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by ryandvm 2y ago
Trump is Tesla's only hope. Elon knows Trump is a transactional person and as long as he supports Trump, he can get the necessary governmental treatment his companies need to survive (tax credits, Chinese EV tariffs, some sort of asini
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Seems like it ought to be possible to link your identity on another platform (e.g. Blue Sky or Threads) with your Twitter identity through some sort of specific post (similar to a DNS proof) and just transplant entire swaths of the network
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by ryandvm 2y ago
That extra money comes in handy when you're paying $15K/year for health insurance because if you don't a few hours in the hospital would cost you triple that.
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I believe that too is illegal. Isn't he just paying them to "sign" a petition that they'd vote to support the 1st and 2nd amendments?
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Meh. Window sitting at places like this until they evaporate is doing the Lord's work.
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A few hundred years ago peasants would gladly die for their lords and kings. The more things change the more they stay the same.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
The obvious answer is Satoshi Nakamoto is functionally dead. His wallet would be worth around $70 billion dollars today and he hasn't touched it in over a decade. Either he is A) dead, B) lost the wallet and wishes he were dead, or C)
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by ryandvm 2y ago
The more money you allow into politics, the more politics becomes about money.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
> but LLMs do solve problems that people thought were extremely difficult to solve ten years ago Agreed. I would have laughed you out of the room 5 years ago if you told me AI's would be writing code or carrying on coherent discussi
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Not as long as you only define consciousness as the opposite of unconsciousness. /s
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Ha. I thought I was the only person that did this. I have a very spatial memory and before a vacation I love to fly around the area at low speed and build up my model of the terrain.
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Is your app in the Play Store?
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by ryandvm 2y ago
CouchDB was always a curious product that asked the question, "what would happen if your database and your application server were the same product?" Unfortunately I think the answer was nobody would use it.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Let's be real though. 99% of people 99% of the time are also not coming up with novel ideas. LLMs seem to mostly be limited right now by the fact that they're always losing context on new conversations and their interactions don&#
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by ryandvm 2y ago
He never believed in colonizing Mars (unless he's a moron). His Mars ambition has always just been about snatching the most lucrative inter-governmental contract that anyone has ever conceived of. Everything Musk has been involved with
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I doubt it. Elon seems to be operating from Trump's "what the fuck are they gonna do about it?" playbook. To be fair, this playbook works really well if you have enough money to just pay lawyers to run interference for you 24
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Couldn't agree more. And you didn't even touch on the pain and misery caused when an amateur hour shop decides to do micro services like big tech.
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Lol. "I don't see hate speech as long as I turn off the promoted speech."
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Very cool. Curious if you have looked into non-imaging (anidolic) solar collectors? My understanding is that they are actually more efficient than mirror or lens based collectors as they do not require precise aiming and are able to collect
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Absolutely. Metadata notwithstanding, highly encrypted payloads and highly compressed payloads should theoretically be almost indistinguishable from each other as both operations have a technical side-effect of extremely high data entropy.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Absolutely. The good engineers are always the first to leave a smelly ship. Then you're just left with engineers whose chief skill is kissing their manager's ass.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I assure you that the number of people that interpret those colors as encryption indicators is vanishingly small. To 99.9% of iPhone users it is a stand-in for "are these people in my cult or not?"
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If I make you aware of a problem that exists solely because of something you've done and you do nothing to stop it - is it your fault?
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by ryandvm 2y ago
> I don’t come up with an answer by thinking, “What’s the first word of my response going to be? The second word?…” Actually, I'm not so sure that isn't exactly what we do. That's why it's called a "train of th
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Absolutely. I posted a similar experience developing a Chrome extension with GPT 4o in a hour or so when it would have taken me at least a day to do on my own. I have no idea how people are hand waving LLMs away as no big deal. I think the
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I do not understand the AI naysayers. The other day I had an idea for a Chrome plugin. I'm a senior dev, but I've never made a Chrome plugin. I asked ChatGPT 4o if my idea was possible (it was) and then I asked it to create an MVP
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As an Android fan, I have to give Apple credit. They provide solid top-tier hardware and software, which Google does as well with the Pixel, but Apple also combines it with strong arm tactics to keep people inside the wall. No dirty trick i
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"The system's purpose is what it does" or whatever. The kid learned exactly what they need to know - a judge having a bad day can seriously alter the trajectory of your life.
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Good point. Perhaps the kid learned pretty cheaply that you don't fuck around when you're in the presence of a de facto king.
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I used to think the same way. Big proponent of the "stop eating so much" diet. It seemed so obvious. However, I can be whatever weight I want because I simply don't mind being hungry. I often just forget to eat. That is not t

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