Zigurd

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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Worse is, nonetheless, worse. You are sidestepping the issue that DOGE, and RFK Jr. have made things measurably worse in many dimensions. They, and the tech oligarchs whose money is regarded as speech bear responsibility for making things w
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
That's a good point, but tech oligarch money is one of the most important ways Trump overcomes the fact he's not overwhelmingly popular. That's also one of the reasons why tech is no longer seen as optimistic and a force for
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Although an auction with a significant reserve could be a better approach, this is the least stupid idea I've heard in a long time.
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"Hold my..." checks notes, yeah it's a couple thousand years earlier and near enough "...beer and watch this!"
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RMS would probably agree with you and think that I'm apostate. But there's an open source license for the full spectrum of software authors' preferences. Depending on the circumstances some could turn out to be a poor choice.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
RMS addressed the business model from the very beginning: it's services and consulting. He practiced what he preached. You might think that's got a very low ceiling. But, even though it's a bad example in many ways, OpenAI sh
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
We haven't been, and whether you think it's the chicken or the egg, immigration lawyers specializing in H1-B and related visas have made a mockery of the law and of the stated intent of those visas. If you read the letter of the l
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Ego driven and foolish. Starship stacks up a multitude of project risks each of which has to be perfectly solved or the whole project fails. As Elon fans will point out, all of these problems can be solved in KSP. But only a fraction of the
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Go Solar City! Wait...
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The article assumes that jobs that can be automated are vulnerable. But in the postmortem of the AI driven layoffs so far, it's more that expectations about AI and productivity are driving the job cuts. In other words shareholders and
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Yes but even if SPCX goes to a third of its current value that's still a great exit for what Cursor was.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
In contrast with Pascal, I could see in my mind the PDP-11 instructions behind my C code. By the time I started running code on x86, there were debuggers that could step through source code, and I didn't really want to think like an i3
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Coders should be treated as as well as as other software users. Tools like Claude code, Antigravity, and others are applying AI to solving that problem. I know how to create a multi year P&L projection from scratch. It gives me some ins
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
I tried, even in German on the theory that he was badly translated. Nietzsche was an undisciplined writer and a beefing gossip, among other infuriating characteristics.
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Have I fumbled the pronoun? I don't mean the Chinese are expecting global war, I mean people like Andreessen are banking on war as a means of economic reset. They are unconcerned about even medium-term consequences now.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
You jest, but that's the point a lot of people here are missing: Nietzsche would fit right in with the YouTuber bros, right up to the ignominious downfall.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
The Ayn Rand stans say the same.
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Nietzsche died broke and insane. Was that from following his own advice or failing to do so?
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This is just one of the things turning China into a relatively less dangerous and harmful trading partner. I've often wondered aloud how the US tech industry is going to deal with losing international markets, which have historically b
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
People promoting investment in AI are fooling you with bad TAM estimates. For example, if we valued every spreadsheet created using the same metrics of pre-automation paper spreadsheets, spreadsheets would be a $100 trillion business. Compu
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
For many coders including myself, LLM based coding agents work well enough to be useful, and in some cases worth paying for. What I don't see is vast areas of industry finding $10s to $100s of billions of value in LLMs. There's no
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
I use my critical thinking and judgment to not trust authoritarian surveillance technology purveyors when they make public statements. This guy is 47 ulterior motives in a trenchcoat.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Android Connect instead of Android Auto, and any word other than recycling the android app communication nomenclature "Intent." But hey I'm no branding genius so let's workshop this to close the loop.
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Developing a blood substitute for emergency transfusions seems like a 100X more tractable problem.
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The Economist isn't wrong very often
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The first thought of everyone here except you is "what is Karp's angle?" He's not saying this stuff in good faith. Maybe he thinks his AI suppliers are looking to compete with his products. They certainly are exploring t
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by Zigurd 2mo ago
Did they hire their branding person from Microsoft? And how about AppFunctions (Google) and App Intents (Apple)?
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I learned that not all electronics goes into low power mode even when designed to run off a car battery, from using a cheap Bluetooth OBDII dongle.
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They're called data brokers because they have a buy side, too. That might be peanuts to you, but to an AliExpress seller, it could be most of their profit.
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This isn't a new problem, and pain compliance isn't a new solution. Abuse is rampant and amounts to torture.

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