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by ericd 6mo ago
I’d just keep in mind that you’re comparing a niche product from a startup breaking into a notoriously competitive market who are also doing the harder task of making these slim devices user upgradeable to a product from one of the larges
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Efficiency goes way up with concurrent requests, so not necessarily subsidy, could just be economy of scale.
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So we’ve made a small number of exquisite King Tigers, and they’re making huge numbers of Shermans?
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The concern isn't at all about physical space, DCs are compact, it's about limitations of the infrastructure you're talking about. Turbines currently have a multi-year backlog. The interconnection queue for new generation is
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This is a major reason I think SpaceX’s space DCs aren’t insane, this is a pretty clear trend. These things don’t bring durable employment, they concentrate costs on infrastructure locally, and their benefits go to the world, so the only wa
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Eh it’s important perspective, lest someone start thinking they can drop $5k on a laptop and be free of Anthropic/OpenAI. Expensive lesson.
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Bold to run this on Sonnet and not at least Opus :-)
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Eh, working on rebuilding a Montessori school for a couple years showed me that kids are very intrinsically motivated to learn, just not always what the person who’s there to teach them wants them to learn that day. But if you enable that s
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by ericd 6mo ago
Ha yeah, maybe so. But the main thing is actually Socratic more than just going down rabbit holes, I was summarizing a few extended sessions there. But being Socratic, it also demands thinking, and they’re not always up for that. Open to su
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Ha I love talking with them about it, too, but my 7 yo’s stamina for talking about it is a lot higher than mine. But yeah, not trying to abdicate my parenting role here, just looking to get a little supplemental help, and cover things I for
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I'll probably open source and Show HN the AI tutor I've been working on for my kids at some point, but working on it has given me a little insight into the problem. The biggest thing is motivation. First off, if Khanmigo requires
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Yeah, that's weird. I've actually been working on an AI tutor for my kids that I'm thinking about open sourcing, but it drives the conversation in new directions using a concept graph that it can poll via tool use, and find t
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Thanks, these are a real trip, especially loved Pi Hard.
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It’s still pretty hard to get a contractor to show up and do a good job for less than a king’s ransom. Not that everyone can be a contractor, but there are lots of industries where there aren’t enough workers. We also need to rebuild our ma
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Would you have disdain for someone who used a human travel agent to plan out an itinerary?
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Guessing some used swamp coolers to save electricity on chillers, and some motivated people decided to make a big stink about it? Now everyone seems to think that DCs inherently use up tons of fresh water. They are definitely driving up ele
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Yeah fair points, I don’t really know the people you’re describing. My demographic wants a really good car, as comfortable and headache-free as possible, and would be happier if no one knew it was pricey. I was considering an X because of t
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> Who in the buyer demographic for a Model S wouldn’t take a Porsche Taycan, AUD A6 Sportback, or Lucid Air over that vehicle? I guess me, though I’d probably opt for the Y instead. I have a friend who drives a Taycan, one of the sportie
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Yeah, there should've been a "more" in front of "reasonable". There are probably other ways to maintain knowledge of how to make SRBs.
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Yeah, it’d be really nice if we could somehow express the strategic capabilities maintained in these discussions. Because on the face of it, SLS looks terrible, but paying that much to maintain the national capability to make something like
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Thanks very much :-)
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Was largely asking for all the people looking for specifics, since people were asking, and vague advice isn't very helpful when first starting out with this stuff. Like broadly, I've had luck with Linkedin messages for b2b and SEO
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Yep, makes sense, have any good illustrative examples? Thanks for the term, though, makes it more googleable.
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Nice, I've been using Hyprwhspr on Omarchy daily for a while now, it's been awesome, thanks very much.
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Ah very cool, thanks for the pointer!
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Thanks, but I meant more in a tactical/practical sense. What channels do you tend to use to look for those people and contact them?
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The Big Bang Theory, explained.
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Eh? Evolution functions whether procreation was intentional or not.
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How do you usually find the people you interview?
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The belief I was talking about was that that was at all representative of the median case, and the implication that it’s not worth the risk to have kids (this was before you added the big chunk about mortality being 4-10% in places without

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