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by dualvariable 4mo ago
That is a terrible way to run a package repo in this day and age. Maintainers need to have some level of vetting, and should own a repo or three for a while to establish a track record, before they get to blast out contributions to 100 of t
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
And all the American automakers pivoting away from EVs are just going to concede the world market to China.
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
AI for $20/month won't ever go away, but it won't be the absolute latest and greatest frontier model. Most of us don't need a model that can prove the Riemann hypothesis or Goldbach's conjecture in order to get work
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
People latch onto consistency and hypocrisy as their filters. The problem is that anyone trying to actually be better is usually inconsistent and hypocritical at some level as in that "you criticize society, yet you participate in it&q
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
1918 isn't very relevant to modern living. And nobody wants to go back to the stagflation of the 1970s. And that scale is logarithmic. Graph it without the logarithmic scale and draw a curve through the 1982-2018 data and the recent
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
If there's no jobs crisis, where are the productivity gains to offset all the massive datacenter spending? If we need to spend just as much on salaries, while shelling out $700B/yr on AI, how does all that spending get paid for?
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
Hyperscalar capital spending for 2026 is going to be in the close neighborhood of $700B, which is over 2% of US GDP. That is about 3x the GDP spend of peak Apollo program in the 1960s, and about the same as the telecom/fiber buildout
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
> the vast majority of the market prefers solid near glued together phones so that's what companies make. the vast majority of companies only make solid near-glued together phones, so that is all anyone buys. if apple made a phone w
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
Because it is hiding the fact that there's very little external revenue coming into the AI sector compared to the costs. AI companies doing business with each other isn't net revenue into the sector. Treating the whole sector as
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
If you were to treat all the hyperscalars as one company with one 10-K then Anthropic buying compute from SpaceX/xAI is an internal bookkeeping transfer between two departments. It isn't the same as top-line revenue into the AI c
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
I didn't abandon it, it was run by a different team, and we were one consumer of it. When the organization switched from Jira to GH issues the Jira was kept running for years, but nobody got the information into GH issues. Eventually
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
This is the way we did it when we used JIRA. For GH issues you can always navigate back to the PR discussion (which should have linked issues and other pointers in it) from the commit. Of course when we switched to GH issues, we largely aba
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
I haven't had a NYTimes subscription since around 1991. This thread has a whole bunch of Charlie Browns in it who are "shocked, shocked" to find that Lucy has pulled away the football once again...
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
> and xAI is loosing money. xAI is burning through a tremendous amount of money. it is getting propped up right now through leasing compute to Anthropic, which isn't really AI sector profitability. even if the AI bubble doesn'
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
The fact that so many people think the Fed will step in and magically keep the number up is why I'm pretty certain this is going to turn out like the late-20s. The cynical nihilists have capitulated to the stock market always going up,
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
> A redditor who's wife and her friend were on the flight said that the 16yo boy next to wife's friend admitted to naming his speaker "Bomb" long enough ago that he had forgotten he'd named it that. Wife's f
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
It seems pretty obvious to me that this situation was being treated more like a disruptive passenger issue than an actual terrorist threat of a real bomb. So more like the Minneapolis plane diverted to Wisconsin the other day because of an
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
For me, it is writing way too much to say too little.
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
The first bit is just a restatement of the "paradox of thrift": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift If every business cuts headcount and costs, then you overall get a contraction in the economy an
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
let me pour one out for all my homies in the marketing department...
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
Better than asking your backyard mechanic buddy who believes that you don't need anything other than 10W40 or something like that. You have always had to know who to trust and what level of work you need to do in order to get to an an
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
I asked claude to dig up the current Ford Bulletin for the engine in my truck to tell me the recommended motor oil. And it found the updated recommendations properly. I wouldn't trust google AI because I know specifically that the re
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
I notice that my allergies get worse, and a theory is that systemic low-grade inflammation and histamine response may be due to diet. I don't have a lot of other conditions, but people with autoimmune conditions (e.g. rheumatoid arthr
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
I'm not important enough for anyone in China to go out of their way to attack me. And DeepSeek has to maintain a sufficient level of trust so that users keep using their platform--they can't just act like a keylogger attacking ev
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by dualvariable 4mo ago
This is some hopium/copium that the corporate world will trend to being naturally fair and ethical. Amazon was always an asshole-driven company which did topgrading layoffs annually at the start of every year. It has never suffered be
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by dualvariable 5mo ago
> The bottom half is: Black Americans Lack Assurance Police Encounters Will Go Well My "bubble" is that I read past the headline and got more than halfway through that article that you cited.
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by dualvariable 5mo ago
Ask them what they think about cameras run by private companies being used to spy on them and their neighbors and see what the poll results look like. Just because people want policing doesn't mean they want the kind of policing that w
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by dualvariable 5mo ago
Yeah, I probably grossly oversimplified that and forgot about a bunch of other factors. Stimulus was split about 50/50 between Trump and Biden. The ARP probably was a bit too large and contributed something like 1.5% to the eventual
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by dualvariable 5mo ago
Biden inherited COVID, which required a very accommodating policy response, but then had the AI/LLM spending/hiring boom surprise sort of overlap that, which turned out to be highly inflationary, but nobody was predicting that bac

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