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My kid wasn’t progressing quite as well as their older sibling at a young age. They would trip over things and not be as interested in certain play activities. Dark under eye circles were also more pronounced (straining).

During a checkup, they had the option for an eye screening (basically an iPhone app) that takes pictures and flags possible issues. The concerning part was that the nurse’s default was to offer to “skip” this exam since it wasn’t covered by insurance and many parents chose to for financial reasons.

We didn’t skip it, and it found the need for a correction. The first time with the glasses on still brings tears to my eyes rewatching the video. “I see everything!” as they went to look at everything they were missing. The under eye circles also resolved immediately after.

The developmental delays aren’t even the biggest issue. Your eyes learn to work together at a young age, and skipping the glasses can lead to permanent eye issues if not addressed early. Many children likely have a permanent disease that a checkbox and cheap pair of glasses would have prevented.

This is long overdue and in no world should we be training health care providers that early age eye health is “skippable”.

Did you read the article?

Then they should stop selling hardware they don’t plan to support. Me-ish when you spend $1,500 on a piece of hardware is completely acceptable.

They also open just as fast! Near instantaneously! Yuck!

Hardware debugging and firmware details lead to thinking/testing loops on all but the frontier here.

I’m fine with that being the default. I know plenty of people who would have emulated the Win malware situation on their phone otherwise.

I’m not ok with it being the only option.

They will be instantly bought out by companies, not individuals. The consumer bubble won’t pop for quite a while yet. Production also won’t ramp up while lack of real competition keeps the demand high.

It’s not hypothetical. Magic strings are a known and implemented feature for standard model interaction. Nearly impossible to detect unless you know where to look with current technology.

Next up. CPUs that will spit out the wrong calculations 1/1M times. You’ll have to pay more for the enterprise version to get uncorrupted processing. The spare traces cost 5 cents, but we can charge 20% more for the privilege instead.

Just because you can allow it, doesn’t mean you should. I don’t want to live in a world where you need a PhD to avoid being scammed by increasingly sophisticated ploys. Data isn’t free anymore and the right questions are becoming harder to ask.

Right, the opinion shifting to the people being unworthy of uncorrupted data unless they’re wealthy enough to pay the artificial extortion price for integrity.

This will ensure there never is.

Mostly lack of competition and anti-trust regulation. Who would use a worse service when a healthy alternative exists?

You need to work on your reading comprehension. I am not the parent.

You just pull the loose string end to relieve the knot? The loop just pulls out.

Your accusatory ignorance is not mine to relieve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

To what end? I can think of 10 reasons immediately off the top of my head, but it’s far easier to fill existing open source projects with agent contributors for most of them.

Do you really need someone to rhyme out why state actors do what they do?

His final stream is illuminating if you can still find it. He speaks directly about Kramnik who he grew up idolizing right before his friend had to pull him away for erratic behavior. His comments during that stream strongly point to a suicide.

Kramnik never let off the accelerator.

He basically pushed a player going through a crisis to suicide with his baseless accusations. Proceeded to make public derogatory remarks right after they passed while the family barely started grieving. This is a slap on the wrist.

Conveniently it cost around $200 every 5-7 years to replace all 4.

That’s just a line. More like, “We can collect our own data”, or “We can lock them in and collect subscription fees.”

Real coffee beans not genetically engineered to grow fast with caffeine densities high enough to make explosives out of.

The robot figured out how to bump the lock. The obvious solution is to ban the robot.

Then proceeds to state a smarter model and instruction following as the reasons for success.. without actually testing anything.

They don’t just understand, they basically promote it.

1. The contractors move to where the money is. They will migrate to specialized work that will not benefit those who can’t afford “competitive” prices.

2. You can borrow 1T dollars in cash, effectively maxing out what the physical world will allow you to spend it on.

1T dollars allows you to corner the best contractors, maybe most of them, for your own projects while houses remain unbuilt.

It’s not the lifestyle that makes some people unhappy, it’s the knowledge that there is suffering around the world they can do near nothing to stop.

Not everyone frames their happiness solely on conditions within their own sphere. Knowledge comes with responsibility.

You’re still free to walk to your destination instead of driving, it would just be a lot of time friction.

Funny how reducing the friction with technology eventually increased the friction of the older transportation methods.

I have vivid dreams and smells from a surgery where the visions and feeling of them poking me are incredibly intense. The question is whether it’s a memory or a manifestation of fear. I rarely dream (every few years), but this vivid dream comes through on occasion.

And giving those same people more power makes it more difficult to fix the core problems.