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by __loam 2y ago
Ruby is so god awful yet so many successful companies use it as the bedrock language there's always going to be jobs maintaining the piles of crap it leads to.
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by __loam 2y ago
Changing defaults can screw over existing users.
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by __loam 2y ago
To be fair Jim Beam is one of the shittiest bourbons on the market.
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by __loam 2y ago
Crossing the picket line like this is craven and opportunistic.
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by __loam 2y ago
The problem is that Tesla is way behind the industry standards here and it's misrepresenting how good their tech is.
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by __loam 2y ago
It's only regulatory capture if the legislative branch actually passes the laws Sam wants. As far as I know, none have. Public officials are also becoming increasingly wary of tech, with laws being discussed in places like California t
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by __loam 2y ago
You say this but Google has far better retention than openAI does.
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by __loam 2y ago
Claude is better than gpt-4.
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by __loam 2y ago
Love the bizarre techno libertarian view that any form of regulation is the result of regulatory capture to kill competition and not a result of like 20 years of bad actors running rampant in the industry at the end there.
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by __loam 2y ago
On top of this I recommend languagejones on YouTube. He's a linguistics PhD that gets into things like how African American Vernacular English is actually more complex than regular English, intentionally obfuscated from white English,
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by __loam 2y ago
Most of us are confused by founder mode because Paul Graham invented the term like a month ago.
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by __loam 2y ago
MBTs make plenty of sense even if tank on tank fighting is rare. Having a big cannon that can fire high explosive rounds with a laser rangefinder in an armored enclosure is pretty useful even if you're not fighting tanks. Many western
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by __loam 2y ago
They are using shotguns but drones are small and usually pretty quiet.
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by __loam 2y ago
People have been saying tanks are dead for the last two years but: - Even conflicts where tanks were obviously useful, like WWII, there were high rates of loss. - Russian armored groups were poorly trained and not well supported by dismount
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by __loam 2y ago
Monopolies are harmful to the economy.
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by __loam 2y ago
I know she's on the right track because the ghouls here are calling her political.
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by __loam 2y ago
Dropping out was one of the best decisions I've ever made. My pay tripled and I immediately had better work life balance.
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by __loam 2y ago
https://datos.live/predicted-25-drop-in-search-volume-remain... Love the use of the personal anecdote to refute my point BTW.
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by __loam 2y ago
The numbers look extremely bad if you're expecting OpenAI to take a significant chunk of Google's business. It's a rounding error compared to the numbers search does.
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by __loam 2y ago
According to Fidelity, Twitter has gone from a 44 billion dollar company to less than 10 in 2 years. Clearly we should not be using it as an example of how to run a technology business.
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by __loam 2y ago
Junior positions being hard to find are the result of the post Covid market correction and the relative expense of borrowing money in a high interest rate environment, not of chatbots replacing juniors. Executives might be saying it's
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by __loam 2y ago
That's delusion, not imagination. Inference is far and away more expensive than R&D and training. It dominates the cost at these companies because it represents most of the unit economics. If OpenAI is not profitable, it's bec
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by __loam 2y ago
I've heard the reason Google is behind is because they knew LLMs were bullshit, or not good enough to productionize.
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by __loam 2y ago
Do you want to know how much traffic OpenAI has pulled off Google in the past two years? Because it's not pretty lol. It's definitely single percentage points if not less than a percent (can't remember the exact numbers). The
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by __loam 2y ago
I like how kanban and agile are "alternatives" as if they're not very similar to how scrum it's defined.
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by __loam 2y ago
What good thing has blockchain ever done that isn't facilitating crime or tax evasion?
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by __loam 2y ago
As opposed to financial systems that actually work and are used by millions of people.
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by __loam 2y ago
The amount of power being used to support a system that can do 5 transactions a second is disgusting.
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by __loam 2y ago
https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2024/08/18/is-ai-eating-all-th...
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by __loam 2y ago
Funnily enough, bitcoin mining still uses at least about 3x more power that AI at the moment, while providing less value imo. AI power use is also dwarfed by other industries even in computing. We should still consider whether it's wor

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