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by alangibson 2y ago
Google is emphatically not a web business. They are an advertising business. You should expect their priorities in product development to reflect that.
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by alangibson 2y ago
He made military spec latrine odor and didn't think it was that bad. He's built different.
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by alangibson 2y ago
This. We now have proof positive that network effects are stronger than it repulsion at hostile changes. On that note, Facebook going all in on AI slop is brilliant. Most users will stay at the trough for ever increasing lengths of time.
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by alangibson 2y ago
> what this ever-popular narrative misses out Straw man. Left commenters know perfectly well about the roles of Fannie and Freddy. The left critique is not just greedy banks. It's also government collision in pumping property values
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by alangibson 2y ago
That they decided to fold before even being challenged really shows you how deeply held their DEI beliefs were.
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by alangibson 2y ago
You missed their point. It's cash on the barrel head or counterparty is presumed to be a scammer. If you follow that rule you'll never be scammed.
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by alangibson 2y ago
Argentina is a great analog for the UK, time shifted by century. Both former first-class economies doomed to a long decline by bad policies that elites refuse to change.
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by alangibson 2y ago
The UK has just given up on being in any way internationally relevant. If the City of London financial district disappeared, within 10 years we'd all forget that it's still a country.
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by alangibson 2y ago
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by alangibson 2y ago
The fact that there's not a household-name porn generator yet shows you just how expensive it is to get in the AI game.
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by alangibson 2y ago
$12B for a second rate service, and counting. I continue to be amazed by the speculative investment going into GenAI.
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Storybook JavaScript lib collecting telemetry by default
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by alangibson 2y ago
I think you're playing a different game than the Sam Altmans of the world. The level of investment and profit they are looking for can only be justified by creating AGI. The > 100 P/E ratios we are already seeing can't be
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by alangibson 2y ago
Dear Perplexity, We've seen this all before. We know what VC funding inevitably leads to, and we know what Enshittification is. You're just too late to the game.
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by alangibson 2y ago
Been napping for the last decade? One big publicity misstep can end a company.
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by alangibson 2y ago
Most people use LinuxCNC with cards from Mesa now. They have various versions for Ethernet, direct connect to Raspberry Pi GPIO, etc.
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by alangibson 2y ago
Because LinuxCNC runs on Linux. It's an incredibly capable CNC controller.
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by alangibson 2y ago
This is big for the CNC community. RT is a must have, and this makes builds that much easier.
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by alangibson 2y ago
FWIW InteractiveBrokers charges per share, not per transaction. You could theoretically automate rebalancing. I know it's overall pretty daft, but I've also had the 'personal ETF' idea.
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by alangibson 2y ago
You can just buy all the stocks of the S&P 500 minus Boeing.
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by alangibson 2y ago
Acceptable loss of crew event is like 1 in 250 (can't remember the exact number). They can't quantify the probability of failure, so not putting them in Starliner is the right call.
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by alangibson 2y ago
Lots of tools already provide this info in a dense and easy to consume form. How is doing it through a chatbot better?
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by alangibson 2y ago
Interesting way of looking at it. Does it qualify as a nucleus if it doesn't have any protons tho?
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by alangibson 2y ago
Anyone else's blood boil at a world historical genius being required to verbally bow and scrape before an adolescent that did nothing more significant that being born to noble parents?
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by alangibson 2y ago
What? I use ChatGPT so I dont have to look it up. And that's the point I've been making in this thread: GenAI is an incredible summarizer. But that's not nearly good enough to justify the investment and multiples were seeing
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by alangibson 2y ago
Yea, we're still in the money raising phase. This should get interesting when investors start looking for an exit. Maybe by then everyone will have forgotten how the SPAC craze turned out.
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by alangibson 2y ago
On this point you're probably right. Post your counterargument. This is HN after all.
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by alangibson 2y ago
From a business perspective this is right. Unless OpenAI creates AGI they'll probably never make a dime. Great products do not lead inevitably to great profits.
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by alangibson 2y ago
GenAI skeptics and evangelists spend a lot of time talking past each other. The way I see it is that there are three camps, which you can see in the comments in this thread. Camp 1 is the Ilyas that are convinced they're building a dig
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by alangibson 2y ago
> It's astonishing that anyone even tech-adjacent can say something like this. Then I'll present my credentials. 25 years in tech and I use ChatGPT every day. It's an incredibly good chat bot and code snippet generator. Th

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