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by tristanj 5mo ago
Probably because the majority of all literature ever written was produced by introverts, even though introverts are a slight minority of the population. INTJ writings will be overrepresented in the AI training dataset.
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The epithet 'Democrat Party' has been used for over a hundred years to refer to the Democratic Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet) The slur stems from how the Democratic Party campai
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by tristanj 5mo ago
So what? Meta is still paying Anthropic hundreds of millions of dollars per month. The author of the submitted article is accusing Anthropic of fabricating its revenue numbers. The fact that Meta may make questionable financial choices has
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by tristanj 5mo ago
This author is out of touch with how much people are spending on Claude tokens. People are spending tens of thousands of dollars per month on Claude tokens. For example, according to a leaked internal dashboard from Meta, employees used 60
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by tristanj 5mo ago
A large team at Meta (16 people) would cost the company more than $8m/year. That is all-in cost, including payroll taxes, benefits, etc.
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by tristanj 5mo ago
One datacenter rack of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs costs $8 million. That's about the same cost as a team of software engineers. These data centers are not going to pay for themselves.
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This discussion is about iOS and your Linux phone is irrelevant to this conversation.
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It's an accurate statement. The US (specifically Delaware) has a world-class corporate law system. Delaware has a court dedicated to only corporate and commercial disputes, with 200+ years of case law.
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by tristanj 5mo ago
That case has nothing to do with contract law.
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They tried and failed. xAi made a mistake building Colossus 1 and ended up with heterogenous cluster of H100/H200/GB200 GPUs. This is a nightmare to train huge models on because each card has different specs, features, and hardwar
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by tristanj 5mo ago
I agree with everything but nitpick: SpaceX currently has two launch/catch towers in Texas, and they are building a third in Florida.
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Your standards of success are unrealistic and don't reflect the history of spaceflight. Designing and building rockets is incredibly difficult and has always been marred by a high failure rate. The early years of the US space program h
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by tristanj 5mo ago
That's very doubtful given recent news that Colossus is running at 11% capacity and has hundreds of thousands of idle GPUs. xAI acquired too many GPUs and currently doesn't have enough customers to use them. That's why they a
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by tristanj 5mo ago
1) The situation you described would be covered under the contract between Anthropic and xAI, and that any violation of that would be subject to financial penalties and legal proceedings. The US has a robust corporate legal system, and disp
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Bad read on the situation. xAI has too much compute and not enough customers using it. They have around half a million GPUs, some of which are stolen from Tesla, running at 11% utilization. xAI predicted more people would be using Grok, but
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by tristanj 5mo ago
All Starship test launches are suborbital so if anything goes wrong, the ship and debris fall back to Earth. Even if it was put in orbit, debris are not an issue because orbital decay at Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is significant. A satellite orb
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Both of those apps feel slower, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Newer versions of iOS use significantly more RAM than older versions. I'd estimate that OS RAM usage increased from ~1GB to ~1.5-2GB. This has minimal ef
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by tristanj 5mo ago
More like $25 billion since 2025, with $7 billion of spending in the past 3 months. Look at page 22 of the filing.
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Elon Musk owns 12.3% of Class A shares and 93.6% of Class B shares. Class B shares have 10x the voting power of class A shares. Overall Elon controls 85.1% of the voting power in the company. If Elon sells any of his Class B shares, they au
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Starlink is giving away the satellite dishes for free to grow customers. These dishes are expensive to manufacture and cost the company hundreds of dollars each. The estimated manufacturing cost of a Starlink standard dish is around $400.
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> There is no reason to completely rewrite the well-designed and working parts of the OS This is completely untrue. > Did you find any actual improvements anywhere after the update? Yes, I prefer when devices I pay for get free so
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Both apps you mentioned (safari and camera) have been almost completely rewritten in the past few years. The software is designed, written, and tested on latest generation hardware. It is then backported to older devices. Apple developers d
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by tristanj 5mo ago
No. The operating system, nearly all apps, and most websites are designed to run on faster hardware. The hardware in modern phones is improving by double digit percentages each year. Websites add more features. Apps do the same. Same with t
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by tristanj 5mo ago
There is no intentional slowing. These phones are just old. If you replaced the processor inside an older phone with the latest gen one, you would not notice any performance gap. Smartphone CPUs are improving exponentially at 20% per year
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Have you considered that the iPhone 11 is just old, and not powerful enough to run modern software? The iPhone 11 was released 7 years ago and is old by smartphone standards. A new iPhone 18 has 2.5x the performance of an iPhone 11. Smartph
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by tristanj 5mo ago
No, bear spray is the same as pepper spray, except highly pressurized to shoot a longer distance (10m vs 2m). Bear spray has the same active ingredient as pepper spray (capsicum).
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Batteries can never replace actual electrical generation, which is what the article is misleadingly implying. Your ICE/EV analogy is flawed and doesn't work here. Neither EVs nor ICE vehicles produce energy. Both release stored en
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The majority of energy produced in Texas (60%) goes towards industry. California is not in this situation, because California chose deindustrialization, pricing out and exporting most of its industrial capacity to other regions. California
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by tristanj 5mo ago
The most interesting insight from this chart is that Texas actually produces more solar electricity than California.
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by tristanj 5mo ago
I agree, this article is horrifically misleading. An array of batteries discharging 12,000 megawatts for ... 5 minutes? 1 hour? 1 day? is not comparable to a nuclear power plant generating 1,000 megawatts continuously 24/7 for months w

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