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I wonder if in the (near) future cars will need custom procedures to handle geographic specific scenarios. For example the kid school drop off. Each line is a little different. When there are a high percentage of AVs on the road, you couldn't just rely on the example of others. Perhaps this could be handled by markers on the road.

@GregWAutry @HansMahncke I don’t see anyone disagreeing with me. Surprising.

Calling the Maxim test rig an airplane is like calling a wind tunnel an airplane. It was an important demonstration, but it wasn't just uncontrolled. It was literally a test rig to demonstrate lift capabilities. Important progress, yes but doesn't really fit the definition of an airplane.

The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks. Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility. The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903. So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done. A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence. The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.

@BellikOzan Billion. It would inevitably lead to some going to Alpha Centauri and many other space related adventures / discoveries.

If you had to choose between a crew of 4 going to Alpha Centauri and a billion people going to space, which would you choose and why?

Optimization is important. Many companies forget to do this step entirely, and also don’t let optimization cost you a sale now that might not exist later. That is so the extent you can sell your product, sell and build it quickly. As you make more optimize to squeeze the cost out.

The reason why I’m fighting for every cent is because my goal for this project is to order, assemble, and sell a circuit board for as cheap as possible. I want you to be able to order it for as low as $2.50 with shipping included!

Those JLC bastards busted me for trying to panelize the board and now want me to pay extra. Instead of $0.11 per unassembled board it will now cost $0.27 each. I will keep fighting for every cent, even if it means spending weeks trying to panelize them myself.

@garrytan I will switch away from Claude for this reason.

Anthropic shutting down OpenClaw may turn out to be a strategic blunder, or strategic genius. The OpenClaw community will be the determiner of whether it is A or B. It's an interesting moment in history. Personally I never bet against open source.

@ChrisMartzWX You are just discovering statistics. There are crazy people in every group unless your groups are crazy and not crazy.

I think I may need to hire a security detail. I am now almost universally hated. Leftists hate me because I refuse to subscribe to their anti-science academic dogma and narrow-mindedness on climate change hysteria and left-wing activism, and the right hates me because I don't advance their anti-science conspiracy theories about weather or the shape of the Earth.

@Brotherhoodoft5 @Deadlyslob You mean the aurora?

@Deadlyslob What do you make of the greenscreen glitch?

The Artemis launch really outed the average IQ level of this platform.

People are super worried about getting laid off due to AI. As if suddenly speed became less of an advantage. Smart companies will just do more faster. Companies with poor/deteriorating results are laying off.

@BowesChay It’s more of a hazard practically as no cooperation means no guarantee of separation from other traffic. IDK what else would happen. Maybe defense systems go off? I doubt Europe has the guts to do that.

As US military Aircraft are forced to "fly around" European airspace to Iran- What would those European countries (and NATO Allies") do exactly, if the Americans just flew over them anyway? Think about it.

@pmarca Exactly. Speed has been an advantageous up until AI?!? No. It’s still an advantage!

The "AI job loss" narratives are all fake. AI = massive ramp in productivity = massive ramp in demand = massive jobs boom. Watch.

@chamath A friend and I are working on exactly this. Looking for partners, talking with nvidia currently. It’s still early stages.

This may be a dumb question but I’ll ask it here anyways: I can’t find a good way for my various AI chats to automatically sync its conversation history into a structured knowledge base. So that as I update various chats from time to time and refine context, my knowledge base automatically grows with this new info.

@nikitabier 😂

Well, we fixed the last bug. X is officially bug-free.

@JossSheldon How can you argue this in good faith when you have seen the results?

NOMADS UNITE! That's the theme of Linda's review of "FREEDOM: The Case For Open Borders". And why not? Humans have been struck by wanderlust - moving from place to place - for tens of thousands of years. It's natural. It's human. Read Linda's review: amazon.com/gp/customer-re…

@nichpic @QutaKoo_01 @pmarca Can you elaborate? What are those items?

@gadgetdevs @QutaKoo_01 @pmarca Again ignoring Trump has chosen much more socialism than any President since FDR

Almost everything you think you know about the history of technology and capitalism was warped by communist/luddite propaganda of the era. That's happening this time too.

@nichpic @QutaKoo_01 @pmarca It’s literally just shy of $2T per year in socialism to individuals. The top two budget items for the us are Social Security and Medicare. Look it up. Corporate subsidies/ bailouts aren’t even 10% of that on average.

@gadgetdevs @QutaKoo_01 @pmarca Seriously? The bailouts? The subsidies? Please

@nichpic @QutaKoo_01 @pmarca To be clear we have far more socialism directed towards individuals than corporations. There are certainly subsidies for corporations as well. I disagree with both.

@gadgetdevs @QutaKoo_01 @pmarca Who wants communism in any number? Or u just brainwashed that Dems are? And dont understand what communism vs stronger support systems for individuals are… We have alot of socialism in our capitalism esp for corporate america.

@pidatow Because most of the soffits are made of plastic and wood melt / burn. Not really practical to blow torch them.

Why are they not using this method in North America??