HumblyTossed

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by HumblyTossed 7d ago
> ... and I believe some of the Apple Intelligence features will be backported anyways Will it? Because they kind of made it a point, like they typically do, to say features are only possible due to the new chip.
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by HumblyTossed 9d ago
So... robots build shit that the wealthy who own the robots can profit from it and I need to ... what? ... go grow my own potatoes if I want to live? Okay...
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by HumblyTossed 9d ago
Look around? It's rape and pillage time for corporations.
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by HumblyTossed 9d ago
> I think waaay more people struggle with this than HN would have you believe. I'm sure we all know. I mean, just ask anyone to write a story and break it into small tasks that can each be accomplished completely in a day.
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by HumblyTossed 9d ago
> Now, software is cheaper and so people who couldn't afford to answer questions they've long wondered about can afford to answer them. Temporarily. Token price will rise sharply when the bills finally come due.
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by HumblyTossed 9d ago
> there will be infinite abundance Maybe. > nobody will need to work anymore If we define "nobody" as very wealthy people who partake in that abundance while everyone else ... goes away.
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by HumblyTossed 9d ago
> If we tax the proceeds of AI generated productivity sufficiently That's not going to happen.
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by HumblyTossed 9d ago
insightful
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by HumblyTossed 14d ago
Got mine in 85. Still have it in it's (now tattered) box in the garage. It's non-functioning, but can't seem to let go.
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by HumblyTossed 15d ago
Apple, a 4T USD company, is not caught off guard. They know exactly how many of a certain thing they make will sell. This is just PR nonsense. They do it with iPhone also. They'll introduce a new model and make enough to sell out a
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by HumblyTossed 15d ago
> Apple does not have a psyops division cooking up ever more elaborate ways to seed demand for low-end, low-margin Macs via bot armies. Of course not, they outsource that.
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by HumblyTossed 16d ago
Yeah. I worked in the optical industry to pay for college. That was decades ago and one of the Drs I worked with and I had discussions on this. It was interesting at the time as I knew very little about optics when I started.
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by HumblyTossed 20d ago
This is more a result of Clinton's failed CEO pay reform. It is what created this monster, not the tax bracket. Now, saying that, we DO need to tax these people higher. Eliminate all the ways they're able to squirm out from pay
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by HumblyTossed 20d ago
Waze got hugely popular by gaming their maps; people would install it just to get a high score. I wish the FLOSS mapping ecosystem would do similar.
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by HumblyTossed 21d ago
Everything they say is a lie.
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by HumblyTossed 21d ago
Indeed it is. But that’s the point Miller, etc are trying to make. We’re so screwed. Good luck to us ever building up goodwill again.
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by HumblyTossed 22d ago
Yes, but you've surely met people who giggled when they read that.
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by HumblyTossed 22d ago
Only because it doesn't contain RAM.
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by HumblyTossed 22d ago
Pretty much. Everyone seems to think prices will come back down, but I don't agree.
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by HumblyTossed 23d ago
I'm in the US and _I_ don't want us to get credit. Even the worst of people do something good every now and then. But if you reward that, they won't change.
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by HumblyTossed 23d ago
Is it really this fast or just this fast on benchmarks?
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by HumblyTossed 26d ago
Incentive has shifted. It’s now more important to worry about “developer productivity” and churning out as much code as quickly as possible than it is to spend time optimizing that code.
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by HumblyTossed 26d ago
> Would you still vote not guilty to protect their civil liberties, if you had information not shared with the jury that removed your reasonable doubt? That is a different scenario to what was described by the person you replied to, no?
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by HumblyTossed 26d ago
wut?
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by HumblyTossed 27d ago
What’s DP? My desktop and laptop both have HDMI.
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by HumblyTossed 27d ago
> This argument is unfortunately flawed. If the customers had been handed the software on day 1, by day 100 it would be full of security bugs Stop. This doesn't have to be true... > Oh and they'd have to maintain mobile app
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by HumblyTossed 28d ago
And when they don't, copium will suggest that it is due to market conditions.
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by HumblyTossed 28d ago
How many times does a door dasher have to deliver your food 24 hours later before you realize your argument has flaws?
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by HumblyTossed 29d ago
But if we learn anything from big corporations, they'll keep the difference as profits. IOW, Apple won't be lowering their prices.
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by HumblyTossed 29d ago
And that one can only win if it convinces leaders to regulate AI so that opensource models don't get good enough.

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