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Comment · 1 month ago
Buying a Chinese EV in Canada feels like such a gamble given the current geopolitical situation. Like what happens if things reverse and you can no longer get parts or support for these cars? Let's say you can get parts and third party shops open up to fill the support gap, how sure are you you'll continue to get the software updates these cars rely on?

While I'd love to consider a Chinese EV as my next car, there just seem to be too many early adopter risks here outside of the car itself.

Comment · 3 months ago
That sounds like an exhausting way to live.
Comment · 11 months ago
While I agree that some copyright law probably goes too far, I don't understand how you could advocate for 0 copyright? What incentive will people have to produce creative works in that case?
Comment · 1 year ago
The new adhesives they use for their metal batteries can be undone by applying 9v for like a minute or something.
Comment · 1 year ago
>If the resulting software is so poor you need to hire a human specialist software engineer to come in and rewrite the vibe coded software, it defeats the entire purpose.

I don't think this is entirely true. In a lot of cases vibe coding something can be a good way to prototype something and see how users respond. Obviously don't do it for something where security is a concern, but that vibe-coded skin cancer recognition quiz that was on the front page the other day is a good example.

Comment · 1 year ago
I've stopped using the word "cheap" to describe situations like this as the word has too many negative connotations. I tend towards "inexpensive", "cost-effective", or "low-cost". I find it better describes my intent to describe something as not costing much but not speaking to poor quality which I feel like the word "cheap" has come to imply.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hmm, not sure I understand how you made use of OpenAI to guess the location oh a photo. Could you expand on that a bit? Thanks!
Comment · 1 year ago
Some Chinese exporters are definitely splitting the cost of these tariffs with their American importer counterparts. While this isn't as significant as "China pays all the tariffs", it's also not "Americans pay all the tariffs".

Though, I haven't seen any analysis on how common this is, so the effect might be negligible in terms of how much "the Chinese" are paying for these tariffs.

Comment · 1 year ago
This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs. You just need to set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases. For example, you could set one up that is told to only provide the function arguments, and return value.
Comment · 1 year ago
No, you pretty much got it. It's a game of chicken and the last ones holding are the losers.
Comment · 1 year ago
Even if we say 1M people pay $20/month, that's only $240M/year. That's not enough to continue to grow and support the free users sans-ads.
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After the fundamentals, you'll learn more building something on your own than following any course.

This is even easier today than it's ever been with ChatGPT at your side.

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