moconnor

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Comment · 11 days ago
> How long does the battery last?

> Roughly 12 to 15 hours of recording

$75 and a disposable device every 3-4 hikes? No thanks. This is for reminders, not long-form dictation.

Comment · 1 month ago
> Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing.

I hope this was an in-joke but my fingers still reflexively closed the tab as soon as I saw it and I had to go reopen it again…

Comment · 1 month ago
The iPhone Air is nearly 20% larger than the mini
Comment · 3 months ago
National strategy. Thanks to smart investments, China's energy costs are far lower than everybody else's. If intelligence becomes a commodity, then China will be providing it for the world. Incredible leverage.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Literally the very first time I used ChatGPT. I had already been experimenting with GPT3 for various jokes and games via the API but the naturalness of it as a chat interface that understood you changed everything.

The first time I used a terminal agent was another one.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
This is the future of all software; the benefits of making it accessible to agents are overwhelming.
Comment · 6 months ago
This is an incredibly good first approximation and is often all you need.

Source: spent a couple of years developing an energy and performance profiler for cpus and gpus with various government labs.

Comment · 6 months ago
Very large, fast, read-only memory now has an incredible use-case: NN weights.
Comment · 7 months ago
Is... is this named because they have a lemon they're trying to make the most of?
Comment · 7 months ago
Whoever did this must have realised the users will hate it. So… is this just demonstrating that the internal culture emphasises other things than user happiness?

I also note that ”for PRs” - will we see these appearing as comments in generated code?

Comment · 7 months ago
I’m not saying I prefer it like this. Just stating that the change is already inevitable.
Comment · 7 months ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. A lot of it was “debug this issue and fix it” or “write this small tool to do X”
Comment · 7 months ago
We also outlaw vices like physical violence and property theft.

Society is fundamentally counter to individual freedom, and the degree determines the nature of that society and the degree of cooperation possible within it.

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