Grombobulous

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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
I think Slate can get it shipped, that won’t be the issue. The issue is that Slate has completely underestimated customer preference for four door vehicles. Two door vehicle variants have absolutely died off in the market and I’d say with g
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
Political approval is the basis of societal consent. A whole lot of things are allowed/disallowed based on political approval. Zoning laws, noise ordinances, toxic waste disposal, food safety standards, etc. I can't run a frozen l
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
Exactly, especially the case when solar+battery are so similar in cost to gas turbine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
That's a really interesting/informative link you have. Some highlights are: - Energy use per capita has been declining since 2000 - Overall energy use has been basically flat since 2000 - Essentially, coal is being replaced by gas
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
There might be some missing context here. China and the US are not experiencing growth and development at the same rate at the same time. In the US, everyone that has access to electricity has had it for decades. In China, the first year wh
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
Claude transmits all prompts back to HQ as a part of its basic functionality. If you are using an AI system to read your codebase from your local folder and make changes, whether or not you have a VM running or not is inconsequential. The C
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Tesla still has the benefit of selling actual cars and being a profitable company, plus they’re already in all the important index funds receiving automatic investment. SpaceX doesn’t really have those advantages from day one. Tesla may be
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
As long as the VM closes when the application closes, I don’t see too much of an issue with this design decision. It seems like the VM is a core part of how you use the application.
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
True, and on a similar wavelength, nobody seems to care that Kia/Hyundai engines are super mid. Heck, nobody seems to care that Toyota engines/transmissions sound like a vacuum cleaner and have pretty mediocre NVH on models like t
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I’m genuinely delighted that this reaction to that little phrase came up! It was definitely something of a half-joke on my part: the Mercedes infotainment system is very well-regarded, but it does not look “modern” compared to something lik
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I am somewhat confused at the intensity of pushback for the statement “leading electric vehicles.” Chinese EVs are leading and that doesn’t necessarily mean being the best, most advanced vehicles. They are leading in value/pricing, and
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
I would like to add to my reply to this comment, that heat management in space is extremely difficult. The idea that we can manage heat in a data center scale in low earth orbit is pretty much impossible. Look into the physics of the proble
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
I think that vision you paint of satellite-commanded robots makes reasonable sense. At the very least, we can assume it does. But then I go back to my original question where I ponder whether that vision results in a gigantic company. I lo
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
One of the problems is that geography and demographic movement trends within that geography is a very real thing. Let’s say a rural town has lost population in the last 20 years, and most of the population that left is educated. Now they ne
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
If I were to guess, cheaper in this context is being used by Apple to catch up to having an AI product with a real moat. And, of course, Apple’s best moat is the App Store. The other competitors have their coding and productivity software,
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
Even with this benefit of the doubt, even stretching our suspense of disbelief as far as it can go, we are basically talking about a niche military application that inherently has a limited market value. In other words, we can just assume t
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
It will be interesting to see how this actually plays out. You could either be 100% right, or this could be another exercise in failed human hubris. I.e., Elon and the financial architects behind this IPO are assuming that it will work just
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
I’m specifically talking about the parental controls shown at WWDC, not the ones we’ve been using for years. Of course, now that I think about it, it’s a bit of a silly statement for me to say “industry leading” in the context of a duopoly.
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
I would agree with you that extrapolating to “AI is useless” is definitely a giant step too far, and that part of the article ruins a lot of the other interesting bits of it. It’s great that he cites a lot of sources but some of them aren’t
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
He provided a lot of quantitative analysis in this article. Perhaps an example or two you think these numbers are off-base could help bolster this point? I think the most compelling part of the article is that these numbers point to a situa
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
This WWDC is thin, but it seems like a lot of it outside of AI is a refinement year. For them to just blanket announce that a bunch of stuff across the platforms perform better, that shows that Apple spent most of their effort on quality ov
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
Great point, I totally forgot about that angle. I used to have season tickets to a team with a championship drought. Those priority season tickets were sold pretty close to regular season pricing. Someone offering me $500 or $1,000 wouldn’t
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by Grombobulous 5mo ago
Your comment made me think: if GitHub was a Google product with similar popularity and scaling trajectory, would we see similar reliability issues? Absolutely not. Google has reliability practices so deeply ingrained in their company they’r
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If you don’t have any need for Windows/Mac support, I highly recommend moving to something that isn’t Thunderbird. My pick is Evolution but there are many other options.
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In my opinion, the scalping problem isn't really the primary problem with Ticketmaster's monopoly. Scalping is just the result of a gap between sale price and fair market value. I also think that many of the things Ticketmaster co