WarmWash

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by WarmWash 2mo ago
What happens if people realize Ed Zitron has been rage farming to harvest subscription dollars for a few years now?
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Really Amazon just has to overhaul their ratings system. That ads are fine, it's not difficult to see what is labeled "sponsored". What isn't fine is the hardcore gamification of reviews. If reviews are fixed and you wan
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Compute is the moat. The Chinese models are cheap because no one is using them. But they can't actually afford (or have capacity) to serve enough people to kill the giants. This is evidenced by them all recently hiking prices or limiti
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Well that's why a plan can take years to be approved. There also is the liability angle, where no one necessarily reads the document until the document is relevant to some situation in the future. Then you better have that document on
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Google just has an order of magnitude or three more data to work with. It's exceedingly difficult to compete against "free".
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The real killer is the inability to commit the time needed to actually get into something. Games that I used to bang through in 2-3 days now take 2-3 months, if I finish at all. It's all just a bunch of random pockets of 1-2 hours her
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The actual problem is that all this stuff is "free" and after many years of this, expected to be "free".
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Gemini has long been the vision champion, but there aren't many benchmarks and coding is where all the hype is. Demis had a pretty big interest in vision, more so than text, so I hope they don't lose that with all the recent shuff
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It's vision capabilities poisoned my cucumber bed, misidentifying the malaise and having me spray them down with water, which only spread the fungus that gemini later informed me was actual cause, which I went and checked myself. I hop
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
As we have seen, those cheap LLMs are cheap because their volume is so low, not because they aren't greedy or discovered some kind of efficiency hack. There is a clear trend of popularity and price.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Demand for cheap stuff doesn't manifest cheap stuff. Look at housing, we've been waiting 20 years for "production capacity to catch up".
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I generally find that that idea comes from ignorance of "the other side" rather than the reality of the situation. People on the left and right are incredibly ignorant of what the other side actually wants and is doing. Half the m
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The cost of intelligence doesn't matter, it will just make margins wider. Just look at software over the last 20 years. People pay based on the value they receive, not the cost the produce or serve it. That fact is literally is the bac
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The correct way to avoid ads is to not visit pages that use them.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
They just need 5% of the worlds population to get $50-100 value per month out of them. Even in my non-SWE job, paying $100/mo for my current $20/mo plan would still be a no-brainer. I don't think there is much concern about o
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who votes against their interests.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The amount the US produces is a larger number than the amount that the US consumes. But what the US produces is not necessarily what the US consumes. Oil markets are global and there is tons of trading going on, so it's not really at a
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Did you just make up in your head how LLMs work and then just run with it? There are a zillion explainers out there, at least put in some time before talking about it. Humans run on training data too in the same broad sense.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It's invariably the class of people who if we rose up and seized everything from we would all get a one time "life changing" check for $50k, while collapsing 2/3 of the economy.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I think the actual snag though is that people genuinely believe that giving money to the government is the highest form of good. Skirt taxes to give a billion dollars to prospective college kids through your own organization? Nice gesture,
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
If your not tugging the line of no-nuance criticism, then you are agreeing with the bad people.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
This is great (if it's accurate) but the real gem would be a vaccine, which is apparently also coming out soon.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
My assumption was that GLP-1's don't suppress appetite so much as suppress the compulsion to eat when not necessary/more than necessary?
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Google is too internally split up to have a single cohesive "maximize ad revenue" mission, especially now that cloud is the new golden goose and the future of search/advertising is hazy. If cloud can sell compute to enterpris
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Loaded way too fast and is way too responsive. Also when I checked NoScript, it's only loading js from lxe.github.io I expect there to be at minimum 8 domains, but often 12-18.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Refreshing to see someone actually understand training rather than treat it like dragging and dropping "internet.zip" into the LLM "knowledge" folder.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
There is no money on the table and nothing is at stake.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
5.6 Sol was confident that I had a mite problem, as evidenced by the yellow spots on the leaves. I flipped over the leaves and saw a few small bugs, and relayed this to 5.6 who said that they can be difficult to see since they are so small.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I'm still waiting for Linux to topple Windows
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
All of this is public info though, and pretty well publicized at that.

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