The payment processors don't object to you. They usually object to the store or the platform you're getting things from. It's invisible, insidious censorship. They don't hit your hands with a ruler and say "stop, no…
You get used to good AI performance fast. Going back to older, less capable AIs is a whiplash.
You know what isn't a Chesterton's fence? Payment processors being able to dictate what I can or can't spend my money on. This by itself is a reason to push for more crypto acceptance, in my eyes.
Yeah, it's not talked about too often but RPi 1 was basically Broadcom's "useless SoC recycling program". If not for the success of Raspberry Pi, Broadcom would have zero SBC presence today. Like many companies chasing…
Biology doesn't have particularly good simming, but what it does have is massive parallelism. So as long as you can test things on cell culture level? You can do a lot with a high throughput setup.
Blue pigments used to be extremely rare and precious. Then some chemists found the infinite blue glitch.
Honestly, reasonable. I've been eyeing LPCAMM2 interposers for non-RAM uses - as an off the shelf connector for stacked PCB designs. The conclusion was that it wasn't produced or used at sufficient scale for it to work.
"Lockdown Mode" is something the user enables. If the user wants to trade functionality for security, it can happen. Good. The "no root access, no bootloader unlock, no installing your own Apple-unapproved software"…
Create a problem, and then heroically fight to make a solution. This shouldn't exist in the first place. There would be no need for it if Apple didn't insist on "we own all the iPhones, our users just get to tap at…
AI price-performance is improving rapidly. AI usage, whether in tokens used, in cash spent, or any of the above performance-adjusted, is curving upwards too. Causality is uncertain, but the "Jevons paradox"…
It is an appealing target for LLMs? Well, LLMs do make "handroll your hot paths in assembly for better performance" much more viable. But that's a bit of a problem too? Because, unlike humans, LLMs have no trouble…
We seriously need some "you actually own your hardware" laws - before the likes of Google tighten every bolt and implement enough "security" to firmly lock the users out of their own devices. It's dead obvious that…
Your reply to my comment downstairs got chewed up by HN. Maybe some sort of LLM detector thought you're speaking too much like an AI? The reason why I'm not "team sensors" is that we're nowhere near to being able to as…
"Estimate of weight and rigidity" is exactly the kind of thing that's performed rather well by low-dimensional sensing of actuators themselves. Backdrivable actuators know how much current are they sinking - and thus,…
Sure, olfactory sensing sensing is "just" sensing of volatile molecules. And we can build plenty of different molecular sensors. Including for things humans can't detect naturally. But, just like being able to build a…
"Matching the dexterity" is a false goal. It's focusing on the wrong things. As teleoperation readily shows, even a very dumb primitive hand can be salvaged if you get a very advanced control policy to drive it. Sure,…
Human "sense of balance"? Human vestibular system is a sad joke if you compare it against any off the shelf smartphone IMU. Proprioreception is a joke when you compare it against current sensing in every motor and…
What do you think I mean by "stagnated"? Nuclear isn't uncompetitive due to some inherent technological reason. It's uncompetitive due to overregulation and gold plating. Solar used to be completely uncompetitive, but…
It is a shame that nuclear power has stagnated - we could have been moving towards fossil fuel free grid half a century ago. We've lost decades of progress there. But it's a good thing that solar power is coming into…
I know for sure that Qualcomm LTE/5G modems are also SDRs under the hood. Like Wi-Fi chips, they don't use SDR mode during most of the normal operation. But the "SDR mode" is still there for things like factory…
Solar panels are getting cheap enough for grid hook-ups, installation and regulatory approval to become the bottlenecks. Plug-in solar is suboptimal in many ways, but it does sidestep a lot of those hurdles. Not too…
We've seen this song and dance with Google already. Clearly, for some people, "type into a search bar" is some sort of cognitive obstacle, and "go bother another person" isn't. Now that I'm thinking about it: maybe the…
If his claim is correct, and 99% of people are NPCs incapable of any meaningful thinking, that makes the 1% that actually does all the thinking of human civilization very valuable. And that, in turn, makes AI even more…
Probably this bit: > “Dark patterns” (also called deceptive or manipulative design) are interface choices that steer users towards decisions they would not otherwise make, for example: > Making the “accept all” option…
Those are even less commoditified than x86 server platforms. Which, when it comes to grey market shopping, is a disadvantage.
