Given the advancements of EVs, the death of the muscle car was inevitable. They are almost universally faster, more performant, more efficient, and more "cool" in their designs. Do gear heads dislike them? Sure, but they aren't going to be the market forever. As energy costs rise, natural market forces will shift the demands of the buyer.
Readit Newsa_vanderbilt commented on There Goes the American Muscle Car thedispatch.com/article/d... · Posted by u/pluripote
a_vanderbilt commented on Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December open-web-advocacy.org/blo... · Posted by u/mtomweb
So after the EU and the UK, Japan is now putting an end to Apple's iOS alternative browser engine ban too.
Those are 3 large jurisdictions, I wonder if that's now a market big enough for Chrome and Firefox to invest into iOS versions of their browser that use Blink and Gecko under the hood. From what I heard this was one of the main reasons they haven't done it yet.
Culturally, the Japanese aren't likely to care. Take a look at Linux usage in Japan to get what I mean. You will have a small but very dedicated group of users who won't change for anything, and then the masses who just use what is convenient. They don't like tweaking.
Absolutely would not be a good candidate for a gov service in the US. Imagine the politicization currently applied to the Postal Service, but on the scale of everyone's email?
a_vanderbilt commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
And boy, with the $250m offers to people, Meta is definitely throwing ungodly piles of cash at the problem.
But Apple is waking up too. So is Google. It's absolutely insane, the amount of money being thrown around.
It's insane numbers like that that give me some concern for a bubble. Not because AI hits some dead end, but due to a plateau that shifts from aggressive investment to passive-but-steady improvement.
a_vanderbilt commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
Why do companies release open source LLMs?
I would understand it, if there was some technology lock-in. But with LLMs, there is no such thing. One can switch out LLMs without any friction.
At least in OpenAI's case, it raises the bar for potential competition while also implying that what they have behind the scenes is far better.
a_vanderbilt commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
I don’t know why you got so much downvoted, these models are not open-source/open-recipes. They are censored open weights models. Better than nothing, but far from being Open
Most people don't really care all that much about the distinction. It comes across to them as linguistic pedantry and they downvote it to show they don't want to hear/read it.
>Lip-Bu Tan has warned that he may pull investment from Intel's leading-edge 14A semiconductor process node unless "a meaningful external customer" can guarantee profits.
This immediately sounds "chicken and egg". Frankly it doesn't sound to me like a big customer is going to commit to capacity for a process that isn't even developed yet, by a company that has changed its development path multiple times over the next few years and is shedding parts as fast as possible to stave off insolvency...
Could very well be his intention. Justifies killing it without admitting to it as a failure of Intel, instead it's a product without a buyer. No reason to keep it.
a_vanderbilt commented on Ladybird Proves You Can Just Build a New Web Browser lunduke.substack.com/p/la... · Posted by u/philipallstar
Ladybird couldn't have come around at a better time. I feel it's a much better candidate to fill the shoes Mozilla was intended to (but squandered).
a_vanderbilt commented on Soil Based Half-Adder Processor igorkomolov.com/projects/... · Posted by u/ingen0s
If this can run Doom it will become my go to example for "Doom runs on everything".
a_vanderbilt commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
Kagi allows you to block Pinterest
Kagi got me to sign up as an early adopter because it let me banish pinterest forever.