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by oblio 7mo ago
Moore's law turned out to not be a law of physics. And economics are making ever more powerful increasingly hard. We're down to a handful of fabs for almost every hardware domain.
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by oblio 7mo ago
> Who knows? Unless AI hits a brick wall in a year, 5-10 years from now is effectively singularity (in the original sense that things start moving so fast it's no longer possible to make even high-level predictions on what the world
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by oblio 7mo ago
A lot of what the petrochemical industry does took over from other stuff or isn't vital, there just hasn't been enough push back against it. Stuff like medicine, sure, crucial and very hard to find replacements for. But single use
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by oblio 7mo ago
*in order to live
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by oblio 7mo ago
> B) price of computing always comes down and models will be a commodity Past results are not an indication of future performance. Also funny to say this when hardware costs have spiked.
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by oblio 7mo ago
OpenAI is losing massive amounts of money and it needs to pay back hundreds of billions. What do you think will happen to that price 5-10 years from now?
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by oblio 7mo ago
The vast majority of people have to work in order to leave and for the same majority leaving employment is not easy and frequently not an option because they risk being unemployed for long periods of time. Or when they do leave the new plac
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by oblio 7mo ago
Would you pay $1000 per month for that?
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by oblio 7mo ago
I don't see why the ribbon would be inherently worse than a menu. It's still hierarchical, everything is labeled and has an icon and it's bigger. Oh, and everything has a shortcut that's highlighted...
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by oblio 7mo ago
> they're screwed Fixed that for you :-)
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by oblio 7mo ago
> the intellectual property issues make commercializing freeform video generation impossible. The more popular your service becomes, the easier it is for lawyers to descend upon you. It's a self-defeating framework. This risks gener
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by oblio 7mo ago
In 1 phrase, the source of most evils in modern society. A minority of people (shareholders) holding the majority of people (employees) at gunpoint.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Meh. Techies keep ranting about it but regular users are just fine with it.
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by oblio 7mo ago
> Though it won’t be a small class of rich, it will be a couple of overpowerful families only. I don’t think we have any examples to compare too. A couple of powerful families? Where power is transmitted from generation to generation? I
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by oblio 7mo ago
Your numbers for France don't match anything I can find online. The number of immigrants per year seems to have been max 340k, about 50% have employment quickly, etc. You complain about "leftists" but as someone who definitel
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by oblio 7mo ago
Linus Torvalds is Finnish. Guido Van Rossum is Dutch. Anders Hejlsberg is Danish. Bjarne Stroustroup is Danish (I think?). Rasmus Lersdorf is Danish. Bram Molenaar was Dutch. Edgar Dijkstra was Dutch. Niklaus Wirth was Swiss. Andrei Alexand
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by oblio 7mo ago
I've heard a ton of times about "designing/planning for quality and security from the start", I guess it can't hurt to also have a buzzword for it.
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by oblio 7mo ago
How mature is Avalonia for an universal app? Big 3 desktop plus big 2 mobile?
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by oblio 7mo ago
Shift left? Edit: I've googled it and I can't find anything relevant. I've been working in software for 20+ years and read a myriad things and it's the first time I hear about it...
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by oblio 7mo ago
Those are business goals that don't just go away because tech changes.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Is there a Python linter that does this?
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by oblio 7mo ago
Your circles are really small and echo-chamber-y. Office was considered a very solid product for many generations. Windows 95 was loved. So were Windows 2000, Windows XP with the SPs, Windows 7, Windows 10. .NET was the envy of the Java wor
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by oblio 7mo ago
South Korea and Taiwan were definitely not first world countries when they started. Not even inhabited by white people (so less likely to be favored by 60s America, for example). The Persian Gulf states (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE). Israel al
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by oblio 7mo ago
> They still don’t owe you anything. 1. I doubt that many Python devs are reading my random comments on a random site. 2. I doubt that those Python devs that stumble upon my comments care about them. I'm a nobody on the internet. In
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by oblio 7mo ago
They're related, though. Most other hegemons sought absolute domination and a weakening (and impoverishment) of everyone else. The US was generally confident in its security and prosperity that it allowed others to become prosperous, t
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by oblio 7mo ago
Imagine creating a brand that became renowned world wide and even created its own verb. And then throwing all that away for the genius brand name of... "x". Brought to you from the same 50 year old that decided that having car mod
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by oblio 7mo ago
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they have exhausted all other possibilities." As an outsider and on a more serious note, there's just too much money in cars and car-centric infrastructure. The w
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by oblio 7mo ago
> My plot increased 3 times in price in 10 years. Try to beat that with SP500. It’s virtually immune to inflation no matter how the broader economy fares it will always shield from inflation because you cannot make more land hah. The GFC
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by oblio 7mo ago
The thing is, look at all major military alliances in history. How many of them have a wealthy hegemon and wealthy minor partners? It's <<extremely>> rare for that to happen and the US managed that for about 80 years. Ignor
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by oblio 7mo ago
This comment said it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428341

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