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neaanopri··on Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
Merging AMD and Intel sounds like Penn Central all over again
neaanopri··on The motor turns too much
After the accident, the Massachusetts legislature passed a law to require a licensed professional engineers stamp on all gas infrastructure designs of this type
neaanopri··on Physical Intelligence's first generalist robotic model
As a committed AI skeptic, this demo is very impressive. Bravo
neaanopri··on Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
I'd take coding by own damn self over either a junior or a gpt bot
neaanopri··on Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
There's only one metric that matters at the end of the day, and that's $. Revenue.

Unfortunately there's a lot of lag

neaanopri··on Fable is winding down
Maybe if you had heard of it, it wouldn't be winding down
neaanopri··on Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging
I believe it's fair and based on recent changes in musk's political outlook which many disagree with. His public persona really didn't used to be like this, and he never would have been so popular in the first place if that was the case.
neaanopri··on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
Porn is at least enjoyable
neaanopri··on The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere
Imagine how loud this will be

"THIS IS THE PALLETDRONE" "WHAT?" <inaudible>

neaanopri··on Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
Yeah, and if we get the second coming of Christ, the elect will be saved, and the rest will be damned.
neaanopri··on Why Ed-Tech Startups Don't Scale (2022)
A 17 year old focusing on succeeding socially and sexually is still really incentivized to go to college! People have tons of friends and sex at even the nerdiest college.
neaanopri··on The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass
Running a "guy with a truck" business is great for working 3 days a week, if you can make the finances work. Simply ... only accept 3 jobs a week!

You just have to be a freelancer (and all that entails), and be able to live on a very low income.

neaanopri··on The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass
Well it sounds like glass was charismatic enough to get people to take a chance on him
neaanopri··on The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass
I'd almost say high concept books pair better with blue collar work. I'm mentally exhausted after a day of meetings or programming, but if I'm doing manual labor I end up physically exhausted, not mentally exhausted
neaanopri··on Total War: Rome II and Creative Assembly – My Statement Ten Years On
Replacing the incompetent managers with better ones.
neaanopri··on Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle
I'm curious what the actual marginal cost of an additional pound on the shuttle is - surely you can't just divide?
neaanopri··on Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon
OP's description isn't exactly "optimizing for maintenance" either!
neaanopri··on Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)
Mathematicians aren't having sex or changing diapers, math can all be in LaTeX
neaanopri··on Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
The modern developer yearns for Java
neaanopri··on No More Blue Fridays
It's more accurate to say that in principle, there could be programs that would halt, but that the verifier will deny.
neaanopri··on He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
neaanopri··on AI's $600B Question
This seems about as bearish as a VC is allowed to be. My takeaway is:

Sell! Sell! Sell now before it's too late!

neaanopri··on Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks
These are the same thing! Property can't BOTH be affordable AND a good investment!
neaanopri··on Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
I probably do 100 replies for every 1 original tweet.

This is fine and "good actually"

Consider a traditional PHP forum. How much of the discussion is the "OP" post in a thread, and how much is all of the discussion afterwards? It's the same on twitter.

neaanopri··on Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared
Let's tax stuff in proportion to the value it provides to society

Since crypto is used for crime and pyramid schemes, zero value so infinite tax = ban

neaanopri··on Ask HN: Is there VC appetite for defense related startups?
Have you considered SBIR loans?
neaanopri··on One gemini battery nearly doubles Tesla Model S range
Yup, the means to solve climate change and electricity the US already exist, but people don't like them for stupid reasons.

US has an irrational dislike for overhead wires, for both trains and trolley buses (ubiquitous enough they have Unicode)

This isn't a problem of technology, and we can't "innovate our way out". Our dispersed suburban land use pattern is simply a mistake, and impossible to make efficient.

Efficiency comes from:

* Electrified freight rail for cargo transport into and between cities and buildings

* High speed intercity electrified passenger rail

* Frequent, automated subway and heavy rail in cities and their peripheries

* Frequent, ubiquitous trolleybuses to bring people to rail stations

* Dense apartment buildings with good noise cancellation which share heated walls, and use heat pumps for heating and cooling

* Renewable electricity

* Flights for trips >500km, taking passengers from several nearby cities who take high speed rail to the airport

ALL OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES EXIST TODAY, we just need to be willing to adopt them. Because these technologies exist today, there is no sense in "waiting for technology to save us". We need to choose to adopt them, and abandon our inefficient policies now. These will always be the solutions, and we are just in denial that we need to adopt them.

neaanopri··on U.S. sets goal to drive down cost of removing CO2 from atmosphere
Us first. The carbon footprint of a US citizen is very high. We can shame others when it gets below average
neaanopri··on China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear reactors
Part of the reason to be critical of the US isn't just our high overall carbon emissions, but our per-capita carbon emissions. US citizens emit far more carbon per-person than Chinese people do. That is worth criticizing
neaanopri··on China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear reactors
US also influences policy adopted by other countries, so if the US adopted the French nuclear model, we would influence other countries.

I think we're hurt by our domestic oil and gas reserves here. We have powerful interests who want the US to use its domestic oil and gas reserves, so a large-scale shift TO nuclear and AWAY FROM gas seems quite difficult to execute.

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