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by mrandish 5mo ago
The Mandalorian TV series wasn't bad but the Star Wars franchise has been in reset/turnaround for ~7 YEARS (since the last movie). It's incomprehensible that Disney bet their relaunch on a spin-off streaming series based on a
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I haven't seen the movie yet. While the entire YT series is good, the part I liked best (and am most interested in going forward) was the later episodes where some mysterious organization starts exploring the Backrooms for unknown reas
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by mrandish 5mo ago
At least Hail Mary was an original IP with no built-in sequel opportunity. These days, I'd be happy if more major studio, big budget releases were adapted from original IP books. Sadly, I heard that the studio is apparently trying to f
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> this is probably a positive thing for Meta products If it was a subscription that eliminated all ads AND enshittification anti-patterns, like not putting every single notification, 'share my...' and 'show me...' opt
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I don't know if it's always more than 50% but on U.S. domestic flights a lot of people are carry-on only. It's far more than half on the routes and days frequented by business travelers. On routes and days where more consum
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> To see IBM then tonk Digital and transform the whole industry with an IBM microcomputer must have set their heads spinning. Indeed. Perhaps it's a mercy that DEC didn't know at the time that the thing that 'tonked'
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Totally naive question: is this a situation where stacking the drug with chemo might be even better?
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by mrandish 5mo ago
How quickly certs went from "securing your software" to "securing our business model".
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by mrandish 5mo ago
A good chunk of that was one-time gains from shifting GPU and memory architectures to better match what LLMs need at scale as well as some algorithmic improvements. Most of the low-hanging architecture optimization has already been harveste
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> The actual cost is going to drop 99% in ~4 years. We have little visibility into current frontier model costs at mass scale. As a broad historical trend, tech costs tend to fall over longer time periods but your claim far exceeds Moore
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by mrandish 5mo ago
In addition to being true, this observation is profound. When designing any multi-step system that relies on humans making decisions, whether in governance, organizations or economies, placing root causes as close to end effects as possible
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by mrandish 5mo ago
It's kind of fascinating how large corporations can end up acting like petulant children against their own interests and stated goals. We don't know who said or did what in this situation, but as TFA says, even if the researcher w
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I've always assumed when I hear people talking about AI emails, they're talking about longer formal writing to groups, such as a proposal not personal 1:1 messages. Hearing this kind of surprises me but I don't know first-han
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> So you are saying... No. Your paraphrase is not at all what I was saying. And I certainly don't think they are "colluding." There's a thing which economists call "conscious parallelism" or, sometimes, tac
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> As a result they went to extensive lengths to avoid pad damage, including never terminating rocket thrust in the first (IIRC) 60 seconds of flight. I was pondering this very thing. Was there a way to learn the same info as this static
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I think some may be using the terms "insider" and "shark" in different ways. To me: * Insider: A person who is cheating because they actually know the answer in advance or have direct, non-public, confidential informatio
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> The problem here was that they didn't announce to the host that they are doing a test of their in-development equipment. I might be okay forgiving skirting the disclosure rules BUT only if they tried to be model tenants and, if
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Sometimes it can be year-to-date extrapolated to full year (which might be calendar or fiscal). The tricky part is the timing of the cutoff period can yield true but misleading numbers, especially in the case of seasonal sales, a major orde
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I forgot to add that in the case of Tron: Legacy's on-screen graphics, the fact they're so good is probably due to a combination of two things. First, the director cared enough to make it credible instead of just plausible . B
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by mrandish 5mo ago
The video tech one of my startups made was used to do "On-Set Video Playback" exactly like this for a bunch of movies and TV shows. We didn't make the product for that purpose and only learned this was a thing when a playback
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Google can definitely play a spoiler role here not only due to their compute infrastructure and ability to play the long-game financially but they also have more existing ways to monetize with their other businesses. The ideal pro-consumer
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> Google, OpenAI, Anthropic could train a 30B GRAM-based model in days - and it could potentially have better local reasoning than the best model available today at >1T param I agree but with their urgent IPO-driven need to keep incre
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I suspect the more frequent incremental releases may also be to deploy new capabilities used by Anthropic to control costs and throttle consumption of resources. I assume any new controls they expose to end-users have far more granular sub-
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Near as I can tell Luigi nullified all his carefully planned evasion and escape routing by deciding at the last minute he really needed a coffee from the Starbucks across the street from where he was about to shoot his victim and didn&#x2
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Sure, selling the sorts of gold grandmothers and crazy uncles horde like rolls of Krugerrand coins, etc and even raw flake amateur prospectors mine out in Nevada is common and probably pretty easy to convert into cash amounts up to a few hu
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Yes, I agree. CIA cargo flights out of U.S. military bases and private airfields probably happen all the time. My point was that if the guy's scheme to get the gold issued involved a cover story of flying the gold on such a cargo fligh
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> it was probably a domestic bribe I did consider that for a minute but if it really was the CIA acting in any domestic capacity, I think they would have taken him down on some other pretext. Not that the CIA doesn't quietly do dome
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by mrandish 5mo ago
It really does. The verbiage just reeks of gratuitous buzzword grandiosity.
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> no explanation on what kind of expenses those could be I think it's pretty obvious the gold was to pay a bribe. The only thing I'm surprised about is the value. That's A LOT of money for a single pay-off or bribe. It see
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> I found out that it wasn't holding for LLM pricing You're correct. When a type of cloud service grows large enough and has a few competitive suppliers, enterprise pricing tends to coalesce with the large buyers paying around

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