gizmo

26 ms·

391.
by gizmo 3y ago
Funnily enough, LLMs are a lot better at producing good-sounding economic analysis than at coding. Software will continue to eat the world --including finance-- and that requires good coders. As for this UBS chief economist, maybe he's
392.
by gizmo 3y ago
You still have to do a handshake (determine resolution, refresh rate, etc) before you get a picture, and that takes maybe 3 seconds. Some monitors can handshake a bit faster, but not by much.
393.
by gizmo 3y ago
Good KVMs, specifically the ones from Level1Tech[1], are smart enough to keep all monitors connected virtually so all your windows stay in place when you switch back and forth between machines. There is no delay of plugging devices in becau
394.
by gizmo 3y ago
Absolutely not. For a country most labor doesn't compound in value. When a farmer produces wheat the value created is equal to the value of the wheat. When a barber cuts somebodies hair the value created is again more or less equal to
395.
by gizmo 3y ago
The comparison is fine. It's a comparison between the labor of a country of 45 million people working for a full year vs the value created by a company with 25 thousand employees working for a few months. It's not a perfect analog
396.
by gizmo 3y ago
Every hedge fund and every pension fund in the world wants some exposure to AI, as it is widely believed to be the next big thing. What happens when everybody is buying NVIDIA and Super Micro? Right. Instead of thinking in terms of speculat
397.
by gizmo 3y ago
The big trend of the last 20 years has been the leveling of the playing field. Everybody has access to all the same information about what (not) to do. On how to raise money. On how to build products. That’s not to say that everybody has eq
398.
by gizmo 3y ago
That’s such a misrepresentation. The credit card fees exist because customers get benefits like delivery insurance, return insurance, holiday insurance, cashback, free credit, etc. If you just want to transfer bits you can do that for next
399.
by gizmo 3y ago
The belief that “the other” is fundamentally unreasonable can be used to justify arbitrary amounts of violence. Lets not forget that Hamas is pretty unpopular in Gaza and that most people just want to live their lives and not see their chil
400.
by gizmo 3y ago
When Hamas got elected Israel aborted all peace talks and built a fence with gun turrets around Gaza. No peace talks means no peace.
401.
by gizmo 3y ago
Mexico has better chances of winning against the US and driving out the Americans than Hamas has against Israel. Hamas has no advanced military capability. Palestinians have over the years engaged in many good faith peace talks. Honored the
402.
by gizmo 3y ago
I should point out to people who might not be as familiar with Israeli history that Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli right wing extremist. As for the rest, while I appreciate the civil response I don't think we agree enough on the
403.
by gizmo 3y ago
I don't think it makes sense to talk about what the extremists in a conflict want when one side is a regional superpower and the other side has no army to speak of (that's why Hamas hides in tunnels). It's about what the part
404.
by gizmo 3y ago
No. The Israeli right wing is trying (and succeeding at) making all of the land between the river and the sea exclusive property of the Jewish people. A quick glance at how the borders have evolved since 1948 makes this evident. Most Palest
405.
by gizmo 3y ago
Because propaganda works everywhere. Teach people that “the other” seeks their destruction and then reframe any violence as tragically necessary self-defense. The history books don’t mention the Nakba and civilian casualty statistics in Gaz
406.
by gizmo 3y ago
According to the EMH markets are efficient because of people making intelligent decisions about what to buy and sell. The market price is where the marginal buyer meets the marginal seller. Passive funds (which aren’t actually passive) by c
407.
by gizmo 3y ago
Moving to the US is a much better deal than moving to Europe. Much higher salaries and you'll encounter way less racism in the US. However, undergrad in the US will not give you an automatic path to residency. So you might get kicked o
408.
by gizmo 3y ago
Memory safety issues in C++ have two main causes. One is object lifetime. The other is pointers. If at all possible you want to design your program such that object lifetime is completely obvious and predictable. Use sentinels and tombstone
409.
by gizmo 3y ago
Both “the coddling of” and “the righteous” mind were pretty poor scholarship. The kind where the researcher starts with the conclusion and then looks for evidence that confirms the theory. Good science should either neutrally look at the ev
410.
by gizmo 3y ago
It's true that LLMs can be used to automate things that couldn't be automated before. But even without LLMs there are untold millions of jobs that could be replaced with a simple shell script. Staggering inefficiency is everywhere
411.
by gizmo 3y ago
Half of the companies in the Russel 2000 are unprofitable and chronically mismanaged. By contrast he magnificent 7 are effectively monopolies with good management teams that make money hand over fist. OK, Apple and Tesla are overvalued. The
412.
by gizmo 3y ago
You can’t have a market without buyers and sellers. The only way to get tesla shares is by buying them from another person. It doesn’t matter whether the seller has 100 shares left after selling to you, or -100. The financial transaction is
413.
by gizmo 3y ago
These articles never take into account what investor’s NET exposure is. An investor who has a lot of tesla shares might write calls to collect premium. Or buy puts for downside protection. Or short tesla shares to offset out-of-the-money ca
414.
by gizmo 3y ago
China doesn’t need to replicate EUV in order to make competitive chips. China can already produce very advanced chips today and is maybe 2 years behind in the ways that actually matter.
415.
by gizmo 3y ago
Not only are there more books in the world than you can read in a lifetime, every year a bunch of new terrific books get published. The hours you spend reading a mediocre book or a book that drains your love for reading are not hours well s
416.
by gizmo 3y ago
Abusers of DMCA should just have the IP in question automatically reclassified as Public Domain. Problem solved. This may sound extreme (and it kind of is), but companies send bogus legal threats under penalty of perjury and it's time
417.
by gizmo 3y ago
I think that's true and that's also why blogs -- if they want to grow -- end up writing the same articles again and again for their echo-chamber audience. It's hard to grow your blog when you alienate 5% of your audience ever
418.
by gizmo 3y ago
This article is a weird mishmash of two articles: The first article argues that you should stick to your point and not needlessly piss people off. It's a fine argument to make. If you're going to be incendiary in your writing it s
419.
by gizmo 3y ago
Somehow programmers have come to accept that a minuscule change in a single function that only result in a few bytes changing in a binary takes forever to compile and link. Compilation and linking should be basically instantaneous. So fast
420.
by gizmo 3y ago
You can just prefix features with --experimental so people can use their own judgement. Software should warn users when they do something that might harm them. But it shouldn't patronizingly refuse to run. "I'm sorry bryanlar

More ›