apples_oranges's comments

On: Tesla electric car sales plunge again in Australia – Model 3 down more than 81 p

[apples_oranges]

My feeling is that this will extend not just to Tesla but anything made in the US as long as it can be replaced elsewhere.

[apwell23 → apples_oranges]

nope. ppl only care about price. remember all the DEI stuff after flyod. its all died down.

On: The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks

[apples_oranges]

Liberalism has failed.

Perhaps to save it Just give a few trillion to the people in msci world stock locked for ten years or so to teach them.

[nabla9 → apples_oranges]

Liberalism has failed in the US.

Not elsewhere.

On: 2025 Hiring Pause

[apples_oranges]

there's perhaps something to be said for this argument: if you paid a lot of money for something you might be more motivated to use it wisely.

Also I can now get on the Internet and research jet engines or kidney transplants, but unless someone makes me learn the whole curriculum around it and then tests me to check if I understand, it's not worth much.

[userbinator → apples_oranges]

and then tests me to check if I understand

That's what interviews are for.

[_proofs → userbinator]

yeah, and also one's personal responsibility to make sure they are indeed learning and practicing.

implying i need to be dependent on a school to help me retain learning is a concept that is foreign to me. if i had that kind of dependency in my learning life, i'd be unemployed.

On: DeepGEMM: clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling

[apples_oranges]

Perhaps I know as much as you, but to begin, I would dive into CUDA and running code on GPUs.

On: Boeing CEO Says Musk Helping Speed Tardy Air Force One Jets

[apples_oranges]

If you are an owner of $BA stock, this might be a hint of things to come..

On: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

[apples_oranges]

also curious to hear which fields these are

[kemiller2002 → apples_oranges]

Not management. AI hasn't learned to play golf for them yet.

[Muromec → apples_oranges]

Anything with using tools which you are not an expert with. If you know how to do things and only use one specific language or framework -- there is nothing to use AI for.

On: Grok3 Launch [video]

[apples_oranges]

I'm no longer considering a Tesla but I still think Starlink is great..

On: Grok3 Launch [video]

[apples_oranges]

Well, now their job is to keep up the illusion until they have cashed out or offloaded the investment to somebody else.

On: Musk Team Seeks Access to IRS System with Taxpayers' Records

[apples_oranges]

Is this as big of a deal as it sounds? I mean he works for the government.. who had access before?

[duxup → apples_oranges]

Yes, it is a big deal. Even within the irs you do not have uncontrolled access to tax returns.

On: Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

[apples_oranges]

Imagine if crypto proponents were tasked like this with remaking the monetary systems, without having a real clue why it currently is how it is. It could be interesting and even work, but more likely than not it will just repeat the errors of the past and would be tweaked again and again until it resembles something similar to what it is now, with massive fallout in the meantime.

[ImHereToVote → apples_oranges]

The irony the eurodollar system already works like decentralized crypto. There is a ledger of assets and liabilities and the international banks keep tabs on each other.