ramesh31

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by ramesh31 5d ago
>Also I will likely save some money on subscriptions. Unlikely. The $200 Claude subscription allows for billions of tokens/month, and that kind of hardware will take years to amortize.
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by ramesh31 5d ago
The ROI just isn't there. It feels like Fable is in the same place Opus was early last year; at best marginal improvement that's barely noticeable over the lower model, for 10x the cost. I'm sure it'll take over as the
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by ramesh31 5d ago
>"Boy, Boris, you're getting ripped on this." I think Boris is a really smart, competent guy. He doesn't deserve the hate. That being said, he was just the person in the right place at the right time to have been empo
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by ramesh31 5d ago
>"They are human interfaces to token generators more than human to human communication. They are picking up the tendencies of their most frequent communication partner." I see this happening at work, too. All communication and
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by ramesh31 6d ago
Still fails to generate smoothly animated sprites, although the native RGBA transparency is nice. Anyone found one that can?
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by ramesh31 6d ago
>"What that means: if you pick a player at random, you’ll get the winner right about 10% of the time (this varies with how many people are left, but 10% is an average). My model’s #1 pick is right just over 20% of the time. That 2x
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by ramesh31 6d ago
>"That game had one of the best soundtracks of all time." Agreed, there's just something really special about it. You may appreciate these guys, I've had their playlist on repeat for years while working: https:/
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by ramesh31 8d ago
The best time to delete all social media accounts and never post anything online with your name attached ever again was 10 years ago. The second best time is right now. This stuff can and will be used against you out of context 10, 20, 30 y
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by ramesh31 9d ago
>"Christians aren't bad people, but it's undeniable that the one demographic that supports Trump more than any other are Christians." Christianity itself really has little to do with it. I think it's more so that
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by ramesh31 9d ago
An advertising ban would solve 80% of the problem. This stuff has always been around for those who want it, and (arguably) in a free society should be. But shoving it down people's throats in every channel imaginable has to end.
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by ramesh31 10d ago
Probably not a coincidence
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by ramesh31 11d ago
Repeat ad nauseam across nearly the entire ecosystem of MCP tooling that sprung up over the last two years. Turns out all we ever needed was Bash.
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by ramesh31 11d ago
>"There are very few good arguments for putting anything on the moon, much less a human (which generally can do much less because all the life support needed can't be put into science)." The arguments are entirely romantic
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by ramesh31 11d ago
Everyone wants to come up with a clever One Spec to Rule Them All for generative UI. My bet is that the bitter lesson still bites. Models will continue getting faster and more error free at single-shot writing things from scratch with primi
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by ramesh31 12d ago
>" Can they keep running with such deep cuts to staff and morale…" ...First time? Oracle is literally the company Dilbert was making fun of
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by ramesh31 12d ago
>"It’s funny because that’s word for word what blizzard said after years of people asking for WoW Classic." Indeed, that's the joke
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by ramesh31 12d ago
Quest 3 is a mindblowing piece of hardware completely ruined by the runtime and vendor. This is basically it as a Linux machine you actually own. That being said, my Quest has sat on the shelf for years now since purchasing. I just don&#x27
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by ramesh31 12d ago
>"when we wanted the next RTS." You think you do, but you don't.
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by ramesh31 12d ago
>Given the backlash amongst gamers against AI, how does being an “AI gaming” company work? They are delusional or know nothing about how development works. I can promise you there's not a single major game studio left out there not
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by ramesh31 12d ago
>Is it possible to jump into this with a background as a senior dev or is it too late? This stuff has only existed for 3 years. Everyone is faking it and no one really knows what's right or wrong yet. You're more than qualified
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by ramesh31 12d ago
This seems to fall into the same category I've seen with basically all agent driven software as well. That is to say, "Amazing that someone with no experience could do this, but not interesting at all in its own right". Call
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by ramesh31 12d ago
I was watching Shatner's "Unexplained" the other day on this topic, and it hit me; there are mountains of these old mysteries out there that could be solved in an afternoon now with frontier LLMs as soon as anyone took the ti
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by ramesh31 13d ago
>"the SLA is literally just a middleman's 100k cut" Indeed, welcome to enterprise software.
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by ramesh31 13d ago
>What do you make of the fall of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain in Europe? As bad as the Soviet Union was, what came next for Russia was far far worse. The Soviets at least had party rule; Russia is now an absolute autocracy ruled
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by ramesh31 13d ago
They're not "adding no value", the SLA is the value. I have a business problem, and I pay you to solve it and support your solution for me, is a completely different proposition than standing up your own solution as a non-t
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by ramesh31 15d ago
>but at least the political class would get on TV and pretend to feel bad for it. Yeah. Words matter. I do indeed wish we were back to a time where that was the case. America has always been flawed and contradictory, but our greatness ca
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by ramesh31 15d ago
>"So, America good, China bad?" No. Democracy good, autocracy bad. America is speed-running toward the latter at this point.
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by ramesh31 15d ago
As I get older it becomes more obvious that the whole "moral arc of history" line is complete nonsense. Evil usually wins. Goodness is a strange outlier in all of history. It has to be fought for relentlessly, and is fleeting at b
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by ramesh31 15d ago
>""Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else." Ling's Cars would like a word with you: https://museum.lingscars.com/ I'd bet my life c
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by ramesh31 15d ago
>Its still astonishing that any sort of generalized computer program can solve a problem of this magnitude, and we have witnessed it happening in real time. I think about this a lot. I'll have to explain to my kids some day that the

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