nickpinkston

hace 5 díasdiscuss

Shoutout to https://libro.fm/ which is a non-Amazon Audible that lets you:

- Buy nearly any audiobook that's on Audible or other services

- Donate to your favorite local bookstore

- Get the downloadable audio file without DRM

nickpinkston

hace 5 díasdiscuss

This is really cool and I want one, but please someone tell them to put a clear CTA button above the fold saying "Pre-Order" or something.

Also, the bottom spinning button CTA doesn't read like a CTA to me. My skimming eyes almost missed, but YMMV.

Other than that - awesome project and godspeed OpenPrinter team!

nickpinkston

hace 17 díasdiscuss

This is very cool to see - seems like soooo much efficiency waiting to be unlocked at the chip level.

What's everyone think of Taalas?

They're actually burning the LLM model into the silicon, with some onboard memory for fine-tuning. They claim huge cost / latency wins.

Super fast demo live at: https://chatjimmy.ai/

https://taalas.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1r9frzk/taalas...

nickpinkston

el mes pasadodiscuss

I'm very sympathetic to cooperatives, have traveled/know the Mondragon people (largest coop federation), etc.

However, I think there's a reason why coops seem to succeed at smaller scales, but there are essentially no large innovative coops.

There are a few large boring coops, and some small innovative ones, but seemingly something is making the CEO/investor board model the one large innovative companies are all using.

I suspect that it's both (1) access to capital is far harder for coops, and (2) that workplace democracy and hardcore mission focus aren't fully compatible. That is, "you cannot serve two masters" without losing focus on one of them.

nickpinkston

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Play with fire, and you get burned...

These scams are all too frequent today, and putting these guys and others like them in prison would act as a deterrent.

We'll see if our system can actually hold any white collar criminals accountable though...

nickpinkston

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Unsure if this is the connection, but the guy who discovered Troy in the late 1800's (Heinrich Schliemann) actually brought Troy artifacts to a Berlin museum, which someone with more knowledge of Berlin than me may be able to draw more connections from.

Per his Wikipedia:

"In 1874 Schliemann published Troy and Its Remains. Schliemann at first offered his collections, which included Priam's Gold, to the Greek government, then the French, and finally the Russians. In 1881, his collections ended up in Berlin, housed first in the Ethnographic Museum, and then the Museum for Pre- and Early History, until the start of WWII.

In 1939, all exhibits were packed and stored in the museum basement, then moved to the Prussian State Bank vault in January 1941. In 1941, the treasure was moved to the Flakturm located at the Berlin Zoological Garden, called the Zoo Tower. Dr. Wilhelm Unverzagt protected the three crates containing the Trojan gold when the Battle of Berlin commenced, right up until SMERSH forces took control of the tower on 1 May.

On 26 May 1945, Soviet forces, led by Lt. Gen. Nikolai Antipenko, Andre Konstantinov, deputy head of the Arts Committee, Viktor Lazarev, and Serafim Druzhinin, took the three crates away on trucks. The crates were then flown to Moscow on 30 June 1945, and taken to the Pushkin Museum ten days later. In 1994, the museum admitted the collection was in their possession."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann

nickpinkston

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

It was oddly satisfying taking a file to my MacBook when a drop lifted a nasty burr on the edge.

Very minor "you can just do things" collides with the "infallible object" presence that Apple wants for its products - almost feels "wrong", but it's a nice norm to break.

(and I'm not a "Cult of Mac" guy)

nickpinkston

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

I see them as morally equivalent in our current system - ie an illegitimate democracy without recourse for common people.

If companies can do strategic bankruptcies, transfer pricing, etc., then regular people can do the consumer equivalents.

I don't think any of us should shill for corporate interests.

nickpinkston

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

During the 2008 Crisis, it was mortgage holders who got fucked and banks made whole, so risk asymmetries go far beyond just student loans.

nickpinkston

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Exactly! I like the analogy of:

When the bank is giving you a sub-prime loan, who is more sophisticated in that transaction?

If the bank (with their fancy risk models, etc.), why shouldn't they be the party to take the bulk of that risk?

nickpinkston

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Totally agree - there's a lot of double standards here:

Bankruptcy is good for entrepreneurial risk, but not for human thriving apparently...

nickpinkston

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Interestingly, you can similarly friction weld wood without added adhesive.

The welding utilizes the existing ligand glue that holds the wood fibers together, as it's essentially a natural composite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0k04hjdYuQ

nickpinkston

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Better late than never...

nickpinkston

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Haha - yes exactly.

nickpinkston

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Iran... if you're listening...

We'd love to see all of those Epstein files.

nickpinkston

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

That's a fun insight. Have you / others written about this?

nickpinkston

hace 5 mesesdiscuss

Yea, they never mention that Europe also has way better social safety nets, mental healthcare, etc.

I do think gun control can work, but these kinds of legislation feel like the "paper straw" kind of regulation - ie alienating some people who'd otherwise agree with you on many things.

nickpinkston

hace 5 mesesdiscuss

Requiring people to drive to Nevada to buy a real 3DP?

I'm a long time shooter of all kinds of firearms (bolt actions to full-autos).

What people don't realize is that gun control works, but only when it's very controlled - i.e. full registration, deep checks, mandatory training, strict storage, no handguns, etc.

You need to do it across the whole country, as a real customs border can cut guns significantly, but in the US you can do still do a private party (person to person with no dealer) transfer in many states, making gun running pretty trivial.

None of this will happen anytime soon in the US, and the ghost guns, etc. thing will keep happening.

nickpinkston

hace 5 mesesdiscuss

"leaving nothing to the imagination of a single lens" - sick burn Waymo haha

From: "Using these diverse inputs, the Waymo Driver can confidently navigate the "long tail" of one-in-a-million events we regularly encounter when driving millions of miles a week, leaving nothing to the imagination of a single lens."

nickpinkston

hace 5 mesesdiscuss

I'm fine with the free love and debauchery, but just really keep it to adults and be safe.