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by sifar 3y ago
>> They are not an advertising company who doesn’t need to uniquely target you for a billion different ads. Yet. Apple is running out of multi-billion dollar product ideas. To play the devil's advocate, if google can earn hundr
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by sifar 3y ago
In aggregate, you individual data is pretty valuable.
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by sifar 3y ago
The irony here is that paying for stuff here helps you avoid the ads only. You still don't own your data, when you agree to their ToS, which they can use internally.
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by sifar 3y ago
>> It boggles my mind, because I have seen how software gets built. How can it possibly all work? Wait till you uncover what the SW runs on :). From math, processor/memory, rtl design, verification, tools that generate the circui
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by sifar 3y ago
"What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious." - Lisel Mueller
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by sifar 3y ago
>> But if an EV costs 25-40% less than an ICE, and your car company cannot make those vehicles, your car company will cease to exist in short order. There is not a single EV car that is cheaper than an equivalent ICE car(subsidies d
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by sifar 3y ago
That's a great tshirt line. Especially at AI conferences :).
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by sifar 3y ago
You can disable the connected services from the settings. It still has an annoying pop-up every time you start the car to enable them.
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by sifar 3y ago
This one is 4G with a more powerful processor. https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-sim7600?variant=43076944298...
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by sifar 3y ago
The query language doesn't have to English or a complete language.
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by sifar 3y ago
The T-deck is based on ESP32-S3 which has a 128b simd data path too. And apparently it can boot linux too [0] :). My ideal device would have uC - ESP32/nrf Display - Memory LCD Keypad LoRa GPS LTE (optional) And yes - opensource firmwa
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by sifar 3y ago
Ellul's The Techonological Society should be on that reading list. I have found it to be a thorough analysis of what technology is and it's impact on society and individual.
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Do you have a link for these hardware devices ?
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For some reason i parsed this as one line of pure c.
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by sifar 3y ago
For the record, there is also Scipio. But yes, very few people in all of history who voluntarily stepped back when offered absolute power.
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by sifar 3y ago
One streaming service + DVDs from the library.
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by sifar 3y ago
until better algorithms or newer paradigm obviate the need for large memory/computations
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by sifar 3y ago
I mean technically yes, but the reason I feel it is nothing to cheer about is if you understand how these public funded corporations work in India. They are mostly the worst of both worlds - you get a monopoly with lousy service. For e.g th
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by sifar 3y ago
One could argue it was the other way round. It was done to break cash (since it cannot be tracked) and boost digital payments.
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by sifar 3y ago
Err ... more recent, not Indian but :) ... OpenAI. Basically almost any startup that was trying to acquire market share with VC money. Couple it with the Indian government's penchant for digital surveillance and you ignore it at your o
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by sifar 3y ago
>> The plain idea of UPI is that it is publicly funded digital infrastructure UPI is developed by NPCI which is a consortium of Indian banks (public and private), supported by RBI[0]. It is a not-for profit, but not publicly funded.
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by sifar 3y ago
>> The only successful digital subscription models have been for streaming (netflix etc), ecommerce (amazon etc); basically things that have never been ads-supported. Even they are moving towards ad now.
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by sifar 3y ago
Generally, since the memory is byte addressable, you load data which is packed into bytes. It is the compute instructions that use the specified bits needed. So in this case one would load a byte which would have 2 4b data, and then you wou
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by sifar 3y ago
>> Free speech and free media are very much alive and well in India. where :) ? They have become zombies. >> Btw, I don't have to agree to your definition of democracy. India has its own culture and history of citizen repre
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by sifar 4y ago
There are multiple ways to look at this. One is to stay small - the things you do matter in your individual sphere.You don't take care of your body, you die. You don't exercise your brain, it atrophies. You can increase this spher
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by sifar 4y ago
This group-individual dichotomy has been the oldest source of conflict. As social construct, both the individual and the group cannot exists without each other. One can only be an individual when one can differentiate oneself from or within
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by sifar 4y ago
>> "We, JPMorgan, are willing to bet $5bn that First Direct does not fail, with no upside to us if they do not" is a rather powerful statement. The upside is the contagion doesn't spread to them.
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by sifar 4y ago
>> Wow, another crazy silly idea that requires huge behavior change. Something the pandemic taught us is possible.
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by sifar 4y ago
>> Things were usually discovered in a confusing way that kind of made sense at the time, but had false starts and conceptual limitations driven by people still being in an older mindset when they were trying to discover it To know th
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by sifar 4y ago
The really sad part of this is it removes the motivation to reduce healthcare cost.

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