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luke5441··on Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets
Would be interesting to know how much the useless steel body detracts from the range compared to a lighter material.

Even more interesting would be how much the steel hurts the tons-to-orbit in the Starship.

luke5441··on Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
Same thing as with SpaceX. If there is that much of an equity buffer, it should be investment grade. That it isn't means that the bond market doesn't trust the valuations at all.
luke5441··on Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
Yeah, it's special cased for US users. It is also not robust. People are having fun circumventing the censoring by asking it to answer like a cat or something.
luke5441··on Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
It behaves different for US users compared to users outside of it.

If you ask DeepSeek about Tiananmen Square inside China is that also just a bug?

luke5441··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
This only works if you are the only one selling the machined aspirin. Or you build a cartel of apirin sellers to do some price fixing.
luke5441··on Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026
Maybe they did it like SpaceX and sold their compute to a competitor and are booking that as sales.
luke5441··on Tesla Roadster
Some like Sam Altman cancelled it. So seems cancellable at least. But yeah, free loan.
luke5441··on Tesla Roadster
You could first reserve the roadster in 2017. So in about 10 years, they'll "reveal" the next version.
luke5441··on My old job feels distant now
If you are not paid to work on it you can just ignore those.
luke5441··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
If it is a self-driving car then it can do recursive self-improvement. Then we are either post-scarcity or it kills us all. Either way it wouldn't make sense to worry about employment.
luke5441··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
If you have to defend it yourself why pay taxes? Why not use the money to hire your private army instead?
luke5441··on Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX
There has been a (unfortunately recent) shift in the view towards China in the EU. So the US and EU would be natural allies when it comes to dealing with Chinas export led growth strategy. The Huawei thing was before Russia where everyone was still a bit more optimistic.

China depends on market access for its growth. So the US & EU have a pretty big lever, they'd just have to use it and not chicken out when it hurts a bit.

luke5441··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
They are not allowed to do this in the country I live in.
luke5441··on Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones
Well, it would not be an easy answer. Currently China is openly "it is in our interest this continues". So US & EU could coordinate to make it in Chinas interest that this does not continue (problem: rare earths, so maximum effort to fix that first). Once China is aligned totally isolate Russia.
luke5441··on Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX
The drones themselves build a mesh network during an attack. Russia does this as well.

I would also guess it is not that hard to setup a base station? With Operation Spiderweb they were able to start the drones from enemy territory...

luke5441··on How Protein Took over the World
I don't doubt it's healthy, perhaps via reducing insulin spikes. But the question is if it is the cause of the mysterious increase in colorectal cancer.
luke5441··on How Protein Took over the World
Are there studies showing the increased cancer rate is caused (or at least correlated with) reduced fiber intake? Or is this just a guess of yours?
luke5441··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
I'd call it overcapacity instead. A lot of investment without capital discipline making sure there is actually return of investment leading to too much supply.

Not that OpenAI, Anthropic or SpaceX aren't doing the same.

luke5441··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
"Europe’s potato belt tells the story in a single season." -- sure, no LLM at all. And why a single season, isn't it a story over two seasons?
luke5441··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
2025 SpaceX launches carried payloads from outside customers only 43 times. Most of it from US govt. The launch market it simply tiny and not growing much.

Luckily SpaceX pivoted the narrative just in time to be an AI company, not a Space company. We'll see what the next narrative will be, if any.

luke5441··on Paul Graham on LLMs 'Thinking'
And we learned that if one is in the business of copying other peoples thoughts, copying thoughts becomes thinking.
luke5441··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
That would be an argument against trying a different source
luke5441··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Yeah, of course I tried to drink more water. I also tried to ramp up the dose slower.

But the cramps are really debilitating, as in random back muscle locks up debilitating, so I thought it best to just give up on this.

luke5441··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
I get severe cramping from it (reproducible). All I can find are papers about this being a myth and some reddit threads about other people having this.
luke5441··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
This would work for an ad shown on ChatGPT and then clicked on (or in the ChatGPT app).

But it would not give ChatGPT information about which other sites are visited.

Of course there would be non-cookie options like fingerprinting (also via IP) that would allow tracking non-the-less.

So you might be talking with OpenAI about your marriage problems and then based on the IP the OpenAI ad network would start showing ads for divorce lawyers on unrelated sites you browse to that display ads.

The solution to that would be using a VPN.

luke5441··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
MDN lists how different browsers prevent this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Guides/...

Firefox, Brave and Safari do. Chrome and Edge do not.

luke5441··on The AI job market in 2026
Sounds more like an ops position to me and less software engineer.
luke5441··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Easy to ask for the account used to see if its usage went into training data. Also easy to say "Knowledge cut-off of the used model was date X".

That they don't is telling.

luke5441··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
IRIS² looks on track? Granted, it is not a SpaceX competitor for consumer Internet. But it is an alternative for applications where reliance on SpaceX is not prudent.
luke5441··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
As far as I understand GAAP reporting standards actually require them to report gains on those positions as "earnings". But they do report non-GAAP earnings sometimes excluding them. E.g. Google earnings per share last quater is $9.11 GAAP vs $2.85 non-GAAP (mainly because of SpaceX shares).
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