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bugbuddy
2y ago
Run away when you hear “treatment plan” because you are about to be robbed.
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bugbuddy
2y ago
But, singularity is still imminent. Right? Where on the spectrum of completely useless/no AI to singularity are we at?
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bugbuddy
2y ago
There are other factual problems with this article. Most jarring is that it repeats this old incorrect information: > Inside the Chaturbhuj Temple in India (left), a wall inscription features the oldest known instance of the digit zero,
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2y ago
Do the next best thing: ask your boss if you could use his personal computer. Jokes aside, no.
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2y ago
Public sector demand is a much smaller percentage of the overall economy. If raising rates did not slow the economy due to high government deficit spending, then we would certainly be living in a much different world of command economy with
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2y ago
No, raising rate would bring the economy to a slower pace and reduce private sector consumer demand. Private sector investment can continue to increase but at some point that too will hit a brick wall. The public sector spending depends on
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2y ago
I think it will burst when the Fed realizes inflation is not done and start raising again in 6 months. They can only feed the bubble for so long before the common people have had enough of rising prices.
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2y ago
The solution will always be inflation and devaluation. Your millions will start to feel like thousands and your billions will start to feel like millions. The first trillionaire will not be far off but because of unhappy circumstances.
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2y ago
Memories of 1920s
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2y ago
This just reminded I forgot I have had a Copilot subscription. It has not made any useful code suggestions in months to the point of fading from my memory. I just logged in to cancel it. Now, I need to check my other subscriptions that I ca
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2y ago
Unfortunately, the IT department people think they are literal GODs for knowing how to configure Domain Policies and lock down everything. They even refuse to help or even answer requests for help when there are false positives on our own s
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2y ago
The problem for Intel and AMD is they are stuck with an OS that ships with a lag-inducing Anti-malware suite. I just did a simple git log and it took 2000% longer than usual because the Antivirus was triggered to scan and run a simulation o
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2y ago
Infinite parallel universe is nonsensical to me. It is an unprovable metaphysical contraption that offers nothing of value besides copium for the less fortunate and the gullible among us. Also, it has nothing to do with luck as being discus
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2y ago
No, stone tablets have a history of breaking and going missing, becoming a legend in the process. We need gold plated tungsten carbide tablets.
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2y ago
> Ok like most of you I’ve taken psychedelic drugs. I would like to see some actual data because my assumption has always been that most people have never tried any. I personally have not had any. I have always subscribed to the slippery
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2y ago
I spit out my tea when I read your last sentence. You should consider standup comedy.
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2y ago
There is one big exception in the list of all nations. I don’t know what to make of it. Irony?
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2y ago
There was no answer to my last question which I think is the most important thing when considering if we are going to have another GFC this year or next year.
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2y ago
At $2 per hour, factoring in the overall hardware cost, labor, electricity, and other sunk costs like floor space and bandwidth, how many total hours does it take to break even? What is the expected hardware operation lifespan in hours of t
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2y ago
> Say tomorrow we outlawed being a landlord. Every multi-family and apartment unit would be demolished and turned into SFH, or sold off as condos. > And everyone would have to live with parents or friends until they could afford a dow
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The Dark World of Asia's Golden Triangle
(bloomberg.com)
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2y ago
Because humanity has to keep itself busy with trivial things or civilization will implode from sheer boredom.
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2y ago
These data points are not a good indicator of AI being useful because we don’t have a baseline to compare it to. The baseline is the same IDE tooling support we see with copilot but with more traditional tech like search engines and API doc
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2y ago
I work with Indian developers. They are usually less motivated and laidback compared to Americans. The famous Indian polychronic time culture is real. Bad developers regardless of geographic location can create garbage and the more motivate
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2y ago
Still doubtful because that person is biased toward showing AI in a positive light.
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2y ago
I would guess that the failure rate is worse for AI startups in general because of lower capital and experience. These failing experiments can only shell out billions for Nvidia’s shovels for so long before they have to start selling their
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2y ago
> Coding is one area where AI has been successful. I have my doubts about this. Do you have actual good data for this? Most devs including streamers like primeagen and others seem to think Devin is a joke.
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>”not yet” “Because we still have suckers paying us large cloud bills for ancient hardware.”
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How many signups is Google getting for that? Will it sustain their capital expenditure and cover the depreciation? All sever equipments come with an expiration date. Based on my experience, all the LLMs have an initial cool factor that wear
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2y ago
My conspiracy theorist inner voice says the Nvidia longs are DDOSing this because they don’t want any bad AI news before their big revelation today.
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