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eeixlk··on We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
Building in space adds engineering complexity. Heat output requires radiators. Radiation damages equipment without shielding. Repairs require a spacewalk. All this for what, better solar panels? If you think local zoning challenges are an obstacle, then you have 194 other countries to build in. Going to space is probably the worst option. Even putting a data center on a boat is probably a better choice and that still sounds like a stupid idea.
eeixlk··on Can we have the day off?
Elon cares.
eeixlk··on Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
It's been good for so long I hope it doesn't get popular and go to shit. Free federal return and $15 state return if needed. If Intuit died tomorrow the world would be a better place.
eeixlk··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
When you decide to build autoupdate features into your product, in some way you are building trust that you wont break expectations with your users. If google wants to pull a microsoft and try to force me to use another of their products I dont want to use, they are welcome to die in the same way as IE did.
eeixlk··on When the cheap one is the cool one
As someone who keeps apple laptops for 7 or so years but also has encountered numerous macbook pro meltdowns both applecare covered and not, 10+ is a crazy number and you'll probably need to provide some proof for that to be reasonable.
eeixlk··on Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?
Trump attempted to significantly decrease NASAs budgets and cancel missions so this is happening despite him, and I cant feel joy for this when we are putting people in cages, manipulating stock markets, entering pointless wars, and raising prices of everything while Billionares massively increase their wealth through technically-legal manipulations of the system. This feels like a sad memory of what used to be more than anything else.
eeixlk··on Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
Obviously apple would prefer this. It would boost demand for more powerful and expensive devices, and align with their privacy marketing. But they have massively fumbled with siri for a long time and then missed huge deadlines with ai promises. Despite having billions, they have shown no competency in delivering services or accurately marketing what to expect from ai features.
eeixlk··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
Curious about some examples of this. Consumer windows computers have historically had a lot more preinstalled garbage software. Do you mean app store restrictions or something else?
eeixlk··on AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
Mental illness is fairly common, and you probably know someone it is affecting, even if they haven't told you yet. AI can disrupt and will destroy lives, just like gambling or alcohol or facebook but we dont know to what level yet. It is giving you generated text, that sometimes is factual information. If you anthropomorphize it, maybe don't. It's also not your boyfriend/girlfriend. But if you want to date a history textbook, i'm kinda ok with that because at least it's not trendy.
eeixlk··on Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk
So the US federal government will combat romance scams by violating random citizens privacy when it cant stop the president from conducting stock market manipulation scams on twitter? Institutional trust needs to be earned and maintained.
eeixlk··on 25 Years of Eggs
Apart from the comical cost of extracting this data from paper receipts, is it more likely that stores will publish their product costs over time so trends can be observed or be more like gas stations where no prices are listed. I have no idea why a box of Cheerios costs $7 for processed oats but i see millions of reasons to obscure that data.
eeixlk··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Like all burgers this is a high protein, low fiber food option. It probably has more in common with your protein shake, being high in pea and other proteins but also has a high amount of sodium. This is a splurge food like any burger is. If you are looking for fiber, vegetables have them. Also impossible burgers taste better as they smell like coconuts instead of peas when they are cooked.
eeixlk··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Huh.
eeixlk··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Huh.
eeixlk··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Pea protein, avocado oil, brown rice protein and red lentil protein is poison now?
eeixlk··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
soy?
eeixlk··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
You are comparing a prepared product to a raw ingredient. Raw beef is pretty boring which is why every single restaurant add some combination of salt, pepper, mayo, ketchup, mustard, oil, butter, gochujang, etc to make it into food. If you want to convince the world to eat unseasoned beef and onion burgers be my guest but you have a tougher hill to climb than the vegetarians. Eat what makes you happy, but maybe acknowledge it's not actual cooking.
eeixlk··on Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
To drive your car, to build your software, to run the government. But not to change the oil in your car. Ya ok.
eeixlk··on How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
Nothing against Underwood or Siracha in general, so buy what you want but $12 dollars per bottle is crazy, unless this is your favorite thing ever. So many other flavors to discover, and they wont be warehoused for months.
eeixlk··on 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
There are no correct answers, you just have to predict what one could be while micro-dosing.
eeixlk··on AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Tech workers were pretty anti union for a long time, because we were all so excellent we were irreplaceable. I wonder if that will change.
eeixlk··on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
Satire i hope
eeixlk··on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
If you dont call it AI and see it as a natural language search engine result merger it's a bit easier to understand. Like a search engine, it's clunky so you have to know how to use it to get any useful results. Sometimes it appears magical or clever but it's just analyzing billions of text patterns. You can use this search merger to generate text in various forms quickly, and request new generated text. But it doesn't have taste, comprehension, problem solving, vision, or wisdom. However it can steal your data and your work and include it in it's search engine.
eeixlk··on 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
Literally just got bit by this. I added a wildcard domain to a cert servicing multiple sites. Apparently the verification process for wildcards is more onerous and even when you have it working it wont renew in the same way as a normal cert. It requires specific workarounds based on your dns provider. Appreciative that we moved away from paid certs that required manual work to renew every year but this feels like a mismanaged backslide.
eeixlk··on Google Antigravity
Maybe they should have used an ai to code an ide without all these glitches
eeixlk··on DeepSeek OCR
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eeixlk··on US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan
Reasonable Republicans would be embarrassed by this argument.
eeixlk··on US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan
When you blame one side because neither wants to compromise that just makes you biased. Open to why i'm wrong.
eeixlk··on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
Trump take bribes with companies and countries for exemptions to tariffs. Trump informs insiders of upcoming market manipulations so they can exploit the falls and rises. Inflation rises in the us as companies have fewer competitors and another justification for price increases. Income inequality increases just like the last guy that said lets make america great again.
eeixlk··on I Turned Off Apple Intelligence – Sad Update
Apple used to take their time, and build out a feature to excellence. They never tried to be first to market, but you could feel that when they did launch it was worth your attention. After Vision Pro and Apple pretending they cared about siri the voice activated timer for 15 years i think the era of apple intelligence is over. I just hope new companies can build something interesting before computers become as thrilling as toasters.
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