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I know that duckduckgo uses Microsoft Bing Custom search and honestly it is a much more robust system since you don't have to worry about Google axing it. https://www.customsearch.ai

Instead you worry about Microsoft axing it? Sure, it might take 3 years instead of 6 months, and the shutdown period would be 1 year instead of 1 month, but hardly either are long-term solutions.

> it might take 3 years instead of 6 months, and the shutdown period would be 1 year instead of 1 month

This matters much more than people (and evidently those within Google) realize


It matters more the shorter your future planning is. Neither works if you're looking forward 3-4 years, for example.

Having been downsizing my horde of computer junk I have several large boxes of full MSDN disc sets. There is a graveyard of MS stuff that is no longer supported. The only thing with MS is they seem to give you a better off ramp usually than 'oh well sucks to be you'.

Bing Custom Search was discontinued last year. Although duckduckgo probably has some kind of special contract with Microsoft.

Industrial military complex and government contractors.

Don't they also depend on chips for a lot of components?

Probably a lot more from TI and Intel than Taiwan.

I'd be curious how many of the design and verification (using computer vision) tools used at TI and Intel rely on on farms of stock GPUs thus chips still made in Taiwan. They might have in house chips just for such part of their workflows though, any insight appreciated.

Jets, tanks, drones and data centers for intelligence services, even design, are full of electronics but what's the share of those not made in Taiwan?

They’re not cutting edge chips, they’re made all over, including the US, Korea, and China.

So the share is 0%? I have a hard time imagining that but OK, any source I can read on the topic please?

My personal website is at http://www.joshuajherman.com which forwards to https://github.com/zitterbewegung/

I rather have a product that is only good at one single thing than mid for everything else especially when the developer experience for me is much more consistent than using gemini and chatgpt to the point that I only have chatgpt for productivity reasons and also sometimes making better prompts to claude (when I don't use claude to make a better prompt). After realizing that Anthropic is discounting token usages for claude code they should have made that more explicit and also the API key (but hindsight is 20/20) they should already have been blocking third party apps or just have you make another API key that has no discount but even then this could have pissed off developers.

You’re asking two different LLMs to help you talk more better to another LLM?

This sounds like way too much for me.

I wonder when they will add another level and talk to LLM how to talk to another LLM how to talk to another LLM


It's LLMs all the way down

Maximum operating depth of a Nuclear submarine is 3,350 ft.


Source?

The operating depth of most submarines is ~300 -- 500m (980 -- 1640 ft), roughly one-third to one-half the depth you cite.

The two USN nuclear submarines lost due to pressure-hull failures, the Thresher (1963) and Scorpion (1968) both failed at depths of 1,200 to 2,000 ft. Threser's test depth was 1,300 ft (400m), and she was operating at about this depth when communications were lost. Scorpion likely failed at 1,530 ft. (470m).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)#Cause>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)#Disappe...>

There are other submersible vessels in the US Navy which can and have operated at greater depths, notably the submersible Alvin and bathyscaphe Trieste II, but those are not combat vessels. Alvin's test deopth is 6,500m (21,300 ft). Triest II's predecessor, Trieste, reached the floor of the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, deepest known spot in the oceans, at 10,916m (35,814 ft). Trieste II incorporated the pressure sphere from its predecessor.

A more conventional, but still experimental, submarine, the USS Dophine (AGSS-555) was a deisel-electric research submarine which reached a depth in excess of 3,000 ft (910 m), probably in 1969. The boat was in-service through 2006.


I like to imagine GP just accidentally leaked classified info.


That would hold more weight if this was the War Thunder forum


The Dolphin is on display at the Maritime Museum of San Diego.


s/Dophine/Dolphine/

Also misspelled "Thresher" above. Proof befor submitting, dred.


Gah! Error in correction. I quit!

(250 miles is about 400km and 3350 ft is about 1km)


The Dojo team left tesla to do their own ASIC. https://www.theverge.com/news/756706/tesla-dojo-team-shut-do...


Yeah, that was already almost 1 year after they were supposedly planning to have the top 5 compute ...

The reality is they announced that as a pipe dream. Just like the FSD, Robotaxi, Optimus and 10 other projects that will never work - or more precisely, they will work but >10 years from now, and it won't be from Tesla but from a competitor.


I'm sure there is a Polymarket for you to bet against FSD that I use to drive 99% of the time.


You understand what the word “Full” means, right? It doesn’t mean 99%.


Don’t know what to call it but coast to coast seems close enough to full for me.

https://x.com/davidmoss/status/2006255297212358686


lol


One would be crazy to bet on that on Polymarket. They had a bet for Tesla Robotaxi rollout before end of 2025 and it resolved to YES. So it must be like your FSD - Tesla is apparently already operating a general public access autonomus Robotaxi, maybe even 50% of the US population like the CEO said.


so you were wrong and lost or what? they are operating a general public access autonomous robotaxi in sf, dunno what you are on about


In SF ? That would be illegal, as Tesla don't even have the permit to do that:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...

They only can test with a driver for now. Can you take a ride in this Robotaxi and film it, so we can all see ?

I'm always very curious about why people argue some obvious lies like that about Tesla. Invested ? Paid shills ? Just Musk distortion field ?


if the driver doesn't do anything what then? is it driving itself or not?

as someone that gets driven around by my car whenever it is on the road, i hate that people like you act like it doesn't exist.


Nobody disputes that the car can drive itself 99% of the time. It can and it's a great system (well, opinions diverge, I mostly agree). But it's very far from a Robotaxi - for any reasonable person, Robotaxi means unsupervised rides, which Tesla is not currently doing at all. And they argue pretty strongly in court that any talk about unsupervised is just 'corporate puffery'.

This is similar to why one needs to keep an eye on todlers. 99% they are fine, but that 1% of time they will do something very dangerous.


I don't personally want to get into that kind of betting, but in theory...

If I had bet that purchasable Teslas wouldn't have level 3 or level 4 driving by 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 I would have won every single one of those bets.

FSD is improving, but they finally put "supervised" in the name for a reason. It's a feature-packed level 2. That doesn't meet the bar.


3, no?


Level 3 lets you ignore the road until the car beeps at you, at which point you have a few seconds to get ready to take over.

FSD is level 2. You have to be constantly on the lookout.


?? Tesla have never manufactured a single car. They simply don’t exist. Just like those rockets that don’t exist. It’s all just CGI.


Sure you do.


Add HLS to the list.


I suspect the departure was mutual... The team didn't seem on track to deliver anything workable.


This might be why Apple Gift cards can lock you out of iCloud [1] since they are using a 3rd party. People at Apple who are intermediaries have strict rules not to unlock due to fraud and those processes can’t be undone easily?

[1]https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/


Related to this is Timsort which combines merge sort and insertion sort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort


In actual workflows someone would accept a very close reproduction and fix the small issues. Generally I use systems to get close enough to a scaffolding and / or make small incremental improvements and direct its design


Strudel is a great tool and is helping me to make EDM from scratch. There are good tutorials and music that is easy to get started or to make something really interesting.


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