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by dismalaf 1y ago
Chrome is nearly singlehandedly responsible for the open web being as good as it is and the whole web 2.0 boom. Computing changed after Chrome was released... Between Chrome and Google Docs, it basically made platform agnostic computing p
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Dunno, in 2007 Ubuntu and Suse "just worked". Others were more flaky but there were solid distros even back then...
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Also don't forget that in North America a typical retail space in a city is like 2000 sq ft, whereas in Europe it's more like 500 sq ft.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Extracting money out of everyday life to make our world less friendly and more expensive. Ever done the napkin maths for a coffee shop? It's not good. Especially with the way rents have been going... In Canada a ton of Starbucks
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by dismalaf 1y ago
It's always been that way. Emacs has had advanced IDE-like features for as long as I can remember. Vim too. LSP and TS just make it easier to standardize across editors and languages.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> bought and ruled by mostly American companies with the noticeable exception of Ubuntu (and a few others). 2/3 of the big Linux vendors are European (Suse and Ubuntu)...
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by dismalaf 1y ago
I wish this site had emojis so I could spam the facepalm emoji. You don't make every worker learn programming. You either hire programmers to make a custom financial suite so that people can input things and then the software does the
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Maybe something like an EU-based perplexity/anthropic competitor would be great. Mistral?
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Excel rules the world, and even if it didn’t: nobody is running libreoffice on linux professionally, at least not that I am aware of- and hosting mail? It has remarkable stickiness but the replacement for Excel isn't another sprea
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by dismalaf 1y ago
You must not have read a lot of blogs... This style is 100% the pretentious kind of writing that was in vogue.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
The use case is building apps. A small LLM can do RAG, call functions, summarize, create structured data from messy text, etc... You know, all the things you'd do if you were making an actual app with an LLM. Yeah, chat apps are prett
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by dismalaf 1y ago
The writing style we associate with AI is the 2010's blogging style that AI learned from... So it definitely could have been written by a person.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Will Apple, AMD, and nVidia continue to trust TSMC if it owns half of Intel? It doesn't matter because none of them have much choice. None of them own fabs and Samsung's capacity is significantly less than TSMC's. Plus
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by dismalaf 1y ago
I mean, it's the same thing... So yes.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Intel is not profitable. Did I say they were? Google gross versus net margin. > If their R+D and Capex investments stopped, the sum total of the existing+legacy cash flows wouldn't nearly cover Intel's substantial liabili
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Great: an Intel that has TSMC as its largest single shareholder is essentially wholly under the thumb of the State Department. They already are. The US defence industry buys from them no matter what. Which is why the US needs to ens
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Honestly, this is a win-win for TSMC. Intel isn't dead. They've made some bad choices and investments but they're still huge. They have $30 billion in gross profit per year on an utterly boring, non-hype based business mode
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Oh, I missed that you didn't use a number divided by expenses because I just assumed you'd use a relevant number. And "real" income isn't great because again, tons of durable goods are incredibly cheap these days, b
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by dismalaf 1y ago
That graph starts 70 years after the aforementioned coal miner scenario... And yes, in the 1800s housing was comparatively cheap because land was close to free and you built your own home. Same goes for booze and venues to drink it because
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by dismalaf 1y ago
I'd wager those coal miners spent a lot less (relatively) on housing and had cheap venues to socialize.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
If $1 million in cash means you can get a $4 million plot of land, spending 90% on T-bills means you have only $900k in bonds and a measly $400k farm (25% down). So you have 1/10th of the land and your bonds are yielding $22,500... Wh
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Doubtful. Fortran is big in HPC and has modern versions.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Pony's keywords are the best. "fun" and "be" are just, well, fun lol. I agree, I hate fn. Also not a fan of func though.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> My point is those hard assets have to be used for a business, not for price speculation (as far as I know). Your second link says: Banks will let you finance any land if you have a way to pay for it. They'll let you mortgage some
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by dismalaf 1y ago
You're right, it's not an apples to apples comparison, just like running any business will yield more than straight investments. But opportunity cost is a thing. No land equals no farm and no opportunity for that return. If not f
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> I probably wouldn't buy them on margin tho. Yeah, this is the pertinent detail. The whole point is putting down only a fraction of the amount. When you calculate the rate of return on a financed property, the rate of return is ve
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Hah fair. Year to year is crazy but long term it smooths out.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Russian proxy? Where are you getting your propaganda from? Russia supports Israel and has only paid lip service to Hamas. Maybe try paying attention to the world. Hamas leaders travelled to Moscow after October 7th and met with Putin.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
You've got it backwards. Hard assets like land, buildings (aka. your house), machinery (a tractor or your car) are all much easier to finance than businesses. A simple Google search gives a wealth of resources for someone looking to
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Land can be financed over long periods and held forever. So a few hundred grand will pay off $5 million in about 20 years and then that's steady income forever after (as long as you keep farming).

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