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What horrific distopian future you imagine

Yes. It is useful for the scam artists:

X, Open AI and Anthropic, to name three

Interesting analogy, maybe a house cat?

I think a better analogy is "The EU is like a lumbering elephant. You can steer it, but only if you know how. Otherwise it just keeps on lumbering"

Airbus was a bureaucrats wet dream, and by modern Biz Bro standards should never have got off the ground.

Now it rules the skies. Boeing, having drunk the financial Kool Aid is wilting

Tortoise and the hare?

This is very interesting.

Facebook should be one of the biggest users of AI facing users, given its vast size, the industrial quantities of slop it produces and the tools it offers its users

Because Open AI is so closed, and Anthropic not much better, we know little of what they need that huge compute for.

But tnis hints it is not for user facing services

Yes.

"Closed AI" would be a better name

"Monetization". What a horror.

I pay for some software services. The services I pay for have a billing page (or a donation page) and I pay via the banking system

I rigorously block every ad, every tracker, every thing that does "monetization"

The evil period of trying sneaky ways to generate money is, I am optimistic, coming to an end.

If you want my money, ask me. If you must have my money, demand it. If you are sneaking around "monetization" I will do everything I can to stop you.

> If somebody doesn't share the same passion, it's almost impossible for someone to take and carry it forward.

True, five years ago.

The advent of coding agents has changed everything, and often make modifying somebody else's bespoke software practical

great???

That is old news, Theo was harsh, arrogant and rude. He was not always right, but always RIGHT!!

But ten years ago. What is the point now?

In my country (New Zealand) this would be very illegal

You cannot detain someone because you do not like their behavior, in almost all situations. In civilised countries

It is called kidnapping

That entire business sector is a cess pit of SEO slop.

Good riddence

> outside the Americas

So very wrong, not "mostly right"

South America is a big place, lots of people live there

> because everyone and everywhere was at war during that time.

No, that is incorrect

> Which european dictatorship left their country better off?

If monarchs count as dictators, and monarchic states as dictatorship, then almost all economic progress in Europe upto the 1840s

> yet we still trust them with our code and data

Who's we, eh?

Meanwhile their software, most software in wide use, continues to be unreliable and insecure

Share holder returns are doing OK tho

Yes

But how important?

> The era of building websites solely for Google traffic and monetizing them through ads and affiliate marketing has ended.

Yay!

Quite an assertion, I hope it is true

Interesting

I have noticed this too, but have a different problem

The "flow state" has never been where I want to be, it is where I make my worst mistakes and where the details swamp the bigger picture. A "cannot see the wood for the trees" problem

I am developing a practice for agentic coding, involving plans, reviews and check points. But the "twirling my thumbs" waiting for the agent to do its thing is a related problem for me

> The main bottleneck at this point is the cost of all of the token

Are you using Chinese models? Quite a bit cheaper, but maybe still too expensive?

> You don't need the world's stolen information to run a small project containing locally trained data you collected.

Local training? Is that feasible?

> chinese models without safety filters (it could be used to create software exploits)

Any decent coding setup can create software exploits. That bird has flown.

I loved it.

Different tastes

This is good work.

Ethical consumption in a capitalist economy is unachievable...but we can optimise

The only thing I use Amazon for is price guidance - is that hardware $1, $2, $10 or $100?

I have not bought from them since 2005.

There is no need

> There are pretty trivial ways to use binary floating point values that don't result in 0.1 + 0.2 producing 0.30000...4

Not across all architectures and operating systems there are not

Listen to those who have done this. Use integers for finance.

> JS engines treat numbers as 53 bit signed floats

Please do not use Javascript for finance applications. Just do not do it

Save it for user interface elements and dancing whizzimagigs, where it will do less harm.

Never use floats for financial calculations. Because hard won experience.

"Floats" are simulations of Real Numbers, and Reals are uncountable. Not what you want for finance, where everything is counted.

In a cot. Not a double bed, in its on room