SV_BubbleTime

It’s kind of getting to be a bit much. This isn’t even an announcement of an announcement, someone found a branch on their repo with 5.3 on it from 5.2.

As much as I am excited about cool LM uses, right now they are pretty much interchangeable and a commodity. I doubt many people could pass a blind taste test.

How this goes:

- new model released

- bullshit synthetic benchmarks

- SVG pelican with subjectively different qualities than previous drawings

- accusations of pelicanmaxxing

- the exact same discussion: should I pay a lot of money to run locally, or should I pay a lot of money to a tech company who is absolutely mining my data?

- user claims to have 10,000 hours on it and it’s shit

- user claims to have 30 seconds on it and has switched over their entire life to it and will never need another model so long as they live

- new model released

I saw the samples people have posted. Immediately deleted LTX2 and WAN folders. Those are completely worthless now.

There is some debate on the license for those in the US, UK, EU, plus… no comment other than whew those samples though!

I find it difficult to understand the immaturity of not being able to separate the art and artist. It’s really not difficult. I think some of it is performative for signaling to one’s peers that they are on the “right side” of some issue or imagined virtue.

Flutter has been a great success for us.

Bro, your link literally says in the read me it is an engine.

That’s an open source engine, we already have a word to define what that is.

And we have Open Weights to define what those are.

And since none of the source is provided to make the thing, it’s not open source.

Really, it’s no more open source than a free calculator. It’s free, and you can use it to no or great effect. But, you sure as hell can’t make one.

So calling it open source is without question, wrong.

New model day, here we go again! It’s a week of madness and all the wrong advice… and at the end of the week, the model is either dead or a massive hit. There is little middle ground.

I’m watching H3 to see if it fixes the nonsense that LTX introduced and what happens next… WAN is due, LTX says a new model is coming, Flux3 does video.

It went from zero video models to a lot of options due this year.

>i would think a democrat would have been a better cosponsor

Why? Where is any equivalent measures coming from the US left?

It is because that’s how people identify as Democrats want them to behave? There seems to be a rift there.

>I only wish I knew of possible ways for us to get there :(

Entropy. Things will dissolve enough that eventually someone will make changes. It takes a long time though, this is likely a feature.

> Biggest issue seems to be wait at public charge stations.

No one has ever said “man, I love this gas station and wish I could stay here for two hours”

… idk, I guess people like Buckeys for some reason.

Exactly this.

“Oh, but Norway uses EVs a ton!” … cool, Norway is the size of an average US state, the population of Connecticut, over an extremely thin area which optimizes one vector of infrastructure automatically. And makes the majority of its money on oil.

Geez, almost like EV ultra-success stories aren’t even remotely comparable the rest of the world.

This is the correct use for EV. A second car, around town. Perfect.

The EV push back is because the MBAs decide to market them as replacement daily drivers. And despite the people that went all in being part of the same reality that has caused the massive pushback against EVs… they will defend their purchases to the death.

I have had two EVs for around town. Love em. But not real for only car outside of California.

Things like crash, fire, egress, homologation and pedestrian impact, long term service… these are things western mfgs obsess over, and BYD doesn’t give a shit about.

You can buy BYD vehicles without airbags.

They’re Chinese market vehicles.

It’s like DJI drones, they work, and they cheap, some are even decent performance on paper, but they aren’t “real” in a sense that serious users would demand.

It’s OK if a BYD is bricked with a bad OTA. It’s less OK for the auto industry in the rest of the world.

It’s taken Tesla a LONG time to figure out building computers is easy, and cars are hard. Same for BYD.

You can’t just assume every time you go somewhere your battery is fully charged.

I mean, you can, because you are clearly emotionally tied into your purchase. But I can’t as an engineer.

> Carbon in that form will sit in the soil for hundreds of years. Thousands or millions if you bury it.

And what is the scale that global climate change works on?

Trees do jack shit for carbon on the scale that is important.

heh, ok, that’s strange.

So when you say it’s got a 350 mile range, but then make the point you only need to charge to 40% that you would be fine with a single vehicle that had a 140mile range?

I swear buying an EV in 2026 breaks brains. The push back has been so bad because the mfgs pushed the single car lie… but the people that jumped in now need to defend their $60,000 purchases.

I get it, but please don’t think you guys are sneaky about it. We all know what it is.

“5-10 minutes every two hours” … lol, that’s good when you’re going from LA to San Diego. If I had to stop every two hours on a road trip I’d get a train ticket, it would feel a lot faster.

> Since time progresses equally for both of them,

Wild assumption. I saw absolutely nothing in the text to indicate their relative velocities.

> The latest battery chemistries perform incredibly well in cold and hot climates.

Oh? Show me a model of EV that has it is going to lower capacity battery heating and cooling systems.

I’m an automotive EE… I can’t name any. I’m working on things that will go in 2032 vehicles. Surprise, most are ICE, but of the EV vehicles the battery protection systems are becoming more rugged, not less.

Where does your supposition come from?

This is such a euphemism to pretend that you’d like to wait two hours at a refueling station.

Anyone who’s ever driven between Seattle and Portland and seen the e16b charging lots of people sleeping in their cars knows there is a whole different side to your rosey picture.

EV owners are still internalizing their range anxiety into a benefit.

I get it; I like EVs for their around town purpose, but man it’s almost fantasy to sell it as “5-10 minutes every two hours”.

I’m an automotive EE… I find particular interest when someone mentions BYD as what “works” in electric vehicles.

Wild fucking west right there.

That is definitely one of those “it worked the first 50 times no problem” tricks.

Uh… gasoline has a super high vapor pressure. If you start out at the wrong ratio, it does what it can to make that ratio right.

I’ve seen a few gasoline fires that start by burning, and then much more rapidly expressing potential.

Air is usually quite available though.

Subjectively subject oriented.

Apple latest is 8x I think

This is exactly where I’m at. Want a higher zoom. I’m about three years old now and feeling it.

Mine is about three years old now and I want a better camera.

Some upgrades are meh, occasionally I want one thing. Like next upgrade I really want a higher optical zoom than 3x.

But I think unlike leasing vehicles, where the vehicle has the same power (approximately and within usable limits) the new phones bring a new battery. If swappable battery was a thing everywhere; that would further depress the sale of new phones.

I think about removing its shit adhesive from things that shouldn’t have been poorly secured with layer after layer of the wrong thing.