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by phil21 8mo ago
Spatial audio is pretty good these days on some titles. It's just most folks don't have a sound system that can really do much with it. Headphones can only do so much in this arena. Couple a modern AAA title (like Battlefield 6, e
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by phil21 8mo ago
SSDs came out after CPUs started to slow down on doubling (single threaded) performance every 12-18mo or so. So it was the only way to get that visceral improvement in user experience like CPU and platform upgrades were in the mid 90's
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by phil21 8mo ago
Hard to take much of this too seriously, since there are total misrepresentations like this: > Their automated reputation management system actively maintains the "cleanliness" of leased IPs, ensuring they don't end up on
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by phil21 8mo ago
Oh definitely. And our hiring practices are not exactly state of the art. I'll be the first to admit they need a giant amount of improvement. Most of the good folks have come in via word of mouth and networks, as they typically do. For
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by phil21 8mo ago
As someone else implied in their comment... If execution no longer matters, then what possible ideas exist out there that both are highly valuable as well as only valuable to the first mover? If the second person to see the value in the ide
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by phil21 8mo ago
Yeah, it's a great way for me to reduce activation energy to get started on a specific topic. Certainly doesn't get me all the way home, but cracks it open enough to get started.
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by phil21 8mo ago
> and if that's the case, what other explanation is there than "ghost jobs." You didn't pass some arbitrary ruleset given to an AI or machine learning algorithm. Companies can be very selective now, and usually implem
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by phil21 8mo ago
So where are all these speculators storing DDR5, flash, and even spinning hard disks? Asking for a friend. As a small buyer of all of those things supply at nearly any price has gotten very difficult to reliably predict week to week. When
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by phil21 8mo ago
AA artillery (radar guided, I'm sure even better improvements with modern tech could be made) seems like a pretty easy win here as well? Cheap bullets, downside being populated areas might impose a risk due to low-flying objects and th
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by phil21 8mo ago
> I did not claim this. I claimed most of the money that will be refunded will go to Trump toadies. That would require most of the money collected being from trump toadies to begin with. Anyone that regularly imports goods as a matter of
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by phil21 8mo ago
I think there actually was a lot of surprise from executives coming out of COVID that they could raise prices so high without it impacting consumer demand in the ways they had previously predicted. The Chipotle earnings calls were pretty
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by phil21 8mo ago
That’s not how commerce works. You agreed with your supplier on a price. You paid it. Doesn’t matter that part of the price was tariffs or component costs or labor. Doesn’t matter if your supplier gets a tax rebate or a kickback from an ups
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by phil21 8mo ago
> "Making AI pay more for its useless power draw" is nice idea but it is pretty hard to realise. And should never be a thing. It's not for others to decide something is useless. Let the market figure that out. It should si
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by phil21 8mo ago
Power prices have nearly nothing to do with proximity like that, at least in most areas. Local interconnect surcharges are a thing, but not usually material. It's the entire region where prices will increase. A facility could be built
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by phil21 8mo ago
Is a 20 cent on the dollar or so payment for the new tariff expense really going to save a company that much on the bubble? I'm sure there are a few exceptional cases, but that doesn't seem to me like it would be the typical cases
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by phil21 8mo ago
Mostly folks who bought base model with small amounts of RAM I imagine. While it’s workable, anything less than 24GB to me feels rather constrained. I definitely am not efficient though - leaving way too many browser tabs open I never actua
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by phil21 8mo ago
I don’t think folks in academia have come to terms with how much the above attitude has completely and nearly entirely undermined the credibility of the entire scientific and academic community in the eyes of the general public. You don’t n
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by phil21 8mo ago
To do work with your hands. I was just in a datacenter deploying a bunch of infrastructure while coordinating with remote network operations and sysadmin teams. It was damn annoying having to constantly check my phone for new slack messages
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by phil21 8mo ago
> I've found that the "we can do two things" and "we can walk and chew bubblegum" line of argument to be simplistic and just wrong It's painfully obvious to me society cannot do two things at once. You focus
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by phil21 8mo ago
Plenty of places in the US are not large dense urban cities, and the cops will absolutely respond to a battery call. Like every time. Plenty of places this would be the most interesting call of the day for a police force and you'd have
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by phil21 8mo ago
Depends on the size of denomination of the bills. Snark aside.. Obviously a digital currency enables far more control and surveillance, but the long march towards digital means of payment via the traditional financial system and systematic
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by phil21 8mo ago
It's weird due to the complete lack of second order thinking the majority of people seem to have. You can scream up and down about how building such things is a horrible idea because it can one day be used for evil, and folks will eith
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by phil21 8mo ago
Yeah it’s all the stuff beyond the one-shotting of the script that make it useful though. You just get the final result. The video you requested saved. No copy pasting, no iterating back and forth due to python version issues, no messing ar
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by phil21 8mo ago
I’m sure there are other ways of doing what I’m doing, but openclaw was the first “package it up and have it make sense” project that captured my imagination enough to begin playing with AI beyond simple copy/paste stuff from chatGPT.
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by phil21 8mo ago
Local LLM is so utterly slow even with multiple $3,000+ modern GPUs operating in the giant context windows openclaw generally works with that I doubt anyone using it is doing so. Local LLM from my basic messing around is a toy. I really wan
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by phil21 8mo ago
It’s really just easier integrations with stuff like iMessage. I assume easier for email and calendars too since that’s a total wreck trying to come up with anything sane for Linux VM + gsuite. At least has been from my limited experience s
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by phil21 8mo ago
While not allowing an entire industry and supply chain to die. One of the last heavily industrial and manufacturing industries left in the US at any decent sized scale. You need such things for national security, so it's very likely &q
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by phil21 8mo ago
What I think is interesting is if there is going to be a legal distinction between a seller raising their prices 10% for the item itself vs. a seller charging a separate line item for tariffs/customs/duties. I can see a situation
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by phil21 8mo ago
Importer != Consumer. I think that's very obvious to anyone paying attention to this whole thing. In fact, it's a small minority of imports that are direct to consumer. It absolutely is a mix of the importer (e.d. manufacturer, pr
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by phil21 8mo ago
It's just another way of saying "Ideas are worthless, execution is what matters" which has always been largely true. Yes, you need the idea first of course. But that's truly the easy part. 99% of "ideas" rely o

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