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by oblio 5mo ago
I listed a bunch of data points that make no sense (profits spiking 50% in a non-Christmas quarter for companies) and weren't directly tied[1] to the circular financing. [1] They're indirectly tied to it.
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by oblio 5mo ago
Did I say it was circular financing? I said "financial chicanery". I even included a link to a video explaining said financial chicanery. What are you even going on about?
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by oblio 5mo ago
> I think everyone is reading way too much into this. Sure there is some circular transactions that are sus, but this ain't it. Alphabet/Google profits: Q1 2025: $34.54 billion Q2 2025: $28.20 billion Q3 2025: $34.98 billion Q4
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by oblio 5mo ago
> Brooks is weirdly sexist, but it's unsurprising that (higher) "intelligence" should mean things that are hard, not things that are easy. Way to miss the mark (and also shift the discussion to woke conversation points on
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by oblio 5mo ago
LLMs, Jenkins for the entire software universe :-D For those unaware, Jenkins (Hudson), is a CI server that supports all sorts of pipelines. Those pipelines can very easily be turned into huge balls of mud by putting logic in them. The prop
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by oblio 5mo ago
Are you shocked that techbros (and especially their CEO leaders) are misanthropists? We have probably empowered the most society adverse group of people in human history. Ones that didn't even need to speak to other humans to become ri
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by oblio 5mo ago
> To the clear benefit of society as a whole, who are spared rents, but it won't be fun for the entitled. Why? These people aren't the modern day equivalent of aristocrats. They're not even the modern day equivalent of the
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by oblio 5mo ago
You're probably 1 in 10 000 programmers. Most programmers are just regular employees, the vast majority in non tech companies.
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by oblio 5mo ago
60 years ago about flying cars, 40 years ago about cold fusion, the list is long. We need a lot more basic research into LLMs and also a lot cheaper hardware. The current batch of LLMs will turn a lot of fields upside down, but not to the t
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by oblio 5mo ago
https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by oblio 5mo ago
Longshoremen in many places were paid advance salaries until retirement and then full pensions. Programmers will get a pat on the back.
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by oblio 5mo ago
I've always found that weird, do people really use plungers for that? The toilet brush is a much better tool for unclogging the average toilet. The plunger is actually meant to unclog sinks as far as I can tell, since it can attach muc
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by oblio 5mo ago
I've tried about 6 of those "settings" and hacks since November 2025 and not much luck.
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by oblio 5mo ago
I'm a guy and stereotypes exist for a reason. Also, who do you think were the vast majority of AI researcher in the 50s, 60s, 70s?
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by oblio 5mo ago
Nothing in history is inevitable.
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by oblio 5mo ago
https://archive.org/details/robotfutureoffle0000broo/mode/2u...
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by oblio 5mo ago
As much as I love to hate on Uber, that website is from 2022. Uber has been profitable since 2023. It's profit margin seems to have stabilized around 10%. The real economic crime is losing at least $40bn over 10 years scaling a busines
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by oblio 5mo ago
Never confuse movement with action.
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by oblio 5mo ago
This is actually a very old AI insight, acknowledged at least as early as the 80s, let me see if I can find the quote. Found it: > Rodney Brooks explains that, according to early AI research, intelligence was "best characterized as
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by oblio 5mo ago
> In the past "computer" was a job description and mechanical power came from serfs. Serfs, all right, but in what world do you live where "computers", people who did manual computing (i.e. mechanical additions/m
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by oblio 5mo ago
It's a mix. If the current wave of LLM businesses crater, demand for LLM specific hardware (and related hardware) will crater. GPUs were propped up by crypto currencies and now by LLMs. They're still great at doing fundamental mat
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by oblio 5mo ago
Infrastructure is massively complex and multi cloud is super hard to do. Switching LLMs is... a drop down. Now, that doesn't mean running your own LLM will be easy, but this will mean it's a lot more likely that there will be at l
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by oblio 5mo ago
Yes
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by oblio 5mo ago
> Office 365 An entreprise license for 0365 is something like $75 per person per month. Totally different order of magnitude. And regarding Bloomberg terminals, Bloomberg only has 1 million users (semi random guess). The reality will be
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by oblio 5mo ago
Isn't 5.5 a router, though? As in, some prompts get automatically sent to a cheaper model?
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by oblio 5mo ago
That's a bold assumption. Increasing costs by roughly $18 000 per employee worldwide is highly unlikely. For reference even at FAANG in Europe, that would be a 7-15% cost increase for a senior developer. More like 15-30% for non FAANG
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by oblio 5mo ago
Is this even legal in the EU?
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by oblio 5mo ago
A lot of people are "printing revenue" in the current LLM economy, including, Nvidia, Azure, AWS, etc, the people selling shovels. We have 0 proof that selling shovels is a sustainable business strategy since none of the gold pros
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by oblio 5mo ago
Yeah, about that source: > About > TFPP Wire helps you stay ahead with breaking news, analysis, and bold <<conservative>> insights on the economy, politics, national security, culture, and more. It quotes California Globe:
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by oblio 5mo ago
> I'm asking a question, not making an argument. Is it a loaded question? If you ask and I reply with a curt "no" and you vanish back into the ether without replying, what does that gain both of us as well as anyone that r

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