rhubarbtree

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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
Whilst I think there’s some truth to this, America’s elite would have brought us to this point anyway. Trump is a symptom of unfettered neoliberalism exporting jobs and destroying communities rather than a cause. Bin Laden drew America into
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
Yep, a lot of people saw this coming. It was so obvious - new powers are always abused in the end. Same for the UK. Perhaps the politicians knew that and didn’t care. Not sure how deep their cynicism / malice goes. More power to us, t
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
Can confirm Apple is best but Roku is amazingly good number 2. In some ways its UX beats Apple.
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
I’m no fan of AOC but yes I think this is what she means. PG should be more generous and steel man the argument.
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
This aren’t great example are they? Amazon is famous for being a terrible company to work for, on the logistics side. Airbnb has caused all sorts of social problems. Uber results in people working for peanuts and has circumvented labour law
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
If it’s vibe coded, it’ll use one of the OSS libraries for importing word, so the answer is no it isn’t compatible and the website is misleading slop.
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
I think we’ve already seen that export controls help your competitor in the long term. First europe would turn to Chinese models, then if china was daft enough to stop that (why would they? It would bring the end of American hegemony) then
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
Most of the time, which is why SaaS has been very popular.
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
Yep, you’re correct. I got to that bit and thought that can’t be right. It’s obviously wrong. If you rotate a semantic vector, you change the semantics of it. You don’t want that. Makes me wonder if the whole thing is just slop. Is the rest
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
I want someone to resolve the contradiction you have highlighted. Why don’t we now have an AI built web browser that is much better faster than chrome? To that mind, why hasn’t chrome itself become 1000x better? There is a disconnect betwee
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
And most social media, and blogs. Newspapers are adopting it too, so soon we may see slop dominate even high brow publications. Feels like a huge shift in human intellectual capabilities. Honestly quite worrying, I don’t think it’s a Luddit
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by rhubarbtree 3mo ago
I see this as the slow death of OpenSource. It’s controversial to say, and I may be downvoted, but I’ll share this as a pov: OSS is essentially giving away our work for free. Did that ever really make sense? If it does, why don’t graphic de
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Western debt is one of those problems you look at and say “this looks extremely alarming, why is no one panicking?” And then you assume that the elite know better and it must be manageable. And then one day the consequences finally hit and
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Yeah, I think it’ll go up for this reason. I will not be buying any shares, the company is insanely overvalued and hides terrible businesses. Elon is better the farm on AI in space, and if that doesn’t work things will not end well. Problem
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
I paid for a while, but they kept showing me crap in the feed rather than posts I wanted to see. Stupid videos etc. So I cancelled.
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
I think more you’re just at the absolute margins of engineering to get to escape velocity. Those constraints haven’t changed, so until some major material or fuel advance happens things will continue to go wrong. Probably the mistake is to
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Is there any reason to doubt that the Chinese will get (back) there first?
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Yes, the temptation is that you bring all revenue forward at any cost so you can pump value at an IPO etc
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Same. So happy when I found that option.
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Claude Design. It produced something that looked good for a second, then you pay attention and realise it’s a disaster. Broke most UX rules out of the gate.
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
PMF is such a bullshit term. There’s no precise definition. It’s bs. The fact is that investment is at a scale so large that current trajectories are nowhere near going to provide ROI. The model companies are trying to milk every drop of AR
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Interestingly, this is how a lot of rich people make their money. They do something bad and then get the state to bail them out. For example, bankers trading recklessly, taking the bonuses and then leaving govt to sort out the mess, effecti
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
200 is my preferred limit, and I think you can find that in a few highly regarded books on coding.
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Colleague (non-designer) generated UI with Claude. It was awful and broke basic design rules. So yes you may be right.
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
IPO is coming is what is going on
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Let me double down on my downvote. The analogy proposed here is correct rewritten as: If one person uses an AI trained across copyrighted data, then that’s ok. But if everyone uses that AI, it’s not ok. Which is a bit of an irrelevant point
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
I attended what was a top CS uni at the time. Many of the definitive textbooks were written by our lecturers when it came to specialised classes - which isn’t very surprising really! I would say most of them were just genuinely recommended
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
But it’s not the same though. If I look at a webpage, it’s still there for other people to enjoy. That’s not the same as a flower being picked. Reasoning by analogy doesn’t work if your analogy isn’t well matched.
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Erdos, or the model?
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by rhubarbtree 4mo ago
Catastrophising for sure, and unhelpful in that it obscures some of the more real issues young people face: unaffordable housing, student debt, employment market shifts, mental health problems caused by social media.

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