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by cmiles8 9mo ago
I think the idea could work well but the execution in the field was consistently very poor. There were a few of these at airports with just an intimidating gate and generally non-engaging human standing there. It was as if they expected eve
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
Their fate seemed sealed when it was revealed a bit back that the “just walk out” technology was more hype than substance. Just lots of people watching what you’re doing on camera vs an actual AI that worked well at mass deployment scale. A
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
It was also not really intended as a lubricant but as something to get water off equipment and mechanical components. “WD” stands for “water displacement.” As you say, there are much better lubricants out there.
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
This is all a roundabout way to get Europe to step up and do more for its own defense… the current negotiation style leaves much to be desired, but it’s shaking things up as intended.
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
I’ll give you that the current US administration isn’t exactly scoring points for subtle diplomatic negotiation, but remember too that most of the United States was purchased from other countries. It’s not a completely bonkers idea that the
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
I don’t think that’s accurate. These issues were always there, but “the sky is falling” rhetoric is all the rage at the moment (in both directions).
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
Sure, Betamax was technically superior to VHS. But in the end the market still decides… nobody said “better” means technically superior… just something people want to use an other options available to them. “Good enough” with attractive val
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
I wish them luck, but while saying folks will drop the dominant apps seems all the rage at the moment people have been saying this for decades with almost no real progress at scale. The only way to accomplish this at scale is to build somet
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
“You told me these were the best engineers in the world!!” “I said they were the best engineers in Canada” (Great quote from the BlackBerry movie). Rings true here. You can’t fight market forces. To push out the US tech you need to build so
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
Makes sense given the search alliance already in place. Amazon/AWS was trying to push its partnership with Apple hard once that was revealed, including vague references to doing AI things, but AWS is just way to far behind at this poin
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
This is a pretty gross mis characterization of what’s happening. There’s been a lot written about the fluff that is a lot of these AI company “purchases” of “green” energy. In practice there’s no way to get that power from (insert middle of
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
This is broadly more PR puffery. We don’t need some magic AI model to tell us how to cut emissions. We just need to execute things we already know work.
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by cmiles8 9mo ago
AI is partly to blame here. All that power has to come from somewhere. The idea that all this AI is powered by “green” energy and unicorn farts is just a bunch of PR puffery from tech companies trying to divert attention from the environmen
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
Anyone seriously about tech should have a homelab. It’s a small capital investment that lasts for years and with proxmox or similar having your own personal “private cloud” on demand is simple.
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
tl;dr blowing up boats in the Caribbean and other aggressive actions, while controversial, has probably done more to address the drug pandemic than other things tried.
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
Such a “poison” could indeed be very powerful. While the models are good at incorporating information, they’re consistently terrible at knowing they’re wrong. If enough bad info finds its way into the model they’ll just start confidently sp
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
There’s no comparison to what’s going on now vs those examples. Not even remotely similar.
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
The “anti-AU hype” phrase oversimplifies what’s playing out at the moment. On the tech side, while things are a bit rough around the edges still the tech is very useful and isn’t going away. I honestly don’t see much disagreement there. The
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
A lot of software is like this. You can build a bare bones but functional version for 1x investment or something that addresses every bell and whistle (often with market research saying it’s really needed) for 1000x. The 1000x version is be
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
A bit of PR puffery, but it is fair to say that between Gemini and others it’s now been clearly demonstrated that OpenAI doesn’t have any clear moat.
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
It’s all broadly backed by a bunch of IOUs issued by those with no clear path to come up with the cash to pay the bill when it comes due. Hence the rising prices of credit default swaps.
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
The best people have all seemed to fled Amazon the last 24 months. LinkedIn is flooded with long tenured top tech folks leaving. I doubt that gives those left a great deal of leverage and Amazon was never known for market-leading comp.
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
“Paying” is a relative term here. Anyone that works for startups knows that it’s not really “compensation” until it’s cash in your bank account. Until then it’s just a theoretical number on paper, which tends to end up being worth a lot les
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
Not really though. The cloud has some stickiness. It’s pretty hard to move once you’ve settled in. For a lot of AI integrations though it’s just swapping some API endpoints and maybe tweaking the prompting a bit. For probably 95% of AI use
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
tl;dr some airlines have poo in their water. Best advice is to treat any water not coming out of a bottle on an airplane as non potable. Wash your hands with it and that’s about it and even then a good hand sanitizer afterwards is a good id
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
AI is turning into the worst possible business setup for AI startups. A commodity that requires huge capital investment and ongoing innovation to stay relevant. There’s no room for someone to run a small but profitable gold mine or couple o
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
There are absolutely folks like you out there and I don’t doubt the productivity increase. The challenge is you are not the norm and the hundreds per month from you and others like you are a drop in the bucket of what’s needed to pay for al
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
The story that’s solidifying is the tech is cool, it’s useful for certain things (eg, meeting note taking), but business have run a ton of “innovation lab” pilots that have returned little to no measurable value with leaders getting frustra
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
Yes. I’ve seen meetings where the dev team is going on and on about how it will take weeks to add a feature and someone calling BS just shares their screen, asks some AI agent to code it up, and it does. Is it 100% perfect? Perhaps not, but
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by cmiles8 10mo ago
Don’t disagree… I think it’s just applying a lot more pressure on dev teams to do things faster though. Devs tend to be expensive and expectations on productivity have increased dramatically. Nobody wants teams to ship crap, but also folks

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