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Comment · 8 hours ago
The biggest problem is AIX (at least these days, not sure of the history) is POWER only. Yeah you can get one for cheap off of ebay (I did :) ) But that's a very niche market. You can find pretty modern AIX downloads on the Internet Archive. Not sure if it's officially sanctioned by IBM, but I really don't care for my own use :)
Comment · 4 days ago
>It seems cute today

Maybe in audio, but video still seems like an absolute nightmare. Look at the absolute silliness with like having to pay $.99 to play h265 video in Windows.

Comment · 12 days ago
Thank you, this is a much more coherent way of saying it.
Comment · 12 days ago
is money the problem or just that most people don't care about most things, but a few people REALLY care about a few things? There's plenty of groups without much money that still gum up the works because they're persistent.
Comment · 14 days ago
Seems like that would imply you should be getting people to adopt now now still even if it costs a stupid amount, if you think it's valuable, rather than limiting token budgets. It'll only get cheaper over time.
Comment · 1 month ago
Essentially every single electronic financial transaction that you do (outside of crypto exchanges) involves an IBM mainframe. A huge number of businesses run on top of IBM I (like Costco).

It's plenty alive, just not as much inside of Silicon Valley itself.

Comment · 2 months ago
This seems like one of the hardest parts for everyone to adjust to (including myself): code is now easy come, easy go. Or in other words, everyone seems to get trapped in the sunk cost fallacy, even if there's not even that much sunk cost any more!
Comment · 3 months ago
>If everybody improves their looks, the net effect will be zero.

I'm not sure that's true. I think there's a baseline issue here. Regardless, even if it netted out to zero, you'd end up with a different order of who gets hired when, so for any individual it'd still make sense to try to improve your looks.

Comment · 3 months ago
Maybe with vfio/igb_uio/uio_pci_generic? Still root level access.
Comment · 3 months ago
Can this be patched? Is there a chance it's a hw watchdog that you can't fix in microcode?
Comment · 3 months ago
But humans have used AI with ingenuity.
Comment · 3 months ago
How much has section 199A encouraged this?
Comment · 3 months ago
It's funny, because LLMs have context switching costs too! Cached tokens cost less than non-cached. There's no reason to think that doesn't apply to humans.
Comment · 4 months ago
Unless and until desktop OSes make typing symbols not on the keyboard as easy as iOS or Android, I can't be bothered.
Comment · 4 months ago
Seems like t is a very critical variable then. For example, you could imagine a particular market is "perfectly" efficient at the moment (however you want to define the boundaries of a particular market), and there is no opportunity. But then a completely unrelated company or university makes a fundemental advancement in materials science that fundamentally changes the landscape. An exogenous shock in other words.

In a certain sense I guess this is why every anti-trust suit fundamentally comes down to defining the market bubble more than anything else.

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