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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Great, so I'm not just some idiot who doesn't get it. Why then is anyone entertaining this IPO when it's clearly based on such a dumb plan?
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Oh well that's good news. I don't mean to despair, I think it's within our grasp to break out of US tech dependence, I just worry the momentum won't last. There's a surge of EV sales whenever there's an energy
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
I miss XP sometimes
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
> We were taught that generalists and specialists will always have their roles. But now the market is shaping everyone into becoming a generalist. That's not a bad thing per se, until you look under the economics of supply and deman
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
I just discovered my ISP blocks archive. Is, had to use phone data. The article is very short and basically just lists a bunch of instances of govts moving away from US to EU alternatives, but it's a drop in the ocean right now. For ev
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Why are we considering data centers in space? What problem does it solve? I don't understand this concept at all. Surely putting server racks in orbit where you can't do basic maintenance without sending someone up there is a terr
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
I have an x61 myself, bought it last year to add to my Thinkpad collection. I haven't done much besides put in some real to verify it actually works. And suggestions on an OS?
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Ireland also stayed out of both wars. Ireland is also a tech hub, although those facts probably don't have any bearing on each other. Irelands success comes entirely from low corporation tax, EU infrastructure funding, investment in wo
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
It hurts a little that stripe is an American company since it was founded by two Irish brothers. It could have been an EU company to begin with
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Noob q: can advancements like this targeted at local inference have bonus effects for cloud inference? Presumably if you can get great results on cheaper hardware that also equates to less resource usage on cutting edge hardware, and less p
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Who doesn't enjoy a quick Jonathan now and then. But seriously, wouldn't productive text on a 90s cell phone pass this test?
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
I still use office 2003 on Windows It launches in half a second on any modern machine and does the important stuff even in 2026
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Really annoying but somebody used AI to transcribe whatever Tony said in his speech and interview, And it's really obvious because it's full of small mistakes "New cycle" instead of news cycle "Catherine reel"
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
I don't believe they do any of this for votes. I think somebody within the administration has a personal grudge against science, especially anything related to climate change.
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
I don't believe Trump himself makes any of these decisions, and as for deals I don't think he remembers what happened yesterday let alone a deal made on the campaign trail. Parties in his administration are actively trying to dest
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Having read through what saab is offering it seems like an absolute no brainer decision. The gripens would be built in Canada, injecting a big chunk of the money into Canadas own aerospace industry. The planes are cheaper to operate and pro
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
And you can warm up the croissant by just placing it on the trackpad while you wait for the LLM to finish
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
When will these companies realize nobody wants to talk to an AI? The reason we begrudgingly pick up the phone is because some problem is not solvable through the website. The last thing we want at that point is an automated system parroting
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
They probably just don't have any humans left in marketing that can write original copy. They've all been fired or has their brains turned to mush from using copilot all day every day
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
> I really hope no human would write something like that Sorry to shatter your hopes but any garbage an LLM writes is mimicry of some human written garbage that came before. It can only write cringe because we taught it what cringe looks
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Could it be that new tech that passes air over the board without a fan? Was announced last year, I forget what it was called
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
Yeah that's definitely it. So that makes this an arm device with nvidia GPU. It's not the first as you pointed out, but it would be a more consumer shaped example - a laptop that normal people might be able to afford
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by taffydavid 4mo ago
I could be wrong but I don't think there are any arm machines with nvidia GPU yet, I think that would be a first. So it's probably Intel
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by taffydavid 5mo ago
My first thought was "Tesla is making AI shoes?"
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by taffydavid 5mo ago
I misread the title as biff, and thought it was a back to the future reference. Turns out I need glasses AND it was a back to the future reference
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by taffydavid 5mo ago
Is there any better metaphor for AI than that scene? Everyone is terrified at the speed of movement and then it turns out it was all a grift and they were barely moving at all
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by taffydavid 5mo ago
26Mb sounds perfectly reasonable. Electron apps are usually 100+, and we live in a world where apps download gigabytes of LLMs in the background to do very basic stuff. Wait, it doesn't do that does it?
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by taffydavid 5mo ago
Well now I'm imagining Optimus robots teabagging the enemy.
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by taffydavid 5mo ago
I don't think it's a great approach for an actual game. In this case they're demonstrating that the model can create a shared space that's consistent for many players/users, for a short time. But like you say it wou
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by taffydavid 5mo ago
I have had fun with a $40 Chromebook on which I installed Linux (I can't remember the exact flavor). It great low power portable for writing on the go when I don't want to worry about bringing a more expensive machine around, but

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