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by Zigurd 5mo ago
It's perfectly rational for AI researchers to think consciousness could emerge in a software neural network. If what goes on between your ears isn't consciousness emerging from a network of neurons, it must be magic. So anyone cla
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
We're not talking about "partial data." We're talking about tendentious data that propagates existing known bias, produced by brutal problematic low quality policing. At the very least, people making apps based on crime
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
The quality of the data matters. Over-policed minority neighborhoods don't provide the quality of data that supports rational decision-making. LA has a lot of problems with quality of policing.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
All low-code/no-code tools are competing against vibecoding on platform vendor provided tools like Antigravity. The vast majority will not survive. Indeed even without that competition a lot of of them just go out of business because t
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
It's also the boys who never grew out of cheesy science fiction. Elon became their cult leader. Together they turned both Tesla and SpaceX into meme stocks. Meme stocks are amusing when they just mess with finance bros. But we've
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
If you were looking for future upside in space, you will face the same disappointment that everyone enthusiastic about space manufacturing has had for four decades now. Space manufacturing is even in the SpaceX S-1. They're really scra
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
> "I'm never riding in that death trap after I found out how they skirted fire department approvals" This is why only a small number of cars will ever be in the Vegas loop tunnels. If there were any risk of a collision o
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
YouTube has many videos of people trying out the Vegas loop. None of them show something that possibly scales to 4400 riders per hour.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
> Loop demonstrated 4500 people per hour with Teslas with human drivers In what K hole did that happen? All of the experiences I have heard of involve multi minutes long waits for a car to arrive, and then time to load the car and unlo
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Instead of using a DeLorean, you asked FSD to drive you to a future where all of Elon's promises come true. By what decade will starship have 100 ton proven payload, and be reusable without lots of expensive refurbishment? One thing th
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Customers who have fiber don't replace it even with terrestrial wireless.
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Even if you believe the space hype, Twitter and Grok are garbage.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
SpaceX would tell you to look at how profitable is Starlink. Two things about that: you have to replace the infrastructure every five years while terrestrial infrastructure electronics lasts at least twice as long, and inert stuff like towe
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
They are moving away from FlutterFlow, specifically. That could be a good idea since FlutterFlow is going to have a tough time versus agent assisted coding in Antigravity. However, going to RN is debatable. Flutter has a lot of advantages.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
All modern operating systems have in desktop configurations memory footprints over a gigabyte. macOS and Windows are about 2 to 3 GB. That's 300 to 1000 times larger than the total memory that's configurable for a VAX 11/780.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
I can't improve on how unlikely it is that any of that happens. Space is for exploration and the advancement of science, and to a certain extent engineering, if you don't mind the inefficiency of obtaining those advancements in en
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
There's a lot of it. But I also see a lot more skepticism of Musk and the rest of the intellectual dork web. Flirting with fascism was edgy. Now it's just icky.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Falcon 9 is a serendipitous technical success for a rocket that wasn't designed to land and be reused. It is an operational success. Whether that makes it a financial success is very questionable. Starship is meant to answer all those
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
No. Space is not lucrative or profitable. The SpaceX profit story rests entirely on Starlink. Starlink has a plausible moat servicing ships at sea and extreme remote areas. The big problem for Starlink is that they are trying to grow into a
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
A typical configuration was 2 to 4 MB of RAM. Just how much OS complexity can you stuff into that?
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
It's not depressing because it's not true. Tesla isn't investing in battery technology. Tesla also isn't developing new models at the same rate as VW, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai Kia, etc.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
DEC filled The Mill in Maynard and multiple huge office buildings along 495. How many people did it take to write code for the next version of VAX VMS?
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
> later this year One can hope that reality intrudes before the bubble gets even more dangerously inflated, but how many years has Tesla had a ridiculous P/E ratio. Even after growth stagnated and market leadership was lost in Asi
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Why is it a crisis for populations to decline to levels of the first half of the 20th century? The world worked just fine back then with that number of people. There are problems that arise from a population that contains a lot of old peopl
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
> and punish cops who misuse it Cops, who commit domestic violence that rate at least twice that of the general public, misuse ALPR's to stalk women. But I will accept an example of any punishment for any misuse as a sign that suc
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
That almost appears to be the plan.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Bogus research they use for image polish is to be expected from IBM. It's pure comedy the way that Watson missed the AI hype train. But quantum seems to have infected some more legit players. Whatever became of Majorana chips, for exam
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Believe the announcement when the check clears.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
For the last 15 years of 747 production the production rate was fewer than three per month and sometimes zero.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
So now they can justify the P/E ratio of a defense contractor?

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