One overlooked factor that helped the US after WWII is that we were the manufacturing base for most of the world for decades after the end of the war. Over 50% of manufactured goods were made in the US in the decade after WWII.
Pretty wild that MAME has been under active development for over 28 years with the core concept unchanged and no serious forks. It must have a very committed dev community.
Just finished reading The Thinking Machine. Highly recommend it if you're interested in how Nvidia became the most valuable company on earth: https://amzn.to/42z8JPF
Can someone at Google explain why the company can’t end formal support for the thermostat but make the API open? It’s a thermostat. It has 3 real functions - cool, heat, fan. What could it possibly hurt to let owners access the endpoints without touching Google servers?
It’s great that it avoids pay-per-token pricing and is very powerful. The downside is right now it decides what to do and executes with very little guidance or guardrails. You basically have to shout at it or force quit to make it stop executing commands.
I remember turning on the network feature of my Cybiko in my room or in the backseat of the car just waiting in vain for some stranger nearby to connect.
My Nest (2014) is working perfectly fine but I'm required to pay for a new model.
Apparently, heating and cooling a three-bedroom home requires more advanced technology...
I’m afraid LLMs are making copyrights obsolete and unenforceable. If an author uses DeepSeek to write a book, piece of music, application, or patent did they break copyright? Is the new work protected if this is disclosed?
"Even if all the governments of the world were to understand the "threat" and be in deadly fear of it, progress toward the goal would continue. In fact, the competitive advantage of every advance in automation is so compelling that passing laws, or having customs, that forbid such things merely assures that someone else will get them first."
Intel looks severely undervalued compared to every other chipmaker… until you look at how completely behind they are… and then you realize that their value is mostly geopolitical. I can make a case for investing in them based on their relationship with US gov alone but even then it looks like it will be years before Intel has chips that can compete.