HerbManic

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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Same here. Need an ID then I don't need you. To that, I have also what I consider my "forever hardware" were I can do what I want offline. Not saying other stuff won't creep in for various pragmatic reasons but it will b
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Just look at how far privacy has slipped in the last 25 years, it won't take another 25 to get there. Maybe less than a decade.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Yeah but $1.50 Costco hot dogs! I got nothing more on that.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I don't think WWW will ever die but I can see a hard split coming eventually. Most people will just put up with the current state of the internet for a long time yet.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I suppose many do live in different worlds. I haven't found anything out of LLM's that has improved my life. It was a fun little toy but could never find a use case. But clearly, your mileage varies greatly from mine. That's
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
That is a very neat solution. Can still get a little and then you get less than a little. Personally I just deleted the accounts and apps but that doesn't work for everyone. Also my phone is a 7 year old Oppo something that had a low e
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It is for now but they cannot keep demand on their side high enough to suck up supply forever. Manufacturing isnt going to stop, not unless there is a Taiwan incident. For those with tin foil hats, scheme away at possible futures!
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
There was a presentation from Valve about their Dex compatibility layer. They did something that seems so obvious in retrospect. When you lay out the software stack it is essentially OS > Game code > APIs. Both the OS and APIs are nat
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Depends. It is the typical Nvidia problem. Everything is a black box but when it all works it is the best option available. But when it breaks, you hate them with a passion.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Good job, almost the full Stallman! ;) Stallman would never use an MP3 as it used to be a proprietary format.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
They are unlikely partners. And yet it is the model that allows arts to get something out there while it gets exploited for gains. But at the end those with the money make the final call. Alas, we would hope that it would be the best art th
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I managed to grab season 1 thru 10 on DVD for $15. Ripped them to storage, probably the best presentation you can get out of it. But some of those old rips hold up. Not great but they will do. A few years ago I did see a rip that pushed the
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Exactly this. It is relatively easy to make something mechanical more safe provided you have have a significant material buffer. Rocket abhors additional material weight so everything has to run with a limited buffer space for safety.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Those that can race tot he bottom and get away with it are usually the ones the have a better chance of survival. I don't like it one bit but that is a good summary of business nowadays.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I will give you that. I will be more than happy to see both reach there in mutual success. I do fear the blow back of the more tribalistic folks that will see it as a threat rather than success.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I will give you that. Better to blow up in a test rather than ready for launch.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
B.O.N.G goes up in smoke. As an aside, that acronym is something you would expect out of Musk and yet Blue Origin sort of accidentally got it themselves.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
To be fair the last Starship to blowup on launchpad/ground was less than a year ago. It is a set back but it appears nobody has avoided this issue yet. https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/space
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
That is a very fair point. While I have no skin in the game, it is fascinating to see if the Us with Artemus or China with Chang'e will be the first to make it back to the Moon manned. At this point is is looking like the winners will
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I mean optimistically I hope there is a big reduction of hardware requirements in future. One of those technological jumps that nobody sees in advance but looks obvious in hindsight. If the need to the amount of compute goes down enough,tha
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I think the big issue isn't so much a technology thing, I mean that will improve for a long while yet, but it is an economic one. My whole concern over the rapid expansion of LLM's is the massive build out on a technology that has
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I have had higher ups that actually understand the products, work flow and have a great grasp on things. Slow to understand things but make well educated and deliberate moves. These folks are are VERY rare however.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
> The focus on photorealism in modern city builders took away the apophenia That would be a real challenge to achieve simply because most of us are constantly surrounded by cities, but it is something that we should strive for. For insta
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Pretty much. Ed does a lot of great work in digging through all this stuff but his conclusions always feel far too doomer oriented. OpenAL should have closed 5 times by now if you have been following his assertations from the start. There w
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It is probably one of those things, once they are gone you will see just how effective they were.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
> Unfortunately, faster beats better. I think you have just written the epitaph for corporate software.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Who knows but any 'answer' anyone could give is pure speculation. You could be right! But I do see this claim come up every time Chinese tech comes up. It might be a valid concern but it might also just be folks attempts to try an
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
That is a fair assessment. Another name that has been given is Risk Compensation.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
That is a fair analogy. There is some very cool tech it just needs continued refinement, there is a path forwards even if it isn't always the clearest. This is happening but it is taking years and a lot of work to get done.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
The ghost of David Graeber would agree.

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