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Wonder how it is like in other countries with shrinking populations. Say, Korea.

Intuitively, it would make sense for housing prices to decrease when the demand decreases, supply being equal (It's not like housing deteriorates significantly in the short term).

WiiM makes a few. With or without amp. It can be had for about ~40 refurbished from what I suspect to be their eBay store.

Airplay 2. I have it hooked via optical to a soundbar.

Mazda 5?

A small transformer like BERT or variants is a better fit. It only takes a few examples, which can be generated synthetically using an LLM.

Trains quickly and classifies speedily on modern hardware.

Had a lot of fun doing stuff like this years ago, before LLMs were a thing.

They have quite decent hybrids now. I’m surprised that they haven’t released a plug-in one, since their architecture seems perfect for it. Maybe battery supply constraints. They are also developing a v6 hybrid, which should replace the j series in the Odyssey.

And there are incentives to miss-report.

My team has gained a reputation of being some sort of firefighting crew.

We are being called by PMs when projects are failing, usually engineering-data and engineering-adjacent stuff. (Mechanical/Electrical).

We automate the heck out the processes, using a mix of AI processing, RAGs, and AI assisted coding.

We rescue the projects. Finish ahead of schedule. Make fewer mistakes. We gain additional scope. We win new projects. We bring new clients.

But when higher ups ask the people we helped about productivity gains, the most generous will say stuff like "it takes as long to review as it takes to do things manually", "They really helped on {inconsequential part of the deliverable}"

If the that is the takeaway these people were taking, they would incredibly misled. Luckily for me, I have people who deal with the politics, while my team can focus on delivery.

Our reputation keeps growing, and we keep delivering faster. The heads of the departments we work with love us, the middle rank who were doing the laborious crap, maybe not so much.

Fascinating. Borges is not shy in mentioning his admirations, and what he was exposed to. I like that he leaves breadcrumbs, or whole loaves, pointing to what he likes. It's an interesting way to thread into literature.

I envy a bit those , who, like you, had such exposures. It's such a fascinating world, which I used to scoff at when I was younger. But it's a healthy envy. I feel happy for those who choose to developed such capacities, and it inspires me to try to develop them for myself.

I think I've still got the time.

Thanks for your reply.

Ficciones is full of mockings of intellectualism. I Particularly like the critique on the critical philosophical work of Menard's Quixote. Where Menard, the subject of the story, carefully writes parts of a novel that is word-for-word a copy of Cervante's Quixote, but shaped by Menard's intellectual efforts, one is to draw the opposite appreciations than from the one written by Cervantes.

His stories are such a strange read. The plot, the characters, the mentions, all feel almost secondary to the feeling they evoke.

I've found myself reading a bit of the rePalm posts for the last few night. Funny thing is that I find myself to have read and re-read that stuff for hours now, a bit at a time, re-reading some of the most interesting bits, and doing cursory research on the (many) things that are over my head.

That is hours reading. D must have spent so much more time writing, and doing it so very clearly and in such an organized, and even entertaining way.

And then there is the time figuring this crap out and making it work. I just... D is on league of his own, he is like a one-man hardware company. Having that level of skill must be so gratifying. He is a virtuoso of his craft.

Dude casually mentions stuff like... (paraphrasing) Palm OS expect this and that behavior that most kernels don't implement. So I wrote my own.

Their copilot stuff is such a mess. Over promising, dressed with marketing slop on top of an under-performing product.

However; their azure offerings are somewhat decent. AI Search is getting quite decent, access to Open AI models served through foundry is quite the differentiator (although the rate limits are an issue), their reference architectures are very helpful and their ancillary services, like document intelligence integrate well.

I'm a bit worried that their marketing dept has gotten their crappifying and obfuscating eyes set on those services though, given the recent rebranding of Foundry and what not, but the underlying services are decent.

Dmitry is a mad genius. He has been doing stuff like this for 20 years, he was fixing palm’s issues for years. All his hardware projects are phenomenal, and so is his writing.

