I think they’re referencing the app/engagement model.

Being pornography is… tangential, sort of. But part of what makes OF and all those other services so addictive is the way they’re structured. Living on your phone, pinging you, targeted personalized offers, FOMO, and engineering the app to form parasocial relationships in particular.

That’s different than randomly watching porn on the Internet, IMO.

One other common factor is the “primal” addictiveness hook, e.g. gambling, food craving, or the draw of porn.

I know scientifically minded people who view it both as ‘hysteria,’ and for what remains, something that geoengineering can solve in the future.

In other words, look up the WSJ article advocating for fossil fuel production maximization as a net economic optimization in the long term, basically ‘better to maximize efficiency and minimize suffering now, to better geoengineer solutions in the future.’

…I read geoengineering papers. They are horrific. As in “our state-of-the-art-solution would… pour acid rain over the ice caps. And it’s still economically unfeasible, but less unfeasible. And maybe it will blunt things some?”

I’m offended such arguments are being presented.

But I can see right where those opinions come from, as with every twist of climate change denialism.

The environmental conspiracists are right. It really is Big Oil and such groups, from what I can see.

Sad, but makes sense. I always wondered how they could fund the dev effort for Linux/Windows.

These comments though, whoa… it seems everyone either loves or hates Orion.

What are they built on outside the US?

IIRC Google researchers have publicly used it for machine learning experiments. For example, for grabbing a sample video as part of some demo code.

Ah, sad. I asked because some of the Xiaomi phones themselves (AFAIK) now use a LOFIC sensor.

…If this camera module doesn’t, thats kind of perplexing. It would make the phone camera on some phones better than this dedicated attachment, in many shooting situations.

Aside note, but I love that crazy camera module on the phone.

Is it LOFIC sensor, too? It doesn’t seem to specify.

Its not very big. 8700 lb of fuel is 25% of its MGDW, which seems pretty normal to me?

Same, a long time ago.

I never posted anything close to political or “sketchy” either. Was never impolite; it was just a place for niches. I still don’t know why I was banned/shadowbanned…

NASA is researching quieter supersonic flight, and I can’t help but think of how the (also Lockheed Martin) X-59:

Has a extreme wing profile/nose, not unlike SR-71:

On the contrary, NASA mounted stuff to it for research in the 90s:

The upcoming Slate could be what you want.

The part that provides value is dirt cheap, though.

Deepseek 4.1 and Mimo 2.6 are basically free compared to Claude, and TBH it feels like the harness/wrapper, not the LLM, is the limitation for doing useful things with them.

Where would it even come from?

Everyone’s retirement.

Admittedly, no, but this is slowly improving. Stepfun published their SFT dataset, smaller labs are publishing their datasets for task specific tunes. I believe there was another Chinese lab that published bulk pretraining data, but I can’t find it in my history at the moment.

And, notably, these comparatively tiny labs generally aren’t scraping the internet so abusively like OpenAI/Meta. They don’t need as much. Going by statements in their papers, they tend to use existing archives of web data, buy commercial data, or (more recently) generate a lot synthetic data.

If you run Nemotron, from open datasets.

I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max (2024), and the 18 Pro/Max presentation definitely gave me a bit of phone envy.

I have a 16 base… and I didn’t raise an eyebrow. What kind of app running can a 18 do that a 16 can’t, other than whatever is self inflicted with software bloat?

A LOFIC camera would have gotten me interested, but they didn’t ship that.

Since 2016, Obsidian has released 10 games. BGS released 2: Fallout 76 and Starfield.

Grounded 2 is out in EA, seems to be close to release, and by all accounts it is excellent.

Obsidian is doing fallout.

But under BGS now. To me, that is frightening.

They made a bunch of good RPGs/RPG-ish games, and a bunch of “mid” ones.

My personal favorite is Grounded. It does sorta feel like classic Obsidian/BGS game, with its heavy implicit environmental storytelling, audio logs and such, and the survival aspect is great for coop.

No, none of them sold a zillion copies like Fallout 76 or Starfield, but I had more fun in them than either of those, by a long shot.