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wstrange··on Gemini 4 Argon
Working on a novel OS seems like it would fun to work on....
wstrange··on Flutter 3.47
Try out serverpod. Not affiliated with them- it's just a super nice integrated Dart backend:

https://serverpod.dev/

wstrange··on Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change
I do wonder about the economics of CCS vs. investing more aggressively in wind and solar.

This is a big deal here in Alberta where the Oil companies are complaining about footing the bill for CCS. If instead of spending a few billion on CCS, how much CO2 reduction would we get if invested in solar and wind.

wstrange··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
I'm not so sure. It seems those with capital will accumulate it even faster.

Without some kind of income redistribution we are sailing into dark waters.

wstrange··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
To be fair, that's a one time process. You do not need to do that for every app you want to sideload.

The malware issue that the flow is designed to mitigate is a very real problem. Perhaps there is a better way, but it's not immediately clear what that is.

wstrange··on Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It
That seems disingenuous. Crypto made ransomware much easier.
wstrange··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
Insurance money doesn't grow on trees. The economy is highly connected, so increased costs impact most consumers.

Ransomware is a scourge enabled by crypto. We should do whatever we can to eliminate it.

wstrange··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
A bunch of people here are conflating low stakes amateur sports with elite sports.

Mixed league works fine for your company softball team. Not so much for professional sports.

wstrange··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
If we are talking about amateur sports where the stakes are low, the concept of slotting athletes into divisions makes sense.

In elite sports, no one wants to see "best in division X". They want to see the best hockey players, the best golfer, the best skier, etc. The money incentives are considerable.

This would destroy women's professional sports.

wstrange··on UBI as a productivity dividend
UBI will require a more progressive tax system. The Oligarchs are having none of that.
wstrange··on Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
Clearly they have not reached parity, as evidenced by the crash rate of Tesla.

It's far from clear that the current HW4 + sensor suite will ever be sufficient for L4.

wstrange··on Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix
I have HW4, and have tried FSD with every major release.

It works brilliantly, 99.5% of the time. The issue is that the failure mode is catastrophic. Like getting confused with the lane marking and driving off the shoulder. And the complete inability to read construction zone signs (blasting through a 50 KM zone at 100 KM).

I'm deeply skeptical that the current sensor suite and hardware is going to have enough compute power to safely drive without supervision.

It will no doubt improve, but until Tesla steps up and assumes liability for any accident, it's just not "full self driving".

wstrange··on Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss
For the back seats you can order webbing strips from Temu for five bucks. They are easy to spot (bright yellow).

I point them out to any passengers in the back seat.

If you have kids that are likely to pull them ... different story.

wstrange··on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
Reading the comments on that Fox site is depressing. A lot of hate for Apple, but for the wrong reasons (as in, completely missing the danger of centralized app stores..).
wstrange··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.
wstrange··on Delayed Security Patches for AOSP (Android Open Source Project)
Or a more likely scenario is that Apple picks up even more market share, and we go from a duopoly to a monopoly.
wstrange··on Telo MT1
This is what Tesla should have built instead of the Cybertruck.

With their distribution and service centers, this would sell like hot cakes.

wstrange··on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
It should be obvious that the thing doing the interpretation and navigation is a human, not an automated system.
wstrange··on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
> Clients can be almost automatic with a HATEOS implementation, because it is a self describing protocol.

That was the theory, but it was never true in practice.

The oft comparisons to the browser really missed the mark. The browser was driven by advanced AI wetware.

Given the advancements in LLMs, it's not even clear that RESTish interfaces would be easier for them to consume (say vs. gRPC, etc.)

wstrange··on MCP is eating the world
Looking at the demo I can see project managers going wild with this. And not in a good way.
wstrange··on Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign
It all went to shit when they removed the floppy drive.
wstrange··on A Tour Inside the IBM Z17
Consider me skeptical. A mainframe has to be the least cost effective "crypto-style" math machine you could imagine.
wstrange··on Gemini Robotics
Tesla's insane valuation based on future hypothetical robots is hard to justify given announcements like these.

It seems unlikely that any company (Google included) will have a robotics moat.

wstrange··on Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down?
BlueSky. Less algorithmic boosting and it allows you to curate your feed.

It's VC funded - so it remains to be seen how it evolves

wstrange··on Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures
For those of you in the field, this seems like a big deal? ELI5
wstrange··on Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy
Bio-Fuel seems more practical.

It reuses all the existing infrastructure and requires no engine modifications.

wstrange··on Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)
The browser is also driven by an advanced wetware AI system that knows which links to click on and how to interpret the results.
wstrange··on NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
You are telling me Trump lied? Shocked...
wstrange··on A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
The fleet car drives very slowly the first time, perhaps under supervision of a human.

The point is - you have a massive fleet of cars with all the right sensors to create a high resolution map.

wstrange··on A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
The mapping problem keeps getting brought up (often by Tesla enthusiasts).

It just doesn't seem like a huge problem? If you have cars equipped with high resolution Lidar and cameras, mapping new routes seems like it ought to scale as the fleet is expanded.

This problem seems embarrassingly parallel.

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