twelve40

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by twelve40 1mo ago
Yes, that's going on optimism. It's also possible that we're 80% there and the rest will take forever, while the loans and investments were taken out now.
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by twelve40 1mo ago
the decision i have to make dozens if not hundreds times a day: do i actually look at this crap or trust it blindly and let it slide? I'm honestly reading maybe 20% tops of what "I" produce (and what other people post for my
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by twelve40 2mo ago
yes, but at that point even open weight models are not free. Can someone set up the best open-weight model for free and charge pretty much just for GPU usage+operations+margin for inference? yes. But they would have to keep up with how good
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by twelve40 2mo ago
but this crap may take forever to play out even if the outcome is well-known. Self-driving is "here", it's obvious that once it's cheap enough having a human behind a car wheel or a freight truck wheel is an absurd waste
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by twelve40 2mo ago
coding on a laptop is only one use case you can't create a new drug by running a model on a laptop. You can't serve a customer support bot running on a laptop. You can't generate video in bulk for many users on a laptop. So t
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by twelve40 2mo ago
It seems like the endgame is to amass absurd amounts of hardware and produce something that will replace you the baker entirely everything else we see today is just preparing for it.
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by twelve40 2mo ago
> Who pays for that? Not the data center uh... how? they do pay for what they use.
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by twelve40 2mo ago
data center = girlfriend bots = meth lab is a pretty wild connection to make.
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by twelve40 2mo ago
this is really something. They claim (no idea if true) to have patched 4,000+ signals in 550+ C++ files in Chromium. coveryourtracks.eff.org uses like what, 25 signals?
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by twelve40 2mo ago
it's a very handwavey way to "explain" anything. Yes, they make money. But they have competition. And if someone runs out of tokens and switches to deepseek or just goes for a friggin hike in the woods, that does not benefit
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by twelve40 2mo ago
but then you end up with a clusterfuck of classes?
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by twelve40 2mo ago
So the federal government industrial policy is the thing that supposedly will keep the prices on "A and O" high in the US while the rest of the world will get comparable AI competing to get cheaper and cheaper?
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by twelve40 2mo ago
> why should someone pay that business to solve whatever problem it solves instead of also getting the AI to solve it? well because presumably even in that brave new world, solving the problem with AI is still not trivial, even if it req
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by twelve40 3mo ago
this is a bit... general? there are companies with bullshit executives for sure, then there are companies who slay it. i hate to list the details because people start picking on details, but in my mind MS under Satya made a 180 from crap to
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by twelve40 5mo ago
isn't it an attempt to give structure to something that surely would have existed illegally otherwise? banning something doesn't automatically stop it.
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by twelve40 6mo ago
well, there _is_ this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty "bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial
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by twelve40 6mo ago
well China debate aside, where are they? i've been dabbling in electrics for over a decade now, on the lower range they are still 30% more expensive than gas cars. Surely someone, anyone outside of China could have done one cheaper by
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by twelve40 6mo ago
no idea how spotify ai specifically works (i don't use that service) but: > fitting the track into the set as a whole. It’s not a random music discovery process there have been plenty of attempts to analyze music and to automate tra
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by twelve40 6mo ago
there are plenty of amazingly lucrative businesses that do really well, like online casinos, tobacco companies, etc. that happily milk their users and don't bother with improving human condition. You can call that "successful prod
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by twelve40 6mo ago
yeah my teammates seem to enjoy checking in endless walls of MD texts of "documentation" generated by llms after it's done adding a feature. So even if that's an extreme and your documentation is more thoughtful, there i
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by twelve40 6mo ago
i don't know what i'm doing wrong but my mac has terrible time recognizing any USB-C headphones. First, it takes a while to recognize, then it never switches over by default so i often end up blasting on speakers if i forget that
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by twelve40 6mo ago
yeah weird. Same goes for the "ATMs increased demand for tellers" strange idea suggested earlier in the article, which was automatically disproven right there by actually attributing the growth in tellers to deregulation. Which on
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by twelve40 6mo ago
that's kind of an ad hominem, but also beside the point: most bank apps (and websites) are actually absolute garbage, especially the top ones, just one example: the Citi app (on different phones) for a very long time refused to allow m
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by twelve40 6mo ago
With so much hype it's a valid question: "is this useful/practical, or just a fun rabbit hole/productivity porn". Money is the most obvious metric, feel free to inquire the parent about other possible metrics that m
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by twelve40 6mo ago
the obvious problem with replacing the algorithm is that people actually crave that shit, after all there have been tens of thousands of highly trained engineers making it as addictive as possible. So, no chance.
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by twelve40 7mo ago
> It’s not anymore (actually google is awful now) and people are still using it if people are still using it, then it's really one of the few things, right? * you are wrong and it's not awful * it _is_ awful but good enough for
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by twelve40 7mo ago
do they use facebook or instagram? meta jammed their LLM into the search box there. Do they use google at all? the AI summary produced by Gemini leads you to click on "more details" with gemini. so while this is technically true:
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by twelve40 7mo ago
lol you can call it crap if it makes you feel better, but McDonalds was replaced by the same vendors, making the same stuff sourced mostly locally as before, using the same processes that McDonalds used, they just don't send their reve
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by twelve40 7mo ago
yeah that was weird, it was like a cult and some coworkers of mine were religiously hunting down every comment in other people's MR's, just kinda assumed that "no comments" is a hard rule. Very strange, i had to fight ma
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by twelve40 7mo ago
I found my love for programming in high school, dreaming of helping the world with my beautiful craftsmanship, but now i really really need the fokken money. Both are true! So if my corporate overlords will have me talk to the soul-less Cla

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