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by mbesto 1y ago
> people seem to develop very weird mental models of what LLMs are or do. Why is this so odd to you? AGI is being actively touted (marketing galore!) as "almost here" and yet the current generation of the tech requires humans t
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by mbesto 1y ago
> There's always money for ventures that have positive ROI. If it can't help fund things like...checks notes...libraries then it's not really an effective ROI.
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by mbesto 1y ago
Its because Apple can't NOT have a beautiful screen and smooth FPS. Garmin uses AMOLED (ForeRunner 965) and focuses on the tradeoffs of battery life.
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by mbesto 1y ago
I'm fully cognizant that pc understands how payments work, hence why I'm asking the question. What you can infer is this - there is either some I'm missing, or there is some ulterior motive here.
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by mbesto 1y ago
For sure, but do you care to address the fraud/abuse aspects? FWIW - I personally would choose a quicker and cheaper transaction all day, every day, but if it came at the expense of losing my money, I'd have to think twice about i
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by mbesto 1y ago
> middleman that bitcoin is cleaved from is banks (that have control over all balances and transactions), and payment processors (same controls) Miners now replace this since there is a network fee required to transact. I'm not sure
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Instant on-chain transfers avoiding trapped liquidity. If you're transferring money from financial institution A to institution B, and the transfer takes a day, you're either slowed a day in taking the next step or you have t
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by mbesto 1y ago
We also thought 3D printing would print us a car, but alas. FWIW - 3d printing has come a far way, and I personally have a 3D printer. But the idea that it was going to completely disrupt manufacturing is simply not true. There are known li
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by mbesto 1y ago
For a couple grand a year, not having to worry about upgrades, backups, hosting cost, etc. is 100% worth it.
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by mbesto 1y ago
New todo apps have absolutely amazing UIs because people think the frustration of todo apps has to do with the UI. The thing is YOU WANT FRICTION in your todo app. There is something rewarding and satisfying about a UX where you've acc
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by mbesto 1y ago
Get Al Dente Pro and set your battery to 80% and do a full cycle once a month. It'll extend the life tremendously. https://apphousekitchen.com/aldente-overview/
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by mbesto 1y ago
Intelligent people also have come to realize that our government is essentially one performative instance after another and see a "uniparty" of legislatures (Congress) who have optimized for local maxima (getting reelected) and no
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by mbesto 1y ago
Search wasn't just "search". It was "put a prompt in a form and then spend minutes/hours going through various websites until I get my answer". LLMs change that. I don't have to go through 20 different peo
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by mbesto 1y ago
(1) Actually have a coordinated plan would be the starting point. (2) If the left truly wanted to help the American people like they say they do they need the programs they enact to actually work. Say what you want about Trump but he is eff
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by mbesto 1y ago
Two points: (1) You are correct that you cannot test UBI in a petri dish. It has to be all or nothing to see the REAL effects. (2) If you rework UBI to be a negative income tax and remove all of government subsidies and handouts then it wou
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by mbesto 1y ago
In most jurisdictions (especially at a national level) the changes that elected officials enact usually don't affect the population for at least another 12-16 months after voters cast their ballots.
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by mbesto 1y ago
I use CF tunnels pretty extensively with my home unraid server. The TL;DR is this - there are certain apps I host that I want to be public and don't want to onboard a Tailscale node (for example my sister uses my Plex server). So, inst
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by mbesto 1y ago
Weird... "No American grads on Meta’s top AI team, all 11 hires are immigrants"[0] [0] - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/no-a...
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by mbesto 1y ago
I think "medium scale" is probably more appropriate. For a $3M~$5M revenue SaaS you're still paying $50k+/year. That's not nothing for a small owner or PE backed SaaS company that is focused on profits/EBITDA.
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by mbesto 1y ago
> If this were broadly true, Waymo would be everywhere. It's not everywhere because of regulation and Waymo wanting to strategically roll it out carefully to markets. Remember, this is Waymo's first market to offer Waymo throug
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Those cars were something like $700k each Source? Also, those numbers are quoted with including capital expenditures, which will get depreciated over years. Also, to do a like for like comparison you have to include all of the people,
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Is it? Ummm then why on earth would they spend the money to build them if it wasn't ?! > but they certainly have to factor in all the R&D they're spending. Those are capital expenses.
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Why is anyone surprised that a smaller segment of the market will pay more for a safer ride in a luxury vehicle compared to a base model Lyft It's a criticism, because this same segment also realizes that a Waymo ride is WAY cheap
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by mbesto 1y ago
Drucker would argue you need practice (e.g. actually doing the work) rather than an educational background to be a good manager.[0] So I would argue he didn't have the experience to be a manager at that level. https://mlari.
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by mbesto 1y ago
> When the means of production are easier, that changes the supply and demand curves. There's more supply and lower cost, but that opens the gates to larger and new work that hasn't been possible before. Your correct, but you&#
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by mbesto 1y ago
The prevailing theory is that Meta did a 49% deal so it didn't set off anti-trust alarm bells. In other words, the 49% doesn't give them ultimate power, but you can best believe when Meta tells them to jump, the board and the exec
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Doesn't matter one bit, just like mp3 and torrents didn't stop digital music. mp3 and torrents are storage and distributions mechanisms, not production ones. This is an inappropriate analogy.
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by mbesto 1y ago
Eigenfocus, sorry! https://eigenfocus.com/
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by mbesto 1y ago
Just to give you some perspective...this comment: > I'm sure the capitalists among you will want me dead for saying this, but: pay your fair share. Is the equivalent of a finance person saying to a developer "can't you jus
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by mbesto 1y ago
> That's nuts, since a payroll should never be considered an asset. That's because it's not "a payroll". When a payrolled resource builds a combustion engine that powers the office where the rest of the payrolled

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