Is there some tight coupling on autonomy + electric cars? Seems the only 2 viable hands-free car companies are Tesla and Rivian. I don't see myself ever getting an electric car, but it doesn't seem like the big car companies are anywhere near this.
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frankfrank13 commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan
absolutely dead at gemini thinking up
> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)
frankfrank13 commented on After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline iwriteaboutcode.blogspot.... · Posted by u/birdculture
> In industrial scale software development, gaining access you are fully entitled to can sometimes take weeks.
4 years in consulting. I've spent the first WEEKS of a project twiddling my thumbs waiting for a laptop, just to spend more weeks waiting on access to source code, tooling, etc.
My friends on the strategy side could start and finish entire projects in that time.
frankfrank13 commented on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board cnbc.com/2025/11/19/larry... · Posted by u/koolba
What’s partisan about what your OP described? Democrats and republicans alike were entangled in Epstein’s crimes.
I meant that this event, like many events in American history, will be remembered through the lens of the party in power. At least for a long time. Only now are we beginning to understand Vietnam and Watergate, for example. I suspect the truth about Epstein will never come out, but what will come out will be made partisan by those releasing it, now or in the future.
frankfrank13 commented on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board cnbc.com/2025/11/19/larry... · Posted by u/koolba
Alternatively, there is no justice, and even the truth is lost to partisan politics. I have a strange feeling this benefits foreign intelligence, not harms it. Mossad, for example, knows who slipped through the cracks. Knows how much worse the "truth" is beyond the code names and vague emails. Now they have more power, not less.
frankfrank13 commented on Are you stuck in movie logic? usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/eatitraw
I like this post, ofc we could all benefit from direct, and vulnerable, conversations. But one thing I never understood, even through Brené Brown, is that this direct and vulnerable communication style leads to its own set of baggage, its own unspoken agreements about what something meant.
> “I’ve been feeling a low-level tension between us, like maybe we’re quietly annoyed at each other but trying to stay polite. Is that just me?”
I'm sure in many cultures, and in many friend groups, this would go over fine. If I said this to someone, they would go into shock. They're unspoken thought would be "wow if he's saying that to me, I must annoy the shit out of him". Maybe not! Maybe that's my own unspoken understanding! But I do think this leaves a "scar" even a small one. "Direct" conversations are not without their own damaging effects. I think part of my social contract is to "deal" with things silently. Maybe in other cultures that's not the case.
If someone said that to me, I would be happy to have that conversation, but I would be on pins and needles around that person, and possibly overthinking how "annoying" I'm being, and I would have at least a small amount of resentment for the person saying it – "I have lots of friends I don't annoy, what's wrong with this person"
Just to be pretentious, this also reminds me of a conversation in Infinite Jest, where the canadian and the american spy argue about whether its right to teach their young what right and wrong is, or whether its right to discover it. The example is eating candy.
I think in the US, if you tell a kid not to eat candy, they will eat candy as soon as their guardian isn't watching. I'm not sure that's true elsewhere, for a myriad of reasons. By extension, if you tell me I'm annoying you, I might go through the motions of "repairing" the relationship, while I actually just distance myself. Ofc, that depends on who says it
frankfrank13 commented on Are you stuck in movie logic? usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/eatitraw
I like this post, ofc we could all benefit from direct, and vulnerable, conversations. But one thing I never understood, even through Brené Brown, is that this direct and vulnerable communication style leads to its own set of baggage, its own unspoken agreements about what something meant.
> “I’ve been feeling a low-level tension between us, like maybe we’re quietly annoyed at each other but trying to stay polite. Is that just me?”
I'm sure in many cultures, and in many friend groups, this would go over fine. If I said this to someone, they would go into shock. They're unspoken thought would be "wow if he's saying that to me, I must annoy the shit out of him". Maybe not! Maybe that's my own unspoken understanding! But I do think this leaves a "scar" even a small one. "Direct" conversations are not without their own damaging effects. I think part of my social contract is to "deal" with things silently. Maybe in other cultures that's not the case.
If someone said that to me, I would be happy to have that conversation, but I would be on pins and needles around that person, and possibly overthinking how "annoying" I'm being, and I would have at least a small amount of resentment for the person saying it – "I have lots of friends I don't annoy, what's wrong with this person"
frankfrank13 commented on Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system satcom.digital/news/gener... · Posted by u/maremmano
As a layman I have no idea which part of this to be skeptical of, but, cool!
Watching this over the past few minutes, it looks like Kimi K2 generates the best clock face most consistently. I'd never heard of that model before today!
Qwen 2.5's clocks, on the other hand, look like they never make it out of the womb.
I find that Kimi K2 looks the best, but i've noticed the time is often wrong!