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by fidotron 8mo ago
Aero software people are not highly paid. It's a travesty.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
> Some human still has to be accountable. Someone has to get fired / go to jail when something screws up. The turning point will be when threatening an AI with being unplugged for screwing up works in motivating it to stop making th
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Using an LLM to automate is simply the newer cheaper outsourcing with much of the same entertainment, but less food poisoning and air travel. Over the last 20 years a lot of engineering (proper eng, not software) work in the west has been o
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by fidotron 8mo ago
TypeScript is what this author is looking for. Golang just gets bogged down in irrelevant details way too easily for this.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
What's so incredible about OpenClaw is so much of the value people are deriving from it relates to: cron jobs, remote access, "privacy" (which really it's not if using remote LLMs) and an inability to fuse data across si
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Same problem here. Linux + KDE surpassed Windows many years ago, now I find I also prefer it to the Mac laptops, which are otherwise better only for portability. Apple need to get their software act together. Such a shame because the hardwa
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Canada's AI minister blames OpenAI for 'failure' after mass shooting(politico.com)
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Perplexity Computer(perplexity.ai)
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Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got Involved (2024)(nytimes.com)
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> I'm not sure if it's intentional This is the sort of comment that makes people lose faith in HN. There totally are cases where it's intentional, and no they are not discussed on the internet for obvious reasons. People i
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by fidotron 9mo ago
No, they really are that grimy and will pull tricks like this until you call them out on them. They will then issue errata later, after millions of devices have been shipped.
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> The latter have been emulated in software using trap handlers, but there was a significant performance penalty. This is a thing SoC vendors have done before without informing their customers until it's way too late. Quite a few pl
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by fidotron 9mo ago
This is why multiple monitors win: put the distractions on a whole other screen.
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by fidotron 9mo ago
Yes, I should have linked that story myself, it's one of the things that provoked the comment. There are differences for street legality mainly around importing older cars which meant at one point the JDM scene in Canada had access to
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by fidotron 9mo ago
What has astounded me about all this is the extent to which so much of our industry fall crisply into one of two groups: 1. Chinese stuff is cheap incompetent rubbish anyway, anyone near it is by definition a loser, so who cares? 2. Chinese
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by fidotron 9mo ago
Aside from everything else, Ford's CEO is not going to be subjected to the same rules as you or I. A reality of all gov regulators is a degree of flexibility with respect to people undertaking genuine R&D in an upfront and responsi
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> Now it is likely that Chinese EVs will drive on US roads from Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto into the US and US citizens will see for themselves. It is not clear they will be allowed to cross the border in these cars.
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by fidotron 9mo ago
What will be interesting are the restrictions on where the BYD vehicles are allowed to go. e.g. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/366599/chinese-evs-banned...
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by fidotron 9mo ago
They can only do JS cyberattacks? Maybe they need to use RISC-V assembly ;).
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> You really need to stop, because you are digging a deeper hole with every word. You just said that 3D printers and drone are easy consumer products to develop. Basically you can't actually read then and are just imagining things t
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> Yeah, no. Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about. "OK". This is why your snark is so easily detectable, you're the one that doesn't see how things have moved on. > Once again, sorry, you might want
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by fidotron 9mo ago
You're missing the point: the line between hobbyist and prototype now doesn't exist - there is a continuum where devices are made in single digits, tens of units, and progressively scaled up. This isn't the 80s/90s where
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> My girlfriend walks to/from the train station daily in the early morning and late night without any trouble and personal safety isn’t even something we spend any time thinking about. You understand this is the kind of thing those
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> Everyone who works this out either leaves or, if they get enough money, move to safe areas of West London. Today's Londoners do not realise everyone has left, it is just a bunch of people who moved there in the last ten years tell
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by fidotron 9mo ago
Indeed, but they also took the magic part of their product development philosophy of focusing on making the whole end-to-end process for users absolutely solid, which both companies do better than anyone else in those segments.
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> These solutions are priced well for commercial and industrial solutions at scale. Translation: they're expensive, and getting them working involves jumping through hoops more complex than simply getting boards off Amazon and launc
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by fidotron 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602802 I do appreciate your efforts at digging.
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by fidotron 9mo ago
> secretly & illegally recording audio for advertising This is a bizarrely specific thing to attempt to counter argument with.
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by fidotron 9mo ago
It's this now, but 3D printers, Meshtastic, and the ESP32 all seem likely to catch the ire of the administration if some deal is not done in the coming years. I've been saying it for ages, but a decent easily available western equ
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by fidotron 9mo ago
Come on, the Alexa devices are designed to do what? They wake up on a keyword, perform some local analysis of the following data, and phone home on an encrypted channel on a regular basis. You quite literally can't tell by watching one

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