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by ehnto 2mo ago
That describes almost every major auto company though. Some companies sell their luxury lines through different badging or different branding but it's the same line up. Even Nissan has a luxury line. If you want a 500k BMW you can do t
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by ehnto 2mo ago
The safety of a 2025 with the driving UX of a 1995 is what I want.
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by ehnto 2mo ago
Mercs and BMWs occupy the same market space. They are direct competitors. Mercedes may have a car or two that reaches just out of upper middle class but they are largely a middle to upper middle class brand, just like BMW. The fact that Mer
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by ehnto 2mo ago
I have a delayed sleep phase. In the modern working world that means I am not as effective as I could be, and it puts a lot of stress on my body to be awake when work requires. The stigma is real, no one truly believes it, especially those
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by ehnto 2mo ago
To show my ignorance in mathematics a bit: do you feel that having such neatly defined riddles gives the AI an advantage in solving them? A lot of Innovations or insights are obvious in hindsight, but no one thought to consider the problem,
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by ehnto 2mo ago
Not sure they got to having a normal business yet. Hopefully they don't just pivot entirely to energy.
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by ehnto 3mo ago
I don't think you can handwave responsibility like that, even if your theoretical were true it's still the responsibility of the org.
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by ehnto 3mo ago
No disagreement here, the incentives for software have always sucked. People complain constantly about how everything is enshittefied, that's just corporate incentives manifested.
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by ehnto 3mo ago
Depends on how you're running them I suppose. If you are running them on local hardware, then the harness is what you are concerned about. A compromised local model might be able to exfiltrate data via tool calls. If you are running it
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by ehnto 3mo ago
It's an interesting thought experiment, I have an existential disagreement with hourly tracking but that aside. Most agencies I know run on hourly rates. They are fundamental to all their calculations, all the way down to whether or no
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by ehnto 3mo ago
I hear you, some books are precious on a personal level but most books are made to be used, worn, enjoyed, thrown in backpacks etc. I can understand the used book experience gets ruined a bit, but to be frank I didn't buy the book for
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by ehnto 3mo ago
I wonder if it would be better to work on models thst can produce the 3D scenes in Blender that can be rendered to an anime style. That technique is already common, but if you could get AI to generate it in that format you could more easily
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by ehnto 3mo ago
Apologies, I meant ability to deploy new generation. You're right that areas of the US are cost competitive. This can change quickly though, so it's not that big of a deal. If AI energy demands push the Gov to deregulate/fas
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by ehnto 3mo ago
US running costs are higher than in China, because the US lags behind in energy, has higher real estate costs, and wage costs are higher. Eventually we will hit a "good enough for cheap enough" and frontier models will hit diminis
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by ehnto 3mo ago
Please see my other sibling comment reply, the analogy is about how LLMs will be used rather than what they are.
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by ehnto 3mo ago
The analogy is about business impact, I understand CNC and LLMs quite well and realise they are not the same technology. At some point LLMs will be used like CNC machines. Prompt in, output shipped to the customer after minimum wage QC oops
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by ehnto 3mo ago
> Skip the vibe coding, just let AI be a helper. This I think will explain the differences in experience in industry. As pressures increase, control and power moves away from developers who have historically had a pretty strong position
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by ehnto 3mo ago
There are other business models, it depends on what you're building. For a while almost everything coming out of SV was destined to be advertising real estate. Now I think there's more interesting businesses going on. We'll k
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by ehnto 3mo ago
A lot is said about context you can feed into the LLM but I do think there is still superior power in human context awareness. That kind of ambient collation and organisation of the whole business and its purpose, all the different work goi
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by ehnto 3mo ago
Flying drones is an interesting one, I guess you do have to drive the car out to site and set up the drone. But a lot of drone ops are waypointed, automatic flight. I can see a future in which the only thing the operator does is drive the d
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by ehnto 3mo ago
Super cool and close to my heart, albeit not the Yamanote line for me. There is an episode of Our Man in Japan with James May where he spends an admittedly short moment with the composer of some(all?) of these melodies. It's a surprisi
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by ehnto 3mo ago
I have really liked my GL.iNet travel router, also with OpenWRT. I didn't think I would need a travel router but they're pretty handy. I didn't realise routers like theirs existed, and had been paying through the nose for you
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by ehnto 3mo ago
The front page of HN has definitely be sparse on actual software accomplishments, it's been a lot of meta-level chatter on AI. Obviously a very important technology, but also just a tool, a means to an end. I am not seeing much progres
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by ehnto 3mo ago
The AI can't be held liable so it somewhat defeats the purpose of that kind of paper trail and compliance work. If the threat was losing your livelihood and possibly jail time, would you currently be comfortable being held responsible
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by ehnto 3mo ago
I think the unlock only happens once though. I think that's where people are misled at the moment, the technology was there but required huge compute and data ingest to show improvement, but we have done that now. What's next for
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by ehnto 3mo ago
Because a lot of things in the real world require forward planning, I don't think everything can be just-in-time and tentative/reversible. Some things have to be committed to else you have real consequences and lose your money.
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by ehnto 3mo ago
The crowdsource page says it has refillable ink tanks rather than cartridges. Unless they are modifying HP cartridges, which is probably not smart from a legal standpoint.
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by ehnto 3mo ago
I think I understand, but I will say that problem solvers are often masquerading as coders. I think they will leave software too. It is exactly the interesting problem solving that goes missing with heavy LLM use. Most business problems are
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by ehnto 3mo ago
I think at that point in my life I quite enjoyed how much he laboured the details. But the book Ready Player One had a few areas where the author just listed pop references, on and on, which reminds me of that. Something that helps me is ju
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by ehnto 3mo ago
I have certainly noticed my stress skyrocket in this new mode of working. I was used to getting a lot done very quickly, with intense pockets of work followed downtime. Now it feels more like a steady stream of medium stress, and there is n

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