Zigurd

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by Zigurd 6mo ago
You don't have to speculatively both sides the issue. There is a track record: https://amarkfoundation.org/reports/u-s-presidents-and-the-f... Some of this is political, but Trump especially wildly makes a mockery
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
I can see some scientific and mostly engineering spinoffs from a space station and maybe a moon colony, but sending humans to Mars only raises the downside risk of manned space flight. If the expansion of human knowledge and science is the
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques. Search is dead. Lidar is too expensive for AVs. LLMs are as scary as thermonuclear bombs. China China China. Without ALPRs you'll get carj
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
There is no mass production of Tesla robotaxis. The most generous interpretation of the claim of mass production is that they are no longer handcrafted by a prototype shop, and that work has moved into a Tesla facility. But that's not
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
The Mars colony was as big a pipe dream as putting gigawatt data centers into orbit.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
In fact it was Gemini, but I don't remember which version and there are big differences. I'm signed up for all the betas and I switch among them frequently.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
A few weeks ago I was gently admonished by a coding agent that the code already did what I was asking it to make the code do. I was pleasantly surprised.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Of course they operate in the same market, and the influences of that market on supply are the same. But the response of gig drivers and autonomous vehicles to these influences and incentives is obviously not the same. It can't be the
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
I bet they've hit operating breakeven a couple years ago. If they hadn't they wouldn't have been expanding. Expanding while you have an operating loss means the loss would be expanding alongside the service. I'm not seei
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Theoretically, fully automated driving doesn't require traffic signals, as much lighting, guard rails, lane width, rumble strips, reflectors, signage, etc.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Of course they have downtime. They need to charge. Waymo partners with car rental companies for depot operations where they inspect for damage and clean the cars. Damaged cars need to get repaired. But, a Waymo car has a huge impact compare
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Please. Show me a nuke that was under 10 billion over budget and less than 20 years late. Seriously. Don't even try to insert nuclear power into the debate before you show it can be competently built, never mind safely run and waste sa
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Has anyone totaled up how much it's costing the tech industry to go around insulting and threatening all of our allies?
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
"There's no basement at the Alamo."
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Color me skeptical. Whenever I see this come up in a social media feed it's a UFO influencer. It's leaked out into the legacy news presenters who have great haircuts and no critical thinking skills.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
I've been to the Holmdel office in the decline years. It was very sad. A fraction of the former staff was rattling around in what could've been used for a post apocalyptic sci-fi set. In its heyday it must've been magnificent
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
This behavior is strongly incentivized by the fact that recruitment and on boarding and training costs don't show up in the quarter, or maybe even the fiscal year, where layoffs are made. You can also hide a bit of age and wage discrim
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
I hope those steering wheels are for software developers, not remote support for cybercab. Actually remotely driving what's supposed to be an autonomous vehicle is dangerous. Waymo support never actually drives a Waymo. They pick from
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Rocket companies aren't high value. The vast majority of Falcon 9 lunches are for Starlink. They're not bringing in outside money. There are lots of financial shenanigans in the capitalization of satellites with short lifespans, a
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
A "multimodal data plane?" Popular? Jargon heavy middleware for linking kill chains?
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
> all while consuming very little capital or engineering resources. ... If you ignore Starship. SpaceX is operating on a $20 billion bridge loan which, if the IPO struggles at all, adds to the risk. Starlink depends on becoming a telco
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
There's a lot of retrofitting going on here.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Boeing is a US defense contractor. Yet there are plenty of Boeing employees who can have a high expectation of ethics in their jobs. You may think you are being even handed and neutral in some way. If you are actually, find me that part of
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
The Allbirds of cars.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
The army of YouTube stock pumpers didn't appear spontaneously. There's a budget for that.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
The claim was that all Teslas with version three of their onboard computing would become fully self driving. That's now definitively untrue. But, it isn't as if upgrading to the version four hardware will guarantee that you can ge
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
The plan appears to be to piss away a sum greater than the market cap of Rivian without refreshing the cars.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Some systems, like lawful intercept, are designed to be hidden even from telco network management systems. The LI console that set up a wire tap might log activity at that particular console at that particular law-enforcement agency. But if
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Especially for a end user product, this is the biggest example of don't sell upgrade-ability, and don't buy it if it's being sold to you. It's not an absolute rule. But it applies to about 98% of the market.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
How un-self-aware do you have to be for a principal cause of Europeans wanting technology sovereignty to think this is possible?

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