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dekoidal··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
When I read that Microsoft gave OpenAI billions of dollars worth of data centre access and OpenAI accounted for it as billions of dollars worth of investment. When they spent the tokens Microsoft accounted for it as billions of dollars worth of income. Both companies gained billions of dollars with mad up money
dekoidal··on On The <dl> (2021)
The old HTML5 Doctor article is still my favourite https://html5doctor.com/element-index/
dekoidal··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
You’re wrong to assume that
dekoidal··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
So are we still going to be free to be creative while AI does the menial jobs?
dekoidal··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
After hiring the brightest minds on the planet for years, the best these companies can think of is more ads.
dekoidal··on Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive?
Massive props to everyone for not being as sarcastic in your answers as I would be
dekoidal··on ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study
You're joking right? This is the 'testing on mice' phase and it failed and your idea is to start dosing humans just to see what happens.
dekoidal··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Why are they talking to it like it’s a person? What is happening?
dekoidal··on New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes
Have a pat on the head, Safari.
dekoidal··on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
It hasn’t on Macs. Safari is still popular among non-tech folk
dekoidal··on Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
Is CSS too hard to learn or something?
dekoidal··on Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
From 2014 https://jakearchibald.com/2014/dont-use-flexbox-for-page-lay...
dekoidal··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
See also hoverboards
dekoidal··on Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
Apple couldn’t do a thing about a hypothetical iceblock.com
dekoidal··on uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
Vivaldi is mine as it blocks YouTube ads and lets me play yt videos with the screen locked.
dekoidal··on We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
Well, when MS give OpenAI free use of their servers and OpenAI call it a $10 billion investment, then they use up their tokens and MS calls in $10 billion in revenue, I think so, yes.