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by awongh 1y ago
They are manufacturing consent by saying Iran was days away from having nuclear weapons.
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by awongh 1y ago
I guess this is a half truth- that people were still not happy with Iran- who they were still funding and also continuing to develop non-nuclear ballistic missiles?
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by awongh 1y ago
90% sounds good but the real dollar amount feels low. Two reasons for this stick out: - Are the multi-million dollar SV seed rounds distorting what real business costs are? Counting dev salaries etc. (if there is at least one employee) it d
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by awongh 1y ago
I guess I would have just assumed that because batteries are chemistry the size scales relatively easily. Anyways- isn't a normal cell in an EV battery is like a AA size? Is this still true for solid state?
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by awongh 1y ago
Most relevant part: > BYD’s solid-state EV batteries set a record by gaining 1,500 km (932 miles) range in just 12 minutes of charging. > The test charged the battery to just 80%, meaning total EV range could reach upwards of 1,875 km
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by awongh 1y ago
I don't like the idea of letting the LLM run wild and categorize things directly, but in a tab-organizing view it would be useful to add more semantic sorting of the tabs- maybe it would enable something like multiple tab-view control
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by awongh 1y ago
I think LLMs could have a reasonable chance at solving tab-related workflows (keeping track of tabs or the idea/concept of tabs) - that is tracking and sorting lots of small related research ideas. Sort of like a backwards perplexity s
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by awongh 1y ago
Crazy how much more acceptable this is only 12 years later. People were so angry in 2013.
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by awongh 1y ago
This thinking lets these big companies off the hook for purposely designing their apps to be incompatible with each others (iMessage message reactions for example). Even though it's just a text message reaction we need to hold these pr
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by awongh 1y ago
You're locked in because everyone else is already on the closed one and the switching costs are too high. If the big companies were legally required to allow you to migrate your group texts onto another platform with a push of a button
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by awongh 1y ago
I'm not against this in principle but I am a little skeptical that it would actually work in this case- I think search could be a good case for this (Google) but it's also in the process of being disrupted by LLMs so I feel like i
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by awongh 1y ago
Isn't there a degree of market creation that happens when there are big price drops though? What sort of technologies become enabled when putting things in space gets cheaper?
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by awongh 1y ago
A Lumatone is $4250, though!
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by awongh 1y ago
> I've written some program to emit MIDI based on key velocity. nice! Is the velocity code on the firmware side? Is that why it's not included on the demo site?
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by awongh 1y ago
This is cool! I want to try to build a hardware midi keyboard using mechanical hall effect switches like this: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/products/wuque-studio-dash-5... There's a few physical keyboards out t
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by awongh 1y ago
Ag water rights is a really f'ed up issue in the US. It's very tangentially connected to whether there's a data center using up water though. Besides which there are so many other f'ed up dynamics in the profitability of
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by awongh 1y ago
I think people get emotional when they talk about water, but it's easier when it's broken down into more specific categories- Every person should have the right to clean easily accessible drinking water in their homes. We know how
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by awongh 1y ago
Residential water prices should probably be regulated and fixed (or near-fixed). But people don't realize that residential water use is usually a tiny fraction of the total available supply. Just price the rest of the non-residential s
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by awongh 1y ago
It's unclear what you really mean here, but "suffer" from "scarcity" could mean a few things. Tech is not immune from abuses of power, but most water scarcity that causes suffering (people being literally thirsty or
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by awongh 1y ago
I feel like this water-AI datacenter idea is the worst kind of whataboutism luddite thinking. To begin with: - it's almost certain that there is an over capacity of compute being built, and some kind of bubble. - money is being wasted
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by awongh 1y ago
I feel ok that there's a distinction between legal rulings and other circumstances of the case that I as an internet person can use my judgement to understand. Just because someone is guilty or not doesn't separate other facts of
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by awongh 1y ago
Gotta reference this amazing film essay (2015!) on Kon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE
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by awongh 1y ago
It seems relevant that now it's extremely accessible for US people to move abroad to another country. It feels like Mexico City, Costa Rica, Bali, Thailand, etc. have taken up some of the slack from Austin and Portland. Edit: More spec
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by awongh 1y ago
The counterpoint is in the GP post though- Athens, Georgia. It's sort of close to Atlanta, I guess?
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by awongh 1y ago
idk, I think cultural elitism is alive and well.... no matter which area of culture you're in. If anything "curator" culture is making it worse, everything needs to be categorized, rated and put on tier lists.
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by awongh 1y ago
I always believed in that narrative but nowadays I do think there's some selection bias at work- no one mentions all the other places that have some creative people that were never the birthing ground for a cultural movement. Because a
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by awongh 1y ago
I was considering starting a business where the main traffic source would be SEO based, but based on all the gloom and doom around search I decided to hold off. Hard to say exactly how bad it’s getting right now. Lots of horror stories out
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by awongh 1y ago
We don't even know yet if the model is the product though, and if OpenAI is the company that will make the AI product/model, (chat that keeps expanding into other functionalities and capabilities) or will it be 10,000 companies
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by awongh 1y ago
Interesting that their niche seems to be small parameter models.
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by awongh 1y ago
> value within their right answers The thing is that LLMs provide plenty of answers where "right" is not a verifiable metric. Even in coding the idea of a "right" answer quickly gets fuzzy- should I use CSS grid or f

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