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gmanley commented on UniFi 5G   blog.ui.com/article/intro... · Posted by u/janandonly
alt227 · 17 days ago
Most of those chips are made in TSMC or samsung foundries, the majority of which are currently in China or South Asia.
gmanley · 17 days ago
The majority of their foundries are in Taiwan and South Korea which, to avoid politics, is outside what most people mean when they worry about tech made in China (they think about the PRC).
gmanley commented on Helping Valve to power up Steam devices   igalia.com/2025/11/helpin... · Posted by u/TingPing
zamalek · a month ago
> Much credit to Valve for pushing that out as FOSS.

Cynical: Valve doesn't sell hardware or operating systems, they sell games. These devices are merely another storefront.

Optimistic: Valve has also figured out how to turn good will into a commodity. Blowing cash on Steam sales is a bit of a cultural centerpiece of the PC gaming community.

Gabe has proven that you can make stupid amounts of money by [mostly] doing right by the consumer. I'm not sure if there's more to the secret source, her sauce, because we've yet to see another CEO pull their head out of their arse far enough to see how lucrative this approach can be: consumerism is fickle, fanaticism is loyal.

gmanley · a month ago
Does it really matter if they take these consumer friendly actions because they know it will get them good press and dedicated consumers? The end result is the same.

Like you touched on, for whatever reason, most large enough companies haven't seemed to figure out this obvious truth. I tend to believe it's because it's harder than it looks, once a company reaches a certain size. Now sure, they are by no means perfect, but I'd like to at least give them credit for being far better than any of the competition, no matter the rational behind it.

gmanley commented on You should write an agent   fly.io/blog/everyone-writ... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
SJC_Hacker · 2 months ago
A silly scenario. LLMs don’t have independent will. They are action / response.

If home robot assistants become feasible, they would have similar limitations

gmanley · 2 months ago
What if the action, it is responding to, is some sort of input other than directly human entered? Presumably, if it has a cameras, microphone, etc, people would want their assistant to do tasks without direct human intervention. For example: it is fed input from the camera and mic, detects a thunderstorm and responds with some sort of action to close windows.

It's all a bit theoretical but I wouldn't call it a silly concern. It's something that'll need to be worked through, if something like this comes into existence.

gmanley commented on Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA   eurogamer.net/ea-union-wo... · Posted by u/ksec
cm2012 · 2 months ago
This is the case for big tech, almost never for small businesses in usa
gmanley · 2 months ago
Define small business, because unless you are talking a mom and pop shop, my experience is severance is still a thing and definitely not big tech exclusive.
gmanley commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum
gmanley · 2 months ago
I would hesitate to chalk it up to just theory, given it was in the NTSB report and they don't really mess around with throwing baseless stuff around. I'd be interested to take another look at it. They likely go into the material science and physics behind this very thing. They're usually filled with gems.

You also have to keep in mind, it wasn't just rubber against asphalt, it was rubber on a wheel that spins. I'm not sure if the front nose gear on a 767 has any brakes but even if it did, I can't imagine it would be sufficient at the speeds they were going.

gmanley · 2 months ago
I mistyped, as this was Canada it wouldn't be the NTSB but the Canadian equivalent at the time: Canadian Aviation Safety Board. The report is a good read.
gmanley commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum
cibyr · 2 months ago
The "scraping helped slow it down" theory makes no sense to me. What do you think has a higher coefficient of friction - tire rubber on asphalt, metal on asphalt, or metal on metal?
gmanley · 2 months ago
I would hesitate to chalk it up to just theory, given it was in the NTSB report and they don't really mess around with throwing baseless stuff around. I'd be interested to take another look at it. They likely go into the material science and physics behind this very thing. They're usually filled with gems.

You also have to keep in mind, it wasn't just rubber against asphalt, it was rubber on a wheel that spins. I'm not sure if the front nose gear on a 767 has any brakes but even if it did, I can't imagine it would be sufficient at the speeds they were going.

gmanley commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum
nickff · 2 months ago
Fuel depletion is risky, but not that risky; see the Gimli Glider for a case much more dangerous than this, which still worked out amazingly well.

Edit: Here is the Wiki on incidents... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_starvation_and_fuel_exhau...

gmanley · 2 months ago
That example is so well known due to how exceptional it was, especially how the pilots handled it. Robert Pearson, the captain, was a very experienced glider pilot. That's something that not many commercial pilots have.

There were also two factors in the landing, that allowed for this to happen. You're going to be coming in really fast for a landing, when gliding in a commercial jet, and you don't have access to your thrust reversers to slow it down. There was a repurposed runway, that they used to land, that just happened to have been used as a drag racing track and had a guard rail. They were able to slow down by scraping across that. It also just so happened the nose gear didn't deploy fully so scraping the nose of the plane against the ground also helped slow it down.

Needless to say it was a bunch of very fortunate events that allowed it to not end in disaster. In any case I would consider it very risky.

gmanley commented on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy   weplanet.org/post/eu-cour... · Posted by u/mpweiher
medlazik · 3 months ago
> all human development activity is unclean

of course

> modern definition of clean

clean is clean. no need to lie or modernize word definitions to fit your agenda of promoting nuclear energy all day every day for a decade

gmanley · 3 months ago
OK, but then by that logic, solar and and wind shouldn't be categorized as clean energy either. Clearly it's a matter of degrees and meant as a useful segmentation for taxation, etc.

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gmanley commented on Study mode   openai.com/index/chatgpt-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
sejje · 5 months ago
Cliff notes with a near-infinite zoom feature.

The criticism of cliff's notes is generally that it's a superficial glance. It can't go deeper, it's basically a summary.

The LLM is not that. It can zoom in and out of a topic.

I think it's a poor criticism.

I don't think it's a silver bullet for learning, but it's a unified, consistent interface across topics and courses.

gmanley · 5 months ago
Except it generally is shallow, for any advanced enough subject, and the scary part is you don't know when it's reached the limit of its knowledge because it'll come up with some hallucination to fill in those blanks.

If LLM's got better at just responding with: "I don't know", I'd have less of an issue.

u/gmanley

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