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2d ago
I like Ed because it's important to consume media/info from both sides of an issue, to prevent you from getting echo-chambered. But Ed is so ridiculously biased you do need to take basically everything he says with a bucket of salt.
I am being lazy about looking it up, but Zvi (biased in the other direction) has discussed inference unit economics a few times in the last year, and margins on selling tokens seem quite healthy (for now).
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2d ago
It might be nice one day for someone to sit down and run through an explanation of how the heck this is supposed to get from language production and manipulation to, well, anything else.
Try using Claude Cowork, or the Codex app if you're on a Mac. Those programs are the bridge between "this is wordcel technology" and "this technology is going to change how we interact with computers forever".
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2d ago
Copilot
Not an AI simp (but to be clear of my bias, I find AI both fun to use and quite useful at a handful of scoped tasks both in my work and personal lives, but it has many limitations).
Copilot is beyond trash. Copilot is the worst AI product I've ever interacted with. No conclusions on AI performance should ever be drawn from Copilot, as it is abjectly awful.
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1mo ago
Interesting, I genuinely didn't realize all of those counted as warnings. I wasn't interested in litigating it (neither are you), I honestly didn't realize.
Good to know, happy holidays!
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1mo ago
This thread got so sidetracked by arguments about GDA and "America #1" but this
Chinese successes with their EUV effort. The article is somewhat confused, as almost all reporting on Chinese AI and IC tech is; from my private sources, the situation has already moved further on multiple components, like optics and metrology.
What I want to emphasize here is that it's not just trivial «industrial espionage» or IP theft. Their light source project is led by former ASML head of light source technology and «Light source competence owner for metrology in ASML research» Lin Nan.
Is one of the biggest (arguably, the biggest) stories of 2025. The whole story of the West vs China is that we dominate in cutting edge tech, and they might manufacture a lot, but our qualitative advantage sustains our dominance. EUV (and mono-crystal jet turbines) are the poster children techs for "China may have an order of magnitude more industrial output, but they don't have our X!"
Now that paradigm is falling apart, it's scary.
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1mo ago
There's a train yard in a city near me. There's a plan to build a bunch of housing beside it. The train company is viciously fighting against the development because they KNOW (and they're right) that the people who buy those houses, with the full knowledge the house is beside a train yard, will get mad about the train yard operations and cause a headache.
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1mo ago
I meant metal detector and the like
I have never experienced this, but I am not American. Crazy stuff.
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1mo ago
Just pop your sim card into whatever phone you want to use that day?
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1mo ago
two warnings (one being this one), a fair misunderstanding, a relevant poem that could have used more context, and a request for clarification.
Doing this retrospective, there's a lesson about adding more detail to one's off the cuff thoughts, but 5 warnings it is not.
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1mo ago
US can likely maintain itself as the hegemon of the western hemisphere
100% yes
and remain the richest country on earth. It does not need china.
How? A significant % of that wealth was built on leveraging Chinese industrial production and being the primary/a majorly significant trade partner to the rest of the world.
American consumerism is built on buying cheap Chinese stuff. China has overtaken America as the primary trade partner in a huge % of the rest of the world, and that trend isn't getting better for America, especially thanks to Trump's trade policies.
How will America be the richest country on earth when it's consumers dollars don't go as far, and a large % of the world won't buy things from there anymore.
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1mo ago
Fair enough, I got a little too excited and my inner shitposter came out. I added some extra thought as penance.
I would like to register protest at your use of the word "repeatedly" though. After skimming through my inbox, I've had 4 mods hit me with the red name text in my time here. Once (now twice) for making a low effort comment.
Saying "told repeatedly" makes me sound like a serial shitposter, not someone who's currently at a rough rate of 0.3% low effort comments.
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1mo ago
Terrible movie
Seriously, it's like such a "classic" in that it's referenced all the time in pop culture, but it's actually, so bad
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1mo ago
I am so sorry for what you're going through, especially the gut punch of the clear scans a year ago.
the security guard at the weapon check
??? Is this a thing? Where do hospitals need to have weapon checks
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1mo ago
In 2015, the person sues the resort and the municipality to force them to keep the intersecting portion of the road open during the ski season.
I'm perpetually amazed at people who show up (or buy in) to a clearly established dynamic and then, much like a toddler, start stamping their feet and demanding the situation be reshaped to their specific wants and desires.
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1mo ago
That's fair
I guess thinking about it, I'm very much not going to blockbusters or movies right after release these days
I haven't been in a packed theater in years at this point
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1mo ago
Why not just vape in the theater? One of the best parts of vaping > smoking is the fact you can do it inside
Just ghost it
is a tool of the elite to beat its own population
BASED AND FACTUAL
Edit to add more effort: I find the concept "wokeness is a lever to divide the proletariat and keep them squabbling amongst themselves" to be incredibly plausible. I imagine most of the followers and proponents of "wokeness" are useful idiots, not CIA plants. But the classic graph of the explosion in usage of words like "racism" in major news publication right after OWS, and the general implosion of OWS as a result of proto-woke infighting seems too good to be true.
Further, I find it sad that basically no one ever mentions this anymore.
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1mo ago
A 1440p monitor was a massive QoL improvement, both in gaming for a nice crispy UI, and for general productivity
Now I'm on a 38 inch ultrawide 3840*1600 and holy shit it's a massive upgrade in every way, it's glorious.
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1mo ago
if I have to stare at the ass of my PC for 80 hours, I prefer staring at a female backside.
The Mass Effect 2 character has a phenomenal ass. It was the first time I picked a girl character and it was a great call
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1mo ago
Maybe you are of a liberal persuasion, but it is very funny seeing the siren song/rallying cry of cancel culture
"Erm, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences sweaty 💅"
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1mo ago
some sectors, mainly tech (AI) and finserv, are carrying the rest
It's also entirely possible the small group of people being massively enriched by these industries are carrying the consumer spending metric.
The median American spends, what, a few hundred dollars buying Christmas gifts? Someone with a healthy balance of meta employee stock options could spend that on Diptyque candles for stockings alone.
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1mo ago
This is 100% the future of coding, expect for highly specific edge problems but even then as I imagine documentation will start being designed by LLMs for LLMs to bridge the stack overflow gap
How is this one a hot girl job? Nothing about this sentence screams "hot girl". Pick-me girl job MAYBE. But when I read that sentence I imagine an Australian man who surfs, not a bimbo.
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