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by mft_ 2y ago
It’s interesting; we’ve lived within capitalism so long, it sounds reasonable for you to (archly) ask “do you not think all companies… should maximise their profits?” - as it that’s a given, and anyone even treading around questioning thi
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by mft_ 2y ago
I fundamentally agree with you. However, I’m struggling to imagine how centralised actions would work. e.g.: * Food and food ingredients are probably part of the problem, yet lots of people in America also manage to not be obese. There are
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by mft_ 2y ago
Very interesting price:range! My initial response was that it would cost a lot more when imported into (e.g.) Europe, but a very quick check shows that the Kia EV6 starts at ~70m Korean won (assuming I'm interpreting the Korean Kia web
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by mft_ 2y ago
(From personal experience) there's a large proportion of people living in the big Swiss cities as 'ex-pats', working for (mostly large) employers who support/sponsor their immigration and ongoing employment. (Such peopl
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by mft_ 2y ago
I see it used as a conversational gambit to downplay the impact of something you’re about to say (which might otherwise be received as over-the-top, or sensationalised, or aggressive, or ripe for someone to argue with). It’s a bit similar t
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by mft_ 2y ago
Indeed - every comment in a topic directly related to China, and all in some way negative…
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by mft_ 2y ago
(I know it’s unpopular these days but) this is where I think Elon has to be given some credit. He set an implausible but interesting ’mission’ from early on. He set the culture of the company from the start such that the concept (borrowed f
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by mft_ 2y ago
Can you recommend any good sources to explain how the Chinese government subsidises BYD? I’ve done a little bit of reading around and the term subsidy is often used without further clarification. For example, is it direct payments, or bus
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by mft_ 2y ago
Fascinating to imagine that but for an unfortunate marketing approach (and some limited unfortunate product decisions) Canon might have had a significant future --and now a legacy-- in computing!
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by mft_ 2y ago
LOL, you wanna try it on my ~2 generations old Core i5 corporate laptop. Sometimes, the first steps of drawing the calendar view are roughly the same speed as me drawing it in Paint. Maybe someone should normalise giving developers crappy
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by mft_ 2y ago
I like the idea that in MS (as probably in so many companies right now) there's a diktat (official or not) to start using AI everywhere. And somewhere on the Paint team someone smiled, and thought "hold my beer"... (Just wait
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by mft_ 2y ago
For decent on-device inference, you need enough memory of high-enough bandwidth and enough processing power connected to that memory. The traditional PC architecture is ill-suited to this, which is why for most computers, a GPU (which
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by mft_ 2y ago
2D vs. 3D, I think. 3D is where the excitement is, but also where the difficulty is from the kernel perspective.
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by mft_ 2y ago
You wrote "We don't even have the capability to permanently inhabit Antarctica" - this is what I was disagreeing with.
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by mft_ 2y ago
Not sure if that's a good argument. There are lots of places more hospitable and less remote than Antarctica that aren't inhabited either - the reasons why a large number of people would inhabit an area or not are complex. We ha
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by mft_ 2y ago
> Start off being run by an owner who cares and is invested in making good food, grow to a local chain, start franchising, grow and get bought by corporate, focus changes from good food to profit and consistency, food quality craters, cu
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by mft_ 2y ago
I’m interested; how is reading (static?) text better with a higher refresh rate? Or are you meaning scrolling text in support of reading it is smoother and more appealing?
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by mft_ 2y ago
That’s so bad, it’s good! Reminds me of https://www.lingscars.com/ only even more so…
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by mft_ 2y ago
> - Lots of people wear masks casually (not judging whether that's good or bad) It's worth mentioning that masks were in relatively common usage in Japan long before the COVID pandemic. (I have no anecdata whether usage was in
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by mft_ 2y ago
That, or something like it, might well be coming at WWDC next month...
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by mft_ 2y ago
Interesting question! From this article[0] it seems ~60% of the calories in lager come from the alcohol - presumably ~40% come from carbohydrates. And from Google, acetic acid is 349 kcal / 100g, versus pure ethanol at 700 kcal /
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by mft_ 2y ago
The author doesn’t seem to know whether this is a problem or not. They want to imply that it is, because Tesla being in trouble is good for clicks, but without more research and proper journalism this is just a story that a car maker is par
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by mft_ 2y ago
I agree that the pace of change makes such predictions risky, but as these assistants become more capable, and are able to perform more complex tasks on your behalf, I think the need to check their plans becomes more important - at least
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by mft_ 2y ago
Heh, maybe they should buy OpenAI instead of spending $110Bn on buying back their stock... In reality, I think we're quite a few generations away from being able to go without a screen (as the Humane Pin has demonstrated) - and I'
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by mft_ 2y ago
Not sure what I'm missing here, as Airtags have long worked like this - that as long as you had an iPhone or an Android phone with the anti-tracking app installed, you'd be notified of being stalked. So if your bike thief had an i
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by mft_ 2y ago
Maybe a very cut down version - any of the more recent and capable OpenAI models are surely far too large to put on an iPhone, and far too large to run (in terms of both memory available, and processing power). This would maybe align with
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by mft_ 2y ago
I'm interested to see how they handle the financial side of whatever extra LLM features they start to offer. Free, like Siri? Free to a point, then payment needed? Limited abilities are free? Subscription only?
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Fair point :)
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60 fps for me in Firefox, with the processor <1% while running. 3060Ti was working, but not hard.
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by mft_ 2y ago
Thanks for sharing the concept and the link - interesting read. However, since the overall message (as regards strength) seems to be something like 'if you fine-tune your print settings to be unrealistically slow, you can mostly but

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