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zer00eyz
3mo ago
> Wifi for anything but cameras Buttons (key presses, remotes - think rapid input), Knobs, sliders, Pixel LED' strips, some MM wave sensors, ir/radio transmitters, really need wifi. There is products where you will want a bluet
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3mo ago
This is what the Ludites were trying to accomplish with an (armed) uprising. Go back 100 years and 15 percent of the population was "Farmer", and 30 percent were in some sort of "domestic" work. Most modern jobs are a pr
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3mo ago
> I do wonder whether, as a group of people being regularly exposed to text written by LLMs, we'll gradually end up writing and talking like that in our normal language. We were doing this before LLM's. All sorts of trendy busi
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3mo ago
> Silicon Valley right now Go back to early 2000's post dot com bubble. The whole of the bay ran on Adderall and Ambien + what ever else one could get their hands on. It was so pervasive that even a decade later you could find Adder
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3mo ago
> (as well as price) LLM pricing is now Business Gacha - the whales will open more loot boxes and the normals will serve as fodder and feeder for them. > market gets regulated This MUST happen, but not in the way or for the reasons th
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3mo ago
This needs to be higher up. Nuclear is an amazing solution for industrial steady state demand... This is data centers, smelters (glass and metal), lots of industrial processes (think auto plants). But nuclear is terrible at TV pickup situat
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3mo ago
I wonder how close that dish is to the Indian one Baingan Bharta (it lacks eggs).
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3mo ago
Because Dario is still thinking in the past. He's having a Ben Carsons "the pyramids were to store grain" moment and no one is stopping him. FTA > "My secondary concern is the risk that powerful AI models may be misus
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3mo ago
> To be fair, all high end chips are made in China with EU tooling. Did you mean Taiwan? Because depending on who you ask that is, or is not china. The Chinese have been cut off from EU tooling for a while now. And their attempts to buil
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3mo ago
Sometimes good design is that there is NO compromise. The choices made that lead to the 737max disaster are a great example of what happens when NO isnt allowed to be an option.
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3mo ago
That is the point of these "one offs". My read on the situation is that Putin knows that he's stuck, and baiting nato into some (likely tepid) response gives him an excuse to expand the next call up / draft.
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3mo ago
> most human lawyers are absolutely terrible. We review 100s of old contracts every week I hope the irony is lost on no one that "Attention Is All You Need" was the paper that kicked the LLM boom off. Part of the distinction be
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3mo ago
Escape the tech bubble and you're going to have a very different take. AppleScript, VB script, IFTT, so many "drag and drop to program" systems that failed. The holy grail for a long time has been automation in users hands. L
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3mo ago
The saudis built a pipeline across their nation, and are exporting over 5million barrels (a large increase). There is a great bit of coverage on this by "what's going on with shipping" here: https://youtu.be/r
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3mo ago
> Nobody is even keeping up with the systems we built to help us keep up. So we ship without quite knowing what we shipped, and the sloppiness follows from that. NPM left-pad incident was a decade ago. Supply chain attacks have been a th
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3mo ago
I have been through the process of cutting staff in a few different roles (director, outside consultant), more times than I care to count. > If you feel genuine responsibility for the people, then figure out a way to NOT fire them. I hav
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3mo ago
> informal networks in the company Not just smokers. The little groups who would go and leave for a walk and coffee. The people who ate lunch together either going out, or together in the kitchen. These were opportunities to cross the b
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3mo ago
Inherited IRA's, if you aren't the spouse, have some pretty strict draw down rules. As the boomers die off - if they have these accounts - their kids are quickly going to be forced to liquidate them over the course of 10 years. Wi
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3mo ago
> AI use at work is broad but shallow: Workplace adoption spans all industry sectors and also 68% of all occupations that collectively represent 90% of total U.S. employment. Im sorry but what? Plumbers, electricians, framers, welders, a
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3mo ago
To this articles credit, it does start out with normalization and design! There needs to be more emphasis how important this is! I cant tell you how often I see it done "badly" (we let our ORM build the db for us). The best text I
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3mo ago
> Compute Is Becoming a Competitive Moat No, it is not a moat. The story here changes dramatically when you start to look at the facets of the industry that the poster is skipping over. > At the semiconductor level, TSMC’s advanced-no
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3mo ago
https://tornyol.com - A ycombinator company just killed its first bug: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/autonomous... Ukraine admits to making autonomous kills on people 2 years ago:
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3mo ago
You miss spelled the word stupidity. Anthropic is, in particular, bent about safety. The problem is they are concerned about yesterday's threats. The models that are out, and can be run locally, already open a pandoras box of concerns
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> but most of the AI investment is in compute Some people thought that it was misguided when they extended the depreciation cycle of the current AI build out year(s). In terms of raw performance, there is still some headroom (maybe) but
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3mo ago
> The lack of critical thinking I'm seeing in some of these projects is horrific. Yesterday I noted in another comment that I am having lots of Lawyers and Writers ask me pointed questions about "docker" and "agents&q
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3mo ago
This is already going on. When lawyers and writers are talking to me about "docker containers" and "agents" I assure you that the amount of code out there is going to grow.
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3mo ago
I tell people this, a lot. Its now a polite way of saying "I dont want to work on this project" without having to go through the effort of thinking hard enough about the problem to put the "go away" price on it (or even
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3mo ago
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ukraines-one-time-test-us... Except the Ukraine kind of went out and built it. People in this thread keep talking about DJI, and off the shelf US drones. Ukraine has move so
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3mo ago
> Hiring and firing is hard. Creating a strong and healthy culture is hard. Defining success, and steering the ship to it is hard. A big subset of these issues are American business culture. > Public companies basically cannot evolve
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3mo ago
Never going to happen in your lifetime. Salt water, is nasty, it gets everywhere, the environment on boats is damp. Ships are complicated and require constant effort to keep running. Any sort of "automation" you build in is subjec
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