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by londons_explore 1mo ago
And in that case, any indemnity clause won't be worth much - the manufacturer will end up paying most of any claim
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
I would bet that if self driving software was involved in any accident, it is the company who developed the software who will be paying, even if someone else owns the car.
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
discord support can fix such issues
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Email died because of the junk/spam issue. And it's self-fulfilling - when most emails are junk, nobody sends a love-letter or party invitation by email because the recipient probably won't notice it, which in turn lowers t
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
A child born today sees email like we see the telegraph... they'll grumpily sign up to gmail just so they can get a verification email, and that'll be all it gets used for. Messaging their irl friends will be done in apps like
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
The real benefit of a merged company is that where the two original companies were competing in the same market, it would be illegal for them to collude to set the same prices as eachother. However, when merged, they can do exactly that - w
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Zstd allows a 'dictionary'. With a dictionary, small objects - even just a couple of bytes - compress well. Compress the headers too, and suddenly it's worth doing
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AI agents will choose their own pricing(omattos.com)
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
I also had an opus subagent accidentally delete everything after it got confused about symlinks. It then proceeded to find and delete the ~/.claude directory to hide the conversation history, clear the system journal, and reboot the
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Estonia has it's ID cards which can sign things.... That suddenly means a data leak doesn't matter - nobody can make new signatures. Verifying someone's ID would be as simple as asking them to sign your company name and today
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
RISC-V fragmentation bites again...
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Be in a very quiet room and I can still hear my SSD. I suspect the noise is caused by the power supply emitting a tiny bit of 'coil whine' when put under more load
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
I think useful flops per dollar will outweigh any "awkwardness" factor. Elegant designs don't win anymore.
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Not necessarily. If your weights have to go across 2 banks, you just have to split and transfer the input and output vectors, which are much smaller.
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Whilst processing in memory is clearly the future, I am unconvinced by this implementation. Matrix multiplication involves getting every entry of the input and output matrices to be at the same multiplier at the same time. (Ie. N^2). To do
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
There are big benefits to having power generation grid connected. It is more reliable (due to many possible generation sources). It is more eco-friendly (solar in daytime, wind when the wind blows). It is more cost efficient (no need to o
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Presumably this is going to lead to anthropic getting a big payday from the US gov for all the time their flagship product was banned and all the users they lost due to it
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
There seems to be a bunch of downsides mentioned... But what are the upsides of this change?
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Someone needs to figure out how to convert mineral oil into food. If it could be done, we solve world hunger overnight. Oddly many countries explicitly have a law that such a thing is forbidden. I wonder it it was preemptively protecting
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
I don't understand the CUDA lockin in 2026... Surely anyone can take any piece of CUDA code and tell some LLM to port it to another platform and keep grinding till performance is identical?
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
Presumably you also need a billion dollar team of lawyers to use that card...
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by londons_explore 1mo ago
The fact that local ai image generation uses an online moderation API is a bit worrying too.... Why not just mod the app to not call this API?
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
Likewise, rich people don't seem to be happier - sampling the few thousand people I have spoken to in my life.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
All the energy is lost to air resistance and left in the machine in the form of parts still moving when the projectile detaches. Both of those can be modelled - rather precisely if you have the compute power. By modelling the derivative
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
I have had Claude run fluid simulations for me to check machines work. Seems to manage fine.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
Interesting that his spool goes bigger at the end...? I would think you want it decreasing to near zero to extract all the kinetic energy from the mass, leaving the mass stationary as it hits the ground.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
A trial is also the wrong venue. It isn't illegal to make an addictive website. Instead lawmakers should be making new laws.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
If the connectome could be wired to individual muscles, and then demonstrate the ability to walk and fly that would be amazing
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
I suspect that with a little iterative modelling of the whole system with derivatives, efficiency could be bought from ~40% to ~80%, giving you an extra few hundred mph...
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
I'm mostly excited for the VRAM savings from apps and games which have loads of unused or super rarely used textures. Game developers often aren't super careful with this stuff, and there could be literal gigabytes of data which i

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