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New comment by repler in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

repler — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:23:55 +0000

5,000 lbs is not some kind of grand feat.

A 3.6L V6 can do that easily and they are dime a dozen.

New comment by repler in "AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers"

repler — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:03:37 +0000

If anything this seems to validate the approach that SpaceX and Google are teaming up on with satellite data centers in orbit spread across many units.

And I suppose they’ll be sending up better equipment than Samsung TVs although that would be pretty amusing.

New comment by repler in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

repler — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:15:08 +0000

that was literally the plot of last night’s Law and Order. I don’t usually watch but it was very entertaining and topical.

New comment by repler in "John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)"

repler — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:09:05 +0000

as far as we know, this is paradise within our galaxy.

I hope the technological leaps help us ultimately to become better stewards of the planet.

New comment by repler in "Our position on open-weights models"

repler — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:49:11 +0000

That’s a pathetic moral band-aid.

All technology can be used for good or used for evil depending on who is using it and how. From fire to internal combustion engines to nuclear energy.

New comment by repler in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

repler — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:33:44 +0000

Admiral Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru test.

New comment by repler in "South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots"

repler — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:18:19 +0000

Siemens?

New comment by repler in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

repler — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:21:47 +0000

That is a very cynical take which completely ignores his contributions through the decades.

In many cases he helped build the bandwagons you're implying he simply jumped onto.

New comment by repler in "Microsoft Edit"

repler — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:35:57 +0000

> I am surprised Micrsooft didnt use the opportunity to create a micrsoft specific Linux distro

The last one didn’t do so hot, they named it “Xenix”

New comment by repler in "End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux"

repler — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:22:04 +0000

Did you try Linux Surface?

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

New comment by repler in "AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare"

repler — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:19:15 +0000

> not learning from the LLM how to understand his lawyers arguments better

The leverage came in the form of reducing costs. When you ask your lawyer to explain, they happily bill you for that time.

New comment by repler in "Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset"

repler — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:04:00 +0000

> the media is largely dominated by institutional players

and also tech journalism as a whole is pretty abysmal to begin with

New comment by repler in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

repler — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:19:32 +0000

I wouldn't count Toyota out. Their mega battery plant in North Carolina is coming online this year, and the biggest drag on their current EV/PHEV lineup is the batteries. New EV/PHEV models are on the way, and frankly if they just update what they have with better batteries they will be absolutely phenomenal because they are currently great to drive and run extremely well despite lackluster battery range.

New comment by repler in "Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features"

repler — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:17:43 +0000

It's just like putting on glasses but for your ears!

I had the same experience as you did - what a difference.

New comment by repler in "Engine Sound Simulator"

repler — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 23:38:07 +0000

I think you’re the only one.

I wouldn’t mind as much if the volume wasn’t 5 times louder in reverse than drive.

New comment by repler in "How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed"

repler — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:38:15 +0000

some of the newer WiFi setups have an IoT subnet that works like a guest network.

Worth using if your gear has it.

New comment by repler in "Reports: Apple is halting its next high-end Vision in favor of something cheaper"

repler — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:57:07 +0000

> I don’t foresee it ever being there.

I understand where you’re coming from - have you considered how advances in AI Video generation might pair with a premium headset?

The output from Sora (OpenAI) looks pretty compelling already. I also recently read that Apple is already using AI image generation to create stereoscopic images from any plain old 2D image.

Combine all this together and it’s not impossible to envision (pun intended?) a halfway decent on demand interactive experience.

Kind of amazing to think a holodeck-like experience is in the not too distant future.

New comment by repler in "Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud"

repler — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:14:09 +0000

Exactly - nothing is for free. They explicitly state that PCC data gets destroyed after a response is returned.

Are the anonymized queries (minus user data context) worth anything?

It’s gotta be some kind of subscription/per query charge model to pay for the servers, electricity, and bandwidth.

New comment by repler in "Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story"

repler — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:23:02 +0000

> The list of argument is called "args" (short and descriptive)

You’re proving the original point - it should be named “arguments” because that is what it is.

Saving … 5 bytes? by naming it “args” instead is exactly OP’s point.

New comment by repler in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

repler — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:13:31 +0000

You may be surprised to learn that when asked, teens would actually prefer that everyone give up social media.

The key word is “everyone” and it’s a collective action problem.

Excellent article in The Atlantic titled “End the Phone Based Childhood Now” which covers this extensively.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-...

The study cited in this excellent - but paywalled - article is here: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/2023-131/