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I don’t ride on the street anymore (not enough fun to be worth the risk - of death via car or losing my drivers license), but I do regularly take my S1000RR to the track. It is cap…

I have a proposal for you: Take back the k from the marketers. Define: k = multiple of 1920x1080 pixel count 1920x1080 ~= 2M pixels = 1k 2560x1440 ~= 4M pixels = 2k 3840x2160 ~= 8M…

Maybe Elon can have x.x.x

Isn’t it interesting that the more technology people have, the less they understand how it works? The profit motive for business is to make things easier to use, but ironically tha…

The 2’s adaptive transparency is a huge step up from the 1.

I see nobody around me at concerts wearing AirPod Pro 2s, even though they are undoubtedly the best musical experience you can have without destroying your ear drums (in the adapti…

The costs of outages are much greater than just a few people dying. A lot of effort is put into quantifying the costs of reliability on the electric system, only for you to just ha…

This is the way - the Direct Primary Care model. Find the smartest DPC doc that you can and you will be free from so much of our broken system.

See my nearby comment on Direct Primary Care. It is possible to partially opt out of the system, and fortunately it is the part of the system that you touch most often (or should b…

The Direct Primary Care model shows that the overheads for healthcare are definitely a very large contributing factor to high costs and poor patient experiences. Cutting out the in…

Better Candy Crush than slot machines?

The rnnoise filters (or Nvidia’s broadcast / RTX Voice tool) do a great job of suppressing noise. https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice

https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/movement/sprin... The Spring Drive is the pinnacle of electromechanical watches so far, and it’s more mechanical than electronic. “if …

For a friendly (to UPS) payment of $5.99, UPS America will happily deliver your package to a nearby location. The worst part is that if you just want the package held at the hub in…

I have been responsible for maintaining many thousands of pages of documentation with a dozen+ staff, and can say that at least for my industry there is often no hierarchy that fit…

Yep, my only idea so far has been to generically describe the figures in text format. Doing so through recognition in any level of detail will be extremely tough, as often the draw…

Looks like it’s making extensive use of embeddings. The embeddings and vector comparisons are dirt cheap. The summarizing / answering functionality when the LLMs get involved is go…

I think the actual interface with OpenAI’s platform is the easy part. Everybody and their dog will have a version of this. Just look at the comments so far - many of us have alread…

The really crazy part is that if it were trained on more domain-specific example data then I think it would give pretty great answers to many of the niche questions in those domain…

It is not designed to do math. It only generates a likely text response. If the exact equation (with exact numbers) did not often appear in its training data then you are very like…

And here I am thinking that 287 Amazon returns translates into $1435 in Kohls Cash… if you make the returns on the weekend anyway.

Electric utilities are fairly old-school as well and will lean towards in-person and hybrid work. They will have a few dev / architect / web jobs on the IT side, but definitely not…

To be fair, proof of work crypto does impact electric infrastructure, although it’s difficult to pin that on the negative or positive side of neutral because the cheapest electric …

This problem is it’s own special horror in Canbus data. Between endianness and sign it’s a nightmare of en/decoding possibilities and the associated mistakes that come with that.

For #1, you simply mandate it as a requirement. Many things are mandated to generator owners by regulatory bodies that the generator owners would never opt for otherwise. This is n…