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by gizmo 2y ago
Very unlikely. Big crashes occur when businesses sell hot air or cook their books. NVidia is overpriced but they are also the sole producer of the world’s most advanced AI chips. I can’t see any scenario where demand for AI chip levels off
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by gizmo 2y ago
Font rendering (kerning specifically) is horrific. Scaling for 4k monitors doesn't work right. Multimonitor doesn't work properly. Paddings/margins, font sizes, and icons are all over the place and lack consistency/polis
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by gizmo 2y ago
Presumably those cars also have a higher profit margin. In any event, the EU will impose 30%-100% import tariffs to protect their inferior car industry. This will hurt the European consumer and will hurt European competitiveness in the long
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by gizmo 2y ago
The EU does not have a great track record with regard to privacy. "Connected cars" can easily be sold to regulators as necessary for safety. When a choice has to be made between privacy and safety (or "safety") the EU ch
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by gizmo 2y ago
They cooperated and are charged with lesser crimes. I suspect they'll get less than 4 years each and serve maybe 2 (First Step Act). SBF put a ceiling on the sentencing because he was very guilty, fully in charge, and showed no remorse
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by gizmo 2y ago
Facebook was doing billions of datacenter capex at the time. It was semipublic information.
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by gizmo 2y ago
As a rule of thumb it is never priced in when a company suddenly has tremendous acceleration in revenue and profit growth. Wall Street is good at forecasting businesses with a stable growth trajectory. Wall Street is way too conservative at
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by gizmo 2y ago
When people who don't want to be parents become parents out of obligation they tend to f up their kids.
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by gizmo 2y ago
David Graeber argues much of that productivity has been sucked up by the managerial and administrative class. Any increase in productivity is offset by a new layer of middle management. I think we can also make a Moore's law analogy he
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by gizmo 2y ago
The economists are worried because (retirement) savings are nothing more than a claim on future labor. As people grow older and are less capable of taking care of themselves other people need to care for them. People can be secure in their
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by gizmo 2y ago
I'm sorry but that looks 100% fake. Liquids are not compressible. The hollow piano would give in first.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Yes, you're wrong. The giant hydraulic press from the ad doesn't exist.
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by gizmo 2y ago
It's an animation of items being destroyed. It's very fake and Apple used an exaggerated cartoon style animation so it couldn't get mistaken for reality. It's like getting mad at road runner for dropping a piano on Wile
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by gizmo 2y ago
Audiences do, in fact, cheer when a rock star smashes his guitar. And for me it does matter it's CGI. Because actual destruction is not the same as simulated destruction. Cartoon violence can be funny but real violence never is.
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by gizmo 2y ago
But that's not what I see! What I see is a beautifully crafted CGI animation that passionate people worked super hard on. The ad is technically very well done and the music suits it perfectly. And the message is about tech as a product
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by gizmo 2y ago
I don't understand the outrage. It's cgi, and very obvious cgi at that. The items bend and explode in an exaggerated cartoon fashion. It's whimsical. No instruments have been destroyed. No actual paint has been spilled. We do
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by gizmo 2y ago
Have you ever looked at a rail map? California and Indiana both had a population of about 2.7 million in 1916. Indiana had a dense rail network and California didn't. Indiana is only ~5x smaller than California. This is what the rail n
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by gizmo 2y ago
True, but only in the east coast and Midwest. Even at the peak of US rail (1916) the west coast was only sparsely connected.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Right. Which is why I favor doing your own memory management entirely (which has some huge advantages) or not worrying about memory at all and trusting a garbage collector. I don't think there are many situations left where memory mana
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by gizmo 2y ago
A city doesn't need to be big to have skyscrapers. It's just a policy choice, like how wide roads are or public transportation. Many Americans are surprised that small European towns are big enough to justify a train station.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Stealing bits from pointers makes sense sometimes, but in most cases an easier and less error-prone way to increase memory efficiency is to just use indices or relative pointers. Instead of shaving individual bits of a pointer take advantag
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by gizmo 2y ago
Humans have those exact same constraints. For the longest time we could only speculate what the dark side of the moon looked like, for instance. Yes, LLMs are constrained in what output they can generate based on their training data. Just a
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by gizmo 2y ago
Humans have painted with wonky perspective and impossible shadows because they didn't know better for literally 50.000 years. And those humans were just as smart as we are. Just look at 13th century paintings. Does this prove that huma
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by gizmo 2y ago
Humans are capable of intricate complex thought that involves "mental states of recollection, preference, taste". However, LLMs have demonstrated pretty conclusively that most of the thoughts we have do not require any of that. La
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by gizmo 2y ago
OpenAI also pioneered reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to make LLMs output completions that are valuable/relevant. I agree that OpenAI has provided no evidence they are anywhere close to AGI (and I don't think LLM
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by gizmo 2y ago
The letter is an unhinged diatribe written by anonymous authors and should be disregarded on that basis.
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by gizmo 2y ago
The letter is authored by "anonymous contributors", actually. This suggests the authors are minor contributors at the periphery of the project.
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by gizmo 2y ago
All major open source projects are used by arms dealers. It's a big industry. Any business has customers they ideologically dislike. I get how that's annoying but it is what it is.
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I don't have any knowledge about nix, the community, about Eelco Dolstra, or about this particular drama. What I do know is that there is no such thing as "community leadership" and that extremely long diatribes about the fla
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by gizmo 2y ago
Expressions like "eat your vegetables" and "life is short" are also trite. But the purpose of folk wisdom isn't to shock and awe with fresh insights. The purpose is to remind people of what they already know to be t

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