yifanl

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by yifanl 7mo ago
If you think Epic Games is unique in doing layoffs this year, I don't think you're paying particularly close attention to the games industry.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
They made products that were effectively only targeted at the gaming audience, and when they pivoted, they were rewarded substantially, as the wider market recognizes how small the niche they used to be in was compared to where they are now
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by yifanl 7mo ago
Every year the licensing fees add up as they add more collaborations, while revenue is not rising to match.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
Look at NVidia's stock price during the period when they announced a pivot away from gaming.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
Because games is simply not a particularly profitable industry. There's a reason why Valve moved on from making games to being a digital landlord.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
In a digitized environment. We cannot yet simulate the real world.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ Even ignoring Copilot, they seem to be barely at 2 nines of uptime for any service component.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
If AI being a million billion zillion times more productive at doing bullshit jobs nets in very little economic gain, then that lays bare the net economic value of all our bullshit jobs. But given that the stock market hasn't panicked,
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by yifanl 7mo ago
The problem here is that people have been provided strong incentive to believe in a falsehood. It is unlikely a purely technological solution is available for this.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
I don't understand, declaring on your own terms what you think the argument actually is isn't respectful, it's deeply disrespectful. Take the claim at face value, details can and will be clarified through conversation.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
To clarify, "steelman" is just another term for making up a fictional scenario that doesn't bore out in reality, like "strawman"?
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by yifanl 7mo ago
You think explicitly highlighting that you're in the market segment that's happy to pay for online services will mean you will never see paid ads for online services again?
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by yifanl 7mo ago
Senior reviews are useful, but as I understand it, Amazon has a fairly high turnover rate, so I wonder just how many seniors with deep knowledge of the codebase they could possibly have.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
That's their marketing pitch, but revealed preferences are stronger signals than stated ones.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Okay, so in your mind, global distribution of cyanide tablets is the only solution on the table then?
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Its a true marvel to barely have a single nine of uptime in 2026
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by yifanl 8mo ago
To someone unfamiliar with anime, anime characters look extremely similar.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
I walk past something resembling a claw machine arcade on my commute, and I've noticed that although every month the prizes in the window swap around, the anime woman figurine and the mascot plush always looks quite similar to the one
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Oh, well if they said so, there's no problem.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Off the top of my head, peanut butter, black hole, and amusement park are concepts that can't be easily intuited by just combining the two singular terms, but I also wouldn't consider them as phrases.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
The difference being that AI's marketing has been significantly more prevalent than any early computing efforts.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
AI is not an exoskeleton, it's a pretzel: It only tastes good if you douse it in lye.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Hanlon's razor is a farce. There are no unintentional acts, the drunk driver takes off because he thinks he has to get back as fast as possible, the sick man invokes AI to write his article because he must hit the deadline.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Publicly traded ones? As many as Elon, why do you ask?
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by yifanl 8mo ago
AGPL doesn't help when you want to kill your free offering to move people onto the paid tier. But quite frankly, that isn't a problem GPL is meant to solve.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Profound quotes are only profound when said by someone who's widely respected.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
They're one and the same. https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
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by yifanl 8mo ago
We have more middle management than ever before because we cut all the other roles, and it turns out that people will desire employment, even if it means becoming a pointless bureaucrat, because the alternative is starving.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Great zinger buddy, you really showed off your wit.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Typically, the order of complex numbers is done by projecting C onto R, i.e. by taking the absolute value.

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