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by qgin 3y ago
Mercedes has really been a dark horse in autonomous tech. First a commercially available level-3 driving system, now this
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by qgin 3y ago
So primary school in effect costs €3 a day?
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by qgin 3y ago
Illegal?
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by qgin 3y ago
Wow, I guess lots of people saw this coming a mile away
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by qgin 3y ago
Honestly did not expect the physical side of robotics to be the bottleneck for fully autonomous robots doing tasks out in the world.
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by qgin 3y ago
Family Dollar occupies a weird space. The successful stores are in locations where other retailers refuse to go. But they sell dollar store quality stuff at (sometimes higher than) Walmart prices.
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by qgin 3y ago
We’re still not quite there but you’re correct though. This tech could free up software engineers to focus on more interesting things. But that’s also true every time there are layoffs. Those engineers they got rid of were free to focus o
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by qgin 3y ago
The original Apple Watch: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-apple-watch-from-1995
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by qgin 3y ago
Sure, but if you wanted to detach from the modern economy and trappings of modernity like supply chains and life-extending healthcare, you could save up some money, get some remote, off-grid land, and live a subsistence life. It’s not free,
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by qgin 3y ago
Because everyone (and all their editors) on every project have to handle indentation identically or as soon as someone makes an edit, things won't run.
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by qgin 3y ago
I love this. I don't think it will ever catch on, but I love it.
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by qgin 3y ago
You could get pretty close if you wanted to
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by qgin 3y ago
If it's a bill that was drafted and passed by two houses of a democratically congress, how is it totalitarianism?
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by qgin 3y ago
What is a Globalist?
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by qgin 3y ago
Imagine if tomorrow, it was announced there had been a discovery that doubled average human life expectancy to 150. There would be happiness, but there would also be chaos. How many people would quit all the things they'd told themselv
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by qgin 3y ago
Government: hey no fair, people are demanding more housing than we're willing to let developers supply
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by qgin 3y ago
Yeah, to clarify, I didn't mean it would be a direct replacement for literature, just that on the same theme of of providing a resource in places where connectivity is an issue, an LLM is a reasonable way to compress a whole lot of hum
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by qgin 3y ago
A future version of this might just be a local, offline LLM
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by qgin 3y ago
Machine learning has already made liquid biopsy cancer screening possible: https://grail.com/multi-cancer-early-detection/
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by qgin 3y ago
Open source models seem to be lagging by about a year. But for the end user with a powerful enough computer, you can do GPT 3.5 level work for no additional cost right now.
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by qgin 3y ago
If management judges the AI "good enough" to fire people, I think you can describe those people as having been replaced by AI. People may debate whether it's a replacement of equal quality, but people still got replaced by AI
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by qgin 3y ago
Snow White Apple was the best Apple
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by qgin 3y ago
They can do a lot of things, but they're consistently doing this. The question is why?
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by qgin 3y ago
That's true, but the question is why is the market doing that? What is it about the new hire that is worth more?
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by qgin 3y ago
The environmental costs of rejecting nuclear power are soaring -- and mostly getting blamed on end users.
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by qgin 3y ago
These types of phones keep getting made and people keep not buying them in any significant numbers. I think people want to want this kind of phone. But it ends up being a kind of performance art thing / statement about modern society t
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by qgin 3y ago
Bryan Johnson is an expert in using trolling to gain attention for his project. He frames what he's doing in a way that he knows people will love to hate, knowing he'll collect fans as part of the publicity.
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by qgin 3y ago
For a doomed technology, I sure am using it for a lot of useful work
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by qgin 3y ago
The idea that people still try to frame this as a failure personal of responsibility is nuts. This kind of sudden (in biological terms) shift comes from a changed environment.
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by qgin 3y ago
We're on track to hit 10 billion by the end of the century and probably flatline from there for another century.

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