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by audunw 10mo ago
Some other brands rely on Mobileye for driver assistance. It’s clear from demos that Mobileye is on the same level as Tesla, the difference is that the don’t use end users as beta testers. I suspect that when actual full self driving is pos
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by audunw 10mo ago
Pumped hydro is just not a valid comparison. I wish people would understand that already… it’s only good for long term storage in certain key geographical regions. Its use case is very limited. You don’t want to used pumped hydro for short
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by audunw 10mo ago
You say it's not marked as an ad, but in that image there's a clear blue "Ad" label. Are there cases where that label is not present?
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by audunw 11mo ago
He’s probably thinking of robo taxi self driving. So that would be e.g. Waymo. I don’t think anyone has better self driving for consumers out atm, but you could argue that’s because other companies are not using their customers as beta test
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by audunw 11mo ago
Going by the Tim Todds interview with Jeff Bezos it seems like BOs approach is very similar in this area. It looked to me that the machines they had there to build NG is set up to produce rockets in large quantities. He talked about their g
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by audunw 11mo ago
I figure evolution will solve that. The kind of people who don’t have kids while living in prosperity will die out. The ones who reproduce will stick around.
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by audunw 11mo ago
It’s hard to do something that is truly novel these days. Though I’d argue that Zigs upcoming approach to Async IO is indeed novel on its own. I haven’t seen anything like it in an imperative language. What’s important is the integration of
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by audunw 11mo ago
Are you implying that Zig hasn’t been used in production? What about Tigerbeetle, Bun and Ghostty? I’m using Ghostty as my terminal right now. I feel like Zig is aiming a lot higher. So that’s why it’s taking longer and also why people are
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by audunw 11mo ago
But also in the real world I may not be interested in any error information for the library I’m using. I’d like to be able to pass a null for the error information structure and have the compile optimize away everything related to tracking
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by audunw 1y ago
You don’t have to hope. Avoiding function colours and being able to write libraries that are agnostic to whether the IO is async or not is one of the top priorities of this new IO implementation. If you don’t want to use async/await ju
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by audunw 1y ago
The new Zig IO will essentially be colored, but in a nicer way than Rust. You don't have to color your function based on whether you're supposed to use in in an async or sync manner. But it will essentially be colored based on whe
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by audunw 1y ago
Question: for a larger system, can a heat pump be used to increase the temperature of the radiator without making the rest of the system hotter? Thus radiating more heat from fewer panels?
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by audunw 1y ago
And? We still have yet to see whether full re-usability of the second stage is the best approach. The Neutron approach is really interesting, they can make the second stage incredibly light and cheap. Blue Origin claims the economics of a s
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by audunw 1y ago
I don’t think you realise how many people in China still live in poverty, with not much prospects of improvement. I don’t see how having 100 million poor small scale farmers is a benefit in this equation. You still can’t become a Chinese ci
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by audunw 1y ago
It’s not just about sugar/no-sugar. It’s about the amount of sugar. Sometimes I want sweetened yoghurt, maybe as a treat. Especially for the kids. Getting something with a reasonable amount of sugar in reasonable portions is the proble
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by audunw 1y ago
No. I can speak Chinese, I’m an engineer, I’ve had collegues in both China and Taiwan that I’ve worked with. It’s never been useful to me as an engineer (socially is another matter). I guess if I could speak at a really high level it could
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by audunw 1y ago
Why do people say it’s likely? There’s nothing in science that indicates that it’s probable. The closest field of science we can use to predict the behaviour of intelligent agents is evolution. The behaviour of animals is highly dictated by
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by audunw 1y ago
Why? There’s nothing in the current process of developing AI that would lead to a AI that would act against humanity of its own choosing. The development process is hyper-optimised to make AIs that do exactly what humans tell it to do. Sure
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by audunw 1y ago
No, it’s not really about intelligence. That’s not what’s driving the behaviour. That’s like saying a calculator is dangerous because it was used to make an atomic bomb. A calculator is infinitely smarter at math than any animal. Yet it’s
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by audunw 1y ago
Here’s my argument for why AGI may be practically impossible: 1. I believe AGI may require a component of true agency. An intelligence that has a stable self of self that its trying to act on behalf of. 2. We are not putting any resources o
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by audunw 1y ago
It’s weird to complain about accessibility in macOS when it has such a huge amount of easily discoverable accessibility settings to handle just about every need… including the option to turn off liquid glass effect!
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by audunw 1y ago
There’s a critical flaw in this argument. Alien intelligence will most likely have been driven by natural selection in a highly competitive environment where they’d sometimes have to eliminate competition to survive. AI evolves in a radical
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by audunw 1y ago
I don’t think anyone believes hydrogen to be relevant for ground transportation anymore. But for industry, grid energy storage (perhaps longer term, paired with existing gas power plants, to deal with dunkelflaute) and perhaps some roles in
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by audunw 1y ago
Zig isn’t inherently highly unsafe. A bit less than Rust in some regards. But arguably more safe in a few others. But the language haven’t even reached 1.0 yet. A lot of the strategies for doing safe Zig isn’t fully developed. Yet, TigerBee
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by audunw 1y ago
I don’t know how it is for Apple-M, but for chips I’ve worked on, this can definitely relate to PMIC/VRMs. You can tune the voltage you feed to the various power domains based on the clock speed required for those domains at any given
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by audunw 1y ago
I don’t feel like this article addresses the question of whether we’re seeing an AI bubble or not at all. To me this is very simple: certain companies have invested billions upon billions in AI data centres that need to see a very high retu
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by audunw 1y ago
1. A human has a lot more options to deal with things like sun glare. We can move our head, use shade, etc. And when it comes to certain aspects around dynamic range the human eyes are still better than cameras. And most of all, if we loose
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by audunw 1y ago
There is a Windows version if you're willing to use unofficial builds. I've been using it successfully for a few weeks. There's a few more rough corners than in the official Mac/Linux version, but it's usable.
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by audunw 1y ago
I don’t have a very high expectation of AGI at all. Just an algorithm or system you can put onto a robot dog, and get a dog level general intelligence. You should be able to live with that robot dog for 10 years and it should be just as c
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by audunw 1y ago
Weird comparison. With N64 everything was proprietary. The power brick, the memory card, the controllers. With Switch a lot more follows standards. USB-C charging. SD for storage. Bluetooth for controllers and headsets. I don’t see a single

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