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Comment · 8 days ago
I guess only pirate billionaires born on 3rd base can imagine being this craven and petty.

My man renamed the damn corp to "Meta" and proceeded to YOLO nearly triple digit billions USD on fire, shamelessly pivots to AI like all the other bros, while holding a solid majority of voting stock, and now we have to listen to him and his pals complain they might have to give something back.

Gross.

Comment · 19 days ago
We were doing this decades ago with engineer's HP C3600s under their desks. It wasn't AI, just low-priority HPC / fluid stuff batched out to hundreds of workstations.
Comment · 24 days ago
How are GUIs "way better at this stuff"? I can't see it, but would like to understand how you feel that a GUI can improve on the management of automated processes at scale.
Comment · 1 month ago
Way back in the 90s and early aughts, Toys R Us used VAX terminals (and then, emulators on PCs) to do a lot in a local store.

Inventory of other locations, and the individual details of a stocked item were one of the functions. This additionally displayed the markup/profit percentage for a given item. I understand that these numbers may not have been completely accurate, but will be sufficient for demo purposes.

Most toys, movies, and video game titles claimed a ~20-30% margin. Private label clothes and such, slightly higher. Game consoles showed ~1-2%. When employee discounts were finally adopted, it maxed at 10%, and thusly items like game consoles were excluded.

Comment · 2 months ago
Aaron Swartz, for one.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is great. The amount I've learned from threads like this is wonderful. Fountain pens AND chalk. We are so spoiled by the ubiquity of paper and writing tools that we tried to eliminate them with typing on glass.
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Comment · 3 months ago
Oh wow, that was so cathartic. Thank you for sharing.
Comment · 5 months ago
Good.
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Comment · 5 months ago
Not sure I understand, but all I know is this dude has been an unhinged actor for a long time - and now he's on an Anti-Christ tour?

I take him even less seriously than Andreessen, Karp and Musk. Unfortunately they have more money than God, so they get attention and acolytes.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Prefer Grok for what exactly?
Comment · 5 months ago
Right. This compute still being powered by an illegal amount of gas turbines in a residential neighborhood?

Claude is eating so much compute, the threat of that power being tuned down by lawsuit (rightfully) is worth the risk to Anthropic in the short-term. Instead of declaring "bubble", I'm just going to say that's so crazy.

Comment · 5 months ago

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