AstroBen

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by AstroBen 10mo ago
That's the thing though: a competitor with better power efficiency can undercut you and take your customers
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
That's not a fair comparison. In your example, you're talking about the average of developers in a language. In this situation, it's specific developers choosing between languages. Having the developers you already have choos
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It's widespread and good enough. The language just doesn't matter that much in most cases
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> if I break my leg or get some normal infection or have a child or any of the other normal kinds of issues people have? Will that still be the best tier of care? Does it need to be? I imagine it's far easier to treat a broken bone,
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
yeah, pretty much
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
How does that account for a population who.. ..74% are overweight or obese ..less than 10% meet the fruit and vegetable recommendations ..25% get the recommended amount of exercise ..eat more than 70g added sugar a day Healthcare really has
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
And what if the CEO needs international numbers across all continents? What if the CEO needs to supply an entire 1,332 person company with business phones? What about an assistant to answer them! What if we're sleeping! Oh god! But jus
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
If you were rushed to the hospital you'd be treated: https://www.cms.gov/priorities/your-patient-rights/emergency...
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
So you're saying the US optimizes entirely for the best of the best care, without regard for what happens to the 2nd tier? (that the majority of the population actually use)
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
Mint or US Mobile are ~$15-20 a month. You're massively overpaying
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
> The quality of health care in the US is significantly higher than anywhere else in the world. Do you have any evidence of that?
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
The burden of this isn't a big one to bear. I just compared tax rates for a $65k USD income in Australia vs the US. You'd be taxed ~$800 less in Australia.
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
This question is really confusing to me because the point of AoC is the fun and experience of it So.. a language that you're interested in or like? Reminds me of "gamers will optimize the fun out of a game" I'm pretty cl
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by AstroBen 10mo ago
LLMs have now robbed you of the opportunity to make your communication clearer
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There's something unique about art and writing where we just don't want to see computers do it As soon as I know something is written by AI I tune out. I don't care how good it is - I'm not interested if a person didn&#x
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
It's almost certainly an AI account
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
input tokens: $0.5 per 1,000 output tokens: $1.5 per 1,000 that's either one hell of a typo or my god I'll be broke in an hour if I accidentally use this service
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
"We're talking about systems that don't exist, and that we don't know how to build" - something to keep in mind from Ilya's interview yesterday People are captivated by good stories, and AI makes for one hell o
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
That isn't what I've seen: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
We still don't have a commercially viable product though?
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
What's wrong with putting your current level of knowledge out there? Inevitably someone who knows more will correct you, or show you're wrong, and you've learnt something The only thing that would make me cringe is if he star
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
The value you can deliver doesn't necessarily correlate with your compensation, though Cleaning staff also offer a business a huge amount of value. No-one wants to eat at a restaurant that's dirty and stinks. Unfortunately the sta
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
I can make strong arguments for both "you dont need be worried at all anytime soon" and "we're screwed" Truth is no-one has any idea. Just keep an eye on the job market - it's very unlikely anthing major will h
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
Holy shit the 32GB DDR5 I bought late october for $110 is now $300 Felt like I overpaid at the time too. Wow
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
I had Gemini copy a bunch of text from a personal blog yesterday to answer a query so the content will definitely get read
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
Recognizing a bubble and timing what will happen are two really different things. Will it pop tomorrow or 4 years from now? Will the market go up another 70% before the eventual pop?
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
Is it? https://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2025/05/18/bu...
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
Which jobs is it doing, exactly? From what I can tell at this point it's a solution looking for a problem. Incredibly impressive, not so useful
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by AstroBen 11mo ago
I mean, the point I'm trying to make is that AI could be used to expand the scope of what can be achieved. I never said that it's impossible to develop any game without it
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