Austin Hickam

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[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

I built an “interdimensional” landline for my 90s-themed birthday party that took guests on fun adventures. 🧵

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@DirtyTesLa I’ve been having a lot of issues with 14.3.2. It borders 14.1.7 on unreliability, jerkiness, and indecisiveness. It’s the first time I’ve ever felt unsafe in the vehicle.

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@_wej01 This happened all the time at Best Buy when I worked there. At the time, sales people could override the price in the store to match ourselves and competitors. We always did that because why wouldn’t we?

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@SnazzyLabs I use Frontier on 2 hour or less flights if the price is right. Never been delayed, never had an issue. Hopefully that will continue. The trick is you need to know personal item versus carry on sizing. They aren’t always the right option especially for luggage.

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@RhysSullivan The volume buttons decreasing volume instead of snoozing really messed me up for a bit.

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@rsuyoy Hard to put a timeline on this because LLMs need a lot of fast memory and there aren’t too many other reasons to put a lot of super fast memory into consumer products. A 4090 GPU is fast but memory constrained.

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@theo It’s ui ability is getting even worse. I find that most regressions are being caused by contact pollution where the model gets stuck on something and can’t work its way out of a loop. Opening a new chat usually fixes it.

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I find it hilarious that @CoxComm decided to advertise their $7/month 4G internet backup in their internet outage notification. “Our service is so unreliable you should really buy backup internet from us.”

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Holy GPT-5.4. @OpenAI please no more cards and chips I beg of you.

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@guilippert_v4 @theo Add a workspace feature to it like VSCode. I too want this. Was thinking about contributing but if someone else wants to do it then go for it.

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@theo I like it simply because my entire IDE doesn’t lag the moment the message chain gets long.

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@theo I see what you did there @theo

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@ThePrimeagen Don’t worry, we just need one more copilot and all will be fixed. M365 Copilot, Github Copilot, Quality Copilot. Slap it on a PPT and ship it out.

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@NetworkChuck This is awesome! I did something similar for a birthday party

https://t.co/Shh0u8NRdF

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@Cade_Onder Back when the cover art of a game looked graphically better than the actual game.

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@DiscussingFilm Netflix is about to hit $40 a month after this.

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@josesaezmerino It’s a lot of image assets stacked on each other and repeated.

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@Xanman_27 @TeslaVisualized @HustleBitch_ That’s just it isn’t it. There are very few owner run businesses. The people you interact with are generally underpaid staff who couldn’t care less if the company they work for makes 1 billion or 2 next quarter. They don’t see a dime of it.

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

Scarcity of Raw Material:
Raw earth is used to create the products we love. How sustainable will over consumption be?

We have always had a class system. Whether it be Feudalism, wealth classes or royal classes.

Capitalism won’t survive a post labor society. What comes next?

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

There are still scarcities in a post labor society.

Scarcity of Real Estate:
Who gets to live on the beach versus who gets to live in the desert?

Scarcity of Capacity:
Who gets to boat on the lake Fourth of July? Who gets to visit Notre Dame?
Not everyone due to crowds?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Jason AI and robots will replace all jobs.

Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store.

[Austin Hickam @AustinHickam]

@elonmusk How do you keep costs manageable. Would love to read an engineering article on this.