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Comment · 3 days ago
Not everyone might be aware of what you are talking about. Would prefer some Context
Comment · 5 days ago
Sometimes our tastes change as we age, or vice versa: our tastes remain the same and the world has moved along.

Just to say we all have nostalgia and the good old days are never coming back.

Comment · 5 days ago
Essentially, its a game of capital and solar is accessible to (almost) every human household on the planet.

Additionally, zeroish fuel costs/operational costs, grid connection is optional, capacity to build panels is not controlled technology, raw materials are relatively cheap. So scaling production further or bringing it online is not otherwise constrained.

Nuclear can still can be strategically important as rock solid base load and for grid stability.

In the future, with better understanding and control over nuclear physics, nuclear one day might be as cheap and plentiful as batteries, but for this cycle , solar has essentially ‘won’

Comment · 10 days ago
Could you list a couple of things you find wierd? Wondering if its worth switching
Comment · 24 days ago
Mind sharing a source? Anecdotally, the Canadian job market is brutal (barring some sectors)
Comment · 25 days ago
Also pedantic but: it’s jurisdiction dependent
Comment · 25 days ago
I wonder if it can do board games (or similar), there are no examples of that (not allowed to test)
Comment · 25 days ago
They definitely know why, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to tell who to 403 vs not. They obviously dont care to tell you because of ‘security’.

This dismissive contemptuous attitude is typical of all big tech, all your value is just reduced to data generator to be mined, without any other regard.

Comment · 1 month ago
I grew up in the third world. Agree with this comment.

Also my personal belief is that courtesy is a luxury born of abundance. I have observed how minor ‘scarcities’ in the advanced economies can surface behaviour that some would attribute to less developed places e.g. an unexpected slew of cancelled transit

Comment · 1 month ago
We could always build, more reliable software. The powers that be however (broadly generalizing) only care about solving the ‘problem’ superficially.

Therefore, we will end up with requests to do more (at the current level of quality/ reliability), as opposed to building better software

Comment · 1 month ago
Or if it becomes commercially valuable, then you can expect Google to take a third direction (embrace, extend, extinguish) : a la their current approach with android
Comment · 2 months ago
In Canada , it wasn’t limited to areas with economic struggles/lack of investment.

Most of the investment was in major metropolitan cities, leading to a statistically significant percentage of residential housing stock being bought up with foreign(imported) capital. Many of these units were subsequently used as store of investment (left empty)

Since policies did not support building at the pace that met increased demand(mainly immigration), and many foreign buyers were comfortable bidding up housing: this was a significant contributor to housing prices inflating to mutiples that were much higher than previous trends (i.e. upto 20 times median salary vs 5/7 times previously)

And the foreign buyer ban did lead to a measureable decline in prices

Anyway,

Comment · 2 months ago
What a leap of judgement
Comment · 3 months ago
How near/far is that future ?

Cuz what if a human has to intervene as the LLM can’t get it right?

Assuming a human then has till be able to comprehend it?

Comment · 9 months ago
It depends. A driver may have seen a child dart behind a car and expect them to emerge on the other side.

Does Waymo have the same object permanence and trajectory prediction (combined) to that of a human?

Once the video evidence it out, it might become evident.

Generally Waymo seems to be a responsible actor so maybe that is the case and this can help demonstrate potential benefits of autonomous vehicles.

Alternatively, if even they can't get this right then it may cast doubts about the maturity of the entire ecosystem

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