I guess it's near the 9th St/Emeryville Greenway now, but overall that seems like a big downgrade from downtown

The AI startups seem to be hiring somewhat aggressively given the recruiter messages I've been getting. I think the overall tech job market is still pretty soft though given the depths of the ZIRP + COVID unwinding layoffs. Most of these startups are pretty small

Sure, but that's true of any service with a lot of users. Presumably the point of "it can run on a laptop" is that even if these big shared services end up being uneconomical, LLMs will persist in local form. Especially since laptops are getting more capable over time

You can run smaller, less-capable versions on a laptop. That said, even the big trillion-plus parameter ones do not require a computer the size of a shopping mall. The base and instruct versions of Kimi K2 need about 2.4 TB of VRAM, which is a lot, but will comfortably fit in a single server rack

From reading the linked document it seems that when they originally built the Oakland wye, they dug bores for 3 tracks even though they only built 2 of them due to budget constraints. The KE expansion mostly just put track in the existing tunnel. 4th track would have required new tunnel boring

People hate Jar-Jar and he has a lot of screen time. The midi-chlorians and virgin birth stuff was bad and divisive. Finding a kid that young (or at least looks that young) that can act well is hard and they did not succeed (or perhaps failed at giving him the direction he needed).

I think that most of what people dislike about Phantom Menace is unrelated to the overall prequel arc. It does set some things up for the later movies, but those elements aren't particularly important to what works about it.

I liked the TFA when it came out, but I found its flaws (including being so derivative of ANH) easier to overlook when I thought they would actually do a good job on what followed. Rise of Skywalker soured me on it. I haven't actually rewatched it since though so maybe it's better than I remember

Of all the prequels, I think The Phantom Menace holds up the best. It has a lot of problems (child actor, midi-chlorians, aliens seemingly based on racist stereotypes, etc.), but the core of the story works and it has some great action scenes

I think there's a similar issue with the hyperspace ramming scene. It's established in the original trilogy that you can hit non-hyperspace things while traveling in hyperspace, but apparently no one tried to put that to military applications outside this one desperation move in TLJ.

I think the only problem with the flies through space thing is it reveals that force powers were never really thought through in the first place. You can lift a big space fighter with the force and you can use the force to jump high or push people, but for some reason Jedi can't fly

Very cool. Personally I feel that the look of the 4-color version is worth the frame-rate hit, but I like that you're still pushing boundaries

From the article, it sounds like the issue is this particular route is served by their 1st gen BEBs which have small batteries, a lot of reliability issues and proprietary parts no longer supported by the manufacturer. They have to make them last 12 years because of the terms of the grant

Couple of journalists in my actual graduating class (Nick Bauman at WaPo and Matt Gertz at Media Members). +2 years gets me Raviv Ullman (Phil on Phil of the Future) who I probably saw in band a few times, but didn't really know.

Doh, there's a small error in my initial list, it should say Sonic 1-3 not 1-2. Essentially I had every game with Sonic in the title (apart from the compilations)

I also had a Sega CD back in the day. For that I had:
Sewer Shark (the pack-in)
Sonic CD (the main reason I wanted one)
Third World War
Ecco the Dolphin

Sounds like San Jose was aggressive about annexation in some ways, but skipped tracts that were "hard". Burbank (the unincorporated community in the map here) apparently was developed pretty early. www.kqed.org/news/1095384...

It has newer features but it also has less compute and memory bandwidth than a 1060. There are also some architectural differences between mobile and desktop GPUs that make what's optimal for one suboptimal for the other. Matters less than it did in the past, but not gone.

It's hard to compare since there's not a lot that runs natively on both platforms, but the Adreno 750 in the Frame seems to score in the range of 50-75% of what a Geforce 1060 (Alyx's listed min-spec GPU) running the same test in 3DMark. This chipset is from late 2023 so not top of the line in 2025