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by munk-a 5mo ago
There are a plethora of reasons to prefer one phone to another and while removable battery phones exist if that's a strict criteria for you the market of available devices is extremely limited. Consumers don't have a real choice
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by munk-a 6mo ago
And, depending on why you listen to music your relationship with AI generated music will probably shift. If it's a quiet day and I want to listen to something deeply I will reject anything AI generated as I want art that someone thoug
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by munk-a 6mo ago
This is a really awkward situation because while we'd really want the market to sort of auto-balance the costs between different suppliers it's also really hard to look at PE ratios right now and believe that the market is anywher
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by munk-a 6mo ago
To be fair to people's objections - agriculture is significantly more important than AI model training when it comes to improving the average standard of living - and to be fair to model training a lot of the water usage in agriculture
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by munk-a 6mo ago
As a more complete title... AI uses less water than the public thinks and more water than Anthropic or OpenAI report. Both sides have dishonest reporting
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by munk-a 6mo ago
While git internally uses a pretty loose system for connecting different model concepts that has always seemed more like a concession to the storage medium than a desired step. If git existed on an already ACID compliant system instead of
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by munk-a 6mo ago
We live in a strange time politically where the consensus on ethics is incredibly detached from justice. There is a danger in giving in to mob rules when it comes to the legal system but at this point we've wandered too far in the oth
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by munk-a 6mo ago
I simply don't understand why our legal system needs a non-deterministic agent injected into it. What value are we trying to capture that isn't already delivered by our overbearing amount of surveillance.
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by munk-a 6mo ago
That would be true in a sane world with investors who value profitability. But everything is now focused on DAU and the network effect. Overusing their services might actually make them look better to investors who shovel more money to th
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by munk-a 6mo ago
When it comes to residential/consumer use base load is irrelevant - but when it comes to business (especially industrial) use base load is a strict necessity. The proportional requirements of base load are fading but it is still somet
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Information for non-commercial purposes should be free for general social enrichment. Information for commercial purposes should have some path towards monetization but the one we've got right now is clearly a terrible fit. For the fu
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Most of us work on software that can modify its own configuration and create new jobs. I, too, have worked in ansible and terraform. The key break here is the lack of predictability and I think it's important that we don't get to
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by munk-a 6mo ago
We'd just explain that management told us we had to and then they'd understand.
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Apple still doesn't allow you to control individual app volume to silence/dim certain applications in multi-play mode though, right? As someone who hates disturbances this is the killer feature that has kept me with samsung - well
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by munk-a 6mo ago
I think this a very unsound place to start an argument. Food production is vital and has been refined over the entirety of human existence to be stable and bountiful. I think it's extremely reasonable to critique Roundup for other re
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Is technical competence the primary measure of tech CEOs at this point? Points vaguely at Elon Musk and the upcoming IPO
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Well, it's a lose for Google if all the money disappears into thin air - but I agree that it's mostly upsides for them because of how (relatively) small the investment is for this much upside.
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Apple is in a much better boat than AMD or Intel. They have a gigantic warchest and can just snap up whoever looks like a leader coming out of the bubble burst.
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Isn't there some bureaucratic way to just tie up the Supreme Court for three years? Their rulings have been extremely damaging and we need a sane balance to return before important stuff like this ends up being decided.
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by munk-a 6mo ago
They list the price 900% higher and give a 90% discount to enterprises who also use teams, outlook, office or even windows if they're desperate. Then that becomes a deal so good that enterprises can't afford not to take it!
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by munk-a 6mo ago
It's likely someone just ran npm ls -all
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by munk-a 6mo ago
At the same time - there are devs that spend two days setting up a debugger for a simple problem that would be easy with five minutes and printf. AI is a tool and it's a useful tool - it's not always the best tool for the job and
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Anthropic, meanwhile, is spending hundreds of millions buying customer commitments from PE firms to inflate that DAU number. They now have a larger war chest to spend on artificial user acquisition to further inflate that value for future
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by munk-a 6mo ago
I don't believe that investing more of my time in a slower process now would result in an advantage if that other process was refined. I've toyed around with these tools and know enough to get an environment up and running so wha
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by munk-a 6mo ago
> Stop trying to use it as all-or-nothing. You can still make the decisions, call the shots, write code where AI doesn't help and then use AI to speed up parts where it does help. You're assuming that finding the places where A
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Pointing at their terms of service will definitely be the instantly summoned defense (as would most modern companies) but the fact that SaaS can so suddenly shift the quality of product being delivered for their subscription without clear n
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by munk-a 6mo ago
It's also important to realize that Anthropic has recently struck several deals with PE firms to use their software. So Anthropic pays the PE firm which forces their managed firms to subscribe to Anthropic. The artificial creation of
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by munk-a 6mo ago
The A10 Warthog is still in service due to the outsized volume of some incredibly wrong voices being able to shout down modern understandings of warfare. The role of CAS as an extension of the ground troops themselves controlled by infantr
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Assuming the presence of a sovereign wealth fund which does work somewhat logically for programs like social security - that would make sense. The government should sensibly invest money they're holding onto... however, it's unre
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Thank gosh we didn't just have a huge scandal where DHS secretary Kristi Noem spent 220 million on advertising.

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