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by ryao 1y ago
This seems appropriate to link: https://www.dialupsound.com/
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by ryao 1y ago
Saying “always” based on your experience with a word that is over 2000 years old without knowing the history is a great way to be wrong. In this case, if there is a group of multiple people, the correct word is alumni, unless the entire gro
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by ryao 1y ago
At the heart of inference is matrix-vector multiplication. If you have many of these operations to do and only the vector part differs (which is the case when you have multiple queries), you can do matrix-matrix multiplication by stuffing t
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by ryao 1y ago
They could just buy the M4 models.
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by ryao 1y ago
VCs are run by people with big pockets. See the softbank's vision fund for an example. VC funds typically involve Accredited Investors, who all have big pockets, rather than the rest of us: https://www.sec.gov/resources
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by ryao 1y ago
Well, that explains why I had thought it was a very popular model. :/
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by ryao 1y ago
They could have licensed Compaq’s version. By the way, the Gateway 2000 was a machine by Gateway, not a vendor.
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by ryao 1y ago
Look at the caniuse.com links. It is following the same pattern as JPEG 2000 in those charts. That is a fact.
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by ryao 1y ago
Licensing Compaq DOS back to Microsoft was a mistake. It gave Microsoft’s OS incumbency. The PC industry has been suffering from that decision ever since.
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by ryao 1y ago
What was described was offloading portions of software development to a LLM to reach B faster. This works very well and is an improvement over the traditional method of implementing everything yourself. Shopify is tangential to this. I will
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by ryao 1y ago
> Interesting, but they are not manufactured more, but way less, as you can see. So, quality doesn't drive the market. Monies do. They were always really expensive, heavy and had low energy density (both by weight and by volume). Po
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by ryao 1y ago
> Can you give me an example of another battery/power pack which is built today and can continue operating for 11 years without degrading? I have LiFePo4 batteries from K2 Energy that will be 13 years old in a few months. They were
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by ryao 1y ago
I do not think that fits “If the money had not been there for all of that, how would the affordable versions exist today?”, but let’s agree to disagree. That said, I see numerous things that exist solely because those with money funded R&am
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by ryao 1y ago
Aldi is privately owned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi If you shop there, you are enriching its owners. That is not a bad thing. The more money they have, the better they make things for people, so it is a win-win
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by ryao 1y ago
Can you honestly tell me that modern cellphones are worse than the original cell phones: https://cdn.britannica.com/93/172793-050-33278C86/Cell-phone... As for your wireless headphones, if you compare them to earl
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by ryao 1y ago
So far, it is following the same pattern. Safari adopts it, no one else does and then one day, Safari drops it. It is currently on step 2. When step 3 occurs, the cycle will be complete.
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by ryao 1y ago
If it results in businesses like Aldi, then yes. Aldi not only pays above market rates, but charges below market prices for quality food. Honestly, I have to say that I am relatively happy with the things that I have these days because of o
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by ryao 1y ago
Your question was answered above: > What do you consider computers, cellphones, air conditioners, flat screen TVs and refrigerators to be? The first ones had outrageous prices that only the exorbitantly wealthy could afford. Now almost e
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by ryao 1y ago
At work, whenever we design hardware that uses Li-Ion cells, I always discuss safety before we even have done the design work so that we build something that is safe. Why did these guys not do that? Did they only learn about videos of li-io
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by ryao 1y ago
You seem to describe commodities, rather than new technologies that are not commodities. New technologies start so far out on the supply demand curve that an order of magnitude decrease in price can expand the market by orders of magnitude.
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by ryao 1y ago
That does not answer the question of how the affordable versions would exist if the money to create them was not there in the first place. You cannot recoup what never existed. Also, not all patents are monetizable.
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by ryao 1y ago
A sibling comment linked investopedia.com, which had a very different take on the matter. The TLDR there was: > The trickle-down theory includes commonly debated policies associated with supply-side economics.
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by ryao 1y ago
Would it have happened to the same extent? Also, describing these things as gadgets understates the extent to which they are beneficial, given that a gadget refers to a novelty by definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/
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by ryao 1y ago
R&D was required not only to create initial versions, but also to increase scale. If the money had not been there for all of that, how would the affordable versions exist today?
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by ryao 1y ago
Are those entirely separate things? Hardware development is expensive. Having the money to develop these things and iterate on them enabled them to begin as luxuries for wealthy people and evolve into things the rest of us can have.
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by ryao 1y ago
> there is no empirical evidence for trickle down economy I usually avoid responding to remarks like this because they risk forays into politics, which I avoid, but the temptation to ask was too great here. What do you consider computers
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by ryao 1y ago
Which one? There are huge variations between LLMs. Was this a frontier thinking model with tool use? Did you ask it review online references before presenting an answer?
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by ryao 1y ago
Gemini 2.5 Flash is meant for things that have a higher tolerance for mistakes as long as the costs are low and responses are quick. Claude Sonnet is similar, although the trade off it makes between mistake tolerance and cost/speed is
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by ryao 1y ago
I think he was referring to the ability to go from A to B within a certain amount of time. There is a threshold at which it is possible for a car, yet impossible for a horse and buggy. That said, I recently saw a colleague use a LLM to make
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by ryao 1y ago
> Are LLMs enabling something that was impossible before? I would say yes when the LLM is combined with function calling to allow it to do web searches and read web pages. It was previously impossible for me to research a subject within

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