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by 827a 11mo ago
Companies, especially large ones, generally don't think like that. Q1 can be an active quarter for layoffs (Q1 2023 was probably the most active layoff quarter since COVID), but generally, they happen when they happen (Q2-2025 was more
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by 827a 11mo ago
That's because its a shit title editorialization: The article is actually saying that there hasn't been an October in two decades with this many layoffs, not that this October had more layoffs than any other month in two decades.
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by 827a 11mo ago
I think you can point to the actual day Apple started this decline they're still on: September 16 2015. That was the day Apple News was released, which I think as a product perfectly encapsulates near-everything wrong with Apple in one
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by 827a 1y ago
It cannot be stressed or even succinctly elaborated how far ahead Google is compared to every other organization doing anything remotely like this, anywhere on the planet. Practically speaking there is no "catching up" to Google;
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Their services revenue this quarter was their second largest business segment (iPhone #1), but experienced more growth than any other segment (~15% iirc, iPhone was more like 6%). Many onlookers see "Services" and think "Oh w
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by 827a 1y ago
People also seem to have forgotten that the Presidency isn't a dictatorship. If everyone is forgetting this; how is it different than it just being a dictatorship?
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by 827a 1y ago
Sorry, yeah, replace every time I say "LLM" with "AI". I've forced myself into the habit of always saying "LLM" instead of "AI" because people (cough Elizer) often hide behind the nebulous, poorl
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by 827a 1y ago
> so far we do not have buggy software that is more intelligent (and therefore more effective at accomplishing its goals) than humans are. Of course we do! In fact, most, if not all, software is more intelligent than humans, by some reas
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by 827a 1y ago
I think all those are fair points, and Elizer says much of the same. But, again: none of this explains why any of those things happening, even at scale, might lead to the complete destruction of mankind. What you're describing is bug
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by 827a 1y ago
Maybe. But, again, these are all hypothetical ideas. Its been over 24 hours, and despite getting multiple responses, none of them are of the form: "I have used ScreenReaderSoftwareX, and on the latest version it does not interpret divs
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by 827a 1y ago
I've listed to basically every argument Elizer has verbalized, across many podcast interviews and youtube videos. I also made it maybe an hour into the audiobook of Everyone Dies. Roughly speaking, every single conversation with Elizer
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by 827a 1y ago
No I haven't tested it, that's what I'm asking. This piece of advice, to me, just feels like a piece of advice constantly repeated by a bunch of people, none of whom actually use the software for which the piece of advice is
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by 827a 1y ago
> This element does not announce itself as an interactive element to screen reader users. Is this actually true nowadays? Given that advice like this is often parrotted by people who don't actually use screen-reading software, I som
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by 827a 1y ago
I think their real bet (good or not) is that AI isn’t going to need to use Afinity Studio.
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> Next 5 years or so (or even less) both the iPad and the Wearables, Home and Accessories category will overtake the sales of Macs. Are we reading the same quarterly report? Wearables/Home/Accessories is slightly higher than th
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The worst part is how these people almost always work on the most boring, rote crap. They could be selling mens hair loss medication on the internet (cough) and key individuals in the organization are convinced what they do is life-and-deat
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by 827a 1y ago
Personally: I am extremely excited for a world where we have silicon that's capable of driving triple-A level gaming in the ~20w TDP envelope. M5 might actually be the first real glimpse we've had into this level of efficiency.
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by 827a 1y ago
> assuming their cooling systems are a closed loop My understanding is that the closed-loop systems are rather new; like, "we started using these things in 2024 literally because everyone's been moaning about our AI water usage
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by 827a 1y ago
Sure, but: 1. Farmers oftentimes make zero effort to reduce their water usage. There's water reduction strategies they could employ, if they cared, but instead the vast multi-farm conglomerates invest their efforts in securing below-
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Yes: my understanding is that it’s rather common practice to at least make a best-effort estimation of all these secondary impacts. It’s also absolutely true that “agricultural usage dominating data center usage” is a dirty little secret th
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by 827a 1y ago
IMO: Any number, as long as it is not expressed as a percentage.
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I made it about ten lines into this before realizing that, against all odds, I wasn't reading a postmortem, I was reading marketing material designed to sell AWS. > Many of the largest AWS services rely extensively on DNS to provide
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by 827a 1y ago
They aren't hosting user content; it was their pull request preview domains that was triggering it. This is very clearly just bad code from Google.
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by 827a 1y ago
Well, in my experience every Microsoft shop I've ever interacted with has been a problem employer. Why do you feel your angle has greater moral defensibility?
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by 827a 1y ago
I think its funny how its a Chromium-based browser, and the live demo involved automating Gmail and Google Sheets. Google literally runs the world; we're just playing on their playground.
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by 827a 1y ago
But I thought AI was supposed to be writing 90% of code by now, you're telling me building a new browser engine is still a multi-year, difficult effort?
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by 827a 1y ago
Paying $4000 and $20/month for the privilege of living a Black Mirror episode is peak 2020s.
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The decade of largest stock market growth in the history of humanity, primarily led by the growth of mega-tech conglomerates and venture capital-fueled exits? Maybe you missed it?
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Another thing age often brings: There's a ton of young people (20s-early 30s) in SV right now who didn't get to materially participate in the first (1990-99) or second (2010-19) tech revolutions. There must be a third, because F
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This happening the same week as DeepMind’s seemingly legitimate AI-assisted cancer treatment breakthrough is a startlingly bad look for OpenAI. My boss always used to say “our only policy is, don’t be the reason we need to create a new poli

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