vinyl7

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by vinyl7 3d ago
With all technology for the past 25 years people have said "You can just run your own" and that has worked approximately zero times.
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by vinyl7 13d ago
The OS writes unused memory pages to the swap file, so this is a non-issue. I can go allocate a TB of RAM on my 32gb system and windows will happily give it to me.
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by vinyl7 16d ago
Mass psychosis in the tech industry.
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by vinyl7 22d ago
I can't even afford a home and yet some people are constructing secondary dwellings on their property. The wealth disparity in this country is massive
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by vinyl7 25d ago
AI companies have a financial incentive to burn more tokens than the task actually needs
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by vinyl7 26d ago
We have yet to reach the limit of the radius that we already have https://www.dgtlgrove.com/p/near-the-zero-point
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by vinyl7 26d ago
Well maybe there's something to be said about that when comparing against the decaying and crumbling corrupt US
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by vinyl7 27d ago
> day 100 it would be full of security bugs, would need to be re-written for the new version of Node.js I do not believe this is the case at all. If I'm running software locally that works on local files that I control then there is
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by vinyl7 28d ago
Growing the GDP and Shareholder Value is more important!
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by vinyl7 28d ago
Tech leaders are incapable of seeing >3 months into the future
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OpenAI pauses frontier model training(twitter.com)
25 points by vinyl7 29d ago|3 comments
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SEC exempts certain data center bonds from key securitization rules(reuters.com)
9 points by vinyl7 1mo ago|0 comments
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by vinyl7 1mo ago
Search is dead, so they'll never see the blog post in the first place.
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by vinyl7 1mo ago
Proofed by the innumerable random unnecessary UI changes by YouTube, Discord, Spotify, etc. It's like they want to be able to tell share holders "we released 100k updates to our users this quarter" and the share holders don&#
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by vinyl7 1mo ago
This is an opposite problem. Flock is a private unelected unaccountable corporation. That's exactly of right leaning libertarians want, for some reason.
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by vinyl7 1mo ago
Seems like most tech and government leaders completely lack this skill. Must be a flaw of sociopathic individuals
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by vinyl7 1mo ago
LLMs work well for boring stuff that other people have already done a hundred times. Where the LLMs fail is solving difficult problems that aren't explored as well. The people seeing the 10x speed up are likely just doing CRUD apps or
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by vinyl7 1mo ago
99% of apps have the same or less functionality today as they did in 2001, but are significantly slower and worse.
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by vinyl7 1mo ago
Emotionally charged headlines generate clicks, and in 2026 displaying ads is the primary source of income for all major companies
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by vinyl7 2mo ago
> - Those of us who are terrified of where technology is going are actually terrified that humans are, on the net, bad, and technology will amplify that, bringing about dystopia. I think this is true in that people will do what they need
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by vinyl7 2mo ago
> This is very much a zero-sum game that defines who owns the future. Would you rather your country win or lose this? Lose this and you start losing talent, money, global standing, etc. That furthers a cascading effect that’s very negati
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There is no steady state(benlandautaylor.com)
1 points by vinyl7 2mo ago|0 comments
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by vinyl7 2mo ago
Instead of praising a mediocre number, maybe we should strive to make that number 90%
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Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise(twitter.com)
3 points by vinyl7 2mo ago|1 comments
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by vinyl7 2mo ago
Baldness is caused by dht
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by vinyl7 2mo ago
This is the result of all the "culture wars" we've had in recent years. At the beginning of it, companies hedged and pulled back if there were any sort of mass PR event due to them taking a stance in the Culture War Topic of
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by vinyl7 3mo ago
Products most certainly have not gotten better because of it to make it worth it.
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by vinyl7 3mo ago
Jokes on them if they think a significant portion of those sales will convert
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by vinyl7 3mo ago
Everything in life is game theory
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by vinyl7 3mo ago
For decades people have proclaimed that we can fix things in the next election...but that has never happened in all of my existence and do not expected to happen in my life time. It's pure carrot chasing

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