gilbetron

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by gilbetron 5d ago
I think your maybe counting just physical sales? 15 years ago was the start of the shift to digital sales, which have greatly grown. Just steam (which is the bulk of digital PC sales): Steam units sold: 402M (2019) → 704M (2024), up 21% in
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by gilbetron 6d ago
PC game revenue hasn't been declining: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenue...
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by gilbetron 7d ago
I enjoy that guy, but I've found he is wrong about what he talks about in several situations. This is probably one of them, but we'll see once the EREVs are tested. His argument here is basically, "The Volt wasn't fuel e
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by gilbetron 13d ago
When taken together, that is ASI.
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by gilbetron 14d ago
AI lets people cosplay as whatever field they are interested in. You can feel like a game developer, or doctor, or writer, or artist, and it's fun!
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by gilbetron 24d ago
In my experience (35+ years), it is the opposite now. It used to be massively top down, and now it is more and more bottom up, at least with the companies I have experience with.
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by gilbetron 29d ago
It is "pretty dumb" to hate on people who recognize they potential world ending technology they are working on but still do it anyway with no controls? The same people that drool over the possibility that they could rule the world
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by gilbetron 1mo ago
Hong Kong is around 5x the density of Dallas.
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by gilbetron 1mo ago
There's already been responses to this argument by Dunning: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/dunning-kruger-effect-an...
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by gilbetron 2mo ago
That data is published quite often, no conspiracy here. The point is that the top 1% can be taxed more heavily, not that they own the majority of wealth.
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Google's AI and Economy Atlas v1.0: Mapping Gemini Usage in the Economy [pdf](ai.google)
2 points by gilbetron 2mo ago|3 comments
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by gilbetron 2mo ago
Interesting read from Google on AI (Gemini) usage. In particular, I found the usage in the "hands on" aspects - mechanics using AI to help diagnose problems, for instance. Wolfstreet summary of it: https://wolfstreet.co
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by gilbetron 2mo ago
This makes me think: what are the odds weights from Frontier Models have already been stolen? Something like Mythos without "guardrails" seems like a hell of a glittering gem for many nefarious actors.
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by gilbetron 2mo ago
The first reason formal verification has never taken off is that it's difficult. The second reason, that most people don't get to because of the first reason, is that formal verification is really brittle. It is only verified unde
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by gilbetron 2mo ago
At least for where I grew up, you seem to have history backwards. 40-50 years ago fireworks were largely outlawed - the best I could play with as a kid were smokebombs, snaps, sparklers, and small fountains. Now fireworks are pretty much co
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by gilbetron 3mo ago
1. Test scores have increased 2. Simpson's Paradox - we are educating a far great % of young people then we used to be, so we're pulling in disadvantaged kids that would've been left out of the education system, or simply lef
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by gilbetron 3mo ago
Very late to the discussion, but many people see the price of the Steam Machine and balk at the high cost, even if they understand the reasoning. However, this isn't about the Steam Machine. Computing has just gotten more expensive. Th
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by gilbetron 3mo ago
Ah yes, so we should have corporations controlling it? Because they can't be corrupt or evil? The whole point of government control is at least everyone has some say in it, if we build the government decently. It has to be controlled b
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by gilbetron 3mo ago
I don't care much about Siri, and not a lot about Apple (other than as an investment), but Apple is generally really good about putting out polished tech, and so I'm curious if Siri AI will be up to their usual standards, because
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by gilbetron 3mo ago
> So, judge the book by it's cover? It is literally judging the book by it's author, which is an extremely rationale judgement to make.
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by gilbetron 3mo ago
Having lived through all of that as a professional dev, AI is completely different. There was no career anxiety of any significance for OOP or Code Gen (certainly no code gen) or TDD or Agile - there was annoyance at it by some, sure, but n
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by gilbetron 3mo ago
Many people's understanding of "Google's hiring processes" is from a few articles over a decade ago. They had done numerous studies, switched things up, and now have a pretty solid approach to interviewing. This is one o
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by gilbetron 4mo ago
Choice and competition greatly alleviate that in other markets. With the medical system in the US, you often don't have much of a choice as switching doctors can be tough, and even if you can find one accepting patients, they are all c
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by gilbetron 4mo ago
Charging it is an interesting choice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13-ZdXDJTIfhe1vkAuzssvRx9bOQ...
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by gilbetron 4mo ago
I live in the midwest and there never has been a time where any lawn I owned, nor was owned by anyone that I know, needed mowing 3x a week. You might like to do it to keep a perfectly manicured lawn, but it definitely isn't needed.
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by gilbetron 4mo ago
Hmmm - I think the scalper just adds the escrow amount on to the cost as the purchaser will get it back at the end.
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by gilbetron 4mo ago
Ok, random scalper prevention scheme: What's the difference between someone that wants to transfer their tickets from someone the know versus a scalper? Trust. So when you buy a ticket you put, say, $1000, in escrow. The tickets have y
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by gilbetron 4mo ago
Terrible math is terrible. Better napkin math that is still being unrealistic compared to the true costs of space-based datacenters: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1quvbi4/sel... Just c
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by gilbetron 4mo ago
Sports are much more likely to result in injury, and as you get old, staying in the game (of life) is more important. It can take a long time to recover, if ever, from an injury as you age. I loved playing soccer, and did so until I was alm
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by gilbetron 5mo ago
Hyundai and Honda (especially Honda) have brought back more physical buttons in the past several years. The CRV especially has a great button/control layout. A big reason we went with the Ioniq 5 is due to the physical controls.

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