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As a rule, you shouldn't burn bridges. But in some occasional cases, the bridges you burn light up the way forward.

Maybe not $3500 better, but likely $300 better (price of a Quest).

That's not an unsolvable problem. Checking visibility is easy, computer graphics have been doing this since forever. Fonts that are too small, ditto. Contrast is well understood. I…

Just like every AI cycle that came before. At every cycle, we get a new tool. But we also get an extended "AI Winter" where investment dries up. This has been happening since the 1…

Even for Brazil, even for the most dangerous cities, that's still an insane number of kidnappings. They happen enough that you need to be aware and be careful to not be an easy tar…

Probably due to the fact that older machines won't get updates

> It says so much about how our society treats the neurodivergent that it's considered a non-extreme opinion that a dead child is preferable to an autistic one. They did not set ou…

> This is why people are moving away from main stream medicine, in my opinion. What other type of medicine is there? Most "non-mainstream" things are pseudoscience nonsense.

If you are on AWS, the direct attached storage option you have is ephemeral volumes. That's bad. If the hypervisor fails you lose data. Which is fine, you have replicas. If there's…

A bit better in real life since the world isn't 2D.

It's orders , not queries. Who knows how many requests that actually takes.

> The issue is solely that OG Mercurial was written in Python. Are we back to "programming language X is slow" assertions? I thought those had died long ago. Better algorithms win …

Neurons are insanely more complex, even if you disregard their electrical signaling entirely.

> This is fun to read but any such galactic intelligence would probably recognize that its predecessor were meat That does not follow at all. It's _likely_ that life elsewhere woul…

Consciousness had millions of years headstart. Give it time.

No, it's literal meat that they have issues with. Machines are fine, hydrogen clusters are fine.

Is this a joke, or are you serious? Do you work for Nvidia?

> Seems like a big issue is I'm guessing insistence on having this be a solo operation for cultural reasons. I had to do some stool collection and it took every ounce of willpower …

> Microsoft is the go to solution for every government agency, FEDRAMP / CMMC environments, etc. I've been involved with FEDRAMP initiatives in the past. That doesn't mean as much …

Well, part 3 at least explains something I've observed; the platform is incredibly unstable. The same calls, with the same parameters, will often randomly fail with HTTP 400 errors…

> $93 billion over 13 years doesn't feel like a great deal So, around 7 billion a year? We are at around half of the total Artemis cost just one month after the Iran invasion. One …

> it's just a matter of wasting enough money for some people to have the time of their life. That's such a cynical viewpoint. We are not doing this so that astronauts can have fun.…

Sure, you may look at it from that perspective. Or, you could look into it as restoring a capability that we used to have, and potentially enable further, more interesting missions…

Indeed. I _have_ been able to (mostly) talk about things that I was dissatisfied about, but out of dozen bosses I had, that was with only two. I wouldn't trust the others to start …