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New comment by glaslong in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

glaslong — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:29:46 +0000

Definitely has that smell... At the same time though, they NEED inference cost to drop substantially, and even better for them if it only happens for their models on their hardware.

I assume they're doing everything they can to make that happen model-side, but coming at it from the other end makes sense too if they can swing it.

New comment by glaslong in "With Starfall, SpaceX eyes an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit"

glaslong — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:28:48 +0000

Seems like the sort of capability any other nation would immediately consider shooting out of the sky

New comment by glaslong in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

glaslong — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:33:54 +0000

Who gave the child access to that?

New comment by glaslong in "Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology"

glaslong — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:34:43 +0000

More of a fun Maker project for sure

New comment by glaslong in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

glaslong — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:06:29 +0000

This was exactly the case on a King County jury I was on. Lots of camera footage, most from security cams of individual businesses, some from red light cameras.

The event predated Flock rollout though, so no idea if the distribution of camera sources has shifted.

Regardless though, in the end the phone location data meant a lot more than any of the camera data, which just confirmed the path from phone sources.

New comment by glaslong in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

glaslong — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:54:50 +0000

This would be my dream tv. I like the matte look of the Frame a lot (I have one), but it's not at all worth the being subjected to the terrible Samsung software experience

New comment by glaslong in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

glaslong — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:53:02 +0000

Hmm generally I want the smart tv to have as few features as possible, ideally never ever even show me their "home / launcher".

Kinda on the opposite recommendation that the fw it shipped with had to meet SOME minimally functional bar and every update after that is an opportunity to make it worse.

New comment by glaslong in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

glaslong — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:46:26 +0000

Nah I think you're probably right. I would guess that anyone actually paying attention to trying to make their slop sound human has easily instructed their skills to avoid some tells / inject others.

It's the general (lazy) usage of default model outputs that are still too clean.

It's pretty trivial to ask Haiku to "add cool kid no-caps and occasionally mix up 'their/there/they're' for authenticity"

New comment by glaslong in "Becoming a dad changes men's brains"

glaslong — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:39:36 +0000

Some good biological imperatives at work! Beautifully Darwinian.

New comment by glaslong in "I canceled my French tutor and built an LLM tool that does it better"

glaslong — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:16:44 +0000

This seems an odd choice if your ultimate goal is speaking French to people who know French

New comment by glaslong in "The Coming Enshittification of AI"

glaslong — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:11:51 +0000

"Why Your AI Girlfriend Keeps Telling You To Drink More Ovaltine"

Coming to a NYT Opinion column any day now

New comment by glaslong in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

glaslong — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:20:45 +0000

Weirdly pleasant, if minor, signal of human authorship

New comment by glaslong in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

glaslong — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:02:40 +0000

The problem is Boston Dynamics makes actual robots, which are much more limited than robots constructed from pure hype.

New comment by glaslong in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

glaslong — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:00:14 +0000

Is there any sign beyond flashy demos that humanoid robots will be functionally feasible though (before we even get to economically feasible)?

I know there's tons of activity on humanoid teleoperation data collection, and motion model training, but it hasn't seemed to bear out much of anything.

Like.... AI would be great if I could put it into a magical semi-corporeal familiar but I'm just not seeing a path to those either.

New comment by glaslong in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

glaslong — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:29:15 +0000

How do I ̷g̷a̷m̷b̷l̷e̷ sports bet on this

New comment by glaslong in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

glaslong — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:48:32 +0000

Yesssss. think there is a wealth of opportunity here in strictly non-scalable, probably even strictly non-profitable ways.

Where "founder" paints exactly the opposite image of what it really does unlock: everyone being able to build or tweak a little app they need; tailored just for their use cases.

A market size of a few people, a dozen, or a hundred, who can now get software that exactly services their niche. Something you'd never ever convince someone to build or maintain for you beyond the "smart niece/nephew" charity.

Could be a website for your local soccer league, a Bible reader with different font and bookmark treatment, a chart of your home canning cellar where you can send some jam to your friends and they send you kimchi.

There are probably nigh infinite tiny microcosms of unserved automation and functionality need like this. Where you can make the computer do what YOU need, not what a minimum of thousands-millions of other people mutually needed in the least common denominator.

There might even be a few larger needs in there we've missed, because they never got the chance.

New comment by glaslong in "Running local models is good now"

glaslong — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:04:54 +0000

Same here. I'm curious what others loving Qwen are doing differently, because it constantly hits this issue for me. It's been great for autofilling blocks, but difficult for me to use agentically.

New comment by glaslong in "CrankGPT"

glaslong — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:19:06 +0000

Oh that's a fun idea... I've been poking at a "ghost phone" that synthesizes a personality and matching voice, which rings at random times on an old candlestick rotodial handset.

"Conspiracy call-in" on a CB radio would be a good variation!

New comment by glaslong in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

glaslong — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:50:17 +0000

Love to see it! Feels like the sort of give-a-damn that past Google was more about, versus challenging to do at present Google.

> With Google’s support, [researchers at the University of California San Diego] plan to deploy a datacenter built from 2,000 Pixel smartphones

Ah.. well maybe success here will give internal folks some ammo for enabling more reuse of the mountain of Android (and Chromebook) devices.

New comment by glaslong in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

glaslong — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:19:26 +0000

Meanwhile I'm looking at 20 year old Suzuki light trucks with a 25% import tariff because American autos STILL absolutely refuse to make non- Monster Trucks