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EgregiousCube··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
Presumably by exactly the value of the tax (over the lifetime of the purchase).
EgregiousCube··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
Landlord costs impact supply.
EgregiousCube··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
That's standard operating procedure for any non-de-minimis importer. The $800 limit was only imposed in 2016, historically it was a lot lower than that.
EgregiousCube··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
Nope, Congress has authorized the executive to impose tariffs multiple times for multiple different reasons. Tariff Act of '30, Trade Expansion Act of '62, Trade Act of '74, etc.
EgregiousCube··on Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline
Isn't part of the Jev marketing that it has "terra-class intelligence"? I don't know how much it actually achieves that, but unless that's EXTREMELY wrong, it's hard to see how a 0.3B model could claim to be an OS Jev.
EgregiousCube··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
Worth noting that the limits being revoked have only been in place less than two years.
EgregiousCube··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
Keep in mind that total manufacturing capacity is increasing as well. Perhaps not enough to fully offset, but it's incorrect to assume that supply capacity is flat.
EgregiousCube··on NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust
Appears to be further along than anybody's ever gotten with a multi-threaded emacs port. If that's what vibe coding gets us, three cheers for vibe coding!
EgregiousCube··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
This is the disconnect. You say that politicians are allowing them - that's not right. They're directing them to be set up, they're spending citizen tax money on buying them.

The blame lies entirely with government officials who sought out and purchased surveillance tech, and we should not blame the technologists who responded rationally to the incentive that local governments provided for them.

EgregiousCube··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
Especially when chances are that this camera installation was the result of local government asking and paying Flock to put it up. I'm not sure why the anger is directed at the company instead of local elected officials, and I understand the plight of the installer who's worried about being labeled as a bad guy for executing public works contracts.
EgregiousCube··on You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules
If government supplied clean water hasn't been considered a right, and there's no change in that now, wouldn't you expect the number of dead in the future from this to be proportionally equal to the number of dead in the past?
EgregiousCube··on "We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"
“Sovereignty is the ability to resist power being exerted over you” is a pretty compelling definition. Thinking forward about what form that power takes with LLMs developing custom exploits faster than our existing processes can patch them - it seems to me that our current security best practices might turn out to be pretty useless or even an active risk in and of themselves.

Our responsible disclosure and CVE info cycle and patch cadences and defense in depth, etc, etc ecosystem are tuned around a world where there's a relatively small number of bad 0days and the cost of said 0days is reasonably high. We can evolve how we address threats, but our models have read all of the best literature about how it's been done previously. Think there's a gap for people too small to gain access to "the good security models" - the nerfed closed models and the open models seem likely to fail to adapt, unless that gap is addressed.

EgregiousCube··on IBM Bob
Is it true that employees have to earn Bobcoins before they can use Bob?
EgregiousCube··on ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
With all the major model providers down, I'm taking the opportunity to try out Muse Spark 1.3 Free on OpenCode. It's pretty good!
EgregiousCube··on ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
As is Grok
EgregiousCube··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
You say completely locked out, but be fair, that's a choice you're making. I don't particularly like Facebook but there are a few things I can only keep up with there, so I have a minimal account for that purpose.
EgregiousCube··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Scalper bots need customers to sell to; their business model falls apart in the face of sufficient supply.
EgregiousCube··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Not in Linux! See setting GTT: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.2.0/how-to/system-optimi...
EgregiousCube··on Qwen 3.8 Max Preview
A consequence of aggressive distillation?
EgregiousCube··on SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
He did, by arguing that a company that is fast-tracked for index inclusion has an obligation to prevent its stock price from following common post-IPO price patterns; and using "the only company to do so" as an allusion to a false trend.
EgregiousCube··on I love LLMs, I hate hype
Guarantee is too strong a thing to seek, but healthy competition makes it highly likely that the supply/demand curve will meet at a healthy place.

You're always guaranteed that you can stash away the open models!

EgregiousCube··on Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM
Depends on the company and environment. If you work at a place that has an overabundance of easily-googleable questions, this behavior is a good social impediment.
EgregiousCube··on Introducing Muse Spark 1.1
Correct
EgregiousCube··on Muse Spark 1.1
Their published benchmarks seem to indicate that it's pretty good at coding and multimodal, but VERY good at successful tool calls.

What kind of use case would be best for that shape?

EgregiousCube··on Grok 4.5
+1.

And regardless of how thick skinned a nerd is, all the brigading makes threads majority-offtopic and now the neighborhood just sucks. In this case here, the new Grok release genuinely has some interesting characteristics in its quality/speed/cost tradeoffs - but this thread just isn't a good place to discuss them, because it's been swarmed.

EgregiousCube··on California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste
Not the /only/ water problems... https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/conservation/regs/water_effic...
EgregiousCube··on Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?
Why are prices up even though population is down over the past ten years? Did everybody decide to move to the city or something?
EgregiousCube··on Job application asked for my SAT scores
Yes; though SAT is less prep-resistant and it'd be smart to apply a "+/- 100pts" fuzz to a score.
EgregiousCube··on Job application asked for my SAT scores
"You're partly making your decision based on who someone was as a 17 year old."

Sure, but IQ tests show a high degree of stability over a person's life. It's not unreasonable to be interested in it for sorting.

EgregiousCube··on US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I mean, lots of Americans would risk building something important with it in that case.
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