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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Carrier financing is so popular in the US too, it only makes sense for Apple to take a piece of that pie and let users go directly to Apple instead of through the carriers. What worries me is that this spells further price increases across
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
I don't think Google are advocating for removing the deterministic controls, are they? Sounds like adding the LLM in would be on top of the existing deterministic controls. Existing controls handle the "Should you be able to acc
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Correct. In existing zero trust identity, we already have deterministic risk signals. In Entra where I work we already check things like "Is this person on a managed device? Is it compliant? Where are they? What MFA methods do they hav
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
The weird IP would already be handled by existing zero-trust controls. Users in Entra ID (for example) can be assigned a risk score already based on deterministic factors. On a managed device or not, which MFA methods they have registered,
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> How do you lose in this market if you do gpu? You don't. Nvidia gets paid either way. They were never the ones in danger (outside of the buildout going bust and having a massive surplus of cheap, used GPUs flood the market). >
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> all you need to do is take those profits and give them to your customers to buy more things Those customers aren't buying Nvidia chips with Nvidia's money. They're using Nvidia's equity check to finance debt, and th
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
No, Nvidia is getting paid. Nvidia puts down a fraction of equity cash, and the recipients are taking that to PE to finance debt, using the GPUs as collateral. So Nvidia pays $1B, receiving company uses it to secure $10B in debt and buys $1
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Right. The risk isn't accounting fraud, its the equity-to-debt loop that relies on all these companies making "enough money to pay it back someday." Nvidia invests, that equity check gets used to secure 10x it in debt with th
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> is AI like that where most users will get bored? User's getting bored will also spell trouble for the subscription model. I don't think we'll see a world where the average normie is going to be running agents in a loop o
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> It very well could crash the consumer hardware market as a result Tbh, I hope it does. Prices are outrageous, and I'm a firm believer in personal computing/having access to powerful hardware, privately and locally, is hugely
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Right, these goons are hand searching through phones specifically to find something, anything, they can use to make your life suck and detain you further. A pin that boots into a dummy account, full of benign messages, photos, innocent web
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Right. That's what actually buys you the politician. Being able to promise "Pass this regulation for us and we'll make sure you are set up for life, since we know it's politically unfavorable" the ~$2M just gets you
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Interestingly, that METR study has updated data for 2026 that shows a speed up, although they admit that the data may not be reliable because of changed pay rate for participation, but this quote is telling: > The primary reason is that
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Unpredictable AWS bills are a supply-side problem. He's talking about consumer behavior, and consumers of software do not expect a metered service. But most consumer's aren't paying per token for access to models, so unless t
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
Everywhere, huh? Still plenty just running on VMs or serverless that don't need full blown container orchestration. I'll agree that (nearly) everyone should know when Kubernetes is useful, but let's not pretend its the defaul
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
> if you really want Kimi K2 instead of K3 you can still use it. I think this is a very important aspect, especially after the huge GPT-4o backlash when GTP-5 came out. Each model has certain quirks, and areas where the previous model mi
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Trump Caught Between Apple and Micron in Fight over Chinese Chips(wsj.com)
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
> why not allow developers to restrict access localhost? Ads and tracking, obviously ( https://localmess.github.io/ ) All these changes Google is doing to Android aren't for you as the user, they are to protect thei
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
> replace management with leading engineers Wasn't this the whole point of agile and self organizing teams? Then managers with 10 different PM* acronyms in their email signature got hired in, with no engineering experience, to lead
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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone during border search(techcrunch.com)
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GR: Ban LLM Contributions from Debian(lists.debian.org)
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
Windows 8.1 was pretty solid, if short lived. New task manager, overhauled file copy, better SSD support & HiDPI scaling/multi-monitor support was hugely improved over 7, 8.1 also improved the window snapping and fixed the horrible
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
> defaults of hiding all windows for an application behind it's icon in the dock never made sense to me Not that it's a better workflow, but macOS does make a distinction between hidden and minimized. You can "hide" a
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
KDE is great, but > The computer also just obeys me. It does exactly what I tell it to, and nothing more. Is the biggest benefit and point. You can toss whatever UI/workflow style you want on top of pretty much any distro. I absolut
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
> was to bundle all changes in "required security updates." Kind of...Cumulative Security Updates on Patch Tuesday still do not contain new OS features, and on pro editions of windows you can at least, last time I used Windows
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
And yet ~64+% of the US makes less than $74k/year. The median, once you filter out part-time and seasonal workers is ~$65k/year. You're right, they are not good salaries but they are the reality of wages in the US outside o
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
> you are saying these companies are significantly overvalued at present. I do lean toward them being significantly overvalued at present. OpenAI & Anthropic's valuations assume high margin product pricing on raw intelligence it
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
> but I suppose that they might promote self-hosting on some kind of instances rented from Azure. Yeah, Microsoft wants to sell Azure compute. They also want to sell their upcoming surface ultra hardware with the Nvidia chip in it. They
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
Not entirely, if models become commodity, then Microsoft's play as an infrastructure & enterprise apps company is the better bet. They don't need to make profitable mass-market AI models, they just need the best tooling on top
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by thewebguyd 3mo ago
It's also a completely normal salary for non-dev, non-IT roles in most of the US that aren't major HCoL cities, which are the roles I was referring too mostly where the cost tradeoff of AI vs. Hiring humans isn't as clear cut

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