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I prefer hectic work and impossible deadlines at 3am over the flat-but-not-really hierarchy and the constant dick-measuring contests.

Quality? Calling those "quality" is a bit of a stretch. Installing was and still is a gamble and so is every tiny system update. That hasn't changed a bit. And I'm saying that as s…

My dad used to say "It's easy to be generous and kind when things are going well for you. You can only tell what a man is worth during hard times". Nvidia is at it's high financial…

I've worked long enough at large tech giants to know how things really are. Also a large part of the reason why I'd never join one again, no matter what they have to offer. Meta, G…

That's simply not true. The reason why llama is open source is simply because it got leaked, then llama.cpp was the real game changer which was built from the ground up in depressi…

Yup... And in 2021(5 years ago now) I got 64gb ddr4 for 120 bucks, second hand with a 6 month warranty. I felt like I hit the jackpot then, now that price seems like literal peanut…

Annoyingly search was at large solved just a few years ago and sadly someone has to reinvent the wheel soon. Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent resul…

Hopefully soon. Not for personal or altruistic reasons, I just find great pleasure in seeing cults burn(which is what AI has become).

Carl Wheezer from Temu, what a clown...

They are relying on the same tactics Apple and Tesla used - loyal, fanatical fanbase drowning every legitimate criticism. Their fanatical fanbase is doing the real heavy lifting, n…

I wish that were the case. Unfortunately I know plenty of people who truly believe that anyone that isn't using AI and paying hundreds of bucks for slop subscriptions will be so ir…

And every time some points all of this out, they are "denier", "left behind" and all the other everything-ai fanatics can come up with. As for the imminent crash - I'm all for it. …

There are a number of points I completely agree with in this blog post. Security implications, handing out all your data to anthropic/openai/google, allowing a slop machine to exec…

The key difference: Heavy users: "this (works)|(doesn't work)|(is there)|(isn't there) and I have no idea why" 0 or near 0 usage: "this (works)|(doesn't work)|(is there)|(isn't the…

I would argue that it does but not exactly as you describe it. Languages have a lot of subtle, underlying characteristics which aren't obvious at first glance. I speak 3 languages(…

I might be biased here but drones in general, though the barrier isn't necessarily low. Learning how to fly one on a simulator is a question of 10-hours of crashing behind a screen…

It's somewhat ironic coming from someone that openly states they use AI all day, everyday. Regardless, the message is correct. I don't think that people have become dumber over the…

Good start. Nowhere nearly enough but a good start nonetheless.

It's a bit more subtle than that, I'm afraid. In many instances lately, physically owning a product no longer means that you own it: the fact that BMW tried to introduce subscripti…

I use duckdb HEAVILY at work and it's been a game changer. I'm sifting through terabytes of data multiple times a day, mixing, matching, updating, filtering, DuckDB is second to no…

Not everyone but most. And I've been having this discussion with people around me a lot lately and everyone that has the ability to think more than half a step ahead sees it(and fr…

Oh, that's a breath of fresh air. And they are on codeberg. Nice! Thank you! Edit: After further inspection, I think I'm jumping ship before it's too late. And I'll look, see if th…

I'll probably get more hate for saying this but fine: I use Zed 50% of the time (the other 50% dedicated to vim) for two reasons: 1. It is fast and snappy. Nothing comes even close…

Glad to see there are people recognizing it! Thank you!

Thoughts on the modern trend of "AI tokens used" as a metric for performance, growth and efficiency by both startups and multi-national giants alike?