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by tootie 3mo ago
No coincidence, BMW and Samsung did product placement in the movie too. Very conspicuously.
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by tootie 3mo ago
I think domestic robots will make a lot of incremental progress and that few, if any, will be humanoid. We'll see a laundry folder and sock picker-upper and they'll be more like roombas or just big cubes. And tethered.
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by tootie 3mo ago
> Peak Energy is buying its commercial cells via contracts with Chinese suppliers So really just assembly and sales then. I suppose it's a good start and maybe if business takes off they can figure out their own cells.
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by tootie 3mo ago
Not to suggest diagnosis on the internet to people I haven't met, but for me chronic insomnia was actually narcolepsy. Ironic given that it's disease known for excess sleep, but the actual core issue is broken sleep structure. I h
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by tootie 3mo ago
And yet I still see MAHA defenders even on HN.
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by tootie 3mo ago
Like much new technology, it evades regulations. Hyperscalers are getting crushed by popular backlash and resource constraints. And like typically nerds they'd rather dream up a massively overengineered solution rather than face their
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by tootie 3mo ago
They've still managed to capture a slice of government business because they have explicitly aligned themselves with one of the two major American political parties.
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by tootie 3mo ago
It's funny you should say that because I had to stop rowing due to repetitive strain on my ankle.
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by tootie 3mo ago
On twitter yesterday, someone posted a question about SpaceX/xAI making a poor financial decision and Musk answered saying SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of the Earth. His megalomania is really running wild so I would not put
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by tootie 3mo ago
It's potentially a great strategy. They can't keep up with Antropic and OpenAI in pure horsepower, but there's just tons of applications for which you don't need that much power and it's better to optimize for speed
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by tootie 3mo ago
I think "imposed" is a pretty fair word. LLMs already affect everyone's lives whether you use them or not and their footprint is still growing. It's like I don't have to buy a car, but cars are absolutely imposed on
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by tootie 4mo ago
Prime age is meant to filter college kids and retirees which makes sense but it is likely hiding the minor crisis in hiring for college grads. But I agree it's not disastrous just a yellow flag. The 20 year bull market has minted a lot
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by tootie 4mo ago
Every system ever has been a patchwork. Dodd-Frank and it's orderly liquidation rules are a genuine benefit. We had a commercial bank collapse a few years ago and there was no contagion.
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by tootie 4mo ago
Crypto has utterly failed as a currency. In that regard it's been dead for over a decade. If btc or eth were currency they'd be considered dead by deflationary spiral which is more or less what every economist predicted from the s
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by tootie 4mo ago
Honestly as much as people complain the US Federal Reserve really just proved their enormous value and thoroughly vindicated fiat currency. The financial crisis of 2007-8 should have been a new Depression and it wasn't. Instead we&#x27
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by tootie 4mo ago
I got a Steam Deck for my son. Docking it to an external monitor with mouse and keyboard in desktop mode is just running a nice desktop Linux with KDE Plasma by default. I showed him the basics and it's perfectly usable for his school
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by tootie 4mo ago
Surely there's tons of evidence and we don't need to wait for a government assessment that has been teased for over ten years. This has been litigated and investigated over and over and there's never been a shred of usable ev
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by tootie 4mo ago
We're probably still decades away from that kind of robot. And I firmly believe the domestic robot revolution will not involve any humanoids. It'll be a few purpose-built machines that resemble nothing organic.
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by tootie 4mo ago
Except businesses tend be focused on core competencies and not sprawling in a lot of unrelated directions.
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by tootie 4mo ago
AR has yet to produce any value for anybody. Google failed, Apple failed, Meta basically built a creeper spy cam. These may be the most advanced devices to date, but hardware hasn't been the limitation for a long time. There's jus
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by tootie 4mo ago
It's been the future for at least 20 years now.
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by tootie 4mo ago
I was leery of of Tizen on my Samsung TV but it's fine
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by tootie 4mo ago
We are essentially there now. We have begun the mass deployment of renewable energy and it's only accelerating. The problem is that energy consumption is also growing so it's a moving target. We are within reach of hitting peak em
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by tootie 4mo ago
This honestly just reads as harassment to me. Trump has publicly declared that he wants the federal government to own a piece of big AI companies. And not for any particular civic interest, just because he wants money and power. This feels
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by tootie 4mo ago
Arguably the V-2 was fully autonomous as well. It was just indiscriminate.
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by tootie 4mo ago
I was a little confused by "doubled our users" since that's more about inbound traffic than site experience. I guess it's really shorthand for "halved form abandonment" which is still pretty great.
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by tootie 4mo ago
Compute is presently in shortage but generally it's a commodity. It also depreciates.
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by tootie 4mo ago
It's perfectly reasonable to want one set of rules instead of a patchwork across very open borders. But just saying "you can't do it" is pretty lame compared to actually coming up with sensible rules first.
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by tootie 4mo ago
Basically nothing happened though. SpaceX asked them to change rules and they said no.
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by tootie 4mo ago
Why did you mention being uncomfortable in hot and cold season? I still don't know what you're complaining about. If an industrial process needs a lot of heat, you can burn stuff or use a giant heat pump. It makes no difference. I

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