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Shall we play a game of thermonuclear war?

> always confused when people are complaining about it these days The biggest complaint I've heard is about the owner and how he's using X as a megaphone.

sounds like the "what have the Romans done for us?" bit

Some of the first LED bulbs we bought are still running after more than 10 years. I don't remember the brand but they were expensive at the time.

I've never heard about writers writing with an audience. A real one at least. Of course there's always an imaginary reader. Performing and writing couldn't be any more different or…

For sure LLMs can write in perfect English (or any other language) and convey information. But good writing is more than just conveying information. To me it's about connecting to …

Writing has always been a solitary act.

Yeah. If anyone doubts this go listen to some gamelan music and see if they can make any sense of it (harmonically speaking). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGCSrC8RN6c

Obviously search results can't be copyrighted but it's a completely different situation for Reddit, no?

"Worse" is definitely a subjective appreciation influenced by culture and personal taste.

Yes. Something like 45% of global emissions come from electricity generation.

Indeed. We needed to reach zero emissions 20 years ago and today we should have strong negative emissions. At this rate I don't think humanity will reach zero emissions before 2050…

Excluding all the capex from AI this last quarter has been one of their best.

Very cool. This should be a default feature in all browsers.

> It was simpler, better, more stable, _and_ had better UX. It had less features too. Now, I do agree doing more doesn't mean that something is necessarily better... but I think th…

Things aren't going great if Google is investing into... whatever this is.

so when will xAI default on its debt?

It is an indisputable fact that Anthropic made money on models trained on those pirated books.

> This is a settlement that the authors and Anthropic agreed upon. The authors or the publishers? I have a hard time believing they agreed with the millions of authors they pirated…

This is not even than a slap on the wrist. Publishers who negotiated this really fucked up writers. According to US federal law, pirating a single copyrighted work and gaining comm…

why would anybody invest all that time to understand and maintain a mess (according to the creator of zig) of 500k lines of zig code?

Still not 100% there but yeah in 5-10 years it wouldn't surprise me if Linux becomes the dominant desktop gaming platform.

You mean except the bugs in the zig version and any future CVEs?