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5 years ago maybe. That juice has been squeezed.

The way this reads, it seems like it was written for US lawmakers. > the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, a…

Yes 18 months ago it seemed like AGI was being promised every other week, and now I don't see any of those headlines.

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The problem some have pointed out is that these companies are such a huge portion of the market right now. The sound advice for the past decades has been, just invest in a low-cost…

Couldn't it be a problem given the concentration of the S&P in these companies? At this point these companies make up a huge portion of 401k's for a huge chunk of Americans. How wo…

If it didn't matter, why would they bother jumping through hoops to keep the debt off their balance sheet? In the run-up to 2008 a big factor in the bubble forming was that poor qu…

I wonder to what extent the 4o rollback was motivated by this exact case

I had the same experience. For me peanut butter and apples were my "healthy snack" and were accounting for a huge amount of calories per week.

Not only forests but even just tree cover. I live in Berlin and there were a few days a few years ago over 40 degrees, and I remember the difference was stark going from my relativ…

I always felt unwrap is preferable for diagnosing issues, which makes it useful in tests. A failed unwrap will point you directly to the line of code which panics, which is much si…

I was a huge Swift fan but SwiftUI and the changes supporting it in the language got me to switch to Rust for all my personal projects

Doesn’t rust’s static linking also have to do with the strategy of aggressive minimization? Iirc for instance every concrete instantiation of a dynamic type will have its own compi…

I believe MS is trying to standardize this, in the same way as they do with DirectX support levels, but I agree it's probably going to be inherently a bit less consistent than Appl…

There was a rumor floating around that Apple might try to enter the server chip business with an AI chip, which is an interesting concept. Apple's never really succeeded in the B2B…

I don't understand why you would need custom firmware. It seems like you could go a long way just implementing back-ends for popular ML libraries in openCL / compute shaders

I love the air form factor. I do serious work on it as well. I have used a pro, but the air does everything I need without breaking a sweat, and it's super convenient to throw in a…

> a dedicated Nvidia rig I am honestly shocked Nvidia has been allowed to maintain their moat with cuda. It seems like AMD would have a ton to gain just spending a couple million a…

I use Zed as a daily driver, and I haven't once used the collaborative features

In fact they probably care that it's not easily portable

Molten VK is amazing. When I started working with it, I was expecting a lot of caveats and compromises, but it's shockingly similar to just using Vulkan that you can easily forget …

> It’s become “grind leetcode” which is clearly a failure mode. I have no insider knowledge, but I always wondered if those kinds of cultures had a hazing / blind-leading-the-blind…

Unfortunately I think "they share all the same apps" will not include a terminal with root access, which is what would really be needed to make iPad a general purpose computer for …

This is no doubt a milestone we should celebrate. At the same time, the Brazilian beef industry is the driving force behind slash-and-burn expansion of agricultural land into the r…