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I haven't read the transcript yet but are there no "human in the middle" loops here? Surely we could just get a pair of eyeballs on everything flagged and if it's not 100% crystal …

I don't think Microsoft would fail if it all crashed. Nor would Google or Amazon as they all have alternate revenue streams. It's the pure AI companies like OpenAI that will hit th…

> It’s mostly private credit I believe that some of the private credit is the banks' own private credit arm! It's absolutely mental: the bank can't lend to them so they have a priv…

> Further, unlike during the dotcom crisis, most of this spending is not driven by debt. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Between the big 5 (Microsoft, Meta, Amazon etc.) they'r…

You'll be able to buy used H100s. One careful owner. Never overclocked etc. They'll be knackered though, unlike a good Herman Miller chair. :-) We might even be able to afford RAM …

It's hard not to be fatalistic about all of this now: In my mind, it's crystal clear that the investments will never be paid back. The revenue streams from all the companies involv…

> I don’t know if the public would be as accepting of a bailout for AI companies It won't be framed as bailing out the AI companies. It will be sold to the public as bailing out th…

It won't just be America though. I include others like Canada, UK (where I am), parts of EU etc.

Honestly, at this point I don't care about that. I don't use it for medical stuff or anything like that. However, my real worry is that governments will make these models illegal i…

It's not losing yet but I think it will. I use Gemini Pro (got it with my 5TB of Google storage) and for a while it seemed if Google had pulled the rug as I was running out of quot…

Apparently I know 70,000 words... I got 90 out of 100 and it thinks I'm Stephen Fry!

It's built into Android/iOS and an accepted way of logging into an app. The app store page (when it's released) shows exactly what I need: practically no information at all. Google…

I took this article to be more along the lines of the author perhaps loving the idea of being a snowboarder, rather than actually becoming one. I know it sounds a bit cynical but I…

It's more for performance that you shouldn't use them as PK's - If you insert a lot you'll get massive fragmentation over time. A sequential Id avoids that and still gives you a un…

It's for your login and payments. I need to verify that you are authenticated somehow and Google/Apple also handle payments. You "Login with Apple" or "Login with Google". They man…

These days I treat other people's data like it's a live hand grenade. Case in point (bit of a shameless plug here :) I'm working on an App called Hockeytastic. It's an ice-hockey s…

Sorry, but it's a hard "no" on that. It's a danger at age 15! I guarantee that without constant supervision, he'd use it for everything.

No, that's not the case and I don't think comparing Gemini and the internet is the same. The internet (to stretch your analogy) is more like a shit load of library books that you h…

My rule for primary keys and id's is simple: Sequential integer (or bigint) as the PK and if I need to make it public, I have a GUID (or UUID) in the row too, e.g. tbl_person would…

They worry me. A lot. My son is 15 and I use Google Family Link to control what he does on his phone: it's pretty open for the most part (I receive notifications of installs) but G…

I live in the UK :-)

I'm hoping to retire in the next 12 months (52 years old). When I do, I'll be buying a Chromebook. Any and all PC-related shit is being sold off. I will quite literally never write…

Interesting read. I'm going through that same issue at my work where my boss wants me to "educate" the rest of the devs on the use of Copilot to make them more efficient, however, …

In the UK, any car that used a 3G modem is fine now: we have no 3G networks here any more.

I think you're right. I think they are tightening the noose! I use Gemini quite extensively - I have a 5TB storage plan with Google so I get Pro thrown in. I also have Github Copil…