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by mathgeek 2mo ago
I dunno. At the end of the gen Sony had lost a billion dollars on the PS3 last I read about it.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
Regarding the PS3 specifically, that was the breaking point for subsidizing because it ended up being famously and heavily used for compute clusters. We see the same effects today where any chip useful for high end gaming is also useful for
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
> a typical example being the $20 coffee makers which you'll end up paying way more for than a decent one due to the fact they just constantly break. I chuckled a bit realizing that you probably meant a decent coffee maker to cost f
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the barriers to entry as an example. An effective anti-monopoly strategy needs different tools at different times.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
It is, indeed, for some people. It's a core part of why GLP-1 drugs work wonders for some people. Shutting up the "little fat person constantly telling your brain it needs food" is liberating if you have those urges.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
Came here to see if anyone was discussing the infographics, but oddly enough because I found them incredibly distracting and in that zone of "pretty to look at but taking too long to comprehend well, if at all". To each their own!
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
You could probably even power a time machine without needing plutonium.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
Many batteries are sealed specifically for this reason.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
That's a lot of extrapolation that's incorrect. All I said was I've found some ads recently that were actually useful to me. I don't want to seek out ads, nor do I want to see them. Usefulness does not imply desirability
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
That's fair. My point was if you're trying to utilize a church for finding dates/marriage, you shouldn't go into it thinking you or they will change later despite not "having faith" now.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
Love the idea, but in practicality I'd want to see a reproducible example that end users can't just take a description of the skill and throw it at an LLM to get most of the way there for free. You'd also need to prove to a b
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
From a convenience factor, sure, but both effectively turn a death sentence into a solved problem. I believe GP was pointing out that we should prioritize funding for the existing solution until the more convenient one is available.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
> If you don't know where to start, a Church is a great place to start. Please only do this if you believe (or are willing to explore or at least quickly reject and leave) what the church is teaching.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
> Nothing is enough. Words to live by!
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
I assume GP meant exactly this (the people designing and writing good code are expensive).
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
Ask it to do so, would love to know your results.
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
> I think the general expectation was that blocking exports to China would result in companies there building their own cards competing with NVIDIA. In the long run, perhaps, but it's a lot faster to scale up the capacity and usage
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
The catch there is I don’t look for this stuff, as it isn’t a priority. I am happier not pursuing what advertisers want to sell me, as my time is limited. I imagine many folks are the same, based on it being a core problem advertising tries
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by mathgeek 2mo ago
I despise advertising, but anecdotally, I can think of three ads in the past week that informed me about products I didn’t know existed but would enjoy. I also learned about multiple new games releasing, sporting events that were happening,
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
Accomplishments are what we make of them. Every person to ever live accomplishes nothing at the end, and everything in passing.
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
Service's life story is quite the read, and lovely context IMHO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Service
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
Do you have some examples? I love to explore such things.
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
> I struggle to understand so much hostility to this approach. It's going to be really rough for a lot of folks as machines get better and better at domains that the human brain was exclusively useful for. I tend to view the hostili
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
Aerobiz? I had forgotten about that one, such an awesome game. Rented it from Blockbuster many times.
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
More related to the EU's movement away from foreign-hosted infrastructure.
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
Nope that's not it for me, but appreciate the discussion!
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
Very little of lifestyle products is about need. Folks will open their wallets for some combination of personal wants, exclusivity (or the illusion of it), or even something as simple as a coffee table discussion piece. These sorts of &quot
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
I believe GP’s point is India is the place a company would highlight cricket scores above other marketing lines.
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
Have you also run into the attention deficit effect of all these short forms of media? Overriding my brain's desire to put a book down after a couple pages is certainly not my favorite pastime.
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by mathgeek 3mo ago
There are many great quotes by Nintendo folks about this approach. One of my favorites: > I like to think of it like buying a car. Admit it. Your left brain looks at a vehicle in terms of the numbers. What's the horsepower? The towi

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