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by futureshock 2y ago
Many cities in Europe still have their Roman era street plans. The street layout of a city is incredible sticky. Once you have a city built around cars and all the private property and infrastructure that goes with it, you are basically stu
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by futureshock 2y ago
I get what you are saying. However where I live in Florida, drivers are so pedestrian blind and oblivious that they’ll run you down right in the middle of the crosswalk while playing on their phone. Friend of a friend was just killed as a p
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by futureshock 2y ago
They call it the “engine block”! https://www.servethehome.com/a-cerebras-cs-2-engine-block-ba...
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by futureshock 2y ago
Why should I or you care if your elected officials make a solution I don’t like? I’m not a citizen of Portugal, not a resident and an only occasional visitor. If the government massively decreases the supply of tourist accommodations in fav
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by futureshock 2y ago
I actually do think you have a solid point. These models fall short of AGI, but that might be more of a OODA loop agentic tweak than anything else. At their core, the state of the art LLMs can basically do any small to medium mental task be
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by futureshock 2y ago
It’s your country. Elect some officials willing to tax and regulate the Airbnb issue and stimulate home building. How can you blame anyone else? The tourists and expats are there by your invitation.
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by futureshock 2y ago
I think what’s happening to Portugal is mainly due to poor governance. Expats and tourists are a patsy that only affect very specific neighborhoods in central Lisbon. And anyways we aren’t moving to Portugal. We have a few spots in mind, se
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by futureshock 2y ago
I think people get ridiculed for thinking like this, but as a gay man married to a EU citizen, I am 100% ready to pull up stakes. We spend months at a time in the EU and have several favorite places we’ve talked about returning to. Western
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by futureshock 2y ago
Yes we can infer. His political leanings are fairly Democrat. His media puppet is very left leaning. He didn’t announce this policy years ago when it would have been a nothing burger, instead just a couple weeks before the election as a spl
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by futureshock 2y ago
A warning or a promise? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Dies_in_Darkness
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by futureshock 2y ago
For my 12 hour transatlantics, nothing beats a Steamdeck for me. Sure it’s less immersive than a VR or xreal but it doesn’t really matter once you get into the game. I can easily play for 8 hours and barely notice the flight.
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by futureshock 2y ago
Polish trains can have some really excellent dining cars. We take the Warsaw to Berlin regularly and they have fresh cooked food like friend eggs for breakfast, or breaded cutlet. Shorter distance trains have the standard snack bar.
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by futureshock 2y ago
I experience this effect quite a bit because I live in several different cities seasonally. We took some ideas from the Digital Nomad ethos and have been location semi-independent for the past 10 years. We move between our bases and also sp
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by futureshock 2y ago
Plus, several times now we have changed one of our bases for a new city. Much easier to call up a short term rental agency and get a new furnished rental.
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by futureshock 2y ago
I keep watching old Star Trek TNG episodes and the way Data and the ship’s computer is portrayed seems to have been largely matched or even surpassed. And that was supposed to be 24th century tech that we caught up to in 35 years.
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by futureshock 2y ago
I don’t disagree about a bubble. A bubble for promising technology is probably inevitable. But what is this about going back to “business as usual”? Now that GenAI exists it has fundamentally changed what tasks a computer is good at and whi
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by futureshock 2y ago
Sounds like a dream to me, as I live my life on a 3 city rotation like this. Practically speaking, I just rent a house seasonally which is not so hard to do. There’s a small premium, but then I get to keep my equity in the market instead. A
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by futureshock 2y ago
I don’t think it was very good, it probably because it was too short. It’s basically a novella that severed as a kind of extended epilogue. It would have been better as a fully extended book two with space to develop all the characters and
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by futureshock 2y ago
As explained in the book, it was simply “The Premise.” Like a lot of my favorite sci-fi, it tried to run through a speculative scenario as faithfully as it can to science, engineering and sociology. But was there any reason for it to happ
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by futureshock 2y ago
I think that for every deceased family member there’s one random photo in a frame somewhere in the house. We have piles and piles of old photo albums from family that has passed. Those will never get looked at again. Photos are incredibly d
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by futureshock 2y ago
Yeah, I get where you are coming from. There’s a VR experience made by Google that takes all the images from the Curiosity Rover’s stereo mast cam and turns them into a VR recreation of the surface of Mars.[1] I definitely felt some kind of
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by futureshock 2y ago
Yes, I do think it’s plausible. You’re talking Microsoft and Google. Two companies with extremely close ties to the US government. And Amazon is a major investor in Anthropic. It doesn’t take a conspiracy if the folks with majority stake in
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by futureshock 2y ago
They are definitely working on that, but it needs to be the right kind of knee-jerk legislation, something that gives them regulatory capture. They can’t afford to lose control of the narrative and end up regulated to death.
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by futureshock 2y ago
This should really be retitled to “The AI investment bubble is losing hype.” LLMs as they exist today will slowly work their way into new products and use cases. They are an important new capability and one that will change how we do certai
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by futureshock 2y ago
It can be illegal to ague otherwise. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42898882.amp
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by futureshock 2y ago
I don’t usually recommend that tourists visit Warsaw for their first trip to Poland. There are plenty of interesting things to see there, but an international tourist is going to have a certain expectation of what they will want to see, whi
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by futureshock 2y ago
Warsaw is a fascinating city. I am not Polish but have spent about 3 months there over the past 20 years. It’s been a cool experience watching it continue to transform. There’s a very interesting mix of surviving architecture, rebuilt, reim
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by futureshock 2y ago
This project is now all the more interesting given what we now know about LLM scaling laws. It will take trillions of high quality, factual tokens to train the next generation of LLMs. Copyright is also appearing to be beside the point. A p
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by futureshock 2y ago
I believe that commute and the livability of cities is a big one. Most EU people I know find their commutes either pleasant or if they complain, it’s about 45 minutes. They don’t know what far even means. The city centers are fun, safe and
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by futureshock 2y ago
I have often heard it said that if we found a cure for cancer we would also get a cure for aging. The one immortal human I know is Henrietta Lacks (or her cancer rather).

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