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janderson215··on A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines
Also volume of liquid and temperature of liquid and cup.
janderson215··on Anthropic S-1
Maybe I’m the only person who thinks this, but I think your line of thinking is very dangerous and way more dangerous than ANT or SPCX.
janderson215··on Anthropic S-1
Not the whole turbine (yet), but they are working on blades and fins.
janderson215··on Meta says if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault
Except that the users obstruct the programs and now it is really important to not leave them unattended for too long, apparently.
janderson215··on Meta says if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault
The difference between us and agents, paradoxically, is that the agents do not have any agency.
janderson215··on Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to protect him from California wealth tax
I’m not British, but The Guardian loves putting a certain spin of vilification on just about everything Right-coded.
janderson215··on Claude Duet
Can you please give an couple examples of something you tried to do and it failed?
janderson215··on Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
Hilarious how they managed to put out an entire press release about Meta’s technology without mention Meta other than what is in the code references.
janderson215··on Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
No, a person made that decision and the people who pull the trigger should be held responsible.
janderson215··on Muse Gadgets
I think this is better suited for the vast majority of people would never begin to garden than for farmers.
janderson215··on Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
I stand corrected.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...

janderson215··on Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Remember that publicly traded companies have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to minimize their tax burden and maximize profit.

Edit: I stand corrected[0]

0: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...

janderson215··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
Thank you, Simon :-)
janderson215··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
Gather more information before coming to a conclusion. Otherwise, do not jump to a conclusion prematurely.
janderson215··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
I’m not sure “presumption” is a valid methodology to evaluate a company’s performance.
janderson215··on World Labs is Joining AMD
They’re bound to announce an appliance soon.
janderson215··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
How well have you thought this through? I have a lot of questions if they went this route.

Why are there no buyers as it is? Doing this would force lower margins for ASML, effectively knee-capping a Crown Jewel of European technology and business. Do you think the EU should subsidize those losses?

janderson215··on Grok 4.7
I guess we’ve found the point of disagreement then. If you are disregarding the scale, then you might be able to make a case, but even then, I’m fairly certain that you would still be wrong.
janderson215··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
I’ve heard from an HSI friend that a lot more of the fentanyl deaths happen from accidental exposure in their drugs from shared surfaces. For example, somebody buying cocaine that was cut up on a table that was previously used to cut up fent and not properly sanitized.
janderson215··on Grok 4.7
My response was to your statement “Give me one actual reason why a smart person would take an underpaid overworked position at any of his companies.”

I hated seeing him do the “Roman” salute and will not try to defend it. I said nothing in favor of his politics or personality, only that his companies are ambitious. Seems like you may benefit from a few deep breaths before responding with attacks.

Also, the alternative technologies you propose are pretty weak comparisons as they are of a different classes.

janderson215··on Grok 4.7
To achieve a goal no other group of people have ever achieved and very few others are even trying.
janderson215··on iPhone Duo
Here here! I will walk 500 km for this.
janderson215··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
It is possible to serve different markets with different agendas and have both of them serve nVidia’s business. Think of all the freemium software out there; widespread so everybody can use it, but the people who REALLY use it REALLY pay up.
janderson215··on Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
Great comment coming from this username!
janderson215··on Karpathy’s Pelican
He wrote “~free” and also that he set a $10USD limit on it. For the result, I think it is fair to say it is approximately free.
janderson215··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
Prrreeeeeach. Not quite on topic here, but when I started working at Big Co., they sent 3 weekly Teams invitations each for hula hooping and desk yoga sessions. That infuriated me to no end because I knew how ineffective so many of my new coworkers were there and that they were making more than some of my coworkers who were actually providing value. In retrospect, it shouldn’t have infuriated me because the people attending those people were probably having less of a negative impact doing that rather than re-opening a solved issue or whatever the fuck useless thing they were doing.
janderson215··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
This sounds like an exhausting perspective on the world. I’d rather be hurt by assholes than never allow myself to be vulnerable with anybody. You can mitigate the potential downside without thinking everybody is out to get you or thinking everything is a power game.
janderson215··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
I agree many buy because of the governance structure and founders retaining control, but there is a lot of dumb money out there.

From Claude via stockanalysis.com: META — institutions 67.51%, insiders 13.49%, float 2.19B of 2.54B shares outstanding. That leaves roughly 19% as retail/other.

SPCX — institutions 5.95%, insiders 46.47%, float only 638.65M of 13.17B shares. Residual is ~47.6%, but that is not retail.

janderson215··on GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage
Thank you, I was confused as well. This makes sense. Similar fixed cost and much lower/negligible variable cost.
janderson215··on Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
Depends on what you mean by AI product. If you’re talking about a chatbot or agent, that may be true, but o think it’s less true if you’re talking about AI-run application layer tooling. If Meta decides to compete with Shopify and provide a launchpad for entrepreneurs, you can bet the platform would be rife with AI to facilitate operations, marketing, coms, etc…
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