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Sadly Dropout.tv just started doing this to me too (a user selection screen with only a single user on every app start).

> I get shown ads for products I just purchased. All this spying, machine learning, big data result in "he bought a mattress, show him more mattresses".

You know, I had a really long argument about a decade ago with an Amazon senior engineer on the ads side of things about this. I was complaining about repeatedly being shown ads for the same blender I had just purchased (not accessories, not competing products, the exact same blender). And I hit a brick wall of "everybody complains about this, and we've been trying to change this, but every change to this makes the metrics worse".


Perhaps the ad performance is so poor that selling someone the same thing a second time is the best they can hope for.

Maybe Amazon's generous return policy means people are willing to swap products if shown alternative ones. But surely they already take this into account?

> anything that immediately jump out to me as obviously wrong

Trace any light ray through the scene, and you will see they are bending in ways that light does not.

I'm sure we could teach a world model about light, but this image model fundamentally does not understand how light behaves (which is one of the primary things an artist needs to understand).


> The government doesn't have the money to employ top security experts and top security experts don't actually want to work for the

To be fair, they had quite a number of security experts on payroll before the current administration laid them all off...


I think in contemporary parlance this sufficiently clear. Nobody thought massdrop was where you went to buy end-of-life products.

It’s the biggest present cryptobros left us with. Before they started dabbling with diffusion models, they talked about the release of NFTs and crypto coins using the term. It’s an instant tell for me if a person is an ML insider or outsider.

They definitely helped popularise the term, but "drop shipping" was a thing long before, "rare drops" in MMOs is decades old... gamer slang steadily permeates tech spaces as younger generations of gamers join the working population

I love that they can also walk on the text headings

So it's an M4 Max Mac Studio, RAM-wise, with a GPU's worth of compute?

(I know it's you comparing it to the M4 Max, not them, but:) it's Qualcomm, so it'll be compared to the M4 Max, while being slower than a M2 Max.

For sure, but unfortunately, there's a non-zero chance the state department at some point makes the "US" part of this mandatory for a bunch of companies.

DeepSeek Flash with kicad + autorouting churned out a couple of working PCBs with minimal prompting, and customized ZMK itself for some custom input devices. At least for casual stuff this is a solved problem

For personal stuff, a $10/month OpenCode Go subscription with OpenCode, mostly running DeepSeek Flash. I've yet to run out of tokens.

Work provides an enterprise Claude subscription for work stuff, I've never hit any limits on that either.


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