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by oblio 5mo ago
> That’s $15 billion a year in compute costs, but reduced to an indeterminately-discounted level for the precise months that Anthropic is using to tell investors and the media that it has an operating profit. That operating profit is a r
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by oblio 5mo ago
If you can write the laws, nothing is illegal. This argument isn't as strong as you think it is.
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by oblio 5mo ago
I guess this app can still be installed locally? It's just that it can't be distributed to others due to signing requirements? Edit: Ah, it's in the article, this is about AppStore distribution. Walled gardens are going to wa
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by oblio 5mo ago
Well, apparently Anthropic became "profitable" last month, because of some 1-time deal with xAI. I wouldn't bet on either Anthropic or OpenAI being profitable, we'll find out soon enough what this house of cards has insi
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by oblio 5mo ago
My point was for proper package management tools that don't allow running scripts.
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by oblio 5mo ago
SpaceX financials are a mess outside of the actual SpaceX part. xAI is losing money hand over fist, other random bits in there are doing the same. The valuation makes no sense. It's basically a money transfer from the average person to
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by oblio 5mo ago
A lot of packages are pulled in to call minimal bits of the actual library. I obviously don't have any statistics on this but my instinct would say that for the average application only 5% of an average package is actually used. So not
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by oblio 5mo ago
> That small package mentality a trace to web usage: JavaScript code is often sent to the client, not having a huge library but having small dedicated libraries means that it is a lot simpler for the bundler to not bundle dead code which
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by oblio 5mo ago
Who cares about that? Vibes, baby, vibes!!!
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by oblio 5mo ago
Enjoy that until the token economy comes crashing down on you.
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by oblio 5mo ago
I've read probably hundreds of historical books at this point and the only thing most historians agree on is: Nothing was set in stone. The way many historical things happened the way they did was due to accident, sheer chance. > An
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by oblio 5mo ago
The EU has just poured unfathomable amounts of money into continent wide infrastructure ( https://reforms-investments.ec.europa.eu/recovery-and-resili... ) - due to COVID, the military - due to Russia, etc. They can't do
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by oblio 5mo ago
You don't even need to look at the Soviets. Life for the average person in Britain became worse between 1760 until about 1920. That meant about 3 generations of people were lost. I'm super happy about this idilic AI future my grea
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by oblio 5mo ago
Pollution, malnutrition, maiming by industrial or mining equipment (huge percentage at the start).
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by oblio 5mo ago
Your analysis is greatly under estimating the risk that the capitalists that control the system use it to build cheap, automated weapons to guard their cheap robots and lock everyone of us out, just because they can. They're far more l
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by oblio 5mo ago
And everything we know about these companies points to unsustainability, before we even get to very high impact content lawsuits which haven't even been settled. Let alone lots of data sets being pulled out of public view and being mov
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by oblio 5mo ago
This is super hilarious :-))) Do you think creating the orders of magnitude of content the internet produced organically and which LLM creators are stealing is cheap? If they actually have to pay for content creation while competing with co
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by oblio 5mo ago
> It can read the code? Historical discussions around it? Commit histories? And if everyone bunkers up and all that open content dries up starting in 2026, let's say, what happens?
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by oblio 5mo ago
> Let's say they have 30% gross margins (no idea) There's a ton of speculation that all major labs are losing tons of money, so I that 30% gross margin sounds more like -30% to -130% gross margin.
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by oblio 5mo ago
I think the original argument is too limited in its scope. The wider AI market, which is primarily fueled by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and the large frontier labs (are there any other in the West, except for these 3?) is spending how much..
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by oblio 5mo ago
Aka the cheap plastic solution always wins.
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by oblio 5mo ago
GPUs are driven really hard plus they use up a ton of energy and water, they cost a ton to run.
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by oblio 5mo ago
All the planned infrastructure commitments. At least for OpenAI I think they're supposed to spend $300+bn in the next few years.
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by oblio 5mo ago
Are you mostly creating new things or integrating with complex, undocumented, untestable systems?
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by oblio 5mo ago
To make an extreme comparison, desktop Linux was originally supposed to happen in 1999.
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by oblio 5mo ago
Because absolute democracy doesn't work. For the same reason public administrations aren't fully staffed with elected officials. An accountant needs to be a professional judged by peers, not a reality show actor that played an acc
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by oblio 5mo ago
I find it super ironic that we're basically here: https://xkcd.com/1683/ now. The 90s and 00s tech people would be very disappointed :-))
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by oblio 5mo ago
It does remember it. At least on Firefox/Linux.
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by oblio 5mo ago
Does the Bay Area have forced integration/bussing for schools? Massive amounts of affordable housing? East Asian city levels of public transit?
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by oblio 5mo ago
I've used Claude Code for quite a bit longer and it's good, but the productivity benefits are wildly overstated.

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