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Zanni
·29 日前·議論
This isn't unique to code or AI. In creative writing courses, we were asked to give thoughtful critiques of (human written) stories and excerpts, and often I felt as if I were doing more work than the original author. If you can't be bothered to review your manuscript, or at least run it through a spellchecker, why should I waste my time on it?
Zanni
·2 か月前·議論
I wish this pope would stay in his lane. The only opinion I want to hear from him is whether AI can be baptized.
Zanni
·3 か月前·議論
I used to feel this way, but I reconsidered my threat model. You know what format is "locked in"? Physical books. Can only exist in one location at a time. If you loan it out, you can't read it until it's returned. Subject to theft, fire, rot, bugs or simply being lost.

There are aspects of Kindle I don't love--the constantly changing cover art for books I've purchased--but I've never run into an actual problem. I've got 2,500 books on my Kindle devices, and I can access them anywhere in the world at any time on my dedicated readers, my phone, my laptop (via Kindle Cloud Reader).

If DRM is the price I have to pay for a dead-simple ecosystem, multi-device support and free cloud storage, well, I guess I'm happy to pay it.
Zanni
·3 か月前·議論
Exactly. I'm happy to see NASA get back in the game, but this is basically just a test flight. I'll get excited for the next one.

("Hey, kids! We're going to Disneyland! We're going to drive all the way around it before we head home!")
Zanni
·5 か月前·議論
That video is 54 minutes long. Maybe, if it's the basis for your argument, you could post a summary?
Zanni
·5 か月前·議論
This article [1] claims a "3-line improvement" on the vision chart. It wouldn't be helpful for me (moving from 20/600 to 20/300, I'd still need correction) but would be a huge win for someone in the 20/50 to 20/80 range, correcting to 20/40, the minimum for driving without correction.

[1] https://www.ophthalmologyadvisor.com/news/yuvezzi-approved-a...
Zanni
·5 か月前·議論
Electric cars make no sense.

Reusable rockets make no sense.

Autonomous cars make no sense.

Data centers in space make no sense. <--- You are here.

Humanoid robots make no sense.
Zanni
·5 か月前·議論
Fred Lambert at Electrek has become an unreliable reporter on Tesla. I don't know where his bias stems from, but it's unmistakeable.

Lambert claims David Moss couldn't find a Robotaxi ride without a safety driver. True enough, there aren't a lot of them on the road. That doesn't mean they don't exist or were "pulled back."

Here's Moss's latest tweet on the subject: "ANOTHER UNSUPERVISED:

2 in a row now here in Austin, TX of Tesla Robotaxi’s completely autonomous without chase cars.

You can see 2 cars in the clip with no one in it & anyone can book it!

Ride 59 complete." https://x.com/DavidMoss/status/2016939137031381487

Note also in that SAME ARTICLE, Lambert credits Moss with driving 10,000 miles on FSD v14 with zero interventions.

To paraphrase William Gibson: full self-driving is here, it's just unevenly distributed.
Zanni
·5 か月前·議論
Valid point if your ratio is correct, but I suspect it's the other way around.
Zanni
·6 か月前·議論
If the cost per ride is 35% cheaper than Uber/Lyft, then that money stays in the local economy, just in the hands of the consumer rather than the gig worker. Currently WayMo is more expensive, but I see that changing as they scale. And certainly CyberCab is promising to be much cheaper.
Zanni
·8 か月前·議論
Jhonen Vasquez was previously best known for Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, an insanely dark graphic novel. I'm still stunned that the powers that be thought he should write an animated children's show. That said, I love Invader Zim. Taquitos!
Zanni
·8 か月前·議論
Peter Lik has a strategy sort of like this. It's still a limited edition of, say, 100, but the price increases as the edition sells out. The last print to sell may be 100x or more the first.
Zanni
·8 か月前·議論
That lost shot (Falcon 9 transiting the sun) is my favorite. I've got a print of it in my office, waiting to be hung on the wall.
Zanni
·9 か月前·議論
He wrote several more books (including a sequel/second edition of Code Complete). None of them had the same impact, though: https://stevemcconnell.com/books/
Zanni
·10 か月前·議論
Carefully distinguishes between PYREX and pyrex. Immediately launches a discussion of Pyrex.
Zanni
·10 か月前·議論
Why your [ultra-light hiker] friend suddenly has [the world's lightest] power bank.

I remember Colin Fletcher, years ago, writing in The Complete Walker about trimming the borders off his paper maps to save weight, which seemed like an insane over-optimization to me. But then, I'm not an ultralight hiker.

I am impressed folks are getting their loads down to 10 pounds though.
Zanni
·10 か月前·議論
Awesome - I didn't know this!
Zanni
·10 か月前·議論
Tesla screens switch to dark mode at night.
Zanni
·10 か月前·議論
Depends enormously on the implementation and use case. My daily driver is a Tesla Model 3, which has a big, beautiful touch screen. But I almost never touch it while I'm driving. Anything I need to control can be handled by voice command ("set temp to 70") or the scroll wheels in the steering wheel. (The one irritating exception is the windshield wipers.)
Zanni
·3 年前·議論
Effective altruism (like most -isms) has sincere adherents but also tends to attract oddballs who make it look bad. Here's a great post from a well known EA who explains why he donated his kidney to a stranger: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney