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by richardw 3y ago
Interesting. I assume you’d copy the object not the lighting. If you move a real object into a different room or outside you don’t expect the colour to stay the same. But if I’m pasting it into a word doc, I guess intuitively I might want i
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by richardw 3y ago
I find the market way more open and competitive than dot-com. Everyone is throwing up a chatbot or RAG solution. There are tradesmen and secretaries and infinite 19 year olds who are now able to wire together a no-code app or low-code bot a
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by richardw 3y ago
The safety conscious amongst us don't think "it will be evil", they think "what does it take to be absolutely sure that no bad outcomes can happen" in the same way we build bridges, cars, planes, firewalls, new medi
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Robots with hands and feet? Give that 20 years of continuous AI-assisted innovation.
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Social engineering, for a start. Everyone with a secret will be a target. Half the world will follow stupid leaders. An AI would run rings around your average voter. I'd be surprised if it can't run rings around basically every vo
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by richardw 3y ago
Love it. Triggers memories! I wrote my own similar-ish version of this for a school project in 1991. Although mine wasn’t mono, so I could draw in foreground colour, preserving the existing text, background colour or text. Eg draw a filled
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by richardw 3y ago
Except for radios. It's very annoying that every radio had a different UX, likely in the name of innovation and differentiation. I think that's a safety issue for e.g. rental cars.
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by richardw 3y ago
Correct. I often have hundreds of browser tabs open on my iPhone, but it knows how to manage resources by unloading the ones I'm not looking at right now. The Mac can also swap tabs or apps to disk. Or warn me when I hit 90%. The only
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by richardw 3y ago
I get this on an M1 Pro with 16GB. It's astounding. It claims to use swap but the trust is broken. I keep the Activity Monitor around and try to guess when it'll go flaky on me, but I never guess it right. I just restarted my mach
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Therefore imagine the impact of reduced snow and ice due to global warming. It’s free cooling and we’re throwing it away.
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by richardw 3y ago
Great question! “PDRC surfaces are designed to be high in solar reflectance (to minimize heat gain) and strong in longwave infrared (LWIR) thermal radiation heat transfer through the atmosphere's infrared window (8–13 µm) to cool tempe
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by richardw 3y ago
Inspired by a question on this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39584984 Potential impact: “Some estimates propose that if 1–2% of the Earth's surface area were dedicated to PDRC that warming would ceas
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Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling(en.wikipedia.org)
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by richardw 3y ago
No idea, don’t know what they stand for. This is logic. What do you do if you’re Sam Altman and ChatGPT has blown up like it has, and demands resources just to run the GPU’s. What is his next move? It’s not business as usual. The risk is th
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by richardw 3y ago
I might be too generous, but my interpretation is that the ground changed so fast that they needed to shift to continue the mission given the new reality. After ChatGPT, every for-profit and its dog is going hard. Talent can join the only M
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by richardw 3y ago
/engage tinfoil hat. I’d guess there are some deep benefits in having a strong partner selling this stuff compared to a rival. Not great for the target countries at all, but good for the Israeli and US intelligence apparatus.
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by richardw 3y ago
I’m a generalist who has been good to excellent at various technologies and languages over a long time but honestly am not currently sharp at many. I’ve written Python, TS, SQL and Java, with many API’s and domains in the last few weeks. I
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by richardw 3y ago
I can do an instant payment at the bank I work at, on a Sunday. We just warn clients that there’s no recourse but we give them the option. This is a choice, not an act of god. Our clients (including me) love it.
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by richardw 3y ago
Almost 51 here. I moved countries partly because it refreshes my mental clock. So much to learn and experience and try new things. I've lived more in the past year than the previous 5, and filled up the photo book so much. I'm tru
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by richardw 3y ago
I have. CEO of a 10k person company who is not at all technical told the team to redo the onboarding process because it was a shitshow with 20 steps. Every layer underneath that just went along. They fixed it, got the religion and it’s now
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by richardw 3y ago
I did some work at a distribution company where 25 years earlier someone said orders would be either "machine" or "parts". Everything was built on that, and until very recently when they spent hundreds of millions to rep
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by richardw 3y ago
In 10 years both of them will be utterly outdated, but it might be easier to replace the battery with a cheaper lighter 2034 model. Resale price of both will be governed by the price of new equivalent electric cars in 2034. If you’re allowe
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by richardw 3y ago
I remember flying to the UK for a holiday, and all I wanted there was a 512KB upgrade for my Amiga. Not a jersey, not a watch, just a RAM upgrade.
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“Secrets the mainstream search engines don’t want you to know“
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There are some very long transmission lines: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1305820/longest-power-tr...
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Thank you
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Interesting that Google started on a system cobbled together from cheap servers, creating reliability out of unreliable components and against the Sun’s of the time. Now all the cloud vendors are effectively Sun.
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by richardw 3y ago
I’m not sure what the mechanism for burying a town or city section is. It seems to have happened since antiquity, so it’s obviously the rational choice over millennia, but my intuition doesn’t connect. (Aside from soil deposits and erosion.
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Apple is coming. I think the personal agent is where we really want the smarts and if they’re not trying to own that space the CEO should be fired.
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And if the brand took off, I imagine you could “Bard” something as a verb but not “Gemini” it.

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