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New comment by umeshunni in "ChatGPT outage – Resolved"

umeshunni — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:57:08 +0000

I believe it now uses the MAI models

New comment by umeshunni in "Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?"

umeshunni — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:28:37 +0000

I was inspired to learn programming when I first saw Logo on my school computer in the 80s. Till then I thought computers were something that only offices had and grown ups used. Not sure how any of this can be measured at scale but I'm sure some nontrivial % of students got into computers at an early age thanks to these tools.

New comment by umeshunni in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

umeshunni — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:49:04 +0000

Today I noticed that Amazon Pharmacy decided to blank out my prescription info that I was screenshotting to send to my doctor. WTF.

New comment by umeshunni in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

umeshunni — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:50:55 +0000

> it's been an absolute nightmare for a tourist to play along.

But the solution to this should be to simplify the tourist experience and to allow payments from foreign banks and cards. Traveling to China has a huge hassle in the late 2010s due to everyone local switching to WeChat/Alipay but it not being available for tourists, but in the last few years (I last visited in 2023), you could use WeChat/Alipay with a non-China bank card.

New comment by umeshunni in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

umeshunni — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:55:20 +0000

It's the EU equivalent of the California Prop 65 warning that tells you that every building causes cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_California_Proposition_65...

New comment by umeshunni in "Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability"

umeshunni — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:37:59 +0000

saved you a click: It's Chartreuse

New comment by umeshunni in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

umeshunni — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:54:42 +0000

But in this case, that's essentially what's happened. No one gets legitimate telemarketing calls anymore. They're all scam calls from some slave compound in Cambodia.

New comment by umeshunni in "50k Boat Names"

umeshunni — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:05:58 +0000

The other challenge I assume is that many boat owners are retired and presumably have little or no taxable income

New comment by umeshunni in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

umeshunni — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:22:23 +0000

Why would they need multi TB frontier models?

New comment by umeshunni in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

umeshunni — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:33:23 +0000

> Twitter used to be profitable.

Twitter posted a profit in only two of its eight full fiscal years (turning profitable in 2018 and 2019)

In its last year (2021), Twitter reported a net loss of $221 million on $5.1 billion in revenue.

New comment by umeshunni in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

umeshunni — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:34:21 +0000

1. The employer is providing it to them to do their day to day work, like they provide a laptop and internet connection 2. This is from a 2027 fictional scenario, not current state

New comment by umeshunni in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

umeshunni — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:24:34 +0000

> But not real for only car outside of California.

Tell that to the millions of people in EU and China who have EVs as their only car. I swear Americans live in the 50s in 2026.

New comment by umeshunni in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

umeshunni — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:22:28 +0000

BYD is selling millions of cars and will be #5 globally this year. They're doing fine whether or not racist westerners take them seriously.

At the same time, western manufacturers are closing factories and begging for EU bailouts.

New comment by umeshunni in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

umeshunni — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:12:15 +0000

and Google Translate: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09849

New comment by umeshunni in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

umeshunni — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:27:41 +0000

> the winner will be whoever burns their models to ASICs fastest.

I don't understand how this works when the models are evolving so fast that your burned ASIC is outdated (or at least not top of the line) in a few weeks.

New comment by umeshunni in "Grok 4.5"

umeshunni — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:47:59 +0000

You would be surprised how many enterprises are allowed to use only Copilot for all tasks due to Microsoft deals.

New comment by umeshunni in "This blog is written in en-GB"

umeshunni — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:37:19 +0000

Considered that there are organizations like the Taliban and Boko Haram that rule entire countries and regions and have anti-education as a principle, yes it's those cultures that I reach for.

New comment by umeshunni in "This blog is written in en-GB"

umeshunni — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:23:31 +0000

Internalized self loathing is a thing

New comment by umeshunni in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

umeshunni — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:36:31 +0000

There's a reason most of the western world isn't capable of building anything these days.

New comment by umeshunni in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

umeshunni — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:35:35 +0000

Not Above My Back Yard - NAMBY?