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by sib 9mo ago
There's definitely a legal & contractual difference between (1) storing the books on your servers in order to provide them to end users who have purchased licenses to read them and (2) using that same data for training a model that
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by sib 9mo ago
Wonderful! I wish I were in that situation, but I find myself able to use lots more compute than I have. And it seems like many others feel the same.
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by sib 9mo ago
One would think (hope / pray?) that a $4T company could walk and chew gum at the same time. But, apparently not.
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by sib 9mo ago
The first modem that I owned was 1200 baud. The first one that I used was 110 and it was exciting when it was upgraded to 300. It took ~20 years from when I first got online until my home internet reached 512kbps.
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by sib 9mo ago
Ehhhh.... The most prevalent hybrid (at least in the US) is the Toyota Prius. At least until to latest models, they were very slow, with a 0-60 time of ~10 seconds.
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by sib 9mo ago
>> This is going to be the alternative to going to a doctor that is 10 minutes by car away, that is entirely and completely free, and who knows me, my history, and has a couple degrees. Well then I suppose they'd have no need or
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by sib 9mo ago
Many, many, many doctors (including at a top-rated children's hospital in the US) spent 4+ years unsuccessfully trying to diagnose a very rare disease that my younger daughter had. Scores of appointments and tests. By the time she was
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by sib 9mo ago
In general, health insurance companies (at least in the US) are pretty much prevented from using any health data to set premiums. In fact, many US states prevent insurers from charge smokers higher premiums. (Life insurance companies are di
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by sib 9mo ago
This is very cool. Some years ago I was on a small (12-passenger) boat doing an 11-day photography tour in the Svalbard archipelago. One evening, we were at 82' north latitude and I was on the bridge talking to the captain. He said, &q
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by sib 9mo ago
In all phone reviews (in 2006) there is near universal and near unanimous preference for physical keyboards...
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by sib 9mo ago
>> The climate controls should be physical buttons. So, if I'm using physical buttons, how do I set the temperature to 24° (75° for US-folks) without looking away from the road? Or set the radio to 106.9MHz? Or the cruise control
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by sib 9mo ago
Mobile phones.
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by sib 9mo ago
Somehow never learned after... ahem... multiple decades using computers professionally.
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by sib 9mo ago
I'd put Tesla and GM on pretty opposite sides of this. In the case of Tesla, they actually know how to build good UX and software (and integrate them deeply with the vehicle), so I've never missed CarPlay having owned and daily dr
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by sib 9mo ago
Yes, I'm sure that I'm the only person who's ever had a difficult, frustrating, annoying, or inefficient time at the CA DMV. Even with an appointment (which I had). California recalls 325,000 Real IDs. Ooops. https:/&#x
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by sib 9mo ago
I guess you've never been to the California DMV? I needed to get my "Real ID" driver license (when I was newly moved to CA). I first went to their official website and printed out the page listing the various types of ID requ
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by sib 9mo ago
Not really sure, but this comment doesn't seem responsive to what I posted (since I was not in an open-topped convertible). And the point about cops is exactly the issue - there is an actual human who observes and notes that it was a f
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by sib 9mo ago
2021-2023
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by sib 9mo ago
So obvious that I was incorrectly reported by a "fellow" driver when they apparently failed to see my kids riding in the back seat.
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by sib 9mo ago
Yeah and some blind (gender-TBD) Karen reported me on that when they couldn't see my kids sitting in the back seat.
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by sib 10mo ago
It generally does. If accidents (and payouts) drop by 90%, revenue will ultimately drop and profits will follow. Profit margins may increase, but total profit $$ will likely drop.
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by sib 10mo ago
You'd be wrong (source - worked in the Android org).
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by sib 11mo ago
Or on "a cure for cancer" (according to Gemini, $2.2T 2024 US dollars...)
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by sib 11mo ago
But it may be much better than dealing with the problems that come with having 500 "random" kids to socialize / interact with. Everything's a tradeoff.
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by sib 11mo ago
Stock market seems to agree with their strategy....
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by sib 11mo ago
Came to make exactly the same comment. It was funny that the author specifically said that Nano Banana got all five edit prompts correct, rather than noting this discrepancy, which could be argued either way (although I think the "righ
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by sib 11mo ago
A sports car on the roads through the Malibu hills is very fun...
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by sib 11mo ago
Have you driven in LA? Traffic speed is generally bimodal: either stuck in traffic jam or easily 15 mph above the limit. (Source: live in LA, drive regularly.)
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by sib 11mo ago
There are many, many, many airports to which it is easier to travel via public transit from their associated city than it is from Manhattan to JFK. For example, all of these global-top-25 airports have single-train access: London Heathrow (
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by sib 11mo ago
I've been in plenty of Uber & Lyft rides in what were literally taxis.

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