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by xnx 1mo ago
Probably more to it, but that's a pretty weak example. There are a lot of reasons text files might be better suited storing data vs. the overhead of a database.
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by xnx 1mo ago
Does Matt own >50%? If so, the board is irrelevant. If not, I assume he would've been gone long ago.
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by xnx 1mo ago
Like virtual glass, water droplets, etc., the effect is mainly just to be flashy and show off. Any usability rationalization is after-the-fact.
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by xnx 1mo ago
How is supertasting considered "rare" if it is 25% of people? https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/kinds/rare-ability/
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by xnx 1mo ago
Roads are used by everyone. Transit right-of-ways are limited to use by transit and are extremely underutilized. In many cases, it would be better to turn those in to bike and/or AV lanes.
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by xnx 1mo ago
It works even better with high demand because it's easier to find multiple people traveling to/from the same places.
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by xnx 1mo ago
An even better idea would be to let transit users pay the real price for the infrastructure they occupy and their negative externalities. Not many people would want to ride the subway if they had to pay the full price.
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by xnx 1mo ago
Losing $1.8B/year ($55/ride) isn't anything to be proud of.
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by xnx 1mo ago
> instead of cities waiting Waiting? NYC, DC, and Chicago are blocking/delaying self-driving cars.
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by xnx 1mo ago
New idea is a new name for an old idea: series hybrids.
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by xnx 1mo ago
What does this compete with? Google Cloud SQL?
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by xnx 1mo ago
> Cruise collapsed the moment they were involved in a single serious crash The crash was bad, but the cover-up was even worse.
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by xnx 1mo ago
Agree. Google image consensus is very different: https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=sheep+dung
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by xnx 1mo ago
Some group (my bet is on "transit advocates") will try and paint Waymo as "Flock on wheels".
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Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents(arxiv.org)
4 points by xnx 1mo ago|0 comments
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by xnx 1mo ago
No idea what this site is. Paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09153
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by xnx 1mo ago
car company != software company. Building a car gets you approximately 0% closer to knowing how to make a safe software driver . Writing AV software is exceptionally hard. We only have 2 safe functioning drivers presently: humans (debatabl
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by xnx 1mo ago
Astra slop
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by xnx 1mo ago
Came here to also respond to that specific thing. Unless ai figures out how to make an airborne super virus from grocery store ingredients and hardware store equipment, the greatest danger is probably in a synchronized megahack of banking,
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by xnx 1mo ago
Site doesn't list prices without logging in (boo!), but I saw $50/plan.
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by xnx 1mo ago
Probably better to use perspective as the default like Sketchup.
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by xnx 1mo ago
Dashcam for your face.
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by xnx 1mo ago
Ironically, one of the things I most want from an agent like Muse is to read Facebook and Instagram for me and present posts in a user-friendly and ad-free format.
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by xnx 1mo ago
I largely agree, but skills are still useful for thing after the knowledge cutoff. (e.g. https://github.com/google/skills )
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by xnx 1mo ago
Cool tool, but hard to compete with Google Lens these days.
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Meta Introduces Muse, an AI Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel(nytimes.com)
2 points by xnx 1mo ago|2 comments
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by xnx 1mo ago
The UN represents the interests of people, not land.
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by xnx 1mo ago
I'm neutral on the map. If it makes somebody happy, great. Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram
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by xnx 1mo ago
attention >> information
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by xnx 1mo ago
> interest in who is at home when and what precisely they are doing. That is pretty far down the list. For the most part, they just want to see what products you have so they can sell you more.

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