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by bentt 4mo ago
It really changed when the game went from "Build the best product" to "Get the highest valuation" and the means of doing so were specifically NOT about building the best product. VC money was a factor, public exits were
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by bentt 4mo ago
I didn’t understand what they were doing with Apple Foundation Models until this. It made it sound like they were training their own. Good strat tho!
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by bentt 4mo ago
I was hoping for that too
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by bentt 4mo ago
I find Google Drive desktop to be just fine on Windows. Gave up a long time Dropbox sub for it and I have been happy. Dropbox just got too bloaty and unfocused for me.
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by bentt 5mo ago
Yes, they played a zero sum growth game and seeked acquisition and stock price increase. That ended. That explains most tech layoffs in the past few years.
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by bentt 5mo ago
GLP-1’s are a weak counterpoint. Perhaps go take a look at that yourself.
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by bentt 6mo ago
Big Pharma refuses to believe that the gut microbiome plays a significant role in human health. They either don't take it seriously or think it's so complex that it's not worth working on. I think they're totally wrong a
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by bentt 6mo ago
I hate this and I hate that they think it's what they should be doing. If Google can't see the difference between this and useful, moral AI tools then I worry for their path forward.
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by bentt 6mo ago
I thought this was Apple’s plan all along. How is this not already their thing?
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by bentt 6mo ago
great tip! i didnt know this.
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by bentt 6mo ago
The only reason they would do this is because some kind of research determined it would yield higher revenue.
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by bentt 6mo ago
It does blow my mind that advertisers pay to show ads and I pay to not show ads. That my friends is a Business Model.
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by bentt 6mo ago
https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/19/childbirth... Childbirth was extraordinaly dangerous. 6-8 births per woman and a 1-2% chance of dying per birth for the majority of history. We have no i
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by bentt 6mo ago
I’m a little confused. So you got a VPS… was that just to host the result? Surely you weren’t running the models on it? What were the models running on? It doesn’t matter a ton but would help paint the whole picture better.
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by bentt 6mo ago
I’m a Cursor user but I am not an agent maximalist. I just like having it work on code in an IDE with good inline diffs and a nice chat UI. This change is possibly too big and unless all my existing usage patterns are maintained or improved
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by bentt 6mo ago
Yep, Composer 2 has been quite good for me too. I only turn to Opus for major brainteasers.
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by bentt 6mo ago
It took SpaceX a number of goes to get their camerawork and streaming right. NASA just hasn’t done this frequently enough.
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by bentt 6mo ago
I support this. Having a boundary around tech is a great asset for a growing mind. At the same time, get your kids a computer early so they can learn the basics. Maybe even keep it off the internet. Skip phones and tablets altogether for as
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by bentt 6mo ago
Intuitively, it just doesn’t feel like OpenAI has a trillion dollar moat.
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by bentt 6mo ago
Let’s just focus on how cars and car culture are reducing birth rates. Nobody wants to chuck their kids into the back seat without a carseat any more. Laws aren’t the problem.
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by bentt 6mo ago
Because now you need less programmers. It is self explanatory.
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by bentt 7mo ago
Cool writeup. I never knew they moved to the name Pentium over 586 simply for trademark ability.
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by bentt 7mo ago
I wonder if Unity (the game engine) actually has a sneaky potential here. It’s cross platform, fast, and maybe just maybe less bloated than carrying around an entire browser like Electron?
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by bentt 7mo ago
Yep, it's an untenable problem for the medium.
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by bentt 7mo ago
By giving away a viable product to steal the revenue stream from OpenAI in hopes they'd die on the vine. To draw developer attention towards them and take ownership of a thriving ecosystem like a honeypot so they could bait and switch
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by bentt 7mo ago
I was a VR developer from about 2014 to 2020 after many years in traditional video games. The really sad thing about how VR evolved is that sim sickness was not taken seriously as a barrier for mass adoption. Too many devs and players cast
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by bentt 7mo ago
It would appear that the Metaverse (as envisioned by Meta) was nothing more than a way to "grow" when there was no other reasonable path. It was a solution to this problem and this problem alone. Nobody wanted it. Then AI comes al
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by bentt 7mo ago
Occasionally in the USA, power comes to those who would rebel by doing what's right.
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by bentt 7mo ago
Soon: company rebrand to MetAI
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by bentt 7mo ago
I've often thought that in the USA we could use a type of crime that's called "Betrayal of the Public Trust". It is reserved specifically for public servants and elected officials. The idea is that if you choose to do th

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