oblio

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by oblio 3d ago
> I've spent several 1000 dollars on AI products this month, roughly 3000 dollars. > Trust me, there are many other people like me in the world and the enterprises are spending even more. Awesome, let's do some math here. I&
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by oblio 3d ago
Well, technically we could have both, I think that's called "cone".
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by oblio 3d ago
Oh, besides my other comment. Yes, I'm against all predatory economic behavior. Selling user data, price dumping, platforms/walled gardens/monopolies/oligopolies/cartels/etc.
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by oblio 3d ago
I think you, and many LLM fans, have a grossly distorted view of per unit SaaS costs vs per unit current LLM costs. Google Searches, once the infra setup was finished, were ridiculously cheap. Not the case for OpenAI & co. Inflation adj
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by oblio 3d ago
> We have no better model for how human decision making works than LLMs We do have some models and guess what, they're based on simpler animals. Which is most likely the better model. Some other models are based on neurosciences, be
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by oblio 3d ago
Your $50 isn't enough to sustain trillions of dollars in CapEx investments. This investment cycle - at this scale - only makes sense if within the next 5 years AI replaces something crazy like 5-10% of jobs, if not more. Not changes, r
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by oblio 3d ago
ChatGPT was the fastest growing gratis software of all time. I wish we still lived in an age where things were sold to cover their costs. My money's on their product having 10% of its current user base if they charged 50 cents per mont
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by oblio 3d ago
> I'd argue that in this case, Nvidia is accelerating a flywheel to try and reach critical velocity rather than manufacturing demand. I'd argue that in this case, if the flywheel never reaches critical velocity, they are manufa
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by oblio 4d ago
To make things worse, hardware prices have spiked, due to AI companies. Fairly sure data center construction costs are also going up (they require so many resources that everything is constrained at the moment, especially electricity produc
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by oblio 4d ago
I would argue: stop worrying about it. We're what, several decades into this modern software engineering thing and even stuff like DRY, let alone SOLID or whatever, still isn't an universal thing. Do whatever works for you, talk t
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by oblio 4d ago
France is moving away gold, Germany is, look at the trend. Also Japan is selling US bonds. Everyone is moving away from the US as best it can.
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by oblio 4d ago
Thankfully I'm not a 6 year old, and you're not my dad. If anything, yours is the kind of retort a 12 year old would find clever.
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by oblio 5d ago
> The US is no longer a credible negotiator. The US isn't even negotiating. Fairly sure they don't have a full negotiating team and they're doing it via 1-2 Trump flunkeys and Pakistan intermediating.
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by oblio 5d ago
They are divesting. Moving gold away from the US, selling US bonds, the EU creating an investment mechanism meant to pull EU investment away from the US and into EU companies, etc.
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by oblio 5d ago
> Trump sure is an idiot, but it seems somewhat likely that Netanyahu pressured him to perform this particular idiocy that is also against his previous anti-war attitude - one of the few things that was good about his first term. Turns o
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by oblio 5d ago
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Kenneth M. Pollack It's not a perfect book, but it illustrates a lot of military failures that haven't really been encountered much in the West in the
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by oblio 5d ago
Awesome, now balance that out will education levels dropping like a rock, due to various factor but also due to LLMs, and things will be balanced out by also democratizing stupidity, until we live in Idiocracy.
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by oblio 5d ago
Ușor, Burebista :-)
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by oblio 5d ago
The funny thing is that... POSIX ed is composable :-) You can do a gazillion edits with it in one shot. Of course, LLM edit tools are probably small bits of their custom code, I just find it funny. I wonder if it's a desire for certain
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by oblio 6d ago
The compiler argument is great, if we turn it on its head. To create professional products, compilers are great, when used by professionals or passionate and technical amateurs. They're useless if you're neither. LLMs are the next
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by oblio 6d ago
Why even offer the edit tool in that case? Also, what kind of editing could they possible do what wouldn't be possible with POSIX ed?
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by oblio 6d ago
If you live in the US, it's not worse. If you live anywhere else in the (developed) world, it is worse. My hope is that the bottom-of-the-barrel US approach isn't shoved down the throats of everyone else just when we're final
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by oblio 6d ago
Do you realize the order of magnitude in difference? If we end up having as many self driving cars as taxis, they can just terminate Waymo tomorrow, what's the point in investing tens of billions? The goal is to replace many or most of
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OECD education report: sustained math and reading decline since 2012(oecd.org)
3 points by oblio 6d ago|0 comments
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by oblio 6d ago
Look up status quo bias. People are very adverse to change and worse, they're very vocal about it.
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by oblio 6d ago
Demand is based on time of day/week/month/year. Where do all those cars needed during peak demand go? They're going to be parked somewhere and it's not going to be in the middle of nowhere, because that's an aw
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by oblio 6d ago
> And, if you want people to stop wasting city space on parking, self-driving taxis are exactly the right solution. Self driving taxis have to be parked (or cruise around continuously), I guess, and that parking better be close cause ain
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by oblio 6d ago
No. That's false. Riders will want a car to be at their location ASAP, or they will try to call another company. So the incentive will be to put/drive cars very close to where people are. That whole "cars will be stored at th
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by oblio 6d ago
> I’ve never used any of these tools. You probably should. It costs you about $20 and you will have an informed opinion on them.
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by oblio 7d ago
> Generally gets about a third though different boroughs have different numbers > But you can't really say overall for the city that transit is how people get around. It is 27%, but that's because of COVID. It used to be aro

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