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by noirbot 2y ago
And what's Apple's services revenue off of iCloud?
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by noirbot 2y ago
I mean, how much money did the NFT companies and Tulip vendors make? Nvidia isn't OpenAI. They're selling products that the bubble is built on, not the bubble itself. How much money is OpenAI or Anthropic making? Because that&#x27
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by noirbot 2y ago
But how many of them have hot data centers to offer? Google is a direct competitor, so Oracle or Amazon are kinda the only other two big options to offer them what MS is right now. If MS drops OpenAI, it's not like they can just seamle
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'd be curious about your opinion. I have no real love for search engines, but if I'm going to the trouble of putting things on the internet in public vs. just sending them to people directly, presumably it would be because I want
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by noirbot 2y ago
I've absolutely had this happen with some US bank in the last 4 years. I can't remember which one, but they had me essentially type in my password over the phone in the same way, with * being the button for any non alphanumeric ch
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, but in my mind, the onus is on the person claiming the single-digit number of interviews where someone was bold with Trump mattered, as opposed to 4 years of his policies causing people to dislike how he effected their life. I highly
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by noirbot 2y ago
This is a big part of it for me. I used to subscribe to a news site that I generally liked, and when I went to cancel it for financial reasons, the experience was so painful that it turned me off of wanting to engage with the entire company
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by noirbot 2y ago
Did we? I grew up middle-class and no one I knew got actual newspapers. That was always a marker for me of someone being rich. We maybe got weekly/monthly news magazines, but that's an order of magnitude cheaper.
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by noirbot 2y ago
And even the times that Trump or his people did do interviews with actually combative people, did anyone remember or care? Did anything change? Did it cause anyone to re-evaluate their views? I remember multiple times people interviewing th
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea, seriously. Much like how people complain about fizzbuzz until they see how many people can't do that, the amount of candidates where basic "so tell me about how you approached a major design decision not going the way you wan
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by noirbot 2y ago
I like that analogy, but I'd almost take it a little further. It's a restaurant with no menu and claims it has every ingredient you could ever want in the kitchen. If you ask for a sandwich, you'll get a sandwich, and it&#x
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by noirbot 2y ago
It absolutely can be. Prompt construction, as well as learning what sort of things the LLM just isn't good at doing, takes work. I've had multiple times where I've asked for something, gotten complete trash back from the LLM,
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'm not sure "custom-fit preparation" counts as not having good faith. If I was doing an interview process and was told the next step would involve a live coding exercise in a specific language/package that I wasn't
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea, I think it really depends on if the team's manager is getting comments from other devs on the team about the person getting fired. I had a QA get fired from one of my teams way back and while I liked them as a person, it was clear
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by noirbot 2y ago
The difficulty here is Microsoft is staking a fair bit on this. To some extent, their ability to make ARM their future is dependent on this push succeeding in getting people to swap to it. AMD/Intel can always just lose gracefully and
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by noirbot 2y ago
That's... a 4 year old writeup that's mostly complaining about things that have since been fixed and were generally considered flaws at the time even by people who liked the OS/Hardware, and some of them are specific flaws to
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by noirbot 2y ago
Because the point of a laptop is to be portable? And a large chunk of that is being small and light? I could haul my full desktop and monitors around with me, but it's not worth the tradeoff. If I can get a computer that does 70% of wh
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by noirbot 2y ago
It was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but alcohol is an amazing chemical for absorbing other potent flavors. It's why it's commonly used for herb extracts and medicines. Part of what I like about many alcoholic drinks is they
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by noirbot 2y ago
To be fair, a lot of folks who dislike modern CGI dislike it because it's often used poorly and hamhandedly. Would it maybe look better if they did it practically? Possibly, but a lot of the revulsion to it is based on seeing real movi
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by noirbot 2y ago
And most people see stock photos on a blog and see that a bit negatively too. If the ceiling here is stock photos, that's not great, but the issue is that the state of the art is "stock photo but with glaring weirdness"
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by noirbot 2y ago
Though, your "except for games" addition there also points to the fact that the efficient way to get people to pay for software before mobile app stores was games as well, on walled gardens from Nintendo or Atari. It's the ol
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by noirbot 2y ago
I guess, but there's no way it's harder than making a bicycle, right? I don't really care if it weighs 5-10 lbs, it's still easier than walking places.
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea, I mostly just want it for popping down the street for those 1-3 mile distances that are a bit slow/hot/long to walk. Not having to do a lot of unfolding or locking it up is a big value to me.
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by noirbot 2y ago
I keep feeling like I should buy an electric scooter. I really just want a non-electric scooter, but it seems like no one makes adult-sized kick scooters that don't have a motor, so buying an electric one and just not using the motor f
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by noirbot 2y ago
I dunno, most of the time, the offered vouchers have been more than the cost of the flight by a good amount. I haven't had an offer in a while, but the last few times were often starting at around 2x the price I'd paid for the fli
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by noirbot 2y ago
Perhaps, but isn't the value of Kagi that it's user-tunable? If you open a page and it's distasteful to you, you can remove it from future searches, and you can uprank the sites you find useful. Related, no idea if they actua
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea, I suppose I should have been more specific - it's also obviously easier to "upgrade" a line you already have the land and space for. It's not trivial, since you have to sacrifice some of the throughput in the meanti
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by noirbot 2y ago
That's good to hear! I suppose some of the sale for it is that the tunnel was already done, so the value was very clear. People were already taking that train on a slower version for business/tourism, so there was obvious value to
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by noirbot 2y ago
Isn't some of this due to different use cases? The need for the German government to have a train from Berlin to Bremen makes sense in a way that probably doesn't matter if you're not living in Germany, but having a train tha
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by noirbot 2y ago
Totally honest question - have there been recent expansions of train lines into cities in Europe? In the last 20 years? My default assumption right now is that this sort of grand construction is generally infeasible in countries outside of

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