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by oblio 1mo ago
> Ecologism is a hobby for people with full bellies. Almost the entire planet where this debate is raging, is the part of the planet where people have full bellies. On average, too full, even. Ecologism is also a hobby for people that do
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by oblio 1mo ago
I'm also a techie, so I've also read a lot of SF. But I've also read about retrofuturism. If you want to live far into the future, 20 years from now what you will and imagine looks very quaint, because the future never plays
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by oblio 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599059 > I would just ban US software companies like China did (I'd obviously also ban Chinese software companies, too). The resulting chaos would end up with some pretty solid
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by oblio 1mo ago
Shockingly Europe had and still has a lot of money. Estimated GDPs for 2026: US $32tn. EU $23tn. It's not like the EU only has couch cushion money for investments.
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by oblio 1mo ago
Retired and probably just chilling around the world.
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by oblio 1mo ago
The positive aspect of techies is that they read a lot of SF. The problem with techies is that they read a lot of SF. We already have cheap and abundant energy tech, it's called "solar panels and batteries". And the bottlenec
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by oblio 1mo ago
We used to have some. Also, regarding labor, that part boggles the mind. Aren't those factories supposed to be highly automated? Also, at this point DRAM availability is becoming a security risk.
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by oblio 1mo ago
I would rather LLM cost curves go down 10x and then we really do something. We need a lot more hardware for universal LLMs (probably 10x, if not more), and we need it to be cheaper. If anything, I would fund a DRAM maker in Europe.
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by oblio 1mo ago
Meh, OpenAI and Anthropic are doing the same. The US shtick is "our models are too powerful, government, please hold them back (and buy 10% of the company)". Edit: forgot, they also call for banning Chinese models and open weights
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by oblio 1mo ago
LOL :-))) Ever heard of China? The US probably imports 50% of its industrial parts, machinery, finished products from China. Europe also has plenty of big industrial companies, BASF, Bayer, German auto companies, pharma companies, French an
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by oblio 1mo ago
The EU needs a real single digital market with single patents, copyright, IP licensing. The EU also needs easier financing of risky ventures, probably with tax incentives associated. The EU needs specific regulation to facilitate accelerate
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by oblio 1mo ago
Nah, watch this if you have time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpK5HiCKfgU At least watch this money shot: https://youtu.be/kpK5HiCKfgU?si=YNQBxsn15NxGdQQ0&t=272 (wait for the video to reveal the con
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by oblio 1mo ago
I'm confused. LA doesn't strike me as dense. How dense can you get with huge areas of single family homes?
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by oblio 1mo ago
Both of you, have fun fighting non existant 0.001% strawmen.
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by oblio 1mo ago
I would be more optimistic but I ordered some pretty solid power banks from Anker, which should be a top notch power bank manufacturer. Both types of products from them were recalled after about a month for being fire hazards. I imagine it&
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by oblio 1mo ago
Yes, and a lot of that happened in preparation for this specific EU directive. This happens a lot, see Samsung and Apple announcing more years of security updates and feature updates, Apple announcing the switch to USB-C for the iPhone. Onc
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by oblio 1mo ago
> Europe had the opportunity to create a silicon valley 30 years ago. I really like history but nothing like this come to mind, I'd be happy to read about it, what exactly did they do/not do?
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by oblio 1mo ago
Hint hint to what? South Korea is a very dynamic, tech heavy country and it hasn't managed to push any software product as a market leader. The EU is bigger, but it's fractured, so functionally it's basically 2-3x South Korea
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by oblio 1mo ago
> Ironically the fact that the howls need to come from the other side of the Atlantic, rather than having any domestically, should tell anyone all they need to know about the situation. Europeans by and large don't care about Americ
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by oblio 1mo ago
No, they're not loss leaders, but in 2015 services were about 9% of Apple revenue. Now they're about 28%. It's fairly clear which direction the wind is blowing. Also, hardware - software integration pushes more hardware sales
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by oblio 1mo ago
That's not why they're avoiding it, though. They're avoiding it because installing Linux (or Windows, even), would actually decrease their income. I doubt people running Windows on Intel Macs were avid Apple Music subscribers
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by oblio 1mo ago
> The market for people who want to install Linux on a Mac laptop is very tiny. Right now, yes. But Linux support is like freedom of speech in a dictatorship. Everyone makes fun of it and says it's useless but fundamentally the powe
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by oblio 1mo ago
This, plus anyone responsible dodging that as soon as possible via job hopping. Harder to do in the current job market but internal transfers are still available, most of the time.
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by oblio 1mo ago
The Open Source community is programmers sharing with other programmers, and it's largely fueled by corporate interests these days. The Free Software movement has largely failed by now, as shown by GPL 3/AGPL adoption. And again,
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by oblio 1mo ago
It's a universal programmer trait. Let's call them "culturally regular programmers": they are less social than the average person. They lean more libertarian and more selfish.
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by oblio 1mo ago
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. Your comment makes a lot of sense and I've upvoted it...
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by oblio 1mo ago
It doesn't try to be productive. It's exposing the hypocrisy of privileged groups suddenly being treated like regular people, when they did NOTHING for decades to help others or even to protect themselves ("f** you, got mine&
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by oblio 1mo ago
Ah, that makes sense. I'm doing the same thing but I knew it as Spec Driven Development (SDD, I guess).
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by oblio 1mo ago
Computers - mostly no. Smartphones - mostly yes. Smartphones are fully portable which makes them always available and super addictive. Computers have 10% of that addictive power.
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by oblio 1mo ago
"The code market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." will probably be a thing.

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