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by giobox 2y ago
There was no shortage of other deep-pocketed suitors trying to buy DeepMind too during the Google acquisition back in 2014 - I think DeepMind would have likely found a reasonable home regardless.
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by giobox 2y ago
> The problem is it does work, a lot, and not enough people push back to hurt their sales All the evidence in the car industry to date I've seen appears to show charging subscriptions for hardware functions that were previously free
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by giobox 2y ago
The UK sort of had this for a while via "The Tote" - set up in the 1920s by the UK government, it ran stores that took sports bets, had a presence at almost all horse races etc providing safe/legitimate services. > https:
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by giobox 2y ago
I was just working with OpenSearch's API recently, who sort of abuse the semantics of the HTTP spec by using GETs with a body to perform search queries, largely to solve a similar problem. A "QUERY" message type would probabl
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by giobox 2y ago
The concept works just fine, Samsung etc have at various times demoed this exact concept with their own android handsets. Sure it might not be able to run at 100% load for long periods due to cooling restrictions, its still going to be more
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by giobox 2y ago
As far as i'm aware, often times they just plug into an open socket on an existing powerstrip that are so often used for PCs, no vampire-ing required. You can then unplug the powerstrip from the wall, it stays powered, inputing electri
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by giobox 2y ago
> Llama doesn't have a free to use service. Llama is embedded for free in a ton of Meta products right now: https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/meta-ai-assistant-built-wi... > "A better assistan
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by giobox 2y ago
I don't think you can make a blanket statement like this - the defaults and privacy policy for FB have changed a lot in 16 years, multiple times. It might be the case today, but this is 16 years of data.
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by giobox 2y ago
Right, and in exchange users received rather a lot of services for free... photo and video storage etc as just one example, Llama is free to use, etc etc. While I've no sympathy for mishandling private user data as Meta has of course b
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by giobox 2y ago
I really miss the range of designs and ideas we used to get in the PDA market, there was so much choice 1993-2003 etc. The iPhone rightly changed the thinking on these devices, but it brought a lot of (IMO relatively) boring homogeneous de
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by giobox 2y ago
It’s a question of basic statistics; your original link does not compare apples to oranges. When you measure something to compare, it’s helpful if it is the same. This trick of conflating PHEV numbers is something most manufacturers don’t d
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by giobox 2y ago
You are missing the forest for the trees here; what we call the device we strap to our face is neither here nor there and of no relevance to my earlier argument. The issue is a great many people just won’t want to sit wearing anything at al
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by giobox 2y ago
It matters enormously if you want to meaningfully compare EV production between two manufacturers, yes. BEVs and PHEVs are not the same thing, and the size of batteries used in each is radically different. BYD have a company policy of confl
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by giobox 2y ago
Yes - it’s even more intrusive - you have to strap a computer to your face instead of merely sitting in front of it. That was the entire point I’m making. The barrier to using a webcam is already lower, and people routinely refuse to do it.
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by giobox 2y ago
We can’t even get people to routinely turn a webcam on at most companies existing meetings. Even internally at Meta and Apple, staff aren’t exactly falling over themselves to take meetings in headsets right now. The idea people will be stra
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by giobox 2y ago
I used to do this, but virtually all streaming sites etc block VPS IP ranges now. The beauty of OPs idea is that you get a nice domestic IP instead of one belonging to AWS/GCP/etc. I've also resorted to putting tailscale exit
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by giobox 2y ago
These statistics include plug-in hybrid gas cars (PHEV), of which BYD sell a lot, and Tesla do not make at all. > "The company’s (BYD) success is driven by a dual strategy of producing both fully electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in
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by giobox 2y ago
Weight wouldn't improve fuel efficiency as much as some people might think, especially at highway speeds, drag is a big factor. The huge reduction in most EV range when towing arises not really from the towed mass but mainly the increa
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by giobox 2y ago
> erasing the fuel savings While cars are undoubtedly heavier now than in the past, they are also in most cases the most fuel efficient they have ever been. Some of the weight is a direct result of fuel saving technologies in many cases;
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by giobox 2y ago
My experience with guitar collectors is that is often easier to collector guitars than practice and get good at the instrument, and I include myself in this statement. The guitar is so accessible and available at retail so widely, its not s
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by giobox 2y ago
Generally speaking, no one is getting banned from Stripe for the occasional transaction tested in production, come on. If this was the case, virtually every company I've ever worked at would be banned from Stripe. It's reasonabl
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by giobox 2y ago
I've found the only way to make friends/community as an adult outside of religion, at least for me, is to go to events relevant to my hobbies and interests. Yes it's difficult, but communities for just about everything are ou
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by giobox 2y ago
No, it was a common issue on PS1/PS2 era 3d consoles as well. It wasn't until we got digital connections like HDMI etc that the PAL/NTSC timing issues went away completely. The disconnect between rendering and logic was not s
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by giobox 2y ago
The concept of second mover advantage doesn't mean you have to go exactly second - your reply is somewhat pedantic - you just get the advantage by not being the very first. Apple absolutely enjoyed some second mover advantages in br
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by giobox 2y ago
There's an entire custom UX flow for forking on GH that is not part of git at all. I think its very fair here to discuss "fork" in the specific sense Github uses it, as its what has lead to some of the issues discussed. There
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by giobox 2y ago
> As the article pointed out, GitHub already publicly documented this vulnerability. I'm honestly not yet convinced that is enough here - I've fallen victim to this without realizing it - the behaviour here is so far removed fr
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by giobox 2y ago
You can be assured the component manufacturers would happily sell "certified" gear, and lots of us would buy it imitating our heroes etc. The parts can be identical to the parts used in training. Said certified gear can meet the o
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by giobox 2y ago
It wouldn't be that hard to mandate the riders use pedals that are only fitted at the course/track and otherwise stored by olympic officials. Power meters integrated in pedals have been a thing for a long time now: > https:&#x
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by giobox 2y ago
This is generally good advice, but the sophistication over the years of some of the fake Sandisk stuff as one example has meant at times even seemingly sound storefronts have become polluted with fakes. I imagine all sorts of random comming
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by giobox 2y ago
Ignoring the shuttles which I don't think conclusively illustrate your point; Google has for years threatened to develop land into homes in San Jose so workers can choose to live closer, with the idea of doing exactly what OP suggests,

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