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ddalex··on GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
20 kWh per hour
ddalex··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
I give it 4 weeks
ddalex··on The Waymo World Model
i think we might need aother great fire to widen the streets at this point
ddalex··on The Waymo World Model
Have you read the article ? The guys in the Philippines are providing high level executive indications, they don't drive remotely the car or have any low level control of the car.
ddalex··on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
> Xcode really needs a couple of years of pure bugfix

Claude code 8 hours later: It's done, mate!

ddalex··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
> build a better model with lower latency.

That's mighty impossible for the european mindset - people here are not so risk-eager as to through hundreds of billions on infrastructure for something that might return a profit.

ddalex··on The coming war on car ownership?
I beg to differ, waymo doesn't have humans ready to take over at the first sign of trouble, there are no remote-driven Waymos. The operators make remote high level executive decisions by clickin items in a menu, not by driving.

Also Waymo is cash positive per car, and more expensive then human drivers - they accidentally unlocked a premium market where people are happy to pay extra to not deal with other humans. At their price point its certainly worth doing the robotaxi business

ddalex··on The coming war on car ownership?
> it will stay a Tesla / Waymo duopoly

The chinese already run self driving taxis in ~20 cities, more then Waymo and certainly outpacing Teslas. The Duopoly ship sailed.

ddalex··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
> anyone stupid enough to install and use this on the road

I can't believe that people are willing to put their lives in the hands of a DIY solution with no convincing acceptance tests.

ddalex··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
> Really good one ... that can (and will) try to kill you (and others) ...

I'm afraid to ask about the bad ones.

ddalex··on The Waymo Ojai Will Soon Offer Autonomous Rides Around the U.S.
Protobufs probably
ddalex··on Say No to Palantir in the NHS
I keep hearing about these Palantir magic abilities but I have not seen any positive example where Palantir made an actually actionable predictions that are not common sense
ddalex··on Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo
All the main design, both aesthetically and mechanical, is done in Sweden. This is what makes it Swedish
ddalex··on 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
There is no popping. We cannot have enough compute for the forseeable future.
ddalex··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
Don't look into the laser with the remaining eye
ddalex··on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
I never understood how that QNX desktop didn't pick up instanntly, it was amazing !
ddalex··on After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be
What happened to "always maintain compatibility" ?
ddalex··on Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip
The next next generation will include memory to offload memory from the on chip memory to the memory on memory (also known as SRAM cache)
ddalex··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
you're missing that this is the land of the free where us drivers are being detained at will

why do you think bicyclists are exempt from this abusive behaviour ?

ddalex··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
> cycling is a right which can't be taken away in the US

Why not ?

ddalex··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
Land of the free.....
ddalex··on Gemini 3
https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/TVk9pqGE giraffe in a ferrari
ddalex··on Gemini 3
I moved to using the model from python coding to golang coding and got incredible speedups in writing the correct version of the code
ddalex··on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
how did the autonomous agents inflitrate tech companies ?
ddalex··on Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
This is Europe where we have concrete or masonry walls and good insulation, I see maybe 2 other APs in the worst days in the apartment. On the good days I have no other APs.
ddalex··on Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
that's why I'm running only 2.4Ghz APs, enough bandwidth for mobile common uses, all static hardware has wires to them. Far better then 5GHz band
ddalex··on Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]
I really love Stephenson's world building and detailed research, but I get the feeling he himself gets bored with the book at a certain point :)

So I vote Stross

ddalex··on Brain-IT: Image Reconstruction from fMRI via Brain-Interaction Transformer
wow, imagine (sic!) reading images directly from people minds - that means the inverse is likely achievable - hence ads injected directly in your dreams
ddalex··on Pomelli
Of course they are allowed, they're called "corporations" because they have a "body" and legal rights.

The datacenter is held by a corporation, and the corporation does what the resident AI wants it to do.

ddalex··on Notes by djb on using Fil-C
I'm on camp 2.
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