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> Letting the kernel use SSD based swap space for something this big would be a good way to destroy its cumulative write endurance over a period of just a couple months. Optanes ar…

> Jacobin is more like social democrat ”The goal of socialism is Communism.” - Lenin It’s always sold as “a little bit of socialism.” Every country, every time in history. The auth…

> Given that you cannot force someone to hire anyone at a given wage what is the solution? The author writes for Jacobin, which promotes a failed ideology where you CAN force peopl…

The author writes for Jacobin. Of course it’s promoting Communism.

> “The pattern invites us to read welfare as macroprudential policy, part of the toolkit that keeps financial openness politically survivable. Where redistribution runs vertically …

The one thing I miss about driving to work.

> the moment I realized it's a kind of cloud OS The foundation of this is thirty years old: Mark Andreesen founded a company to do what Amazon did: Loudcloud. This was cloud comput…

I worry that AI will be so fundamental to how we do things in the future, companies can mold human behavior via access to the AI tools. For instance, I worked at FICO. When I menti…

I took the same attitude. The hardware isn’t getting cheaper, it’s getting more expensive. As I see it, an investment in AI hardware is an investment in my own future. IE, I drive …

> The biggest benefit for me is that it's all done locally, and I know the harness is not uploading anything or sending telemetry to someone else. Are there any articles you’d reco…

This sounds like networking. Did OP invent an “intelligence router?”

Amazon Prime Video is exhausting in that respect. I purchased a paid account, just to make the ads go away, then discovered that even paid accounts get ads.

> AI is destroying the economics which allowed for a sizable middle class of artists. I was an art major and switched to CompSci purely for the money. AI "art" is often slop, but t…

That was Morrissey's stance when he was in the Smiths. I really wish he hadn't been such a luddite, it would have been great if we had some Smiths music videos that were actually m…

> It may have little to do with winning a board game, and a lot to do with seeing what people will tolerate and what the thresholds are for being called out; it’s a test of one’s i…

> My impression is that a lot, if not most, anime was always cheap. Lots of stills, few frames, and CGI as soon as it got remotely good enough (and often before). Like Hanna-Barber…

> But they do it by squeezing businesses upstream, who end up with even lower margins. I've done tech projects for supermarkets and I've done tech projects for movie studios. The t…

> The expensiveness in running them will eventually be solved by cheaper faster hardware. How? * Moores Law is almost over. The 5090 improves over the 4090 mostly because of quant …

> If that happens the AI companies will first try to negotiate with their creditors and after that likely declare bankruptcy with the creditors taking over what’s left of the asset…

> The big thing is, the western world has moved so much of the manufacturing to China I built my career on Solaris and it got rugpulled by Linux. That wasn’t because of software, i…

> GM just did this in the last 30 days [1], and their sales are likely going to be just fine. In fact the auto industry has repeatedly automated jobs over the last 100 years, and t…

> Cherrypicked dates? But I'd like to hear analysis comparing the Nixon shock to the covid shock since one was monetary and one was supply and demand. Of course! * In 1971 and 2019…

I vote for number 2.

> Organizing and iteration on thoughts is not trivial or easy, but it is very important! Two of the silliest things that helped me in my career: * I worked at fast food restaurants…

> Indeed, Gemini really is incredible at image analysis. Yesterday I pointed it at some sloppy handwritten notes and asked it to add up the numbers in the right column, and it did …