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> Q4 Revenue of $1.15 billion, an increase of 18%

That's unreal tbh. Clearly I'm living in a bubble thinking "who the hell still uses Pinterest".

> Race to burn as much cash as possible in hopes that the other goes bankrupt first?

This has been standard in the VC playbook for the last decade or so. The only moat these companies have is the size of their war chests.

Correct

I've been using ddg for years now, and it's heen probably 2 years since I needed to use the "!g" escape hatch.

Very very happy with it.

Why not put '.local' in your toplevel gitignore, and not commit an empty .local folder up to the forge?

I was thinking the same thing, much cheaper than a paintball gun, and less conspicuous.

A well made catapult in the right hands with a good aim is deadly.

Omg is that where the name comes from. In my language it's a "kettie".

The latest model comes with a li-ion battery pack. Previous model had Nimh cells I think.

Pointing to the Hindenburg as an example of why hydrogen is a bad idea is the same as pointing to Chernobyl as an example of why nuclear is a bad idea.

wait...

The Mirai is a fuel cell EV. There is no engine. Not sure what your point is regarding engines?

I find it's the same kind of "tech savvy" person who puts an amazon echo in every room.

He's being prosecuted for sharing sensitive information with 3rd parties or something. He was in some cushy foreign envoy type job back then, and it seems he did not really take it very seriously. In the epstein files there is evidence that he regularly shared sensitive information with JE and others.

He's not being prosecuted for raping kids. But maybe new evidence comes to light during this investigation.

WhatsApp takes bot spam very very seriously, and as a result, there is zero bot spam.

Before you can sign up to build a WhatsApp bot, you need to jump through a million hoops, and after that, every automated message template must be vetted by Meta before it can be sent out, apple style.

I'm glad of this, because unlike SMS and other messaging platforms, WhatsApp is spam free and a pleasure to use.

> It makes no sense to me.

Honestly, that's the easy part. Cynical, degenerate gambling.

AI coding assistants make it trivial to switch between models, and developers will switch to a different model from a different provider if the new model is perceived to be better than the current one even if that perception is completely subjective.

Furthermore, the only users who will actually pay for AI are these assistant-using developers and other power users -- people who will not hesitate to switch to something better. We are already used to new model releases being neck in neck and there is no real incumbent/underdog dynamic going on here.

Yes, there is strong mindshare among the normies, who only know about "ChatGPT", but as soon as they graduate into a powe user, then the above applies to them.

Because their stocks aren't memes, their investors are serious, nobody really GAF about self driving and fully autonomous driving isn't actually the "killer app" many think it is.

Well, both? I need money for the equipment, and I need money for electricity.

Capex is probably the biggest hurdle, but I can see how electricity cost might become a factor under heavy use.

There are so, so, so many companies operating in this space right now. You list two that have given up. A quick google brings back at least a dozen operations that appear to be still ongoing.

BMW Personal Pilot, Merc Drive Pilot, and Honda Sensing Elite are Level 3 automation tech you can buy right now. Tesla is still at level 2!!

Whether Tesla is going to be the first to achieve true autonomy or not is a toss-up. And and regardless of who achieves it, the rest will be very very short on their heels.

What is it about FSD that results in this valuation though?

If elon builds a time machine and goes to the future to get FSD tech from 100 years from now and rolls it out to all teslas tomorrow, what will change? Will every car driver get rid of their cars and get a tesla? Will that suddenly justify the stupid valuation?

Realistically, I don't think the majority of drivers will care that much. Sure, their sales will go up, but I can't see it going up by that much.

FSD will never be "achieved" suddenly. The tech will incrementally improve every year, across all manufacturers until one day we are manual driving only 1% of the time with FSD doing the rest. Like AGI, there is no moat in FSD. This is the natural outcome of the trajectory that we are on right now, and nothing about tesla is making me believe they will offer anything that other OEMs can't.

No, I think the market is much more cynical than that. Tesla is a meme stock similar to bitcoin or GME. Investors are degenerate gamblers, hoping that it will continue to rise because that's what it does atm, and hoping they won't be the one left behind holding the bag when it crashes one day. It's little more than a voluntary ponzi scheme that most big investors openly buy into knowing full well what's at stake.

Yep. Previous org I was at had the fancy copilot integrated into teams. All meetings were auto transcribed and you could chat with copilot about the meeting directly in the chat. It was absolutely magical at extracting action points, decisions and other salient points. It was like having a secretary for each and every meeting.

Is inference really that cheap? Why can't I do it at home with a reasonable amount of money?

The managerial class are like cats and closed doors.

Ofcourse they don't read the reports, who has time to read it? But don't even think about not sending the report, they like to have the option of reading it if they choose to do so.

A closed door removes agency from a cat, an absent report removes agency from a manager.

> I've asked Gemini

I don't think this has the intended effect you are hoping for.

Then they can go and use software that's not AI written.

If you are having perf issues in calls, see if you can buy the hevc codec from the Microsoft store. Windows does not come with it by default, and supposedly teams needs this to offload video processing to the gpu. I think it made a difference to me. But who knows.

A language, and by definition it's libraries, does not have to solve most use cases.

Ubiquiti Unifi Protect.

Thanks, did not know that!

Well I have bo idea. All I know is when I purchase on either .de, .co.uk or .ie the transaction goes through immediately. I have 3D secure enabled.

The text on that link of yours is sneaky though:

"...you MAY be asked to..." (Emphasis mine)

Thank you! Such an apt reference. Made my day