats 5mo ago
So, to post something in 2027: - You have to have an approved browser. - It has to be installed on an approved platform, Google or Apple, for which you have a valid account. - You have to have an account on the posting platform. - You have
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by Animats 5mo ago
It's amusing to read people in the past writing about the prospect of superhuman intelligence. The real problems have turned out to be different. Sycophancy and hallucinations, which are part of being confidently wrong, remains a big p
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by Animats 5mo ago
I've never been able to figure out what's so great about Atherton. The houses are big, but other than that, it's nothing special. Woodside is a nice horse community with hills and sequoias. Los Altos Hills used to be; there w
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by Animats 5mo ago
Is there a deal between Google and Cloudflare to make non-Chrome browsers harder to use? The pressure to use Chrome keeps increasing, and the amount of ad filtering you can do in Chrome keeps decreasing.
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by Animats 5mo ago
"It's free and always will be" - Facebook
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by Animats 5mo ago
Another common solution is to have the driver park and leave the container and chassis. Long-haul driver and tractor leave. Local movement is done with a "terminal tractor" or "yard goat", a mini tractor built for short
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by Animats 5mo ago
I did. SunOffice, then OpenOffice, then LibreOffice. It still isn't very good, though.
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by Animats 5mo ago
It is, kind of. The Canon Cat is a good text editor. That's about all it does. When Raskin was active, there was a whole industry selling "word processors", special purpose computers that just did text processing. Wang and IB
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by Animats 5mo ago
Short version: "It turned out our chosen base address for the FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) bus had a default memory type of Normal Cached." They accidentally put an external non-memory device behind the cache. That's never go
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by Animats 5mo ago
Yes. The Port of Los Angeles had a huge problem with empties when Hanjin went bankrupt. Everybody thought the South Korean government would bail out Hanjin, one of the largest shipping lines. There was no bailout. Port of LA finally shipped
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by Animats 5mo ago
> It's actually strange that we don't seem to have any system for just dropping containers at the destination until the contents have been processed. There are big forklifts for taking containers off trucks and stacking them.
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by Animats 5mo ago
> A mirror is just a mirror, failure modes are few and unlikely. Even if it cracks it still works. Are your side mirrors adjusted properly? Do you know the SAE standard on how to adjust your side mirrors? [1] (The actual paper is paywal
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by Animats 5mo ago
> There's only one problem with comparing urbanization with the AI transition: there were still jobs that the workers moving from farms to urban centers could do. Instead of planting and harvesting, they made things in factories or
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by Animats 5mo ago
VRchat is impressive. It predates the metaverse boom, and it's not a big-world system. The metaverse was supposed to be like Ready Player One, but we didn't get there.
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by Animats 5mo ago
China has already mandated an end to retractable outside door handles and electrical inside door handles. That takes effect January 1, 2027. There were two major incidents where people could not get out and could not be rescued. The powered
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by Animats 5mo ago
That's true for a while. But shelf restocking and order picking will probably start to go robotic within a few years. That's a manipulation problem within reach. All those mass produced humanoid robots have to do something, and th
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by Animats 5mo ago
> First off let me get on my high horse and say the engineering in video gaming is generally more complex than the engineering I've done working in big tech. Yes. Having done everything from mainframe OS internals to proof of correc
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by Animats 5mo ago
Here's a brief summary from Sears' archives.[1] I read a much better description in a business book once, but it's not online. Here's the concept. The simple way to fulfill orders is Doordash Shopping. One person goes to
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by Animats 5mo ago
India has the problem with farming that the US is starting to have with AI. Farming in India is still far too labor intensive by world standards. 43% of workers still work in agriculture. [1] For the US, that number is under 2%. China is at
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by Animats 5mo ago
> This whole "permanent underclass" thing seems like it's just the Rapture in secular clothing. The Left Behind version of the Rapture.
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by Animats 5mo ago
Most of the world builds low-end homes from reinforced concrete. Most US buyers don't like that. (I live in a house built from cinder blocks filled with concrete and rebar, like a commercial building. It was built by a commercial build
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by Animats 5mo ago
Both of the preceding comments are true. These things are about to arrive in vast volume, because the factories to build them are already starting to run. And they're nowhere near ready for that. It took over a decade for Waymo to get

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