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Thanks for sharing

Tesla seems 100% fucked to me.

They clearly can't compete against BYD and a company that relies on sanctions to survive doesn't seem like it is long for this world never mind the crazy multiples people are willing to pay for Tesla


Pretty wild that xAI decided to simply not comment on what seems like a pretty sizable fuckup

10 years ago this wouldn’t have been a big deal but don’t think the US in its current form should be given access

I like how your take-away is "the US is untrustworthy now" instead of a more general "tracking databases will always be abused eventually."

10 years ago this would have been a big deal, because the US (or any country) can always change "forms".

Actually that's why you shouldn't create databases like that to begin with.


> 10 years ago this wouldn’t have been a big deal

2015 is later than 2013,

which means you were all sorts of late, then.


Mate, 10 years ago I would have raged about this ... and I'm ready to rage now.

> 10 years ago this wouldn’t have been a big deal

Famous last words


That ship sailed for the most part. This data is already commonly shared between countries.

Multiple countries have already been sharing this information between eachother and the U.S. to some capacity for some time now and hardly anyone raises a stink about it [0] except us old-man-yells-at-cloud folk.

I think GP is right that if not for Trump, no one would care. Like the majority of the U.S.'s over-reaching policies that have largely only come under scrutiny in recent times (at least, amongst this audience).

[0] https://www.biometricupdate.com/202406/five-eyes-biometric-d...


Found this but it’s quite old so seems the US has been trying to get hold of it for a while

https://etias.com/articles/us-demands-direct-access-to-eu-da...


> AI studio is just another IDE like cursor so its a very odd choice to say one is bad and the other is the holy grail:)

Google does tend to have large contexts and sometimes reasonable prices for it. So if one of the main takeaway is load everything into context then I can certainly understand why author is a fan


> ask it explicitly to separate the implementation plan in phases

This has made a big difference my side. prompt.md that is mostly very natural language markdown. Then ask LLM to turn that into a plan.md that contains phases emphasising that each should be fairly selfcontained. This usually needs some editing but is mostly fine. And then just have it implement each phase one by one.


The new pc is still fun. Maybe just pick a better OS

You can actually force things like respond with true or false reliably via gbnf. But yeah within those two choices it is still nondeterministic

> exact same output for the exact same input?

If you set temp to zero it gets close but as I understand it not perfect


That would surely also mean their expected lifespan is shorter too? Faster decay doesn’t just affect dead satellites

Idk seems like a strange move and the stated reason seems flimsy


My take is that orbits below 500 km are “cleaned out” and during solar minimum there is less drag going on there. So, it’s a good spot to home your satellites for a while because there isn’t as much junk to maneuver around.

> would surely also mean their expected lifespan is shorter too?

Are Starlinks being deörbited due to propellant exhaustion?

In many respects, Starlink satellites are small servers. They’re probably profitable to replace quicker than decay would force them to be.


But you don't pay for space or power - so the normal business incentives to retire old hardware don't really apply.

We are nowhere close to the sky being 'full'.


> you don't pay for space or power

These birds aren’t totally autonomous. They do take up “space” in a limited sense. And having your fleet be somewhat similar lets one execute maneuvers like this global plane change more efficiently.


Yes, it’s absolutely a trade off against prop (argon) lifetime, energy spent thrusting, and atomic oxygen degradation of plastic components. The benefits of increased drag for these shells of thousands of vehicles must be worth it.

Why is drag desirable? Aside from faster decay for cleanup.

I just don’t understand why spacex would do this from a biz/strategic perspective


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