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"Listen folks, it's no big deal if you can't afford rent or to purchase a house. Ignore my vacation homes in Aspen, Jackson Hole and Nantucket. Just think about how much better you…

I think the question we need to be asking, in order to measure success, is whether export controls on China have encouraged China to invest more money than they would have otherwis…

The government is faaaaaaaaaaaar too invested in Azure and AWS for Microsoft or Amazon to give even half a shit. The DOD has no where else to go and the companies know it. They'll …

Well, you see, that's completely different. Nvidia agreed to give them money!

At least we'll have hyper sexualized child soldiers to look forward to in our upcoming xAI powered civil war!

I'm sure Alex Karp and Palantir are already charging into the breach, promising to deliver things they don't have the capability to deliver! (Otherwise known as just another day fo…

The point I'm trying to make is that this thing we're calling a 'VUI' is shit. There's no reason speech has to be this boring one dimensional thing. It's like the people that desig…

Not sure I agree on the core problems. The core problem is that these systems are just so incorrect in fundamental ways that they're effectively useless. Imagine a buddy of yours t…

My best guess is they turn off the commercial operations that are costing them the most money (And that they didn't want Sam to push in the first place) and pump up the prices on t…

You need to remember that most people on this site subscribe to the ideology that growth is the only thing that matters. They're Michael Douglas 'greed is good' type of people wrap…

I was able to visit this place last year, it was great! I spent all day wandering around and playing. I would have stayed even longer if they weren't closing, hah.

I'm afraid I don't have a lot to add to this conversation but I have to say I just love Tailscale. I don't often run across software that feels so right and when I do it's a great …

The examples in the article seem to be making the point that even when the AI cites the correct context (ie: financial reports) it still produces completely hallucinated informatio…

They look different because they ARE different. One was shot on film and the other was shot digital and then they used Filmbox to apply the film effect. It's two different pieces o…

That's only for a particular variant.

Great analogy, and it's what I think about every time I hop on Netflix. The old Netflix was an absolute gold mine. There was sooooo much good content and almost none of it was thei…

I guess the question is: What's the alternative to defining models? Just passing around DB cursors directly or maybe pulling the results out of a cursor and storing them in a dynam…

The rules nurses have to deal with around things as asinine as taking PTO are AMAZING. They’re required to put in PTO requests months in advance and the hospital can and will say “…

Could they house their data in a separate company that was founded in Ireland and is not an Alphabet subsidiary to get around this?

This might be my favorite story of the year. So many weird twists and turns. It has to be some kind of money laundering operation, right?

Powershell is so weird to me. It never does what I expect it to do but it’s also full of powerful features. When looked at as a programming/scripting language it feels totally insa…

Good points! I'm certainly in favor of time-shifting demand to meet supply to maximally utilize renewables. Let's grab as much of this low hanging as we can. I just thought the fra…

Am I the only one that find this article incredibly confusing? It starts off talking about wanting to move energy production to renewable sources. Great, I'm with you so far. A maj…

To play devil's advocate, how much money did this breach actually cost the pipeline? A few million bucks? That's probably a rounding error on their quarterly report. Heck, it might…

How do you get countries to cooperate that have no incentive to cooperate? Cyber warfare, whether ransomware or espionage, is largely asymmetric. Why would these other countries wa…