Grombobulous

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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
What Signal does is different than what A/I was in a number of ways.
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
As I stated, the quote about bitcoin is from the article. I was criticizing the article, not your statements.
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
This is exactly the problem they ran into. A lot of the state department’s claims of “violent groups” are BS but it also seems like a non-zero number of them are pretty violent organizations. There’s a big difference between “we have design
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Here’s the thing though: if even some of the examples given in the state department page are true (some of them are rather silly), that A/I knowingly provided services to groups that verifiably did some rather violent things they are a
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I think your story also points to the idea that business ethics or other tertiary benefits will only sell a product to a limited extent. They help, but the product being fit for its core purpose is still most important.
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I would submit the idea that a lot of union reforms that have been made to laws in the US have been specifically designed to make unions less attractive and less incentivized toward positive outcomes.
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
The daycare my parent friends go to can’t retain a teacher for longer than a year or two. I hear stories all the time about the disruption and emotional distress abruptly losing a teacher with a 1-2 weeks notice causes. The PreK teacher at
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
Non-Western populations (really, talking about China here) do not live in a democracy. The government centrally plans where they build things like data centers and homes and there is very little the populace can do about it. You cannot own
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I think all employees should work for a union. My local art museum has a union. My local school system has a union. The non-profit university I graduated from has a union. Why shouldn't WMF have a union? I really don't understand
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
Thank you for breaking this down. Every time Wikipedia comes up the exact comment parent to yours is posted in some form. This comment and all its flavors is posted by a contingent of people out there who: 1. Think that Wikimedia is a waste
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
If oligarchs can opt-out it shouldn't exist. They can live in gated communities, travel by chauffeured cars owned by contracted businesses multiple LLCs deep, fly in private airports on private jets, or just go live on a yacht in inter
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
And of course, wired headphones still exist as an alternative for those who really don’t like the battery aspect, and it’s not even terribly inconvenient for phones without a headphone jack. I suspect that the venn diagram of the kind of pe
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I guess that’s true, although we could possibly split that camp into two sides: the folks who believe that Play Store sandboxing is going to be more functional, and the folks who prefer microG are willing to accept the issues that come alon
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
Ultimately, a lot of the “fairness” of the Fairphone is offered by “just buy a really popular manufacturer.” Everyone and their dog can repair an iPhone because it’s the most popular phone on the planet. Are those repairs accessible to the
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
Is anyone really using Antigravity? It seemed rather hyped when it launched but since then I have heard absolutely nothing about it and don’t have a single contact in my Rolodex who uses it. Out of all the AI-enabled coding environments it
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
This is exactly what I was saying (grandparent comment). I’m not trying to detract from his success or call him stupid, not at all. But it’s worth pointing out that the only qualification for starting a successful venture firm is having mon
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
It’s not a ban on AI in kids’ private lives, it’s a ban on using it in class and for schoolwork. It’s also only up until 8th grade. High school is a great time to have some coursework covering AI. It’s also not a moratorium forever. Rules c
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
- Sony has a track record of removing purchased media en masse, while Valve does not. - While it could be argued that Valve runs an effective monopoly of the PC platform based on their marketshare, Valve operates on a platform with competit
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
Let’s not forget to give credit to his family office. High net worth individuals don’t just personally do things like make investments themselves. They hire experts to do that. Sure, at some point Kevin Durant made the high-level decision t
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
The OpenAI web page on the Hugging Face incident is so slick that it basically confirms that the entire incident was a marketing exercise. It’s obvious that designers and other content specialists spent multiple days crafting this page.
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I’ve been saying that an easy solution is just don’t allow companies with even modestly large overall sizes to merge or acquire other companies. At all. For any reason. I think that despite this reform being a blunt instrument it would work
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I think the key there is “hardware you already own.” If you own a graphics card you bought for gaming or a laptop you bought for doing schoolwork there is $0 in cost of local AI tokens, because 100% of the cost was assigned to doing other t
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I think there’s a very high chance it’s net positive. It’s growing quickly and approaching 10% marketshare for premium phones (the most profitable segment) in the US. https://axis-intelligence.com/google-pixel-statistics&#x2
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
True, idling is wasteful, but at the same time “spinning fast” does not necessarily equate to “high energy consumption.” The CPU fans in my computer spin at about 1000 RPM all day long but that doesn’t mean they’re consuming a lot of elec
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
Yes, and that’s one of the things on this subject that has made me generally concerned about circulated social media opinions touting how college “isn’t worth it anymore,” not to mention right-wing education demonization. In reality, univer
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
Which clueless executives are we blaming? The ones who purchase products from vendors like OpenAI or AI-powered products that run API calls through OpenAI et al., or the vendors themselves who make bombastic claims about capabilities? As an
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
The “everything is better than systemd” thing is a reactionary hot take from the early days of systemd. In practice systemd has a lot of great tools and I can’t think of any from macOS that are superior. For example, macOS has nothing close
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
The thing about bubbles is that everyone who thinks they’re going to pop look crazy until they pop. And to be clear, a bubble popping doesn’t mean that AI goes away forever. What it does mean is that we’ll see some kind of economic crash or
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I could believe that especially with some of the chips playing catch-up. E.g., the M7 chip is rumored to be the one where Apple has poured really serious effort into local AI performance where previous generations seem to have mostly been c
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by Grombobulous 2mo ago
I also think it’s possible that it may be best to continue waiting on the Mac side of the house despite the increasing prices. I think that some of the hardware design folks have been blindsided by AI demand and we haven’t really gotten tha

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