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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
I've been thinking for a while about whether it would be feasible to produce an affordable 'personal cooling chamber' for lower income people in places getting scorched in the summer that don't have A/C. Basically a
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
I have to agree, yurishimo's assumption of returns is wildly optimistic. At a more sane expected return of 5% annually, you get $50k a year to live off of to just keep what you have (or rather, watch it slowly erode in value due to inf
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
You would think so! Perhaps in a more sane situation. We tried it and it did not help. Priorities shifted, facts on the ground changed, emergencies came up, and there was almost no chance to focus for long periods. Part of it was me not
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
I was utterly convinced at age 14 that I had ruined my life and any chance of a good career. I also was pretty sure the world was going to end soon. I started smoking cigarettes and experimenting with various risky behaviors. A few years
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
I was thinking more about parts and pieces of what runs in that rack for hobbyists. Or they'd be part of the customer base for leasing compute from someone else who bought the rack. Although there is such a thing as hobbyists with a to
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
Whatever it is suited for that they can get a decent margin on. Or, you know, hobbies. The demand is there and the market will find pricing that works.
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
My expectation is that government has already stepped in quietly and worked out an arrangement where they have unfettered access to the most advanced/dangerous models, and the public's access will be continually throttled from now
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
I would very much like to know more about your educational approach with regard to: > When I provide a demo of e.g. local AI, say in LM Studio showing the console of it rapidly flashing through thousands of words Because I am one of thos
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
This really elegantly sums up two of the most major areas of research in the field right now. I expect people are going to hammer at both problems for a while. It will be interesting to see how much useful stuff is built as a result.
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
Yes, it's all about the amount of money invested right now. Justifying that was always going to be tricky, and it still is. The compute capacity, however, is here to stay. There will be a seemingly endless line of people queued up to
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
Or, you can do like one of my former bosses, and just rattle off a list of 60+ major projects which would require a team of 10 to make any reasonable progress on in the near future, then pin it on one underqualified person, refuse to provid
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
Yep. 1998 was when the first HD broadcasts started in the US, and it took a few years before everyone switched over. Before then, everything was 720 × 480 at 30 fps, and before the mid-80s (and for many shows for a long while after) the s
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
I prompted it with "How uncontrollable flatulence taught me to handle business curveballs" and I was definitely mildly amused by the results. So much detail.
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
Depends what you mean by "used to". The 17th century or before? Sure. However, I would argue that in the US, we "used to" have far better separation prior to the 1970s, and even better than that before the 1930s. It h
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
That is a position of privilege not everyone has, and it is almost certainly temporary for those who do have it.
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
With the additional detail and the numbers you provided, that seems reasonable. Steepness of hills is definitely relevant, haha.
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
Minor nitpick with your first sentence: I do not believe "anyone with a bit of training" is an accurate way to describe what is required for pedaling a bicycle at 20 mph for 5 solid hours. At a time when I was in better shape tha
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
This is the part of the thread I was looking for. Obviously the whole question is how a robot cleaner compares to a human. As you point out, the potential for robots far outperforms humans in multiple categories (although clearly not all by
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
> the poweruser toolbar style These can be great for discovery. But one must-have for me is a unique keyboard shortcut assigned to each button on the toolbar. Because if I use a feature often, I would 1000x rather use the keyboard to i
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
I also wanted to see more about the temperature control aspect and was scanning the article for it. Some quick additional searching elsewhere turned up possible effects such as reflective surfaces, thermal mass, and moisture buffering.
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by slfnflctd 2mo ago
It seems to me it's more about Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Project and Teams now. With Entra and Intune, of course. All kinds of 'control and monitor your employees' stuff has been going on there for a while. I think th
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
Indeed. It already has. In particular I remember several extremely offensive slop pictures and videos being posted by someone in the White House. And I'm certain that's just the tip of the shitberg.
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
I have no idea what to do about the government interference. There's probably not a lot anyone can do. However, your last point is quite a strong one. Corpos aren't just going to stand there with their collective pants down, a
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
Yep. I initially looked into it as a potential avenue for sustainably producing some of my own food, but the math absolutely did not make sense. Growing a bunch of potatoes in a barrel would be a lot more bang for your buck with that goal
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
The LTO-10 can hold 30 TB of highly compressed data on one cassette, and will last at least 30 years without degradation (probably longer under optimal conditions). This is still useful for many things. It does take almost a full day to f
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
> I don’t have XM radio Well, that's where a lot of this type of content is (seemingly, at least) alive and well right now. Satellite appears to be here to stay, and can provide tremendous value on long drives. Particularly if you
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
Look into the Adbusters organization. I'm not sure I agree with them on everything, but they have created some excellent satire over the years and been involved in prominent protests.
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
> Can we expect that level of commitments from our governments or corporations? Clearly, right now we cannot. This is one of the worst obstacles to progress in these areas that I see, and I don't see any obvious way to fix it. The
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
> nor did the calculator play with our emotions It seems to me this here is the dangerous 'force multiplier' for destructive outcomes. It's one thing for a kid to become obsessed with a fictional character. It's a wh
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
The C64 was very similar in performance capabilities to the NES, and they share some chipset lineage. It really was a time of a step change for multimedia software. The C64 was the first modern, affordable, multipurpose consumer computer wi

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