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Bad at business? One of them has to make the thing.

Maybe the making of the thing should be paid for before it's made, rather than hoping that selling copies will recoup the investment. I.e., go back to patronage while abolishing copyright.

Is buying launch services really a subsidy, or did I misunderstand?

Well you mostly wouldn’t at the grocery store. I see plenty of people towing their toys on highways in the midwest, all summer long.

Boats, campers, etc.


The article says height of the hood and massive A pillars. People like big and boxy.

Increased hood height kills people and creates an absurdly large blind area. Massive pillars add roll safety but create horrible blind spots in left hand turns.


Which is strange to me. I hate the big and boxy look.

A sedan is the perfect shaped car in my opinion. Wagons are nice too.


As elsewhere in the thread, I drive a V60, and r/sportwagons host regular threads bemoaning the lack of good wagon options stateside. With the death of the focus and golf wagons, it's basically just luxury cars left, and not everyone wants to have a Mercedes, BMW, or Audi as their canoe trip vehicle, much less a freaking Porsche Panamera Turismo.

And nevermind that often these cars come with other compromises that signal they aren't really intended for "utility" use, for example the Taycan can't fit a regular tow receiver so forget about using a bike carrier with it other than the overpriced two-bike one that is available from the manufacturer.


Even Volvo is going SUV-only in the US:

https://www.volvocars.com/us/media/press-releases/3C9B9B3A25...

It seems people buying new cars mostly want big cars.


A sedan shaped two door coupe is even better. The B pillars are behind you so you get better visibility.

You aren't a big tough manly man that other people give way for to avoid getting clobbered.

My thinking was that I’ll use the Steam Machine for whatever I can. If there’s some title that friends really want to play and that requires kernel anticheat, and it exists in geforce now, I’ll do that from the steam machine.

If it’s something even less doable than that… well I’ll do without.


I’m fine with both. My phone and my “console experience that’s more open than an xbox” are wildly different scenarios, for which I have different needs and expectations.

There are alternatives for both, if/when I ever want them.


Interesting. So you can freely sell keys outside of Steam and they don’t mind?

You have to sell it for the same price, but yes. Most games on the Humble Store give you Steam keys, where Humble takes 25% and Steam gets nothing.

How do they “nerf the models”?

Are they quietly compacting context to reduce kv cache usage, before the actual compaction? Like there’s a slider for how much to compress it, and that’s never revealed to us?


I suspect they quantize them, reduce thinking budgets, batch more requests, or all of the above.

There's also lowering the number of experts you run in MoE models.

Meta, obviously the same company, has four separate pages that handle the creation of a “page” for a business.

They all prompt for the same information to do the same job.

You are required to make one of these “pages” to be able to advertise on any Meta property.

None of them work, and they have non-functional error handling. And if you keep trying, getting zero feedback about what’s wrong, you get the “scan your face and give us your biometric data” wall.

As such I cannot advertise on Instagram. Like, I can’t give them money, even when I try. It’s impossible that I’m the only one in the world, and it’s costing them money. Directly.

You would think that with their infinite AI resources they would be able to recognize problems, identify the source, and unfuck themselves… right?

In days, not years… right?

At least that’s what we’re told. But it seems reality doesn’t quite agree.


It's actually real that a ton of businesses must resort to shady providers of "Ads account" for legitimate stuff, nowadays it's very hard to join Facebook, if you didn't have an account made the past years, it's likely that you can't signup and run your business on it, you have to use illegal methods.

What illegal methods work? I'd like to post again (non-commercially)

Or, as is tradition, something stupid like “the gimp” or “go”.

How about systemd-tablet

or git or javascript

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