darioush

Meanwhile, government will tell you inflation is some number like ~5%

With realtors taking a 10% cut on each transaction? Or do you envision a more liquid market with less paperwork? What about escrow, inspections, and handling disputes on large transactions?

BTW in the US, a big advantage of renting is not having to buy, sell, or maintain appliances like a fridge because the landlord has to deal with it.

I don't understand this school of thought?

Without renting everyone would have to buy a house / apartment on each move.

I find it interesting that this line of adventure quickly lead to locking problems.

A funny quirk about golang is you cannot have circular dependencies at the package level, but you can have circular dependencies in go.mod

The tl;dr is don't do that either.

It's becoming a bit like iphone 3, 4... 13, 25...

Ok they are all phones that run apps and have a camera. I'm not an "AI power user", but I do talk to ChatGPT + Grok for daily tasks and use copilot.

The big step function happened when they could search the web but not much else has changed in my limited experience.

right, freedom of speech is free as long as it agrees with the viewpoint of who's in power. similar to how history is written by victors but this part is conveniently ignored. it's just facts in the open marketplace of ideas yay!

the difference here is if you search or seek something, i.e. explicitly consent to viewing advertisements for guitar in your active browsing session vs them being pushed to you without your consent the next day on your phone.

I'm not against monetizing advertisement for the 1st use case either.

don't you think it is empowering and aspiring for artists? they can try several drafts of their work instantaneously, checking out various compositions etc before even starting the manual art process.

they could even input/train it on their own work. I don't think someone can use AI to copy your art better than the original artist.

Plus art is about provenance. If we could find a scrap piece of paper with some scribbles from Picasso, it would be art.

oh they hate it so much when this hypocrisy is pointed out. better put the high school kids downloading books on pirate bay in jail but I guess if your name starts with Alt and ends in man then there's an alt set of rules for you.

also remember when GPU usage was so bad for the environment when it was used to mine crypto, but I guess now it's okay to build nuclear power plants specifically for gen-ai.

just an example of bureaucracy at work.

this what happens when you centralize all decision making to people who have no local knowledge of the community they are administrating, and predicate their jobs on following a checklist, usually as implemented by buggy software, instead of making a judgement call based on experience and circumstances.

Yes and the open source models + local inference are progressing rapidly. This whole API idea is kind of limited by the fact that you need to RT to a datacenter + trust someone with all your data.

Imagine when OpenAI has their 23&me moment in 2050 and a judge rules all your queries since 2023 are for sale to the highest bidder.

deferring to best practice instead of best judgement is a major plague of the software industry these days.

best practices usually come from giant companies with tens of thousands of engineers like google (who doesn't seem to be keeping up with competition btw) and amazon (which is notorious for burning out people).

what science or evidence drives the best practices?

this doesn't always work. many things can go wrong in distributed systems and you cannot test for all of them. also you have no control of your dependencies like when AWS networking degrades or a 3rd party API provider changes their APIs without letting you know.

yeah this is correct, somehow I jumped to a different conclusion :)