geodel

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by geodel 5d ago
> You don't think you're getting off that easily, do you? Agreed. But that's where Amazon needs some thrashing from users, competitors and regulators to start with.
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by geodel 5d ago
> Do you need a frontier model to write emails, check your calendar, search the web? How about writing mail to President and senators on AI doomsday scenario if frontier labs do not pace themselves? That mini model on mac mini would scar
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by geodel 5d ago
There was internal JIRA ticket to rename Rufus -> Doofus as to dramatically improve performance and sentiment among shoppers on Amazon site. We should see this improved version soon.
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by geodel 5d ago
Thank you Amazon for standing up for everyman Rufus. We don't need AI agent from evil ad giants.
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by geodel 5d ago
> how expensive using a Mac Mini as an alternative is? I think it goes without saying. And it is eminently evident over last couple of decades that from compute to storage to meals 3rd part providers have saved billions upon billions of
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by geodel 5d ago
Yes, it feels like that. Whereas frontier labs are pushing the frontier of human knowledge, selflessly working towards pulling humanity from dark ages. Ignorant peasants trying to burn the modern civilization down. Don't they know data
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by geodel 5d ago
Agreed. Specially since one can pay half right now to OpenAI and sign a 12 year iron clad contract for uninterrupted service delivery of OpenAI Pro.
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by geodel 8d ago
Yep, just yesterday, Nike removed one leach middlemen called retailers and sell directly through their app. Turns out working out very well for them too.
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by geodel 8d ago
Coincidently I was thinking about car wash just few days back, One was bought in 2014, never car washed seems fine so far. Another was bought in 2022 again no wash so far and no plan to. I used to think everyone does it, I will do at some p
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by geodel 9d ago
Dunno, for folks around here, Claude is important, Gitlab is important and banal press release is important. So all of them together makes it obviously important.
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by geodel 9d ago
Hmm, I was expecting it would halve, once gamblers get their fill.
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by geodel 10d ago
Google did it AlphaGo, AlphaFold etc for bragging rights, now let frontier lab do their thing. It would be utter stupidity if they keep competing with hyper agile frontier labs. They sensibly moving to big infra provider and that's goo
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by geodel 12d ago
Well, if this small fee can help brilliant folks to explore their horizons outside US, it would be all worth in end.
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by geodel 12d ago
Yeah, it is not much worth because issue is not that top talent on H1 matches local talent but how average is the rest but get brought to US in name of high skill immigration. The debate by supporters is set like: Look at these 5 top guys
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by geodel 12d ago
I mean Canada has jumped so many times in last 8-10 years with these express residencies, hiring H1B laid off workers, grabbing people who are stuck with travel restrictions to US I'd have thought they be half way to the moon. In any c
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by geodel 16d ago
Well, even payment is no guarantee that ads won't be injected into service. even these fucking movie theaters sho like 20-30 min of ads before showing movie people paid for.
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by geodel 16d ago
Yes, there are enough people who still think this won't happen despite very conclusive recent history of this exactly happening. Just like there are enough people who think if there were no car dealership/ salesman car would becom
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by geodel 16d ago
Well they are being generous giving you extra 15 min video streaming which cost a lot to produce for free in a 45min show. Soon, one need to be tipping advertising producing partners for their hard work.
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by geodel 16d ago
But Tier-1 app consuming Tier-1 RAM seems officially approved.
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by geodel 16d ago
Well, this is disappointing.
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by geodel 17d ago
Who wants bigger phones: Tens of millions in higher end market. Who wants smaller phones: Tens of thousands in lower end market.
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by geodel 18d ago
None of the European automotive company would be as profitable were it not the US market. I don't think Europeans are realizing that.
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by geodel 19d ago
I mean wasn't it just few months back when Socrates was asked to drink poison chalice when he was promoting multi-cloud strategy by using Kubernetes based deployment for his education platform.
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by geodel 22d ago
LOL, the person you are talking about is Project lead for Loom in OpenJDK.
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by geodel 22d ago
Ah, those may farmhouse sink and stovetop :)
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by geodel 24d ago
> It is so important, that many countries make it illegal to hide international football matches behind paywalls, specifically. Sports is peak diversion from real issues, Whether Europe, US or India and so on. The countries can go to hel
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by geodel 26d ago
I'd just say there are scores of people who like programing. But that's about it.
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by geodel 26d ago
But for now can't EU regulate the RAM price? They seem to be able to do what they want.
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by geodel 29d ago
Damn, I was at exactly same place when I closed tab and came back here. I just started reading, finding author pompous writing themselves in 3rd person. I'd say it is crisis (of slop) and it is decision to keep generating slop nonethel
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by geodel 1mo ago
And now they can be more evenly distributed all over the world. I'd call it a net win even if administration did not think it this way.

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