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Car makers don't make a car and dismiss the entire engineering team.
Sure, you could do that, but eventually people are going to move on from your only car that's old and clunky.
That's exactly Bending Spoons model. Cut all the expenses, let the product die slowly. In the meantime you might have made more money than you put in to buy the product and the team.
It's basically bankrupcy management.
These numbers are huge though. I think it is fair to say that this time it may be different.
Most people buy low-strike puts as insurance against catastrophic market events.
Since catastrophic crises are rare, the price of these puts is quite low. But since many people fear a crisis, the price is very inflated over the actual probabilites. Which is why there are lots of people selling those puts as a business. These guys will bite the dust in case of a major crisis, but will make a ton if the market stays afloat.
Realistically, the current US government is so obsessed with its image that it will do everything to avoid a market crash during its term. The president has been pushing for lower rates for a while, and he's likely going to succeed in removing the head of the Fed and do just that. Lowering interest rates is just another way of pumping investment.
NVidia is definitely not going below $100 in 2026.
It's the equivalent of being neat freak. Some people are annoyed when they see breadcrumbs on the floor and feel a compelling urge to clean it. You experience a compelling urge to fix tech problems.
I think many people have that on various subjects.
It's not really a problem though. More an obsession than an addiction really. Being obsessive about your work is not a problem as long as you maintain proper live/work balance.
There was always these contextual meanings that differ widely.
Like "carrots are orange" is a fact that's generally okay, but is not true at all, carrots come in a very wide range of colors.
But LLMs completely crushed through these problems. And vector embeddings are a bit part of why it worked.
So yeah, somewhere in those vectors is something that says that when cash is king, "king" has no relationship to monarchy.
Regular people just didn’t know it cause the ticket to entry was to expensive.
Plus the selection process is actually pretty random at best and biased at worse. I mean how do you select one person every year, without some completely arbitrary factor?
I think these events are extraordinarily rare. Civil rights is another one. These only happen when the bad situation is totally unbearable. Like huge wildfires happen when there is forest overgrowth.
Otherwise you need some sort of top down approach. if you want people to actually recycle their trash, fine them if they don’t. if you want people to stop dying on the roads, severely punish DUI and speeding. If you want people to have more children, reduce their taxes if they have some, etc.
Now fixing loneliness is complicated for sure. My opinion is that a grassroot movement is not going to succeed, cause the current situation is not that unsustainable, so people won’t take it in their own hands.
The epidemic is a systemic things, and you don't solve systemic things by giving advice to individuals. You solve systemic things by changing the whole culture. and you change the whole culture by large scale initiative.
That said, I have no idea about what to do!
But then it goes on, the guy is mostly healthier from quitting bad and not-so-bad habits, doing eco-friendly stuff in Greece with his family. It sounds like it worked for him.
This dont-do-evil kind of Christianity is all right.
It's not completely obvious from the post though whether this man embraces the love-thy-neighbor aspect of Christianity. He seems to have this idealistic good-vs-bad view of the world that's typically protestant. And his condescending tone make it sound like whoever doesn't do like he does can rot in hell, cause they deserve it.
Looking at individual line changes produced by AI is definitely difficult. And going one step higher to version control makes sense.
We're not really there yet though, as the generated code currently still needs a lot of human checks.
Side thoughts: this requires the code to be modularized really well. It makes me think that when designing a system, you could imagine a world where multiple agents discuss changes. Each agent would be responsible for a sub system (component, service, module, function), and they would chat about the format of the api that works best for all agents, etc. It would be like SmallTalk at the agent level.
Kind of like Quake in a Lemmings world.
This is quite more polished to say the least.
But we've been there before. Computers are going to get faster for cheaper, and LLMs are going to be more optimized, cause right now, they do a ton of useless calculations for sure.
There's a market, just not right now.
I think I bought one of these ten years ago.
My parents' sound system is from the mid 90s
Additionnally, it is generally cheaper to eat at a fast food place than to actually cook at home. And since people don’t have time to go back home and cook something for lunch, they just eat at subway’s, domino’s or mc donald’s.
And since this has been going on for more than a generation, today’s grandparents don’t even know how to cook from raw ingredients anymore.
The US is sick, but change doesn’t start with food, it starts with fixing the economic inequality.
A little bit of sarcasm here: “well there probably isn’t a lot of great engineers at google then”
Changing anything in oUR react Bootstrap frontend was a visit to the dentist.
But Llms really lowered the pain.
I sit alone in cafes all the time, for many reasons. I don’t feel particularly joyful about it nor weird. I just do it to take a break and have something to drink, or wait for someone or something. Often I don’t look at my phone at all. That doesn’t feel weird either, or rebellious, or whatever the author experiences.
I don’t understand the post at all.
I’d have gone to Japan. I’ve been to Japan, it’s awesome.
For me, it makes me realize how incredibly large human populations are.
Now every phone will ship with 2 engines (inevitably chrome is going to be bundled in at least one of your apps). Both are tied to large tech companies. And both have approximately the same feature set.
At this stage, I can't think of any upside for the end user. New CSS crap or obscure web APIs, or proprietary DRM? And the cost is that we're going to get new website badges "only in Chrome", or "only in Safari", like it's 1999.
This is Apple, people know what they get into, and they kind of want that an iPhone is not a PC.
It looks like everyone thinks that this is a good thing. Can anyone explain beyond the "this is a monopoly" argument? It's not a monopoly if the engine is free, and if they need the engine to more or less match all the desktop engines.
I don't feel cornered by Apple on that one.
Functional programming: no, functional programming as in: the final program consists in piping functions together and calling the pipe. In my opinion, that tends to get in the way of complex error handling.
The problem being that raising Exceptions at a deep level and catching them at some higher level is not pure functional programming. So your code has to deal with all the cases. It is more reliable if you can do it, but large systems have way too many failure points to be able to handle them all in a way that is practical.
Maybe there has already been a case that’s been debated in court.
Then it's all self-congratulatory, with overemphasis that I find lacking taste. Just my personal opinion...