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by Insanity 1y ago
Not to be pessimistic, but I’m pretty sure that whatever they do will do more harm than good, given how much of a hot mess the current administration is.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Do you mean fall of Rome (empire) or fall of Rome (republic)? Fall of Rome’s republic was deliberate and for personal gain / profit. Edit: And I’m not saying it’s a one-to-one comparison, like a bad sequel film.. I’m saying that it’s
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by Insanity 1y ago
Honestly I think people don't talk about this long-term impact often enough, and you're 100% right. It's not just the impact today - it's the future state. What used to be a job with 'security' is now a lower-s
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by Insanity 1y ago
Yeah, I have a strange kind of fascination with it. I read a lot about the Roman republic, it's rise and demise, and it feels like living through the fall of another 'empire'. Writings were on the wall for the Roman republic
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by Insanity 1y ago
I would laugh about the current state of US government if it wasn’t so sad.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Yeah same.. I have no clue where it was hosted and been using it for 2 decades too.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Just added it to my backlog of books. That does look like an interesting read, thank you.
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by Insanity 1y ago
.. and subsequently used to train an AI? I don't use Microsoft software other than for playing the occasional games, this is a good reminder of _why_ I don't. Other than Windows being a hot mess of an operating system half the tim
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by Insanity 1y ago
Yeah, I'm definitely agreeing with you on this. Which is why I think we're probably decades out from a post-work society. I do think it's inevitable, but in an optimistic kind of way. My take is that an LLM is not ever going
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by Insanity 1y ago
The OP mentions it in another post, but he meant the Apostle (follower of Jesus, or something similar to that)
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by Insanity 1y ago
Given a long enough timeframe, I think you're right. But I don't think that's a 'near future' state, but probably a 'in a few decades' state. More generally, I believe that eventually we'll reach a &#
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by Insanity 1y ago
To be honest, regardless of the government involvement or not, I have little hope for intel. Maybe they can, over time, have an AMD-esque comeback, but given their track record of the past few years I'm not hopeful. The Pentium -> C
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by Insanity 1y ago
I have an iPad pro (m1) and don't feel like upgrading at all. Of course, it's an overpowered chip for a tablet - but I'm still impressed by what I can run on it (like DrawThings).
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by Insanity 1y ago
To be honest, I'm a big fan of the MX Master series, I'll get the MX Master 4 on launch day most likely (will perhaps wait for a few reviews to make sure there aren't any regressions). I even use it while gaming (it's he
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by Insanity 1y ago
I'd assume that's context dependent? Nature (natural green) vs things that look natural but aren't. e.g, green hue on a building? But I'm no expert on this :)
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by Insanity 1y ago
Was thinking so too, green is a colour that makes humans feel something is 'off' / makes us feel uncomfortable. The Matrix used the same colour tone to differentiate inside/outside The Matrix.
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by Insanity 1y ago
That's a fun analogy. Most of my coding these days is definitely in the 'for fun' bucket given my current role. So I'd rather take 5x and have fun. That said, I don't think Go is only fun, I think it's also a v
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by Insanity 1y ago
I wrote a book on Go, so I'm biased. But when I started using Go more than a decado ago, it really felt like a breath of fresh air. It made coding _fun_ again, less boilerplate heavy than Java, simple enough to pick up, and performance
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by Insanity 1y ago
I read her books, FWIW, I quite like them. As with anything, take things with a grain of salt, and I see it more as 'interesting food for thought'. I also still watch her YT videos regularly, more as a "oh this is what's
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by Insanity 1y ago
We might see another AI winter first, is my assumption. I believe that LLMs are fundamentally the wrong approach to AGI, and that bubble is going to burst until we have a better methodology for AGI. Unfortunately, the major players seem foc
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by Insanity 1y ago
I somewhat disagree here. Meta is a huge company with multiple products. Experimenting with AI and trying to capitalize on what's bound to be a larger user market, is a valid company angle to take. It might not pan out, but it's w
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by Insanity 1y ago
Going to be nitpicky, while also saying +1 MSN, Skype, etc used emoticons and not emoji, and there wasn’t a standard that I’m aware of.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Agreed, I actually stopped reading for this reason. The author seems allergic to capitals.
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by Insanity 1y ago
But it also suggest an easy fix. Become CEO :)
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by Insanity 1y ago
Actually that's a really good point on the skins aspect. But I think the community might be in a better shape if the dedicated servers were easier to find. I miss surf_greatriver and its variants :(
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by Insanity 1y ago
Yeah, honestly, the 'upstarts' in the space need to get users and burn VC money to do so, and part of that is selling below a reasonable market price. Amazon / AWS might not want (or need) to play that game.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Modding and mapping were what made CS great in my opinion. Since CS:GO, Valve has been quietly killing that scene by making it harder and harder for people to find these game modes. But to be honest, I think it's an artifact of our (or
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by Insanity 1y ago
Ahh, I started playing CS back in 2004. I go back to it every year for a few weeks / months, but the latest iteration (CS2) leaves some things to be desired from the 'community server' perspective. No good surf ("TDM&quo
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by Insanity 1y ago
Decided to play around with Grok some weeks ago. To be honest, didn't see any appeal to move away from ChatGPT & Gemini in favour of Grok. My suspicion is that Grok won't be a long-term player in the AI market. EDIT: Gut feeli
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by Insanity 1y ago
I'm included in that. Steam is great, I've been using it for 21 years, and I don't need/want another launcher. Occasionally I was forced into using others, when a game only released on Epic / Origin / Battle.ne

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