It has a rather poor max resolution. Higher resolution images get tiled up to a point. 512 x 512, I think is the max tile size, 2048 x 2048 the max canvas.

For a short while we had them in the US, on the Dodge darts and some other Fiat applications. 1.4 + multiair + sometimes turbo.

Great little engine that powered my first car, a 2005 Fiat Uno, made for the Argentinean market in Brazil: 1.4 (1.345L), 8v of reliability.

I would think so too. There is something else going though. It a system that relies partly on trust. A sort of moral asset with herd effects. It’s a system that can tolerate a certain amount of gaming, but when the threshold is surpassed, it becomes a failed system. It has to change, to the detriment of the justly entitled.

And that is the sad part, when that unstated assumption, that one may not lie, is broken past a threshold, it increases the transaction cost for everyone.

Some people take find their life meaning through craft and work. When that craft is suddenly less scarce, less special, so does that craft-tied meaning.

I wonder if these feelings are what scribes and amanuenses felt when the printing press arrived.

I do enjoy programming, I like my job and take pride on it, but I actively try for it not to be the life-mean giving activity. I'm a just mercenary of my trade.

Kids off school for thanksgiving?

Had good luck with Gemini 2.5, SAM3 failed miserably with PIDs.

Perfect! A great game to play on the fisher price Pixter:

https://x.com/dmitrygr/status/1980508960538099856

(Dmitry is something else)

They can't inject to the http response, but ad servers that work with the VPN or their data brokers can better identify the requester and serve better targeted ads.

Losing faith in the value of the dollar in the face of our crazy fiscal position?

The one thing that baffles me is energy prices. We haven't seen this oil/gold ratio since the pandemic, when demand for oil plummeted.

They sell metadata. DNS queries, locations, apps using data, device info. Usually anonymized, but both unscrupulous and "better" providers do have access to your account and payment info.

Back when I was in oil and gas, we were thinking of using modified mirror less cameras without and IR filter for vegetation density calculations. There were a few vendors that sold the UAVs and modified cameras.

Nowadays, there is a more mature ecosystem, with specialized drone mapping cameras tailored for the purpose.

For our use case, the micasense rededge would have been perfect.

Deniability and having a response for different lines of criticism. It derails the critic who operates under the assumption of a consistent narrative and meaningful arguments. It gives the believer something to hold on under most scenarios. It removes truth and reality grounding from equation. Its diabolically effective.

Edit after down votes: The paragraph above was meant on why would one expect conflicting narratives not from different sources, as the Parent Comment stated, but rather from supposedly official sources or propaganda outlets. My bad, must have read the comment on a hurry.

Old too: But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! but we are determined to have a king over us, so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

Some cities have seasons. Some cities lack bike infra. Some people don't like bikes.

The whole capped profit creates the distortions you illustrate.

The effect has a name: the Averch–Johnson effect, named after the Harvey Averch and Leland Johnson paper: "Behavior of the Firm Under Regulatory Constraint"

Fun stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averch%E2%80%93Johnson_effect

I've used firefox for 15+ years, but it starting to bug me too much. Memory issues, forced restarts that block navigation (wth!), clutter all around, having to disable sponsored crap, and random incompatibilities are starting to take a toll. I've been falling back to Edge for crying out loud.

100% where we are having a lot of success is in processes that required somewhat repeatable fuzzy processing, which before could only be performed by people.

Cool thing is that, since LLMs are comparatively cheap, I can afford to run the same process a few times, to get a sense of confidence of the response.

In our latest project, the client expressed that our AI aided process was 11 times faster, and much more accurate than their previous process.

Funnily enough, that is true also for giving instructions to kids. And also why kid's media is so frustrating. So many shows and books focus first on the maladjusted behavior, with the character learning not to the-bad-thing at the very end.

Don't instruct kids, nor LLMs via negativa.

ISA slot, likely.