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blueboo

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    Comment #48359965

    Cool …but never buy v1 hardware folks! Especially for limited runs like high end laptops. Apple quality comes from scale. A narrow product line means they have literally hundreds o…

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    Comment #48359926

    I think the answer is no, as this is a creative repurposing of css3d as a basis for a general 3d engine. That lets you put web content everywhere, even on the triangles of your tea…

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    Comment #48243041

    > That may suit Anthropic as private models can't be distilled They can be distilled internally… expect great things from Sonnet 4.8

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    Comment #47888952

    Why not the Pacific Ocean

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    Comment #47805736

    In a master’s, you learn a lot about a little In a PhD, you learn everything about nothing

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    Comment #47745260

    Wait till Codex doubles prices/halves quotas on May 31

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    Comment #47649602

    Billions in profit may unblock scaling customer support beyond scrappy startup minimums However (and I loathe this logic) if you can get the marketplace to accept that minimal leve…

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    Comment #47644528

    For those who find this appealing: Fires still burn down houses so what’s the point of fire departments?

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    Comment #47246922

    Skill issue—in management. Good leaders perceive workhorse vs showhorse spectrum, critical toil vs needless flash (and vice versa). It’s hard. Most fail at hard things. The industr…

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    Comment #47115484

    Open source meth is still bad in absolute terms even if it’s better than the alternative meth

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    Comment #47061538

    They’re not going to build their own, it’ll just be one of the many capabilities of the agent platform they use. A 2024 SaaS is just a playbook for next-gen AI. You don’t buy a spe…

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    Comment #46587743

    Indeed perhaps the most valuable lesson from travel is returning with the realization of just how poorly the generalizations and statistics describe the messy reality of a place. E…

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    Comment #46553747

    “In a sufficiently complex system, malfunction or even total non-function may go undetected for long periods, if ever” John Gall, The Systems Bible

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    Comment #46501114

    When faced with the choice of making genmedia more expressive vs looking higher production-value, big labs always choose the latter. Expressivity requires intent, which turns out t…

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    Comment #46427721

    The recent Acquired ep on “Alphabet Inc” put it aptly: social media moved into Google’s space, video (reels, “pivot to video”), and social media for socialising moved to message gr…

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    Comment #45906414

    What? AI assistants are prohibited from providing legal and/or medical advice. They're not lawyers (nor doctors).

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    Comment #45900147

    We call it “legacy DeepMind”

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    Comment #45853195

    In certain niches, the marginal value of kneecapping the competition exceeds the viable budget for counteracting gaming. It may be a quirk of this reality’s hyperparameters that a …

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    Comment #45831271

    Can't you trivially reframe the initial purchase as being subsidized by that license? Your $200 smart knife sharpener would be $300 if it weren't recording audio 24/7 (for VAD, sur…

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    Comment #45795819

    When was the last time you did a deep research? Good agents just do research as necessary. I find GPT5 Pro >> all the top DR agents

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    Comment #45668050

    These are fun to make. But the real value prop would be demonstrating the effect of following the proposed practice the app indicates. …have you yourself actually tried it? Where w…

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    Comment #45381410

    There’s literally a link to a thing you can use. Google 2025 has some great PMs and dev rel.

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    Comment #45332503

    The safer the system, the more catastrophic the failures