spiralpolitik

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ZSA Backpack(zsa.io)
2 points by spiralpolitik 19d ago|2 comments
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by spiralpolitik 20d ago
I'm guessing Canada and Australia would go for an EFTA 'lite' type deal. As EFTA doesn't require a customs union it's probably the easiest to implement and build up from. I think they amended EFTA to require free mo
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by spiralpolitik 20d ago
While there isn't an official "associate member" status, Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland all have custom deals with the EU so this just codifies what already exists in an ad-hoc form. The only bit the EU is rowing back is th
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by spiralpolitik 20d ago
There have also been a couple of audio versions over the years (one with Paul McGann). There was also a partial BBC attempt in late 80s/90s that was released on VHS with Tom Baker narrating the missing scenes.
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Official Homebrew GUI(github.com)
3 points by spiralpolitik 21d ago|0 comments
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by spiralpolitik 22d ago
It's the same plan. Apple's model is: Handle the query on device. If the device cannot handle the query, push the query to Private Cloud, If Private Cloud cannot handle the query, push the query to a third party of the users choos
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by spiralpolitik 27d ago
This is Apple's Achilles heel. If another company could release something like the Duo that seamlessly switches between phone, tablet, and desktop experience and make it Apple quality then Apple are in trouble. The technology is all th
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by spiralpolitik 27d ago
Definitely a v1 product but it's an interesting device. Apple is rarely first to market, but they definitely produce the device that indicates the point where there is a market. You can also see where they are going. In a couple of yea
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by spiralpolitik 1mo ago
The complaints at the time were entirely valid. The state of web development for mobile was pretty dire. HTML 5 wasn't released until 22 January 2008. People wanted to build apps for iOS in XCode. Nothing else would have been acceptabl
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by spiralpolitik 1mo ago
This matched my experience. 2002 I renewed in Canada with no issue. 4 years later I had to go back to my home country as I was told by my immigration lawyer that unless I had a connection to Canada, they would redirect me to my home country
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by spiralpolitik 1mo ago
Based on my experience 20 years ago you could only renew the H-1B visa in the passport in-country under extraordinary circumstances. In the majority of cases they reject your request and would tell you to travel to a consulate. Prior to the
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by spiralpolitik 1mo ago
The big advantage is that you can convert from JPEG to JXL without re-encoding. This gives you an easy way to save 10%-20% in bandwidth for images you don’t have a lossless master for.
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by spiralpolitik 3mo ago
There are two angles to this. One is that if you want to integrate your agent setup into the Apple ecosystem you need a network connected Mac running 24/7. The second is that the puck is heading towards local models. The people running
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by spiralpolitik 3mo ago
If the Delaware company has zero presence in Virginia then the state of Virginia can't do anything about it. The presence of us-east-1 in Virginia probably will complicate the matter considerably and I'm guessing it's somethi
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by spiralpolitik 4mo ago
There is no moat in the model and by making the them open, it’s hard for one to be established when the free models are “good enough”. OpenAI and Anthropic are both hamstrung by this. Anthropic does have the better chance of surviving.
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by spiralpolitik 6mo ago
I think the article makes a bit too much of the decision to partner with Google for the AI model. Sometimes knowing where the boundaries of your business are is better than trying to expand too far and getting it wrong. I think Apple unders
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by spiralpolitik 6mo ago
Nah, they'll just make the battery an external MagSafe accessory like the Air.
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by spiralpolitik 10mo ago
In-house vs Cloud Provider is largely a wash in terms of cost. Regardless of the approach, you are going need people to maintain stuff and people cost money. Similarly compute and storage cost money so what you lose on the swings, you gain
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by spiralpolitik 10mo ago
There is no moat in the models. The moat is in the UX. The problem is that OpenAI is far away from where the user is and not going to get there anytime soon. Google meanwhile is exactly where the user is. OpenAI IMHO is a dead company at th
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
I don't think Nokia at that point would have gone with Android with Google services which what the market wanted. They would have gone with Android with their own services (Maps etc) and app store. I don't think that would have su
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
The Pre and WebOS were hands down the best non iPhone experience at the time. The mistake Palm made was going exclusive instead of pushing it everywhere. I don't think the Pre ever recovered from that in the USA. The BlackBerry Z10 was
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
European tech was doomed in late the 90s when the EU decided to throw in with Microsoft et al instead of supporting building out a homegrown alternative ecosystem based around open source software.
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Nokia was dead company walking before Stephen Elop. Elop saw the writing on the wall and made one of the choices available. A different CEO would have made a different choice but ultimately at that point it would still have been too late to
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Good luck doing a controlled burn where the smoke is going to blow into a rich neighborhood like the Palisades. You'll be buried under so many environmental impact lawsuits that any burn will take years (if ever) to happen.
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Yes, that Prop 13. The insidious part is that commercial real estate in California is paying the same rates as they were when the building was built, despite the fact that the value of the building has increased many times since and the bui
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
It's a fair take. California is now unaffordable for most families and it's going to get worse. Example: New construction in Santa Clarita (north Los Angeles county) $800k 3 bedroom town house. Even with ~50% down you are still lo
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Prop 13 is the third rail of California politics that is choking the state. Until someone is willing to grab the nettle and fix the property tax situation to be fair and equitable to everyone then California cities are eventually going to r
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
It's largely the same issue that every sector is experiencing. Everyone is trying for the same high end of the market crowd to extract as much prestige and profit as possible and pricing out the mass market. Cinemas and concerts are in
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
The common pattern is that the off-shoring company will deploy workers on site for a year to do knowledge transfer and documentation of existing processes so that they can be moved off shore. Usually (but not always) these workers come into
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by spiralpolitik 2y ago
There are two possible end-states for AI once a threshold is crossed: The AIs take a look at the state of things and realize the KPIs will improve considerably if homo sapiens are removed from the picture. Cue "The Matrix" or &quo

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