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by simonh 5d ago
It would also end the AI. Not to say it couldn’t happen though, if it thought an apocalypse could somehow instrumentally help it fill its monthly paperclip quota.
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by simonh 5d ago
Yep, this is because for decades Apple has looked for ways strong local clients can add value in the form of bespoke hardware and software capabilities, while Microsoft has looked for ways commoditised generic clients can extract value.
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by simonh 16d ago
Fortunately some of us have 12” hands to use iPads with so this won’t be a problem further us.
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by simonh 16d ago
Better support for variable form factors wouldn’t force anyone to do anything. It would incentivise them to use that support. Danox is just saying (IMHO) that Google can’t be bothered because they don’t need Android to be good, they just ne
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by simonh 19d ago
My favourite take on this. https://youtu.be/kcHKm0cm-jI?is=fqjBSNiJ2jYEXuq1
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by simonh 25d ago
It not the bananas joke.
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by simonh 25d ago
Er, would I? Projecting much?
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by simonh 25d ago
It very much depends what projects they are coding. One thing agentic coding is really good for is developing highly specific custom applications specifically for your own use case. This can include the kinds of decision support and analyti
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by simonh 25d ago
That definitely happens, but also many people are also using this stuff to get some amazing work done. I think AI is an incredible competence magnifier. If someone knows what they are doing that competence can get magnified massively. If th
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by simonh 25d ago
Suppose you have a 6 months lead time to order volumes of parts for a new product launch. 4 months before the launch you see a new use case developing that's going to dramatically boost demand at launch. Even though you saw this coming
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by simonh 25d ago
Guerilla marketing, but never mind, worth it for the bananas joke.
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by simonh 25d ago
Yes, but apparently the latest free versions don't have the keyboard UI either. In this context old version means keyboard version.
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by simonh 26d ago
Something can be essential but cheap, or very valuable but so expensive to provide that it’s still not a good business.
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by simonh 27d ago
10% of an economy is a lot, you don’t need to lose much of that to hit the entire sector very hard.
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by simonh 27d ago
Not quite failing in the UK, but it’s hitting crop quality and yields hard, such that in many cases farmers will end up with a net loss.
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by simonh 29d ago
Not a mathematician, so this question may be a bit thick. I see the problem with the set of reals > 0, but is it perhaps that in this case > 0 is the problem and for sets specified as >= 0 it's fine because 0 is a nameable rea
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by simonh 29d ago
Those cheeky chappies from Vodkaland with their Polonium water and Novichok perfume don't half get up to some jolly old japes!
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by simonh 1mo ago
These AI companies aren’t capturing that wealth. Frontier models are a commodity.
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by simonh 1mo ago
Except the Asahi Linux team are pretty insistent that Apple isn't making it particularly hard. Yes the hardware is novel, but hardly any hardware vendors share low level details on the Intel side either, all that has to be reverse engi
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by simonh 1mo ago
If the ports don't effing break in the first place, who cares?
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by simonh 1mo ago
That's kind of how open source development works, right? We buy hardware and we use software people wrote for free. What am I missing?
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by simonh 1mo ago
That’s what the alignment problem is all about though, isn’t it? AIs always act towards ‘their own’ objectives, that they derive from our instructions. What we try to do is train them and provide instructions that will result in it having a
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by simonh 1mo ago
OpenClaw was originally designed to run on a Mac, but using remote LLMs accessed via API. Running the LLM locally on beefier hardware came later.
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by simonh 1mo ago
You thought they'd bump the base RAM in the middle of the biggest RAM crisis in history?
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by simonh 1mo ago
Of course, and I'm sure OP wouldn't disagree with you, it was clearly a joke for emphasis. Some people round here need to clean and calibrate their humour detectors more often.
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by simonh 1mo ago
1966 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect It turns out the limiting factor isn't how sophisticated algorithms are, it's how gullible humans are.
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by simonh 1mo ago
Buy in 2 years, or buy now and have it last 2 years less than forever.
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by simonh 1mo ago
Now all we need is to invent an Elitzur-Vaidman battery charge tester to work out which box to open.
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by simonh 1mo ago
Even if you don't make an exception for Germany. Nobody is claiming parliamentary systems are completely immune to instability or overthrow, or moral hazard, and the holocaust didn't occur under a parliamentary system. Presidentia
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by simonh 1mo ago
Parliaments are democratically elected to represent the people, and every member of parliament is equal before it. The UK prime minister is answerable to the people via parliament at all times, must face questions from MPs regularly, and ca

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