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VectorLock

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VectorLock··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
It really smacks of an "I am very smart" attempt.
VectorLock··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
I was wondering if this was the case.
VectorLock··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Someone figured out that the new tariffs are just our trade deficit with that country divided by the country's exports. I think more and more we see lots of evidence they don't know what they're doing.
VectorLock··on Netflix’s Media Production Suite
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
VectorLock··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
Which part? That I hate Nazis or that when he did a Nazi salute, twice, that categories him as a Nazi?

Since you seem to champion him a lot, I'd really like to hear your take on his Nazi salute.

VectorLock··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
I hate him because he's a Nazi, because of the Nazi salute.
VectorLock··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
You're good at this. Tell me how the Nazi salute, twice, on a national stage, wasn't nuts.
VectorLock··on Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee
We almost got there with TikTok. Almost...
VectorLock··on Big LLMs weights are a piece of history
How about wine bottle sizes since we're "bottling" a "distillation" of information...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_bottle#Sizes

VectorLock··on Big LLMs weights are a piece of history
Try getting a kidney stone and then find out if adequate hydration is what you want to squeak by with.
VectorLock··on The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants
That actually sounds a lot better.
VectorLock··on The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants
They don't have to land safely, not cause liabilities or make return trips in war.
VectorLock··on The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants
>I believe they wirelessly communicate with the elevator control system.

That sounds hilariously abusable.

VectorLock··on Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more
If it worked with Okta ASA (formerly ScaleFT) that would be pretty cool. Be able to auth into Okta and have all the servers registered in ASA presented to you.
VectorLock··on Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS
And most GitOps workflows have considerably more complexity and overhead than your typical Terraform "IaC" workflow.
VectorLock··on Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls
Get an electrician to put your oil burning boiler on a plug, then you can plug it into whatever source (UPS, generator, UPS with fancy marketing) you want.
VectorLock··on Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls
>Pila includes an MID onboard

How does that work? Is just not putting energy out the input "plug" count as a MID?

VectorLock··on Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls
I've seen this "meter plug piggy back vampire tap" scheme used for EV chargers, looks cool to use it for grid tie generators too.
VectorLock··on Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls
I assume it least has enough smarts to only show the battery capacity for whats in it. It can't run a whole house, so comparing it against an entire household's average load might be unrealistic.
VectorLock··on Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls
>add software intelligence so it's not sitting idle 99%

Its a battery backup, how would it not be sitting idle 99% of the time?

VectorLock··on Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls
Does the two-way meter have a way to prevent back feeding the grid in the event of a power outage? Having an unregulated device even under 800W seems like it could be dangerous to anybody working on the power lines.
VectorLock··on The End of Weather Forecasting
To make Mars viable you first have to make Earth _really_ bad.
VectorLock··on The End of Weather Forecasting
Best case scenario a couple trillion more are printed to bail out the farmers.
VectorLock··on The End of Weather Forecasting
The most strident proponents of the 2nd Amendment voted for this.
VectorLock··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
If they only have one and they use it, they've effectively solved the Russia problem themselves.
VectorLock··on Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)
Damn is that how they got their name? Does Tencent just mean "Ten Percent?"
VectorLock··on Telescope – an open-source web-based log viewer for logs stored in ClickHouse
Look out, Kibana, they're gunning for you!
VectorLock··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
The comparisons I saw I think were manual, so it makes sense it can run a whole suite- these were just some basic prompts and showed the difference in how the produced output ran.
VectorLock··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
I agree with you, and I hate to say this, but I saw them on LinkedIn. One purportedly used the same prompts to make a "pacman like" game and the results from Grok3 were at least better, assuming the post is on the up and up, better looking than o3-mini-high.
VectorLock··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
How does it stack up against Grok3? I've seen some discussion that Grok3 is good for coding.
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