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Comment · 26 days ago
I contacted Bosch in 2020 about buying BML500P retinal projectors in bulk, but they postponed the sale for several months because they were in talks with a major undisclosed customer about potentially exclusive rights to the patent. I never heard back.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's so sad that 17MB was at some point considered a humungous update filesize and now we need 330MB of a web browser everytime we want to install anything.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
I cringe every time I see Claude trying to co-author a commit. The git history is expected to track accountability and ownership, not your Bill of Tools. Should I also co-author my PRs with my linter, intellisense and IDE?
Comment · 7 months ago
That's very nice and I ended up with the same font I tend to use (Source Code Pro) vs the font I used before (Noto Sans Mono). Some features I'd love to see:

- An ELO-based version with many more variables, so that I can open the site from time to time and find more nice fonts

- Some global stats

- Not losing the leaderboard after reloading

- Spline Sans Mono

Comment · 7 months ago
Maybe this is a bit US-centric, direct negative feedback is very common in many cultures, e.g. Dutch
Comment · 7 months ago
...at least until we get real Test-Time Training (TTT) that encodes the state into model weights. If vast amounts of human knowledge can be compressed into ~400GB for frontier models, it's easy to imagine the same for our entire context
Comment · 7 months ago
I also got the recommendation from here, happy to see I'm giving it back!
Comment · 8 months ago
There is a fantastic book on this topic called "By Design : Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV" that cover the inception of modern brands. It's a very similar story to what happened to watches. The industrial revolution made quality clothing accesible for everyone, so the cloth appearance no longer was a clear indicative of status, so brands started placing their emblems on the outside of the fabric inside of the inside. At the time it was seen as gross, obvious and bad taste. Guess we had a century to normalize it.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Another big factor is that many areas of the US feature horizontal architecture instead of vertical ones (i.e. Los Angeles vs NY). A bus stop in those areas cover orders of magnitude less people given the same radius
Comment · 9 months ago
Plus a long queue of yet-undiscovered architectural improvements

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