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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Italy was Roman though. Or rather by making Italy Roman (to such an extent that other Italians would be willing to fight a war just for the right to be treated as other Romans) was basically what enabled their success by giving them a huge
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
I wouldn’t call it an evolution. The game might be good in its own right but its different in some very fundamental ways besides the historical setting. Especially on the competitive level.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
At the very top probably not, at least these days. But historically low APM players were often able to overcome that through better decision making and get to the top 4 or so. That’s generally still the case outside of the top 4-8. Now the
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Well it is a bit surprising that 3.1 flash-lite could be better than deepseek-v4-pro (cheaper output and way cheaper cache so might cost less for quite a few use cases). They are not anywhere close according to pretty much every benchmark (
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
And most potential buyers would likely prioritize buying a PC before they consider getting a Steam Deck so it’s likely even more sensitive to price increases.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Well in relative terms that hardly matters for consoles due to obvious reasons. Developers of AAA games for PC can only (or are willing to) do so much to make it run acceptably on what’s a very underpowered PC compared to their target marke
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
That’s a somewhat privileged view though? Most people are just unwilling to pay >$800 for a handheld console (or can’t actually afford it). Presumably most potential buyers have PCs already that they use for gaming so it’s a luxury to sp
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Hyperscalers would generally be expected to sell compute to anyone who is willing to pay assuming that supply/demand for datacenter hardware evens out at some point that should become true again.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Isn’t OpenCode just reselling Deepseek’s tokens over the same API? For v4-pro the prices from other providers on OpenRouter are way higher so what else could it be? Opencode Go already seems extremely unprofitable if people use up at least
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
I think that pretty much all Chinese providers do that? And Codex obviously allows that as well. Anthropic is pretty the main exception.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Presumably people want to hear the opinions of other people and still believe that they might learn more from the their experience than by exclusively interacting with AI models? The alternative of that first impulse should be what exactly?
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
It was certainly not flat. There was a lot of volatility. > Not sure where you've read that it was Well.. I looked at the charts. The bottom was few months after Pearl Harbor and pretty much straight up after that. It certainly did
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Not really. Or rather not on the same level. Both the government and the military were reasonably competent when it came to winning the conventional wars back then. Both failed at handling the insurgency phase (the political leadership to
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
They occupied the country and mostly/almost did accomplish that. 2002 to ~2005 were reasonably clam. Then their failures to bulld a stable government brought the Taliban back.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
> Also USA is very sensitive about the other side's civilian deaths. Well depends what you compare against. Also its generally not worth wasting precision munitions (you have a limited amount of them to start with) on non military t
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
The stock market did great during WW2, though. Of course this time its not dominated by industrial conglomerates which can retool their factories to manufacture military equipment.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Bush won the conventional war in Iraq and generally the US military was quite good at that part (same in Afghanistan or the first Gulf War). They had no clue what to do after the war was won and made a complete mess of it. Trump hasn’t got
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
The majority (60-70%) of Europeans still commute by car. Distances might be shorter and their cars might use less fuel but on the whole its still more appealing option for most people (despite quite a few countries trying to actively change
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
To be fair if you have some background in data science (I think the main thing is being able to verify its not showing nonsense) it shouldn’t be too hard to build a bespoke solution.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
> do it where it is possible. So lets only boycott small and inconsequential companies like Mullvad that are easily replaceable. However not companies like Apple, Intel or Nvidia etc. whose CEOs have expressed their personal admiration o
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
Their CEOs and the tech megacorps have been openly supporting Trump and financing both him personally and his political projects. There is no ambiguity in that at all.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
I don’t remember Tim Apple or any other tech CEOs almost literally groveling at the feet of any other president besides Trump. > They don't have to also be the main supporter of some ethnic cleansing party True OTH that party is mos
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
To be fair arguably there is no other country in the world which benefited as much economically from its interactions with Nazi Germany and face so little consequences for it.
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by wasfgwp 3mo ago
By any chance are you using any Apple products and are you a supporter of Donald Trump? Because if the answer is yes and no singling out Mullvad seems be rather hypocritical? Based on his actions Tim Apple openly is an ardent supporter of T
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by wasfgwp 5mo ago
You are assuming the interest of people making those designs were aligned with the interests of consumers. They obviously were only to a very small degree since there were almost no incentives for Soviet companies to produce anything that w
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by wasfgwp 5mo ago
Usually to maximize its funding the company would move its HQ to the US and if they are lucky have an IPO there and eventually become effectively American after a few years (e.g. Unity)
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by wasfgwp 5mo ago
> beats claudes sonnet Based on benchmarks which don’t mean that much these days. > models is gone as of the last few weeks. Yes, that’s exactly what people were saying after every major release for the past year or so. It’s always a
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by wasfgwp 5mo ago
> high as the second best general purpose model According to benchmarks which are gamed to the extreme these days. Trusting them blindly isn’t exactly rational either. They don’t necessarily translate that well to real world tasks It’s o
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by wasfgwp 5mo ago
Without Google’s funding its not obvious i DeepMind would have went anywhere. Unless the moved to US for funding while keeping a back office in the UK. It’s strange to expect anything significant to come out from Europe when VCs there are e
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by wasfgwp 6mo ago
> models performed much worse for the skills I'm using Hard to believe unless your are doing something much more complex than the things you listed

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