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> [...]it's just a simple calculation of "is this worth it?" which I suspect for most cases will be 'yes' Once the landgrab-stage flat-pricing goes away, it will become a case-by-case calculation because unsuperv
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Multi-generation households - which also can keep older people active like you noted -are mostly gone. You can't do much for your tribe from a retirement home on a random Saturday afternoon every few months in summer, so work or hobbie
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The only missing bit is the meme-stock side of business where emoji-slinging, HODL'ng bag-holder, retail investors with no actual investment strategy fund the whole operation. The amount of misinformation pumping $GME on social media i
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> Each experiment is a branch (or work-tree) so yes there are a lot of commits happening, but the results are measurably real. If you are correct , and GitHub is scaling its compute mostly as a reaction to this externality (agents churni
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This appears to be a harbinger of a Plastic-era of software. A miracle product that's used for everything, and will turn up everywhere before we've had the chance to consider the wider impact. Learning to write software in a gen
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Regional chauvinism is never good for a healthy union. Even if it were the Union Jack, flag-shaggers are almost always blood and soil zealots.
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> But then how does it quickly get resold at 40x? Because the new "owners" are buying the Business Manager visa, not the actual property.
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> The thing about deekseek publishing this is that now everyone has this. It sounds like you're agreeing with upstream comment then! >> DeepSeek and other Chinese model makers are massively accelerating progress in AI not slow
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You should read the research papers that come out with Deepseek releases. There is a reason why the first Deepseek release briefly caused existential panic.
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> The article talks about manufacturing tolerances. As shown by your quotes, the article clearly mentions tip clearance, and not manufacturing tolerances, which you are infering. The article doesn't characterize the thermal expans
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> I highly doubt there is no other technically feasible option to block the AI bots. If you have discovered such an option, you could get very wealthy: minimizing friction for humans in e-commerce is valuable. If you're a drive-by c
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> Only if you consider west "civilization" as the US. Not just the US, it was pretty peak for the UK as well. Probably even moreso, considering the deleterious austerity policies that followed. The 90's were great for Germ
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> As a layman in politics, why did that shift things right in a bad way? Whether it's good or bad is subjective, and depends on your perspective on both major parties being "Fiscally conservative"
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> The only slang I can think of that I’ve not fully understood is “type shit” It is mostly equivalent to "That's what's up."
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That's a long-term challenge for the next CEO to figure out. Unlike CTC or CTC, radio and streaming ad campaigns are notoriously hard to track and attribute, and hence trend to brand-awareness. Advertisers won't see the effect of
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> Has vibecoding really corrupted people? You have to go back further back than that, to the Great Recession, IMO. > Have people got no sense of propriety anymore? Judging by the proportion of drivers with their high beams on, blindin
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> This assumes that real people are listening to AI-generated music which does not seem to be the case. Spotify will still profit from fraudulent streams at the expense of advertisers.
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> Looking at Anthropics status info for the last 90 days only serves to prove that they aren't hiring the right people for the right roles Look at any[1] dashboard over the past 6 months. It's less about the people working the
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Unless you're serving Chinese open-weight models - you have to consoder training costs. If you're off my 10x, then the amortization period is 30 months - far longer than the useful lifetimes of SoTA models. Frontier model developm
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Building ML model training and serving infrastructure is real-world engineering. Nevermind the user-facing apps and supporting services. > Sure they can build ML models, but I see how they improve upon them after years, and its always so
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> Funny when you consider the world owes a lot of AI advancements to both Meta and Google Funny how ByteDance kicked both their asses so hard at RecSys algos, they had to go back to the drawing board to meet the newly redefined expectati
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The European leaders would have have no say in it. If the software from Seattle is designed to covertly exfiltrate information, they won't even know it. Even if they review the individual code changes, it can be an obfuscated attack si
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The US intelligence machinery spied on Angela Merkel's phone. Do you suppose secretly demanding cooperation for Lawful intercept capabilities in Amazon GmbH is somehow beyond or beneath them? Also consider that all communication betwee
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...and you've moved to the fallacy of composition. You are made of cells (if human), but that doesn't mean you reproduce via mitosis, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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Biological humans are not, and should not be equivalent to corporations. There's a chasm in scale of execution, goals, and functional immortality. Further case law established that I - a human - can create original work, if you are a n
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That's a false equivalence. Humans occasionally cause food poisoning at potlucks, and it's self-evident why we should hold McDonald's to a much higher standard due to the sheer scale of harm it can cause. A human, even when h
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it will comprehend it well enough to complicate it further into a rats-nest that only Opus 4.9 can comprehend, and so on. Good luck if you run into a bug before the N+1 version launches.
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> [waits for chickens to come home to roost] "We are writing down X billions over 4 years, and have cancel several ambitious programs related to our AI experiments. We were following standard practice in the industry, so [shareholde
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> If they are constantly pushing major changes to the prompts and workings of the tool, without communicating about it These are all classic symptoms of vibe-induced AI velocitis, sold by AI-peddlers as the future of the industry under
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People who don't understand the software bloat cycle are doomed to repeat it. Lean software -> missing features users want -> add features over time -> bloated mess -> we need a smaller rewrite -> Lean software -> ...
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