The payment processors don't object to you. They usually object to the store or the platform you're getting things from. It's invisible, insidious censorship. They don't hit your hands with a ruler and say "stop, no…
You get used to good AI performance fast. Going back to older, less capable AIs is a whiplash.
You know what isn't a Chesterton's fence? Payment processors being able to dictate what I can or can't spend my money on. This by itself is a reason to push for more crypto acceptance, in my eyes.
Yeah, it's not talked about too often but RPi 1 was basically Broadcom's "useless SoC recycling program". If not for the success of Raspberry Pi, Broadcom would have zero SBC presence today. Like many companies chasing…
Biology doesn't have particularly good simming, but what it does have is massive parallelism. So as long as you can test things on cell culture level? You can do a lot with a high throughput setup.
Blue pigments used to be extremely rare and precious. Then some chemists found the infinite blue glitch.
Honestly, reasonable. I've been eyeing LPCAMM2 interposers for non-RAM uses - as an off the shelf connector for stacked PCB designs. The conclusion was that it wasn't produced or used at sufficient scale for it to work.
"Lockdown Mode" is something the user enables. If the user wants to trade functionality for security, it can happen. Good. The "no root access, no bootloader unlock, no installing your own Apple-unapproved software"…
Create a problem, and then heroically fight to make a solution. This shouldn't exist in the first place. There would be no need for it if Apple didn't insist on "we own all the iPhones, our users just get to tap at…
AI price-performance is improving rapidly. AI usage, whether in tokens used, in cash spent, or any of the above performance-adjusted, is curving upwards too. Causality is uncertain, but the "Jevons paradox"…
It is an appealing target for LLMs? Well, LLMs do make "handroll your hot paths in assembly for better performance" much more viable. But that's a bit of a problem too? Because, unlike humans, LLMs have no trouble…
We seriously need some "you actually own your hardware" laws - before the likes of Google tighten every bolt and implement enough "security" to firmly lock the users out of their own devices. It's dead obvious that…
Your reply to my comment downstairs got chewed up by HN. Maybe some sort of LLM detector thought you're speaking too much like an AI? The reason why I'm not "team sensors" is that we're nowhere near to being able to as…
"Estimate of weight and rigidity" is exactly the kind of thing that's performed rather well by low-dimensional sensing of actuators themselves. Backdrivable actuators know how much current are they sinking - and thus,…
Sure, olfactory sensing sensing is "just" sensing of volatile molecules. And we can build plenty of different molecular sensors. Including for things humans can't detect naturally. But, just like being able to build a…
"Matching the dexterity" is a false goal. It's focusing on the wrong things. As teleoperation readily shows, even a very dumb primitive hand can be salvaged if you get a very advanced control policy to drive it. Sure,…
Human "sense of balance"? Human vestibular system is a sad joke if you compare it against any off the shelf smartphone IMU. Proprioreception is a joke when you compare it against current sensing in every motor and…
What do you think I mean by "stagnated"? Nuclear isn't uncompetitive due to some inherent technological reason. It's uncompetitive due to overregulation and gold plating. Solar used to be completely uncompetitive, but…
It is a shame that nuclear power has stagnated - we could have been moving towards fossil fuel free grid half a century ago. We've lost decades of progress there. But it's a good thing that solar power is coming into…
I know for sure that Qualcomm LTE/5G modems are also SDRs under the hood. Like Wi-Fi chips, they don't use SDR mode during most of the normal operation. But the "SDR mode" is still there for things like factory…
Solar panels are getting cheap enough for grid hook-ups, installation and regulatory approval to become the bottlenecks. Plug-in solar is suboptimal in many ways, but it does sidestep a lot of those hurdles. Not too…
We've seen this song and dance with Google already. Clearly, for some people, "type into a search bar" is some sort of cognitive obstacle, and "go bother another person" isn't. Now that I'm thinking about it: maybe the…
If his claim is correct, and 99% of people are NPCs incapable of any meaningful thinking, that makes the 1% that actually does all the thinking of human civilization very valuable. And that, in turn, makes AI even more…
Probably this bit: > “Dark patterns” (also called deceptive or manipulative design) are interface choices that steer users towards decisions they would not otherwise make, for example: > Making the “accept all” option…
Those are even less commoditified than x86 server platforms. Which, when it comes to grey market shopping, is a disadvantage.