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duhast commented on After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS   theverge.com/2024/7/13/24... · Posted by u/Shank
Dalewyn · a year ago
>Full and complete service manuals to TVs, VCRs and cars. Access to parts etc.

To be fair, most electronics these days are so tightly integrated (literally IC, Integrated Circuits!) that there's not much you can do even with a full on schematic.

Long gone are the days of bigly electronics parts connected by a spaghetti nest of wires and third grade soldering.

duhast · a year ago
Phones, laptops, GPUs and many other modern highly integrated electronic products are repairable. Look it up, there are tons of videos on YouTube of people doing component level repairs. Leaked schematics make a huge difference here.
duhast commented on Ukraine forced to cut military operations as foreign aid dries up   bbc.com/news/world-europe... · Posted by u/intunderflow
tiahura · 2 years ago
The US got great bang for the buck at the beginning of the war but diminishing marginal returns set in as soon as the spring offensive flopped. The warmongers who declare that Europe is at risk and we must keep throwing money away should be ignored.

You don’t need a phd in Russian studies to understand that Putin rues the day he listened to his advisers. Can you imagine some KGB colonel going to Putin and saying “Let’s invade Lithuania”?

One of Zelenskyy’s comedian buddies needs to tell him it’s time to negotiate.

duhast · 2 years ago
Retaking of Kharkiv and Kherson is marginal diminishing returns?
duhast commented on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft   twitter.com/satyanadella/... · Posted by u/JimDabell
MichaelRazum · 2 years ago
I think you overestimate the technical part. Just speculating (no inside, no expert), but I would assume that the models are pretty "easy" and can be coded in few days. There are for sure some tweaks to the standard transformer architecture, but guess the tweaks are well known to sam and co.

The dataset is more challenging, but here msft can help - since they have bing and github as well. So they might be able to make few shortcuts here.

The most time consuming part is compute, but here again msft has the compute.

Will they beat chat-gpt 4 in a year? Guess no. But they will come very close to it and maybe it would not matter that much if you focus on the product.

duhast · 2 years ago
You lost me at "can be coded in few days".
duhast commented on FEC moves towards potentially regulating AI deepfakes in campaign ads   apnews.com/article/fec-ar... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
HHC-Hunter · 2 years ago
In other headlines FEC also shouts at the sky. Seriously how are you going to regulate this sort of Tech, it's akin to trying to stop piracy, it's just not going to able to be stopped.
duhast · 2 years ago
They can levy fines on campaigns.
duhast commented on Are you a late bloomer in work or love? Maybe you’re right on time   wsj.com/articles/age-marr... · Posted by u/impish9208
WalterBright · 2 years ago
Free markets are always good for prosperity. Trade barriers, not so good.
duhast · 2 years ago
Citation needed.

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duhast commented on Power struggles among nice people   edbatista.com/2022/03/pow... · Posted by u/rammy1234
varjag · 3 years ago
It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to call booster reusability "incremental".
duhast · 3 years ago
Care to elaborate?
duhast commented on Power struggles among nice people   edbatista.com/2022/03/pow... · Posted by u/rammy1234
api · 3 years ago
They seem to often be successful when the goal is to disrupt or compete with a very moribund but entrenched industry.

A few recent examples: Travis Kalanick vs the Taxi medallion cartel, Elon Musk vs a space industry that stopped innovating after Apollo (and to a lesser extent getting EVs over the adoption hump), Steve Jobs 2.0 (the return) vs ugly beige box PCs.

In all cases you have industries very set in their ways dominated by strong but stolid and conservative personalities and a lot of innovation being held back.

All the conquistador really has to do is gallop in and show what is possible. They have to execute well enough to do that. It doesn’t have to be excellence, but it often looks like excellence against a backdrop of mediocrity.

Take SpaceX for example. Old school NASA in the 50s and 60s or Lockheed Skunk Works in the same era were far more innovative. SpaceX looks superhuman today against the backdrop of an industry that had totally gone out to pasture.

Apple paired good industrial design with what is basically a polished consumer grade analog of a Linux desktop and looked revolutionary against ugly metal cans and chunky laptops running Windows. The iPhone was a bit higher on the innovation scale but also wasn’t wholly original, but damn did it cook when compared to flip phones.

But when you get past that disruption phase the conquistadors often fall down. We don’t get to see how Jobs would fare today because the torch was passed to Tim Cook, a solid operator. Musk is floundering with Tesla now that the EV market is full of strong competitors and it remains to be seen if SpaceX will hold it together. Kalanick’s Uber is a money bonfire but people still love it because Taxis suck.

duhast · 3 years ago
Can you give me some examples of SpaceX innovations that disrupted the industry?

Here are some of my issues with SpaceX marketing:

  1) Cost to NASA/DoD seems to be similar to ULA.

  2) SpaceX continues to fly expandable boosters for missions above LEO and for heavier payloads. Reusable boosters have lower lift and range and require extensive refurbishment between missions. Upper stage is not reusable.

  3) SpaceX hasn't flown a single mission into deep space or Mars despite this being the stated goal of the company. In the same time, others have flown multiple rockets to Mars and to other planets. We have multiple rovers roaming the surface of Mars and satellites orbiting other planes all while SpaceX has contributed nothing to these efforts.
I personally see SpaceX contributions to the industry are mostly incremental:

  1) Booster reusability to LEO and for light payloads.

  3) Human rated capsule for space station resupply missions.

  3) High quality video content from launches.

  4) Increased interest in space exploration at the expense of unrealistic expectations in relation to cost and timelines.

u/duhast

KarmaCake day178February 8, 2013View Original