Zigurd

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by Zigurd 6mo ago
If by fight like hell you mean hype like hell, then yeah. Sam Altman's honesty problems, and Elon buying a VS code fork for $60 billion isn't a sign of moral uprightness or wisdom. There's a lot to be said for grinding away a
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
That's correct, but Starship is one of those Elon projects, like cybertruck, where the boss has a brain fart and tells his underlings to just make it work.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
The problem is that a lot of people not idly sitting by are UFO enthusiasts. They've done their own research.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
> How is a VSCode fork and a open weight LLM fine-tune worth $60B? The same way a rocket company that counts short-lived as satellites as an asset is worth 1.7 trillion. Congratulations to the Cursor folks, they are the only winners in
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
There's a big data set for cocaine. It comes from wastewater based epidemiology (WBE) studies.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Lets start: you. Followed by Stephen Miller. Trump, per the assessment of his own former chief of staff. Josh Hawley. Leonard Leo. All the "Dark Enlightenment." Your initial reading is tendentious and of little value. Are you seri
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
I know it's not a good look to be the grammar Nazi, but an actual guilded age in the form of collective bargaining for labor might be preferable to this new gilded age.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
All five actual Marxist-Leninists in the US appreciate your attention. Now let's list the actual fascists. Symmetry is beautiful but sometimes it's just not there.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Our country is less safe because the people behind these technology companies have brought us to a place where NATO allies do not trust us, and we are implicated in war crimes facilitated by these technology companies.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Great results so far!
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Fire has an institutional blindness to the idea of intolerance of intolerance.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Like Falcon 9, Tesla's charging business is a real business. Seemingly well run. But impossible to evaluate when baked into the fruitcake of overhyped Elon companies. And even if it's all true, those businesses still don't co
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Blaming all the losses on xAI makes my hair stand on end. It's way too convenient a place to bury aggressive accounting in other areas: Falcon 9 booster reusability is a nice story, but the cost of refurbishment is easy to game. Starli
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Dude, you believe in crypto. Of course you believe in orbital data centers.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
AI is dangerous. But mostly in the mundane ways that search engines are dangerous: they can reveal how to make dangerous things, they can help dox people, they can help identity theft and other frauds, etc. When the makers of AI products
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
I really like my pixel phone. I think the UI is a bit overloaded with gestures, but not enough so that I'm motivated to dig into how to nerf the AI overlay gesture. For a work project I recently started working on Samsung tablets. The
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
The SpaceX IPO is going to be a test of how long and for how much finance bros can remain detached from reality. A while ago now Elon said the quiet part out loud about cyber truck digging Tesla's grave. Artemis has been to the moon an
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
You could call the LLMs role "smart grep," and mean it to be derisive. But I would have gladly used a real smart grep.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Satellite backhaul really only happens in mobile disaster recovery truck-mounted cell sites, and the fairly rare occasions where a rural site can't use terrestrial wireless backhaul.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
You don't need to be close to having everyone connect to cause congestion on a satellite network. That congestion is caused by the amount of data used, not by the number of connections. Every kind of network has the potential for conge
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Please hold this bag for me.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Cockroaches everywhere: starlink revenue won't be enough to fund constellation sustainment. Refurbishment costs for Falcon 9 make the reusability economics dubious. And xAI is just a disaster. So is Twitter.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
9000 satellites that last less than five years, and no path from EBITDA to a GAAP profit. Never mind the crazy space data centers, even the supposedly profitable part won't be.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
They'll try. But they are between two forces squeezing the TAM: The anvil: satellites can't serve most people in a densely populated area, whereas terrestrial wireless can be engineered and deployed to serve any population density
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Iridium was first. It was a cautionary lesson. Listen to Patrick Boyle regarding Starlink. Not everyone was paying attention in class.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
This is the much more likely future of home robotics. Yes it will be a box, because it would be dangerous to let you stick your fingers inside that mechanism. It won't walk around.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
This is what actually happened. Methanol was put into industrial ethanol to prevent people making drinkable booze out of it. It was required. It was the prohibition era version of spraying Agent Orange on a cannabis crop.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
You can't mix really strong robots with humans without barriers separating them. That's one reason humanoid robots won't sell. They're dangerous. Real robots in real factories that make real stuff can juggle car engines.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
It's probably too much inside baseball to merit a study, but I'm curious if the results would change for part-time coders. When I'm not coding, I'm writing patents, doing technical competitive analysis, team building, et
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
One aspect of a product I'm working on is a family communications tool meant to bridge generations. My side project is an alternative client for Bluesky that runs as an installable app on many platforms, and cleans up some of the legac

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