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by lysace 1y ago
Base 14" MBP M5 prices without VAT or sales taxes: Germany: 1758 USD (1512 EUR) without charger. US: 1599 USD with 70W charger. This feels like is an insult.
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by lysace 1y ago
You neglected to mention Google's Android. It's business model that maximizes for reach over everything else is the root cause.
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by lysace 1y ago
Yes. Not the point.
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by lysace 1y ago
Have you tried the reasoning mode of Gemini Pro 2.5? https://aistudio.google.com/ It gives me the chills, thinking about when it has 1000x cheaper ~GPU compute.
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by lysace 1y ago
Valuation models probably begin to break down when the potential payoff is control of our solar system as we know it. OTOH it seems like mere single billions can buy control over the US if you're brazen enough, so perhaps these stock m
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by lysace 1y ago
Very high risk/Insane payoff (maybe).
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by lysace 1y ago
You edited your comment. It initially included something about not buying upvotes.
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by lysace 1y ago
Oh, "probably". How deeply scientific.
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by lysace 1y ago
I mean, I think the onus is on you to prove the opposite.
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by lysace 1y ago
I mentally place economic sciences sort of halvway between e.g. physics and social sciences on some imagined scientific rigidity scale. They seem rigid enough to be useful, but I hope they can be done better. Perhaps using better simulation
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by lysace 1y ago
(I added some text sort of to that effect to my comment while you were typing. Agreed.)
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by lysace 1y ago
It also sucks to depend on a binary blob + support contracts. Open source wins again. Much more so if you are willing/able to roll up your sleeves and fix the bugs yourself. Noone else will be as motivated as you to fix your particular
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by lysace 1y ago
Not sure if this is a joke or not.
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Why Japan Can't Produce Another Sony [video](youtube.com)
3 points by lysace 1y ago|4 comments
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by lysace 1y ago
Apologies for submitting something that is ad-monetized but I found this to explain quite a lot.
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by lysace 1y ago
> Making insulated wire was really hard. Fair point. This would probably have made the 1860 relay computer another 2x more expensive.
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by lysace 1y ago
> there's a bit of debate on how much of the Analytical Engine was Babbage, and how much of it was Lovelace. No there isn't. That "debate" is about who wrote the first program for the Analytical Engine (which I didn&
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by lysace 1y ago
Exactly. So, my hope is that AI can rebuild this lost art that is now deemed too expensive.
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by lysace 1y ago
I mean, what I'm after is a page layout that is designed with compactness and readability in mind. Going from a product database to that requires quite a lot. An example: https://archive.org/details/mouserelectroni
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by lysace 1y ago
I hadn't noticed the lack of printed IKEA catalogs until now. Seems like they stopped making them in 2021. They used to just appear in the mailbox. (I'm in Sweden. They were literally sent to every household in the country every y
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by lysace 1y ago
Sorry. I blame wikipedia's fact box. ;)
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by lysace 1y ago
https://technicshistory.com/2017/01/29/the-relay/ > In 1837, American scientist and teacher Joseph Henry took his first tour of Europe. During his visit to London, he made a point of visiting a man h
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by lysace 1y ago
Konrad Zuse performed an amazing feat. It's also fun to imagine this happening in e.g. the 1860s instead of the 1930s/1940s. I believe the tech was there (because of telegraphs), the production of relays just wasn't industri
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by lysace 1y ago
The name G-Drive is said to be derived from the word ‘government’.
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by lysace 1y ago
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchstabenmuseum It opened in 2016. This post is likely the most attention it has ever received.
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by lysace 1y ago
Build one to throw away.
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by lysace 1y ago
My thinking is that YouTube/Google/Alphabet are capable of detecting this crap but choose not to use that signal in the Youtube recommender algos.
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by lysace 1y ago
How do you find those channels? Up until recently the YT recommender algorithms did a quite good job at that for me. Now they serve up crap.
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by lysace 1y ago
One example: supposed factual documentary videos of historic events. But really, I’ve see this across so many genres lately. I don’t know if Alphabet wants to solve this, though.
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YouTube is now full of crap AI slop
39 points by lysace 1y ago|52 comments

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