jpfromlondon

When I see what passes for modern writing, be it genre fiction, non-fic for the general audience, or even the literary, I'm not sure I want to appeal to, convince, or share knowledge with them.

Like casting pearls before swine.

Qwentai

The examples I gave, primarily post GFC, except in the case of Greece the caveat is that although initially caused by the GFC the sovereign debt crisis marks it as distinct from the other economies listed.

HK under JJ Cowperthwaite (1961 to 1971), but more generally since then and especially pre '97.

that it was so perversely gatekept is what made the early internet so enjoyable though.

I find it all the more appealing with that barrier to entry because I miss the internet that this community is nostalgically trying to replicate and reproduce.

Some of these things are unforgivable (not repeated here in order to avoid spoiling for others), much worse than Jackson's omission of Tom Bombadil.

How depressing.

Counter-cyclic fiscal policy and QE does work, absolutely, but it's likely dependent on size of economy because in most cases austerity works better...but in most cases the economies are much smaller than America's; Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Greece (since austerity was forced upon it), HK, Britain could likely've been more austere during the GFC and seen more growth.

Then again although not comparable to America's it's possible that the British economy was/is large enough to sustain even more liberal fiscal policy but given the dependence on import and that it's primarily a service economy I doubt it.

America is truly exceptional.

>flabbergasted

phatic mimicry.

>if you use PPP prices ...

it was still on the uptrend until 2020 when switching off the economy squashed all growth and not just in Britain but other major continental economies too, Germany has actually been in and out of recession multiple times since.

2016 added some turbulence to domestic politics and econ but until then our recovery from the GFC had been fast, occasionally faster than the rest of the G7.

>They want to turn LLMs into a commodity, and watch the US AI labs crash and burn.

You can say that, but they are at least better at democratizing AI than the American labs, and on seeing the US labs crash and burn we are at least aligned.

time dilation

it used to be, but it's been less and less perverse over the past ten to fifteen years.

Be creative, use ten simple words when one archaic or obscure one would suffice, sure, go ahead, use nonplussed synonymously with indifferent, what's most important is that you be creative in your artless murder of English.

>I think it allows greater flexibility for humor and subtext than ever.

It has more ambiguity because we had many similar words for similar things that are differential in some minor way.

Now everything can mean anything, it is leaning more expressive with less precision, English's best quality is that it balances the precise and the expressive, the craft is gone and if you misunderstand what I've written because I've used the wrong words that's your fault.

Plenty of important things have been born of passion without necessity.

I think it was tongue-in-cheek since back then security didn't have the high gloss corporate veneer it has today

I'd be surprised if the churn was as high as the subscription model.

If I buy a product and like it as-is then I don't necessarily want it to change over time.

Buy once is better, buy once with optional updates or periodic version releases is better still.

There was a Knoppix STD (security tools distro), I remember using that in the mid/early 00s.

Both actually.

Fender own Charvel so that's okay.

take your pick, health, material, whatever you want.

nonsense, the lowest strata of working society has never had it so good, unfortunately things are still going to be out of reach, perhaps what the comment above said was a little harsh but there is truth to it, if what you love about the sport is merely its accessibility then find or start a new one (that the rich will appropriate in a couple of hundred years).

You don't really have relative perfect pitch because as you say, you can recognise the G-ness of a note I assume without reference.

If anything I think this reinforces what I'm alluding to.

I've seen nothing to convince me that "absolute pitch" is anything other than relative pitch with excellent recall or persistent observation of pitch.

if that's your priority then bilberries exist.

£3.85 in my nearest central-London Tesco, it even includes some premium energy drinks like Tenzing that alone would get close to the cost of the deal.

it obviously knew your hn username

everyone is always in such a rush to name (and define) the next sociophilosophical zeitgeist, and always with some etymologically unsound term or phrase, interesting as the content may be, the tagline makes me cringe.

Your comment makes it pretty clear that mine went over your head and that's fine, these tools are for people like you, godspeed.

that isn't rational, rational is using the model that can best solve your current problem in the timeliest cost considered manner.

I'm not working on the frontier problems, I don't need god-in-a-box for $600 per month.

All models from the past two years are close in the general case.

This is just another incremental improvement, rushed out to boost the ipo, AI has the capacity to aid an engineer but this minor bump in performance will have essentially zero impact on the productivity of an engineer working on real world solutions when compared with any other major model.

We are trending towards asymtotic and it can't happen fast enough, that's when the true cost of this will become evident.