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>"Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras." I have this recurring vision of what could
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Now make it 4 inches, and we'll be back to something approaching the perfection of iPhone 5.
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>crypto and "Web3" were never about anything other than "number go up" speculation and gambling You forgot organized crime
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>How is that legal in US? I am pretty sure that is not legal is many part of the world even if the sound was only on from 9 to 5. Because the people who live there voted for the kind of people who would allow it to happen. And they'
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I think it's fine for kids who want to do that. You should try to get yourself into a situation around other motivated kids who want to do something great together as a tight knit focused team at that age; it's fun and you'
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>The bart is basically the crowning achievement of US public transit. Hardly. People in this country outside of the Northeast Corridor have absolutely no idea what public transit can actually be.
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Heat death of the universe is priced in.
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>When we were kids, my dad felt like he was always the last one to buy into the stock market. He would buy, it would peak, and then it would crater. But if your dad bought and held when you were a kid he'd be up 1000% now. You simpl
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>But really, no guarantee the capital doesn't just flee to the other 95% of the world where they can import capital equipment needed to make stuff for much cheaper To do that though requires security/stability, supporting infra
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Stop trying to treat these things as more than they are. Stop trying to be clever. These models are the single most complex things ever created by humans; the summation of decades of research, trillions in capex, and the untold countless
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It's the cost. Full time serious agentic coding costs upwards of $100/day in Claude tokens (and Claude tokens are the only tokens worth even talking about). When this drops by 10x for a model at the level of quality and speed of S
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I think like a lot of people here, my posture towards AI usage over the last 2 years has gone from: "Won't touch it, I'd never infect my codebase with whatever garbage that thing could output" -> ChatGPT for a small f
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>Morally speaking, no. Practically speaking, it does. He would not have seen jail time. It's literally exactly what Shkreli got 7 years for, even after repaying investors. If you defraud money from someone and put it back before the
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>"Every round Anthropic raises twists the knife deeper in SBF. If only he could have survived the downturn his Antropic investment alone probably could have papered over the other loses." Things working out in the end doesn
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>Wonder if this is the beginning of the inevitable free fall? Probably not.
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Don't listen to anyone who tells you how to build an agent. This stuff has never existed before in the history of the world, and literally everyone is just figuring it out as we go. Work from the simplest basic building blocks possible
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Thanks for the F-Stack!
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>Plenty of people isolated and medicated with TV alone. Couch potatoes were a thing. As with all addiction, the poison is not just in the dosage, but the intensity of the hit. Television was only so powerful. Shows ended, commercials ran
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I do think the alcohol-fueled hookup culture that persisted in the US from the '70s to the '00s will be seen as a historical anomaly in the long run. The idea of empowerment has given way to the understanding that women have almos
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>The tradeoff of higher velocity for less enjoyment may feel less welcome when it becomes the new baseline and the expectation of employers / customers. This is precisely the question that scares me now. It is always so satisfying w
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> My advice for using PayPal is do not unless you have no other choice. This is literally their business model, which is why they are able to get away with so many shady practices. Until very recently they held a practical monopoly on we
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>My friend admitted to having political and religious arguments with chatgpt. They have mental issues which contributed. To be fair these are probably the same people who would have been having these conversations with squirrels in the p
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>"By all accounts, GPT-4o isn't malicious. It has no long term plans - it just wants the user to like it. It still does this kind of thing to people. An actual malicious AI capable of long term planning would be able to do that
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>These are people specifically moving to this unincorporated county in order to live "off the grid". This sounds ideological to me. Realtors out there are selling sandcastles in the sky to flatlanders who don't know any be
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The land is cheap in the San Luis for a reason. It can't support much life. Ultimately these are not multi-generational folks being driven out. They are newcomers who have overwhelmed the existing infrastructure.
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>That's kinda like saying you can learn to drive by just getting into a car, crashing then thinking about how not to crash it next time. That would be a perfectly valid way of learning to drive if crashing had no danger or destructi
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Doom 3: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3
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Am I alone in spending $1k+/month on tokens? It feels like the most useful dollars i've ever spent in my life. The software I've been able to build on a whim over the last 6 months is beyond my wildest dreams from a a year or
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>That would be doing Californians a favor tbh. Then we'd have an excuse to leave this rotten union. I know this is just frustrated anger, but it does no good. Our union has survived more than one braindead administration before. We
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>That is why they're doing it. They're looking for pretexts to reduce headcount. They don't give a s* if the positive is false or not. At least we're still at the stage where they're bothering to find pretext. Th
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