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by brokencode 1y ago
Elon drew a huge target on Tesla by going so hard into politics. Truly a lot of people are still pissed off worldwide and want to see him fail. If Tesla doesn’t like it, maybe they should fire him instead of paying him $30B.
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by brokencode 1y ago
Well yeah, but it’s a major break from the previous slate of OpenAI models. What else were they going to call it that makes any sense? o4o?
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by brokencode 1y ago
The fact that it unifies the regular model and the reasoning model is a big change. I’m sure internally it’s a big change, but also in terms of user experience. I feel it’s worthy of a major increment, even if benchmarks aren’t significantl
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by brokencode 1y ago
And if they jack up their prices, then it’s a greater incentive for other players to build their own capacity. This really isn’t that hard of a concept. There is no barrier other than access to capital. Nvidia and Dell will sell to anybody.
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by brokencode 1y ago
I don’t think these companies have a lot of power to increase prices due to the very strong competition. I think it’s more likely that they will become profitable by significantly cutting costs and capital expenditures in the long run. Mode
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by brokencode 1y ago
Fortunately for TSMC, Intel really isn’t worth that much anymore. $50B doesn’t seem so bad, and maybe it could lead to a deep partnership and sharing of tech and factories.
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by brokencode 1y ago
It’s not proof that blocking the merger was good, but it does undermine many of the arguments against blocking it. I’m all for the government getting out of the way of business, but we’ve seen a large amount of consolidation in many softwar
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by brokencode 1y ago
You do not understand how IPOs work. They only sold a small number of shares (about $1.2B) in the IPO. That’s why it’s called an “initial offering” of shares. Investors can feel free to hold onto their remaining shares and sell whenever the
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by brokencode 1y ago
We can’t know what would have happened exactly, but can be certain there would have been less competition if Adobe had acquired Figma. We can’t know for sure whether increased competition is going to lead to a better outcome here, but we ca
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by brokencode 1y ago
I just have to wonder.. why after decades can Microsoft not get this right? I’d love to hear insider stories about what’s going on here.
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by brokencode 1y ago
Are you suggesting that the problem with housing is that we are producing too much of it?
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by brokencode 1y ago
Boring is where the money is. Always has been. Westworld robots are still a long way off, but think about how far we’ve come so quickly. It’s pretty incredible that natural language computing is now seen as boring when it barely even existe
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by brokencode 1y ago
Maybe it’s a fourth as fast in ideal situations with a fast LAN connection. Who knows what they meant by this. It could still be faster in real world situations where the client is a mobile device with a high latency, lossy connection.
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by brokencode 1y ago
Microsoft has zero vision in the UI space. It’s crazy that there isn’t there a single, obvious solution for developing Windows applications in 2025. I agree that it seems they’ve made some bad bets and now are bogged down supporting half a
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by brokencode 1y ago
You are right that it’s on a 2 year cycle. Though there is support for 3 years, so you could safely put off an upgrade for up to a year if there are breaking changes one release.
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by brokencode 1y ago
Is upgrading every 3 years really that bad? As far as I know, they typically aren’t removing features or causing disruptive changes in .NET versions. They did when switching away from .NET Framework, but this was because they had to reimple
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by brokencode 1y ago
CS programs teach fundamentals, though not necessarily the most popular tools in the industry. Those skills help regardless of whatever specific tools you end up using. I don’t think it’s a waste of time.
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by brokencode 1y ago
I pay for the subscription and don’t see any ads. It comes with YouTube Music. It’s great.
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by brokencode 1y ago
YouTube is 20 years old now. Either the encrapification is very slow or they landed on a decent ad model. Plus there is a subscription that eliminates ads. I think it’s a great experience for users. Many creators also seem to do well too. I
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by brokencode 1y ago
Just because they have a plan, doesn’t mean they have a clue. Their reasoning for this could be as simple as “government bad”. Just look at the wild abandon with which DOGE has gone about its cuts. They literally fired the experts who inspe
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by brokencode 1y ago
Usually you try to build something, realize it’s slow, then do a combination of searching for possible solutions, trying them, and profiling again and again to gain this knowledge. Experience is the best teacher.
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by brokencode 1y ago
Most popular business books are like this. They have an idea that could fit in like a single chapter, but have to write a whole book about it to get paid, so they pad it with numerous anecdotes and their entire life’s story. I wish there we
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by brokencode 1y ago
Certainly an interesting result, but remember that a single paper doesn’t prove anything. This will no doubt be something studied very extensively and change over time as tools develop. Personally, I find the current tools don’t work great
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by brokencode 1y ago
Yes, it would not be sane to depend on implementation details of something like this. But the sad reality is that many developers (myself included earlier in my career) will do insane things to fix a critical bug or performance problem when
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by brokencode 1y ago
So ironic that you post this on Hacker News, where there are regularly articles and blog posts about lessons from the industry, both good and bad, that would be helpful to competitors. This industry isn’t exactly Coke guarding its secret re
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by brokencode 1y ago
I find it even more sad when people come out of the woodwork on every LLM post to tell us that our positive experiences using LLMs are imagined and we just haven’t realized how bad they are yet.
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by brokencode 1y ago
Interestingly, devs felt that it sped them up even though it slowed them down in the study. So even if it’s not an actual productivity booster on individual tasks, perhaps it still could reduce cognitive load and possibly burnout in the lon
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by brokencode 1y ago
It’s only a hard dependency if you don’t know and never learn how to program. For developers who read and understand the code being generated, the tool could go away and it would only slow you down, not block progress. And even if you don’t
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by brokencode 1y ago
Scent is decomposable. There are many different scent receptors, but finite. Hearing is quite similar in that there are numerous different length hairs in the ear drum that can sense different frequencies of sound.
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by brokencode 1y ago
It’s not a wild claim, though maybe your interpretation is wild. I never said Perplexity individually is challenging Google, but rather as part of a group of apps including ChatGPT, which you conveniently left out of your quote.

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