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New comment by thinkthatover in "GPT-5.5"

thinkthatover — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:23:31 +0000

Who's Sam again? oh that person whose house was molotov'd last week? Or the person who had an expose written in the new yorker calling him a sociopath? I forget.

New comment by thinkthatover in "GPT-5.5"

thinkthatover — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:12:15 +0000

what size models are you using? this sounds like a good idea

New comment by thinkthatover in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

thinkthatover — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:48:10 +0000

truly a k-shaped economy we live in

New comment by thinkthatover in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

thinkthatover — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:25:35 +0000

what makes you think AWS would look at any of the bugs filed by people using local emulators

New comment by thinkthatover in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

thinkthatover — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:13:40 +0000

now now, Canada is only allowing 50K of these cars to be imported per year. This is a middle power extending a hand to a superpower in the new multipolar world, nothing more. Also BYD subsidies (and sales) in China have been dropped in the past year.

Is the tech better? Yes. Is protecting domestic auto capability from subsidies in the National Interest? Debatable. This convo always circles around to how we characterize subsidies (EV credits for Elon, direct state sponsorship by China) in a way that's always concealed just enough from the general public to stop people from asking hard questions.

New comment by thinkthatover in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

thinkthatover — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:26:05 +0000

agreed but the current administration is pretty adept at using the slimmest margin for justification and benefiting from the fact that the legal process playing out over years is extremely detrimental to everyone but the government

New comment by thinkthatover in "AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports"

thinkthatover — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:22:16 +0000

If they can't provide it to us for national security purposes, certainly they could to the appropriate congressional subcommittee

New comment by thinkthatover in "America’s semiconductor boom [video]"

thinkthatover — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:07:50 +0000

good point, but to push back a bit, I think geopolitical factors such as Taiwan's Silicon Shield and the related AI arms race are as much responsible as free market principles for semiconductor improvements recently.