Strike on Venezuela?
Readit NewsBluSyn commented on Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic twitter.com/PenPizzaRepor... · Posted by u/nomilk
Perhaps related? My main fiber WAN went out few hrs ago, failing over to Starlink backup. Discovered it’s a cloudflare issue, as my multi-wan setup tests against 1.1.1.1, which suddenly stopped responding (but only from my fiber ISP). Switched to testing 8.8.8.8 to restore.
If it weren’t for recent cloudflare outages, never would have considered this was the problem.
Even until I saw this, I assumed it was an ISP issue, since Starlink still worked using 1.1.1.1. Now I’m thinking it’s a cloudflare routing problem?
Steam machine so close to perfect, but 1x USBC and 1GB Ethernet are huge misses for a 2026 device. Also needs more VRAM. May be better to just do custom SFF build.
BluSyn commented on Sam Altman's pants are on fire garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
This is the same kind of bullshit rationalization they used to say that the bank bailouts of 2009 weren't really bank bailouts.
They were bank bailouts.
Unsecured government loans are either bailouts, entitlements in disguise, or (usually misguided) attempts at broad economic stimulus. This definitely isn't either of the latter two.
Unsecured government loan to a successful company to fund acceleration and growth is a "handout".
A "bailout" is what happened in 2009, in the sense the banks would literally have collapsed without it (and they probably should have).
OpenAI is not going to collapse without these loans. Huge difference.
Also for the record, not rationalizing, because I'm not in favor of either handouts or bailouts.
BluSyn commented on Sam Altman's pants are on fire garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
I'm confused about language, as "loans" to me do not equal "bailout". The equating of the two seems odd, as many government incentives use loans that pay back with high interest, so governments MAKE money on those kinds of deals.
Also clear that the 1.4T figure includes some accounting for spend that does not come directly from OpenAI (grid/power/data infra for example). Obviously some government involvement is needed, but more at EPA/State/Local level to fast track construction permits, more-so than financial help from Treasury.
I'm confused why this generates such sensational headlines.
BluSyn commented on Developers are choosing older AI models augmentcode.com/blog/deve... · Posted by u/knes
grok-code-fast-1 is my current pick, found accuracy and speed better than Sonnet 4.5 for day-to-day usage.
I would expect AI to influence slang in future generations. Would be more surprising if it didn't.
FYI on X there is a TestFlight link to try it:
https://x.com/jack/status/1941989435962212728
Surprised to see Jack pushing code himself. Love to see it.
Tesla advertises 350+ miles on its cars. I’d bet money that the cars can’t do 300 in normal weather, normal driving conditions without the AC/heater on, on a straight road with no elevation gain.
These are the things they blame when they say EPA estimates are different becase blah blah…
(I own a Tesla)
How can Tesla advertise a “more accurate” number if they are required by regulation to use EPA estimate?
EPA range estimates being inaccurate is a real problem. They do not, and are not designed to, give actual expected range. It’s meant to be an “average” of “mixed” driving.
Take latest Model Y as example. If you compare EPA range vs WLTP (commonly used in EU)
327mi EPA est. (526km) US version (long range) / 586km WLTP est. (364mi) EU version (long range)
The WLTP is “average” as well, so which of these is more accurate?
This problem is not unique to Teslas, and actually not unique to EVs either. It’s just more noticeable, as ICE vehicles usually advertise MPG and tank size, not total range. So EVs suffer from their own advertisement highlighting numbers that will never be accurate.