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Comment · 1 month ago
i would love to give them $200 a month, but unfortunately I have no money

AI is just another case of the rich getting richer, people who dont really need AI with practically unlimited access, and people who need to it to try and change their lives being priced out

its a wealth inequality accelerator at the worst time in history for wealth inequality

i would take 50% less usage just to be able to use it in my own time, the plus plan without 5 hour limit gives me 1 days work a week, so 4 days of usage per month, and I was happy with that

now thats been taken away i get 15 minutes of usage then 5 hours later ive lost interest in the work, i now sit with 70% usage knowing 5 hours ago that a reset was coming and I couldnt even be bothered using it

its completely killed the product for me, im now paying 20 a month for something that is no use to me

Comment · 9 months ago
something incredible just happened, I was moving in my bed and somehow pressed the hotkey combination for reader mode on my keyboard, which centered everything nicely for me

had no that feature existed in firefox

Comment · 9 months ago
obama deported way more if I recall recolec, its all about narratives tho
Comment · 10 months ago
its also trading one problem for another. when manually coding you understand with little mental effort what you want to achieve, the nuances and constraints, how something interacts with other moving parts, and your problem is implementing the solution

when generating a solution, you need to explain in excruciating detail the things that you just know effortlessly. its a different kind of work, but its still work, and its more annoying and less rewarding than just implementing the solution yourself

Comment · 10 months ago
anything nontrivial is still long term, nothing has changed
Comment · 11 months ago
for anyone with children, dont waste their time with traditional school, that path is stone dead and is leading nowhere but the abyss of the permanent underclass

apologise for inflicting this era on them and teach them to be entrepreneurial, teach them how to build, teach them rust on the backend, teach them postgres, teach them about assets maintaining value while money loses its

tell them to never under any circumstances take on a mortgage, especially not the 50 year variety. tell them to stay at home for as long as possible and save as much as possible and put it into assets: gold, silver, bitcoin, monero

they must escape the permanent underclass, nothing else matters

Comment · 11 months ago
this is the end game of capitalism, where the greed driven pursuit of profit wins over social maintenance and development. we see it very clearly with the incredibly socially damaging mass immigration to replenish the slave class and maintain the mythical GDP growth, which is only "necessary" because the native slave classes have been squeezed out of breeding

new grads will be fed to the meat grinder with no regards, its a closed shop unless you know someone

Comment · 11 months ago
that sort of mentality is typical in researchers, but the powers that be will be thinking about profit and control, mass layoffs and AI governance in conjunction with digital id, carbon credits etc

every technological advancement that made people more productive and should have led to them having to do less work, only led to people needing to do more work to survive. i just dont see AI being any different

Comment · 11 months ago
it signals high status and nonconformity. the reader intuits that a sigma male is speaking and he doesnt play by the rules. hes not bound by the constraints and regulations of classical reality. hes dangerous

but seriously, its just more comfortable to type. apostrophes and capitals are generally superfluous, we'll and well the only edge case, theyve, theyll, wont, dont etc its just not necessary. theres no ambiguity

i only recently started using full stops for breaks. for years, I was only using commas, but full stops are trending among the right people. but only for breaks, not for closing

Comment · 11 months ago
i tried to watch it but like AI in general, it was extraordinarily boring. neural nets are really cool technically, but the whole AI thing is just getting old and I couldnt care less where its going

we can guarantee that whether its the birth of superintelligence or just a very powerful but fundamentally limited algorithm, it will not be used for the betterment of mankind, it will be exploited by the few at the top at the expense of the masses

because thats apparently who we are as a species

Comment · 1 year ago
zig is not cool at all, its ugly as sin, and has zero use case other than mingling with legacy c code, and who in their right mind wants to be doing that

its a hipster language, absolute insanity to use it when rust exists unless you have that very specific c related slave work to do

Comment · 1 year ago
but I need my public static void main arg arg arg

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