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by chii 1y ago
I imagine what those custom brightness apps do is not magically increase the brightness, but change the various pixels' brightness in accordance to some method/algorithm such that you see what appears to be brighter whites when pl
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by chii 1y ago
They ought to follow the intellij/jetbrain model, where you pay for the subscription to access the latest version, but when you stop paying, you can keep using the last version you've paid a subscription for. But of course, this d
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by chii 1y ago
The bigger threat is if their models "stall", while a new up-start discovers an even better model/training method. What _could_ prevent this from happening is the lack of available data today - everybody and their dog is tryi
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by chii 1y ago
With enough money to lobby, they can make it a winner takes all market (ala, a regulated monopoly).
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by chii 1y ago
> treating customers well would result in greater retention, which, in turn, would ultimately prove to be net positive profit-wise over time. may be true in the past, but a business cannot scale up good customer service - it's at be
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by chii 1y ago
> Yes it takes time to manage and get up to speed, but that's empowering right....? I rather not, but instead these compute clouds should be treated similarly to utilities - you don't really want to be running your own generato
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by chii 1y ago
It's only corrupt if it's our "enemies" who does it!
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by chii 1y ago
China's success has come _after_ they economically liberalized in a way that resembles the west's free markets. Soviets never did any of this. They "stubbornly" kept to a command economy. While china does have their 5-ye
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by chii 1y ago
> To a lot of people it increasingly feels like a form of private authoritarianism over tiny fiefdoms for absolutely no benefit to a vast majority of people. that is what it means to have property rights. It prevents your interests from
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by chii 1y ago
cant find the forward earnings chart, but PE is close proximation https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-ea... The dotcom bubble peaked at around 46, while we are currently at 30. Will it grow? Who k
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by chii 1y ago
> fail to see how forward earnings to share-price ratios has any relevance here. the relevance is that these earnings expectations are lower than when the dotcom bubble happened. The fact that a single company can have a market cap today
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by chii 1y ago
> If someone has a solution to prevent piracy without a root of trust that would be ideal and that someone is named Gaben, and the solution is called Steam. He has done more to solve piracy than any media empire who proportedly spent bil
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by chii 1y ago
that number back in 2000 is about $9.7 trillion adjusted for inflation. You can't merely just compare the numbers at that time with a number today. It's meaningless. You have to compare forward earnings to share-price ratios.
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by chii 1y ago
> most insane tech bubble we have ever seen. the current "bubble" hasn't surpassed the dot-com boom yet.
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Windows 11 Situation Worse Now Microsoft Axed Windows 10 [video](youtube.com)
8 points by chii 1y ago|1 comments
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by chii 1y ago
> not always how reality works yep. The stakeholder (who is paying the money) asks why the prototype can't just be "fixed up" and be sold for money, instead of paying for more dev time to rewrite. There's no answer th
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by chii 1y ago
> if you have no idea how good it might be. for games, steam offers a trial of the game which can be refunded in full if you do it within two hours. It's a great feature for consumer protection imho. I'd like to try a chapter
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by chii 1y ago
> That is it's better to have prematurely optimised things than finding "everything is slow". or you found that you've optimized a game that is unfun to play and thus doesn't sell, even tho it runs fast...
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by chii 1y ago
It's more that a typical parent has not thought of the need to have a baby monitor, until they have a baby (in which case, they're too busy to build out their own baby monitor stack). Pay money to solve a problem and time-save as
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by chii 1y ago
A lot of people simply imagines that anonymity means un-identifiable. It's far from true, but i think some are honestly making the mistake, rather than being nefarious.
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Is AI's Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble? [video](youtube.com)
14 points by chii 1y ago|2 comments
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by chii 1y ago
my specific point is to claim that skins are not a currency - the crucial difference between things that are both artificial.
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It's Already Getting Hacked... [video](youtube.com)
1 points by chii 1y ago|0 comments
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by chii 1y ago
They are completely unrelated. Some people are opposed to kids gambling (or gambling in general) - an understandable sentiment even if i dont agree. Some people are skeptical of the gov't and the implications of proper identification o
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by chii 1y ago
only to the extent that they are both artificial. The totality of USD _represents_ the totality of all resources that exist under the control of the USA (ala, the people, gov't, companies etc, as well as any natural resources). The cou
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by chii 1y ago
The issue is that newspaper endorsements are more publicly visible, which makes pressure to at least remain neutral. AI summaries tend to be quite private. There's no auditing, which means the owners of said AI could potentially bias t
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by chii 1y ago
It's currently legally grey as to what ai output constitutes. I'd argue that copyright should not be affected by the tools being used. If the project would've been compliant with copyright (ala, fair use) had it used human ha
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by chii 1y ago
and how many times have aws gone down majorly like that? I think you wouldn't be able to count it.
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by chii 1y ago
> But if you're the overwhelming majority of businesses, you do absolutely nothing to ensure that you have power during a power outage, and it's fine. it is fine because the electricity supplier is so good today that people don
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by chii 1y ago
imagine if the electricity supplier too that stance.

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