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Jyaif
8mo ago
That's a great point. With more open systems there can be multiple winners, instead of a single winner that takes all.
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> National pride and competing banking interests repeatedly sabotaged attempts at unification. That's exactly the problem. Several actors have won the market of their country, but only of their country. Will Trump be enough to make
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Digital Iris [video]
(youtube.com)
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Jyaif
8mo ago
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8mo ago
If somebody wants to hurt you while you are traveling in a car, there are simpler ways.
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9mo ago
Another reason he wants fewer people buying AI chips is that less demands leads to smaller price, which would reduce the capex of his company.
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Why should GNOME support server side decorations?
(blister.zip)
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9mo ago
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They thought that the word "server" was not overloaded enough.
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9mo ago
It's important to note that the approach described focuses on giving fast results, not the best results. Simply trying every character and considering their entire bitmap, and keeping the character that reduces the distance to the targ
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10mo ago
> If people are viciously attacking some new technology you can be guaranteed that this new technology is important I don't think that's such a great signal: people were viciously attacking NFTs.
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10mo ago
The tricky part is not doing the capability-based OS, it's getting adoption. Linux is good enough, so a slightly better OS is not going to cut it.
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10mo ago
I agree with the assessment that Apple has by far the best platform to ship features. That being said, if people spend all their time interacting with LLMs for nearly everything, which is the direction we seem to be going in, what locks the
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10mo ago
> If you [..] do not fully understand the nuances and limitations of SQLite DO NOT USE IT. So, what are the limitations compared to Postgres?
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10mo ago
I would say that customer diversity may be a marker of past resilience, and likely results in moat. Customer diversity says nothing about current or future resilience.
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11mo ago
> in this case justifiably so Oh please. What LLMs are doing now was complete and utter science fiction just 10 years ago (2015).
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11mo ago
> Is there even a case where more RAM is not really better, except for its cost? RAM uses power.
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11mo ago
As soon as a platform gives control to the fullscreen, harmful apps are possible. See for example Apple detecting if a user is typing on a keyboard while in a fullscreen website, and then blocking the website. Yes it's as crazy as it&#
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11mo ago
They have thousands of highly paid employees working on open source; they are spending at least 1 billion per year.
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11mo ago
They want to profit from the IPO of OpenAI. Private investors get a free 20% - 30% gain not available to the retail investors.
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> They also mastered the world of DC lobbying, successfully outmaneuvering Boeing and Lockheed’s attempts to use anti-trust regulations to shut the European entrant out of the US market. No amount of engineering can compete with good old
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11mo ago
> For people who introduced themselves to tech with snap as one of their first apps, its the most intuitive thing ever By definition, the first app someone uses will be from their POV the most intuitive app ever. It will also be the leas
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Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight
(greatscottgadgets.com)
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11mo ago
Mathematically speaking, random actions can't be worse than actively bad actions.
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11mo ago
Shrinking industries can still generate profit, and can still give out dividends.
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1y ago
> In France it is reported that retirees now have higher (average?) incomes than workers It may not be exactly true, but it's close to be true, and then like you said the workers have way more expenses (rent, children). I will point
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1y ago
> badly in multiple previous launches of ML-based products Which ML-based products? > It was convenient for Google that OpenAI acted as a first mover That sounds like something execs would say to fend of critics. "We are #2 in AI
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1y ago
> Today the weird stuff tends to get buried "skibidi toilet" would like a word
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1y ago
Note that this wouldn't have been useful for Factorio, because Factorio deals with the harder problem of needing deterministic results with varying amount of parallelism, whereas from what I understand Dthread only give the same result
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Waymo plans to bring its taxis to London in 2026
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By cutting the middle man out, MS could pay TSMC more than nvidia per wafer and still save money.
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Some numbers: During winter, France uses ~50% more electricity per day than during summer. And during cloudy days in winter, solar produces 10%-15% what it produces during summer. If you don't have month-long battery storage, in order
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