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All of the known bugs will be gone.

There’s a difference between cultivating failure and cultivating willingness to fail in the pursuit of success. Many people are too scared of failing (or of being perceived to have failed) to actually try anything that’s not 100% safe.

It’s hard to break in to, but industrial automation can be incredibly satisfying. The code itself is quite simple compared to ‘real’ software engineering, but you’re solving actual real physical problems in the real world, with tangible (and often lucrative) physical results. It’s extremely cross-disciplinary so if you like getting on the tools that’s always an option, it’s like the ultimate ‘full stack’ development role.

I thought the incremental supply cost per token wasn’t that high, and the main expense for these companies was the training they do on top of that?

Crom!

The one class of purchases that you really don’t want immortalised in a public ledger, right?

This solving the problem once and for all.

“We’re going to follow the Four Stage Strategy.”

I don’t think we’re far off a “final” video codec, in the sense that jpg and mp3 and zip are effectively “final” image and sound and data codecs. Sure, there are newer codecs with higher compression foot a given quality level, but at some point it’s good enough to not bother upgrading, especially when the new version costs exponentially more for negligible gain.

…maybe THIS one will be The Final Codec… doodoodoo dooo

Hahahaha nice.

“You know how Einstein got bad grades? Well MINE are even WORSE!” - Calvin, to Hobbes

This arms race leading, somewhat inevitably, to the development of the eminem-dash.

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> this is how much his companies are estimated to have

Not even ‘to have’, just ‘to be worth, if all of their shares could be sold at the price of the recent ones’. It’s a number only loosely (albeit obviously positively) correlated with actual spending power.

“The elderly” might be much less sensitive to risks but it may still be an issue if the experimental drug you gave Grandma turns her into soup.