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Also worth noting that not all muscle mass is the same. Too many people read these things and lacking context, they get swindled one way and then another.

Volvo is complicated. Basically a lot of these smaller companies and countries realized there was no way they could make the economics work with the cost of electronics and softwar…

I used to have aspirations to move to Canada and I know folks who have tried to hire SREs in Toronto. While that post may sound hyperbolic, it is for all intents and purposes accur…

In my first job we worked in a room full of 4Us and it was always refreshing when we powered them all down for the weekend. So quiet. It’s almost like there was a reason why consum…

I don't think this is even just an AI denoiser problem. Rain effectively looks like haze for the parts of the scene that are at sufficiently long distances. Therefore it's difficul…

There are still processes that we haven’t replaced petroleum for, like Haber-Bosch. China has already banned the export of fertilizer for this reason.

I wouldn't be that cynical. From the interactions I've had with people from mainland China, particularly those in the educated classes, I can say for certain that it was soft power…

Would that necessarily be a bad thing? I remember how that would drive short-termism on the part of regular employees. Since stock comp was a major part of many companies' salaries…

Depends on how you look at it. In terms of overcoming fundamental limitations, I would argue it has indeed hit a wall. ChatGPT is how old, but LLMs still can't actually count? But …

Yup, if you haven’t heard first-hand (i.e. from the source) at least one story where some exec was at least using AI to intimidate his employees, or outright terminating them in so…

That only means that the UK government doesn’t have access to the backdoor.

Do you want to go up against whatever patent portfolio AMZN has?

People in China know. Believe me they know.

Well that’s the kicker right? Mao gave way for later leaders who lifted China out of poverty. The normalization of all this craziness is what led the USA to where it is today. Two …

And yet it all circles back. We used Peano arithmetic when doing C++ template metaprogramming anytime a for loop from 0..n was needed. It was fun and games as long as you didn't ma…

Yeah you can't really have a foliage map without a drought map to accompany it. The fall colors are a fickle thing. Last year's was pretty drab in lower NY. The year before it was …

We can hope that they both fail. :o)

> This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'. At first, I didn’t know what to say about the article other than to agree to something about it that I …

Yeah, and it’s an interesting problem because for a lot of casual photos, most people won’t care. But once you do care, there’s suddenly no recourse. Folks will say it’s just the f…

By the numbers, the casual cameras are having a quiet turnaround. Fuji and Ricoh can hardly keep their X100 and GR cameras stocked. Fuji added extra production capacity in China be…

This does not address the detrimental parts of computational photography.

> but the Canon takes a modicum of skill, which my wife is not interested in And so, the reasons why Fuji and point-and-shoots are popular. Lots of “serious” photography enthusiast…

A thousandth of an inch would do it? They couldn't give more margin-of-safety to a critical part like that? A thousand of an inch isn't such a theoretical number. It's about 25 mic…