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by richardw 1y ago
Scary part is: what if it’s inevitable? We don’t get to choose our environment, and toss one is forming around us. A friend’s dad only knows assembly. He’s the ceo of his company and they do hardware, and he’s close to retirement now, but h
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by richardw 1y ago
I got a pair of Pro 2’s in 2022, still going amazingly strong and I hammer them. I often fall asleep with them in. Only weird thing is that they sometimes need to be put into the charger and taken out again to for one to connect. It just se
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by richardw 1y ago
https://freedom.to/ Works everywhere for me.
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by richardw 1y ago
Converted into energy and then escape the black hole, from which light can’t escape? That doesn’t seem to compute. And if it’s converted into gravity waves then we have an excellent obvious candidate for how most energy will escape a black
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by richardw 1y ago
Testing the waters. I’d guess if it pays any dividends things will ramp up. This is also across all suppliers. At some point they’ll put more wood behind fewer arrows.
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by richardw 1y ago
Housing costs, cost of education for yourself and kids, needing to work and study longer to provide more. More women want careers longer. Basically we compete more until everything costs more. Now we need multiple salaries because everyone
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by richardw 1y ago
Countries are placing their bets. Fossil fuels will be a massive waste of investment in a decade. Anyone who can extrapolate a graph sees where this is headed.
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by richardw 1y ago
Right now you’re putting in unrequested effort to get to an answer. Nobody is driving you to do this, you’re motivated to get the answer. At some point you’ll be satisfied, or you might give up because you have other things you want to do,
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by richardw 1y ago
They’re great at working with the lens on our reality that is our text output. They are not truth seekers, which is necessarily fundamental to every life form from worms to whales. If we get things wrong, we die. If they get them wrong, the
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by richardw 1y ago
I’ve wondered whether humans who wanted to protect some areas of knowledge just start writing BS here and there. Organised and large scale, with hidden orchestration channels, it could potentially really screw with models. Put the signal to
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by richardw 1y ago
Nah I’m all over the place. I said the last 10, to check if the 90% claim could be true if you do what I’ve done recently: use it for tons of little general ad hoc things rather than eg code needing serious accuracy. I don’t “trust” it in t
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by richardw 1y ago
It ranged from whether an epic v10 sport surf ski was a good fit for a newbie, to entra ID questions, to local data residency compliance laws, new jira alternatives, why schools ask for closed shoes, text to speech tool search. Many of thes
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by richardw 1y ago
I just went through the last 10 chat titles and all of them were spot on for me. Maybe the person you’re responding to has a different experience than you do and calling their perspective “suspect” is somewhat uncharitable. (There are times
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by richardw 1y ago
Surely you can’t be too surprised. The market is pushing for move-fast high polish, speed over substance. You can just do things, move fast and break things, etc. Velocity is the moat, indeed. This is the market YC is breeding. When these g
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by richardw 1y ago
Interesting. I’m only a user of them but not had one second of trouble. I save them on my device in the native saving place (iOS/mac) and it just works. I didn’t know this issue existed and I’d like to avoid it. Is the issue when you s
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by richardw 1y ago
I’d considered it but assumed a person in one place is cheaper than many people wandering around to fill their own cars. Just bake it into the price. This is not an insurmountable problem compared to “require all buildings must be upgraded
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by richardw 1y ago
I’m making very loose claims. Hope, it’s not an huge stretch, etc. My error bars are very wide, intentionally, because it’s hard to predict the next 5 years. Your position is a lot more brittle. If self driving works, cars can go fill thems
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by richardw 1y ago
My comment is not solving for people who would be better served by charging at home, because they don’t care about the distance to a charger. Waymo’s can already find their own way to a charger, so it’s not a huge stretch to imagine people
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by richardw 1y ago
It’s not insane to hope many cars will be able to go and charge themselves at 2am, when roads are quiet and chargers are free, a few years from now. Optimise over the entire system, schedule it, car ready for the morning.
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by richardw 1y ago
Not only the climate situation, the economic situation. If the US protects the old tech for another decade it’ll never catch up. The US needs to move along the experience curve as fast as possible, build skills and volume and charging stati
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by richardw 1y ago
“We went outside this weekend. Terrible. I wasn’t hot anymore, the smog was everywhere. House was tiny. No AI to help with conversations and people were unfriendly. I’m staying plugged in, where we can fly amongst the stars on unicorns. Som
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by richardw 1y ago
Survivorship bias. The guys going home at 5 went home at 5 and their companies are not written about. It’s dark but we’ve been competing for a while as life forms and this is “dark-lite” compared to what our previous generations had to do.
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by richardw 1y ago
If I want facts that I would expect the top 10 Google results to have, I turn search on. If I want a broader view of a well known area, I turn it off. Sometimes I do both and compare. I don’t rely on model training memory for facts that the
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by richardw 1y ago
Photoshop etc are still just tools. They can’t beat us at what has always set us apart: thinking. LLM’s are the closest, and while they’re not close they’re directionally correct. They’re general purpose, not like chess engines. And they im
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by richardw 1y ago
CEO’s will be fine until their customers disappear. Are the AI’s going to click ads and buy iPhones?
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by richardw 1y ago
Almost perfect. Along with mail that follows you, I’ve always wanted a system that lets you grant the right to send you mail, that you can hard revoke. Physical and digital. We could call it “slightly more complex mail protocol”. No more la
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by richardw 1y ago
I’m assuming exploratory work from the exec, not something they make decisions with or put into production. If you need something you can trust, you typically need a lot of checks, including multiple humans. I play a weird part at work near
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by richardw 1y ago
You do what you want to do. You might find a niche you can double down on. $5 is a terrible price but a great way to see if what you build solves anything. In that way it’s a lot better than $0. Then you double down on the winners. If it do
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by richardw 1y ago
Look, 6 months is better than 18 but it drives the type of startup you’re likely to get. Anyone trying to move fast just can’t participate. They’re forced to go elsewhere. You can only deal with organisations that can survive and plan for 6
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by richardw 1y ago
Don’t need air supremacy if the boots are attached to ground drones. We’re not far off from a starship equivalent deploying a cloud of ground and air drones, some of which could help effect the air supremacy required. Like rapid dragon but

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