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I've been hearing about quitting tech to open a bakery forever. I even know several people who did it long before ChatGPT. It's the nature of any corporate job. The politics and fo…

I think you're right and I think it's why Google have taken their pedal off the metal for model releases to focus on integrations and tools. And why Microsoft have backed off from …

No coincidence, BMW and Samsung did product placement in the movie too. Very conspicuously.

I think domestic robots will make a lot of incremental progress and that few, if any, will be humanoid. We'll see a laundry folder and sock picker-upper and they'll be more like ro…

> Peak Energy is buying its commercial cells via contracts with Chinese suppliers So really just assembly and sales then. I suppose it's a good start and maybe if business takes of…

Not to suggest diagnosis on the internet to people I haven't met, but for me chronic insomnia was actually narcolepsy. Ironic given that it's disease known for excess sleep, but th…

And yet I still see MAHA defenders even on HN.

Like much new technology, it evades regulations. Hyperscalers are getting crushed by popular backlash and resource constraints. And like typically nerds they'd rather dream up a ma…

They've still managed to capture a slice of government business because they have explicitly aligned themselves with one of the two major American political parties.

It's funny you should say that because I had to stop rowing due to repetitive strain on my ankle.

On twitter yesterday, someone posted a question about SpaceX/xAI making a poor financial decision and Musk answered saying SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of the Earth. His…

It's potentially a great strategy. They can't keep up with Antropic and OpenAI in pure horsepower, but there's just tons of applications for which you don't need that much power an…

I think "imposed" is a pretty fair word. LLMs already affect everyone's lives whether you use them or not and their footprint is still growing. It's like I don't have to buy a car,…

Prime age is meant to filter college kids and retirees which makes sense but it is likely hiding the minor crisis in hiring for college grads. But I agree it's not disastrous just …

Every system ever has been a patchwork. Dodd-Frank and it's orderly liquidation rules are a genuine benefit. We had a commercial bank collapse a few years ago and there was no cont…

Crypto has utterly failed as a currency. In that regard it's been dead for over a decade. If btc or eth were currency they'd be considered dead by deflationary spiral which is more…

Honestly as much as people complain the US Federal Reserve really just proved their enormous value and thoroughly vindicated fiat currency. The financial crisis of 2007-8 should ha…

I got a Steam Deck for my son. Docking it to an external monitor with mouse and keyboard in desktop mode is just running a nice desktop Linux with KDE Plasma by default. I showed h…

Surely there's tons of evidence and we don't need to wait for a government assessment that has been teased for over ten years. This has been litigated and investigated over and ove…

We're probably still decades away from that kind of robot. And I firmly believe the domestic robot revolution will not involve any humanoids. It'll be a few purpose-built machines …

Except businesses tend be focused on core competencies and not sprawling in a lot of unrelated directions.

AR has yet to produce any value for anybody. Google failed, Apple failed, Meta basically built a creeper spy cam. These may be the most advanced devices to date, but hardware hasn'…

It's been the future for at least 20 years now.

I was leery of of Tizen on my Samsung TV but it's fine

We are essentially there now. We have begun the mass deployment of renewable energy and it's only accelerating. The problem is that energy consumption is also growing so it's a mov…