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by richardw 2y ago
It seems to already use some batteries, but not sure for what: “the new ship includes BYD box-type battery packs and shaft-belt generators for the first time”
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by richardw 2y ago
I like it! How have you thought about news sources getting snippy when you summarise them and don’t send traffic? Not accusatory at all, I’m still unpacking my own opinion on it and wondering how much pushback services will get.
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by richardw 2y ago
https://www.producthunt.com/products/product-hunt/alternativ...
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by richardw 2y ago
Yeah quite possible. They have distribution, brand, customers used to paying a lot of money. Can go far just selling to the portion of existing customers who would like "the best local setup for AI".
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by richardw 2y ago
Then surely far simpler custom chips are the eventual model, like happened with crypto? Groq, Etched etc. In that universe, Nvidia has absolutely no moat and a thousand chips are coming.
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by richardw 2y ago
Surely all this applies to code and the written word in general? People allowed (and encouraged) read access to websites so Google would index and link. Now Google et al summarise and even generate. All of that is built on our collective ou
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by richardw 2y ago
I don’t get the need. With gaming there’s a real benefit to having the card close to a display. There’s enough benefit that you don’t mind it being unused 20 hours a day. There’s relatively little benefit to having training happen a few fee
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by richardw 2y ago
In terms of brand, Cloudflare reminds me of Google during the idealist “don’t be evil” phase. Giving away lots of free and benefiting from massive mindshare. I feel similar about Cloudflare now as Google then: very positive and wouldn’t beg
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by richardw 2y ago
I think AI blurs it more than ever, as it becomes easier to use. A chat makes any rando a superhero in the right context, if others don’t know it. Eg a 90 year old in a care home. You learn the ins and outs of any service, you’re the local
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by richardw 2y ago
The terms are being diluted hard. Everyone from a plumber with a no-code RAG automation tool to a FAANG phd can and have claimed the role “AI engineer”, and it can be true depending on the context.
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by richardw 2y ago
Depends. A mortar going off once will be an incident, but have a hidden mind ray targeting random 10 people a day in a big city and you’ll get a lot of panic, and it’ll gum up the works. Anytime someone gets a headache they’ll head to an E
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by richardw 2y ago
Nice memories. I had a version on the Amstrad called Animal Vegetable Mineral. It definitely kicked off a few neurons for me.
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by richardw 2y ago
That’s not how logic works. You can’t prove something wouldn’t have been impactful because there were few ill effects after the downside has been reduced. The point is the downside was unknowable beforehand, and we don’t have a full list of
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by richardw 2y ago
“On 8 February 1999, while testing Y2K compliance in a computer system monitoring nuclear core rods at Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station, Pennsylvania, instead of resetting the time on the external computer meant to simulate the date
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by richardw 2y ago
It’s a cap, not a target. Up to 200m, initially only up to 100m. It’s also for scientists, so the benefits are that you don’t have to keep returning to the surface. The whole idea is to reduce the cost and interruption to the work the scien
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by richardw 2y ago
I don’t think that’s necessary. We could create open trust networks/protocols that don’t rely on megacorps. In fact it’s probably exactly the megacorps who wouldn’t want this to happen because they benefit from the relative trust they
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by richardw 2y ago
Email and web browsing relies on “deny lists” rather than “allow lists”. So anything goes but you block bad addresses, rather than nothing until you get permissions/trust/credibility. This helped growth of all the networks but mea
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by richardw 2y ago
One of the top comments on BSky shows they got it back up fairly quickly. Try that when running on Google, say. If your business is on YouTube and they decide you’re dead, you’re dead. “But also, as someone who relies on your site, thank yo
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by richardw 2y ago
“Just enough to give you options” means you choose how much you need to own, and once you have the domain you can choose the rest. Back your data up, choose tech you can move. The point is that you don’t need to buy every single piece of in
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by richardw 2y ago
The second you have a domain you can move it where you want. Change the software, look and feel. You keep subscribers. You don’t need to own every atom, just enough to give you options. You can’t move your X or FB account. They can block yo
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by richardw 2y ago
The first AGI will have such an advantage. It’ll be the first thing that is smart and tireless, can do anything from continuously hacking enemy networks to trading across all investment classes, to basically taking over the news cycle on so
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by richardw 2y ago
Not sure, and they’re dealing with fewer issues than Tesla which self drives all over the place. But their stance is more conservative, and Musk has more than a whiff of cowboy, over claiming etc. Less compatible with safety. I was a fan bu
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by richardw 2y ago
But Tesla isn’t the only game in town, and eg Waymo seems to have a far better safety record. They’re doing “engineering” as it should be done, not “move fast and break people”, which is fine for websites but not great on the road. That’s s
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by richardw 2y ago
I think it’s turned into the place to submit work when you want as much harsh feedback as possible. You can get upvotes but need to run the gauntlet of “why isn’t it open source/here’s a better app/this is dumb” etc. Top comments
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by richardw 2y ago
Last week I joined about 19 other guys who meet at 6am for a light exercise, sharing and coffee routine on a beach. It’s great. Just pitch when you can, instant network. It seems fundamentally there for mental health (combating loneliness a
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by richardw 2y ago
Let everyone make the things they want to make. Make something else? These people do you no harm, why pull their efforts down? “When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narro
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by richardw 2y ago
And would be very motivated to know the correct numbers in this case.
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by richardw 2y ago
My guess: we’re training the machine to mirror us, using the relatively thin lens of our codified content. In our content, we don’t generally worry that someone is reading our inner dialogue, but we do try avoid things that will stop our co
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by richardw 2y ago
I assume the recommendation-edit feedback loop is valuable and so is access to code/text that isn’t on GitHub yet? Email says “GitHub and affiliates may use your data for product improvement.” Access to all the little changes in betwee
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by richardw 2y ago
Claude 70%. ChatGPT o1 for anything that needs more iterations, Cursor for local autocomplete, tested Gemini for concepts and it seemed solid. Replit when I want it to generate everything, from setting up a DB etc for any quick projects. Bu

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