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    Comment #49211424

    To be fair, a plurality of voters care more about the culture war than the economy as well.

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    Comment #49189223

    > which is now on much shakier footing Is it though? As far as I can tell they continue to maintain total domination of web search, and LLMs do not replace search engines, they wor…

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    Comment #49165174

    Ok, now do memory capacity and bandwidth - the things that actually constraint local LLMs.

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    Comment #49156424

    It sure did. Even Al Capone went to prison.

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    Comment #49151569

    Send you to jail.

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    Comment #49148121

    Physical reality is not software or math, LLMs can't design "equipment to manufacture autonomously".

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    Comment #49140089

    Sure, I'm just saying, even for "mundane" computing tasks where the hardware is cheap, if you're optimizing for cost, renting hardware is always the better choice.

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    Comment #49138359

    > A lot of people spent a LOT more money in every election for many candidates And in this case the topic of discussion is how one specific individual spends their money - so Biden…

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    Comment #49138278

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49138137

    Well, if you only ever needed a $20 subscription's worth of tokens it would never make any sense to buy hardware since even at 2018 prices you could buy 20 years of subscriptions.

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    Comment #49105880

    I agree, but I'd say there's obviously some verbal intelligence involved in regurgitating arbitrary knowledge on demand in a semi-convincing way. It's absolutely a stochastic parro…

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    Comment #49102122

    I'm pretty skeptical of the LLM hype, but I'd say it's fair to describe LLMs as displaying some form verbal intelligence.

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    Comment #49071332

    "Knowing the codebase" seems like an antithetical philosophy to LLM driven engineering orgs.

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    Comment #49071245

    > which can be read as implying that the rewrite hasn't been used in production. Well it hasn't. "Production" for a language runtime means being generally available for arbitrary u…

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    Comment #49039520

    You're right. I misread your comment as attached to a different thread.

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    Comment #49036443

    > Can't we just go back to node + npm + vitest + vite? You're kind of stating the reason for the buzz there: one runtime that does everything you need rather than cobbling together…

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    Comment #49036131

    The fact that you're likening a sparing few narrowly targeted tarrifs to capriciously applied illegal global tarrifs suggests you're not quite looking at things fairly.

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    Comment #49030114

    Whether or not it's illegal is typically determined a few months after the act in question. Since 2024, SCOTUS has sided with Trump about 90% of the time, so most likely it's legal…

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    Comment #49024047

    Have you been paying attention the last two years? With a few exceptions, he has unilateral authority.

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    Comment #49007053

    LLMs heavily rely on traditional search engines behind the scenes.

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    Comment #49003213

    No he wasn't, stop spreading lies.

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    Comment #48986239

    Because the model can output data in a manner optimized for training a new model, including outputs that were post-trained like RLHF and RLVR.

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    Comment #48971789

    Same experience I have with bun in general. As an idea, it's the absolute best js runtime by a very large margin, but in terms of stability it's terrible and segfaults 20x as much …

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    Comment #48953529

    > Phones have gigabytes today. Phones have zero HBM today. > There are famous laws of growth that put terabytes at just a few years away I assume you're referring to Moore's law he…