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selectodude··on iPhone Duo
I will gladly bet you an iPhone Duo that they’ll be unobtanium deep into 2027 and that they’ll sell millions of them on day 0.
selectodude··on iPhone Duo
No, they just don’t care. The TAM in countries that don’t support eSIM for $2500+ phones is probably a rounding error.
selectodude··on Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
I have a 5080, three OpenAI Pro token resets, and I’m on paternity leave. Astra seems pretty clever. Maybe I’ll give it a task.
selectodude··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
It’s the voters that put him back. You could say it was an aberration the first time but the second? Americans are too stupid and selfish to be trusted with the immense power they were given.
selectodude··on GPT-6 Astra
neuralese is pretty token efficient i guess.
selectodude··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
that's news to me, I'm still getting weekly limits, no hourly limits.
selectodude··on Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
Makes sense. I had codex port haiku to arm64. Works decently, fun to play with on my Mac.
selectodude··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Has Spotify made money yet?
selectodude··on GLM-5.3-Flash
We’re getting subsidized training. The inference is not a loss leader. And since providers can run hardware at 100 percent 24/7 their per token cost is going to be far below mine, regardless of how long I’m willing to wait for a token to come out.
selectodude··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Having a place to live is an investment in your health and wellbeing. Can't live in a stock option.
selectodude··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
We thought it was mean to homeless people to make them pay for bathrooms and made it illegal to charge. Then once bathrooms because a massive cost center, we closed all the public restrooms and made it a sex offense to piss outside. So now instead of making homeless people pay $1 for a toilet, we throw them in jail at a cost of $100k/yr.

Thank these folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i... - the road to hell is paved with good intentions I suppose.

selectodude··on New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years
It's the same body with worse everything else.
selectodude··on Cerebras CS-4
GPU cost is about half of datacenter cost. Other half is cooling, power and networking.
selectodude··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
CXMT is about to reel in Apple as a customer and I don’t see Samsung doing a whole lot about it.
selectodude··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
Every day I show up to work is a conspiracy between me and my mortgage lender to make money.
selectodude··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
That shit looks like something that they’d show in a Netflix cult documentary.
selectodude··on The case for overhauling American science
Tens of millions of lives have been ended, destroyed, or substantially impacted by this administration. It's not a fucking game.
selectodude··on I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program
If you initiate the connection on your cell phone hotspot and then connect to WiFi, it’ll continue working.
selectodude··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
Ironically, the coca-cola in Mexico uses high fructose corn syrup. It's the Mexican coke they export to the US that has sugar - which breaks down to glucose and fructose in the presence of phosphoric acid anyway.

Anyway, the only thing Mexican about Mexican Coke is the "Medio Litro" on the bottle.

selectodude··on Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5
I love AI content. I hate content written by AI.

It's not serious. It shows that the author doesn't care about showing what he's up to.

He cares about making content to post on a blog.

And that's disrespectful to the reader.

selectodude··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
I think this is just Deep Fusion.
selectodude··on Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia
Yes, the seismic waves that are from one earthquake can absolutely give an extra oomph to a fault line that's somewhere else.
selectodude··on An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power
These freaks need to be handled.
selectodude··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
If a chiropractor could adjust something by pushing on your bone, imagine what tripping and falling would do.
selectodude··on Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Second largest hydrocarbon power generator in the world. Unreal.
selectodude··on Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
Something like 5 percent of AI datacenter usage is just optics.
selectodude··on An Inside Look at the Token Reseller Market
You’ll have to clarify who the counterparties are to this contract and where the person whose credit card was stolen fits into it.
selectodude··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
I’ve heard mixed things about the efficacy of Palantir’s software but it’s certainly something that they’re working very hard on doing.
selectodude··on Self-host your mail server
It’s not hard to receive or filter mail - knowing that somebody will receive your email after you send it is another thing entirely.
selectodude··on OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
That’s not true. 1. Libraries have used Authors Guild as legal cover to lend out ebooks for paper books that they own. 2. Google provided access to the whole book, that’s why they got sued.

If I run a book through AES, that’s pretty transformative too!

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