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Next, they’ll get rid of the table…

Like other fads, it has certainly failed to go out of existence as soon as it should have.

That doesn’t seem right.

Surely you mean 16 milliseconds ?


Benchmark says 15.654 µs. Rendering the text as a 1024x1024 image is 2.8737 ms.

However, the ASCII output quality is nondiverse despite using the same technique, so will need to do significantly more testing and this likely won't be released soon.


Product placement in LLM output…

Too impatient to go through the whole video but the title matches my thoughts exactly.

My personal conclusion - most of us are really just not as intelligent as we think.

AI isn’t smart. We’re just dumb.

The LLMs seem smart because they were trained on the intellectual content generated by smart people.

An LLM trained only on 4chan would be very different…


Probably much easier when the seller is in China and selling the product in the US on Amazon.

Why would the ATF go after them instead of YOU?


Similar could be done by exposing a block of RAM as a PCIe endpoint.

To the host, it’d be already mapped as a BAR.


Or RDMA ;P

Demands cloud RDMA


Not disagreeing but it’s amazing a ship plowing water out of the way is so much more efficient.

Perhaps trains beat road transport efficiency to a similar degree.


> Perhaps trains beat road transport efficiency to a similar degree.

Not just efficiency but you can use electric trains if your tracks are electrified. Add into that electricity production system that is mostly renewable+nuclear (the Nordics for example) and you get very very low emissions.


They do, trains are BAFFLINGLY fuel efficient in terms of pounds of cargo. Once they get up to speed, trains can move one ton of cargo about 480 mile per gallon, vs 130 with trucks

This is why European cities had so many canals back in the day.

classic volume grows faster than surface area.

also, fuel is a huge cost (maybe even the main cost), and drag has a >linear relationship with speed- so the ships will slow down based on fuel prices.


DoorDash finds a way to consistently screw up orders.

Order A,B,C - receive only A+B, or A,B,D. No explanation. Tipped generously.

For a long time, I myself drove and picked up my orders. The same restaurants rarely made mistakes. I never had to ask for missing item to be included. They always had everything in the bag.

It’s happened so often, it has to be malice from one of the parties involved.


> Tipped generously.

You shouldn't tip delivery drivers, it's literally their job.


While I would love to agree with you, in America restaurants of all sizes (and personal transportation companies) seemingly often rely on tips from customers to supplement the wages of their workers instead of just paying them fairly.

Yeah so you shouldn't help them do that if you disagree with the practice

It's a collective action problem: it can't be solved by individuals like this. All you'll achieve is complicity in wage theft. A viable approach might be to prefer doing business with companies who promise their workers a good wage, but this requires that your local businesses actually make that commitment. To get that, you'll have to go outside the abstraction of the market, and actually talk to decisionmakers within the businesses. (This is sometimes called "activism".)

No, I disagree that other peoples ethical failures spread to you if you don't participate in the ethical failure. If you disagree on ethical grounds with something, just don't do it. To the extent that you could simply not frequent those places.

Have fun when no one wants to deliver food to you.

The army of faceless delivery gig workers can’t exactly pick and choose. They deliver the food or they get banned from the platform and replaced by the next guy.

>replaced by the next guy.

There is a loser born every minute. (The loser has no choice in been born, though)


Do you also tip Amazon drivers? If not, then I don't see why food should be different.

Because they don't have a car full of 100 people's meals like Amazon drivers do with deliveries? You're ordering a personal taxi for your burrito.

I’m not quite sure we even have the know-how these days for fully analog control systems.

My dumb refrigerator has a circuit board controlling the compressor based on temperature sensors.

My dumb gas water heater has a digital control unit even though it doesn’t use AC or battery power.

Same thing for gas furnace - control board running fan and gas igniter+valves. This isn’t just relays…

It’d be a substantial effort to design analog drop-in replacement parts - if even possible. Installation probably wouldn’t be pretty.

At least I think my toaster and rice cooker are fully analog.


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