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My wife wouldn't have considered this a business before LLMs. She's mostly just doing friends' parties, and oftentimes getting paid in-kind (i.e. instead of bringing a gift, she ju…

Makes me wonder how many of the complaints about capitalism are really about corruption , and if people would have a more favorable view of it if we didn't have this system of inte…

Actual example: my wife wanted a logo for the facepainting business she's starting with our 5yo, so she asked Gemini "I want a logo with these objects in it, drawn in these colors,…

If you want determinism, you ask Claude Code to write you a computer program to the desired specs, and then run that program over and over again, instead of renting the software fr…

The leaked internal Google memo "We have no moat" [1] was really prescient. It foresaw all of these proprietary models losing out to open-weight models. Entirely possible that none…

Fabrice Bellard.

Angular was an acquisition and isn't all that commonly used within Google. Closure was the homegrown framework that's everywhere. It is a different flavor of bad than Angular. Angu…

There wouldn't be a product. Consumers would just use the underlying foundational models directly to solve their problem. ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini are the products, not your b…

These are basically all fixed costs, not unit costs. You buy the GPU once and use it for as many calls as you have traffic for, and depreciate it over a fixed lifetime. You have to…

Sad but true. Many libertarian options are comfortable being on the fringes, though, and just build for other libertarians. They lack economies of scale, but software's natural eco…

You're referring to various strains of anarcho-libertarianism, correct? I'm more familiar with geolibertarianism as a left-leaning libertarian faction, which doesn't have these sta…

Home server is a perfectly fine term for that. NAS brands show up on Google/Amazon searches because they're cross-advertising, just like how for a while "Bing" would be the top adv…

The libertarian technologist space specifically prefers technological solutions because they don't depend upon fallible and corruptible humans implementing the laws. This is the id…

Price is the derivative of position changes - it reflects supply & demand in the market at that moment , which is often highest when everyone is entering the position. When people …

It's because you don't see any of the ones that didn't turn to extreme. They're just extremely forgettable, by design. When was the last time you saw Craig Silverstein or Steve Woz…

I just served on a jury and in our case, the cop was a lying scumbag, the prosecutor's expert witnesses were people milking the taxpayers to provide the evaluations that the state …

Lack of visual hierarchy. Lots of use of bold text to make numbers stand out, without bolding the corresponding labels. Reliance on heavily-saturated primary colors. Limited attent…

> The Skynet stock rallies. Interestingly, a lot of people are looking at LLMs or automated drones as "AI", but I think that capitalism is a better contender. It's a self-healing, …

Down $13+ (about 4%) after hours, and the drop was apparently after they mentioned the search revenue miss on the earnings call because it was flat when I looked an hour ago. So no…

I had an LG TV for work because my team developed some of the software on it. Similar experience - it got progressively worse (including the software my team developed, which in tr…

It's really refreshing to see someone publish a null result.

I think the point of the article is that that is your life, so embrace it. There's no sense struggling against or resenting it; instead, find the joy in what you have, so you can e…