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> I see it as akin to building a machine which can do the cooking for you. More like buying a microwave and frozen food. Unless you are actually training the LLMs.

> and some are even leaving the country (around 100k left last year) They have them in Spain, and they are retired. Do you want them back?

From 1945 to 1980 inequality was the lowest in the USA. From 1980 onward economic inequality exploded. I understand that you cannot follow my point without this important piece of …

> The “Social-Communicative” level barely changed in size. But nearly a quarter of the words in the 1953 list are gone, and 39% of the 2023 words are new. Humble, loyalty, fellowsh…

> to fit all sorts of applications. Yes. In 1985. Processor allow for things like garbage collectors that in the 80s would have been a terrible waste for most uses. Most game devel…

As someone living in Stockholm I find this very interesting. A football field, or a rose garden are very good public infrastructure, and I will never argue against them. But I love…

> After all, Elon Musk, the American tycoon who owns X and Tesla and is a former adviser to President Trump on public spending, personally campaigned to support the far-right AfD p…

C++ was designed as an universal way of writing low level system code. It has some abstractions above C, but still allowing for all kinds of optimizations. (Think using a class vs …

Why should software companies hire electricians and carpenters by the thousands? Because these are not AI companies, these are infrastructure companies as their main source of reve…

> A couple of years and millions spent on PR? And LLMs are "intelligent" all of a sudden, is what everybody says nowadays? Inequality gives a few people the resources to change the…

> bizarre design decisions They are not bizarre but a good compromise between consistency and optimization for any possible existing and future CPU architecture. What the author co…

> “understand the work you are dispatching, and if you don’t, ask questions until you do” My rant about this, not directed to the commenter but in general: I wish people would have…

The USA has stolen intellectual property from ALL AROUND THE WORLD. AI is not trained just in copyrighted USA content. Other countries have a say about it.

> I don't actually think the current administration, or the people behind it, actually care about real world economics anymore. They are aristocrats. They are worried about accumul…

> For 2.5 more years. That would not be a big problem. But the next Republican president may be even worse than Trump. Trump is just the symptom of a deeper corruption problem. Tha…

I am all for Communism and giving more priority to projects that help all society. But this is not it. It would help if the power grid was public property, thou. It would help if t…

> To others it's a statement that corporations should be held blameless, and access is a moral right that shoudn't be limited on consequentialist grounds. The old, what is better f…

Yes. When management is bad then having a public discussion will end up in retaliation. My advice is not to always discuss in public, but that companies should encourage that behav…

> The article seems to be about arguing with your boss in _public_. This is the main reason that most abuse happens in companies. Discussions are kept private so nobody can add 1+1…

> Microsoft They have fight open source and open standards for so long that it is in their DNA. Open source and standards are the best most efficient solution, but proprietary plat…

> good luck forcing Meta When I was a kid there were fines for factories that polluted water. Most of the time they were not found out, and when they did they just paid the fine th…

I think that many people on startups miss this part of development, robust stable products that do what is expected from them. Most companies software should not move fast and brea…

Solved! Now Meta is a pro-privacy company. /s It is 10 years too late to trust Meta on anything.

> Not all red or unreadable sectors necessarily indicate failure. Many copy-protected disks include intentionally malformed sectors that cannot be read by standard logic. How they …

> The ants carry out prophylactic amputations. This not only protects the colony from infection but also doubles the survival rate of the injured workers. To keep everybody around …