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xcv123··on Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge
The value is purely speculative no matter which source.

It’s only worth what a buyer is willing to pay for it.

The company is now private and has no stock price. It’s not for sale.

It mostly has the same user base today so the value to an interested buyer is probably not much different to what it was before the sale.

xcv123··on Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge
Irrelevant
xcv123··on Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge
Twitter had no choice. It was either that or shut down the company within a few weeks. Bankruptcy.

Jack Dorsey apologized for over hiring and accepted responsibility. Before the sale to Elon Musk, he had doubled the number of employees since 2017.

Employees were posting on TikTok about their typical work day. Most of them were doing nothing. Dead weight.

xcv123··on I still like Sublime Text
Yes it depends on what exactly you are doing.

IntelliJ enables quick refactoring of large JVM projects without messing with language servers. It's all integrated and just works out of the box.

IDEAVim plugin provides the Vim keybindings and the Vim editing mode so it's the best of both worlds for me.

xcv123··on I still like Sublime Text
OP thinks IDEs are toys. I think Vim is a toy (beyond its functionality as an editor where it is definitely not a toy).

I've been using IntelliJ for at least 10 years now.

If you have used it, you know what I'm talking about.

IDEAVim plugin provides Vim key bindings and Vim editing mode, so it has the best of Vim and an IDE in one application.

Refactoring and navigation in IntelliJ is superior to whatever you can hack together in Vim. You can integrate Vim with a language server but then what's the point? Just use an IDE.

At work we are forced to use a specific IDE. It's a niche programming language not supported by any other software. Vim is not an option.

xcv123··on I still like Sublime Text
Some of us have jobs and do this professionally, not as a hobby. That’s why we use an IDE. Vim is a fun toy where you can hack together a poor man’s IDE but I grew out of that phase a long time ago.

In some cases we are forced to use a specific IDE. Not optional.

xcv123··on Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI
Yes, Steve Jobs did not sound like a caricature of that voice.

https://youtu.be/H5Tv4V9uxDo?t=46

That's how it is in the real world. I think you are the homophobic one here.

Some gay men sound like that, but not all.

The current CEO of Apple is gay but doesn't have that voice. He speaks clearly. Easy to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7bpYaxgC5o

xcv123··on Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI
Steve Jobs did not sound like a caricature of a gay man or a valley girl (no vocal fry, very charismatic speaker) and was never laughed out of the room in negotiations (one of the strongest negotiators the world has ever seen).

Steve Jobs was charismatic. Sam Altman is the opposite of charismatic.

xcv123··on Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI
Charming? His vocal fry is unbearable to listen to. Worse than nails on a chalkboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJZpO3bTpg

TSMC management thought he was an absolute clown when he asked for $7 Trillion. They call him "Podcasting Bro".

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-rejects-podcasting-bro-s...

He turned OpenAI into ClosedAI. He is a lying greedy sociopath.

It's possible (or at least I hope) he will fade into irrelevancy within the next few years, replaced with a less delusional and less insufferable CEO.

xcv123··on AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
It's literally a model.

Large Language Model (LLM).

Hundreds of layers with a trillion weights and you think "nothing is modelled" there. The comments on this site are ridiculous.

Studies have traced individual "neurons" in LLMs that represent specific concepts. It's not even debatable at this point.

xcv123··on AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
No. Not explicitly tagged. They are initially trained on vast amounts of data which are not tagged.

You fundamentally misunderstand how this works.

The LLMs learn the various grammars and "accents" implicitly. They automatically differentiate these grammars.

Sounds like you still have this idea that LLMs are a giant Markov chain. They are not Markov chains.

They are deep neural networks with hundreds of layers and they automatically model relations at extremely deep levels of abstraction.

xcv123··on AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
It can emulate a bad English speaker if prompted to do that.
xcv123··on Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain
Counterpoint to what? The article is nothing but vague speculation and personal opinions.
xcv123··on UK's hardware talent is being wasted
California is only 34% European/white https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-population/
xcv123··on Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]
1080p is enough for the masses and even a $200 used GPU can run most recent games smoothly at native resolution
xcv123··on Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]
It’s more enough for gaming.

Buy their datacenter GPU if you need more VRAM.

xcv123··on App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)
It’s a third world mindset where we end up with the software equivalent of public defecation, living in squalor and filth.
xcv123··on 86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines
It runs on other CPU architectures and it emulates older PCs which include other hardware besides the CPU.
xcv123··on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market
That is an oversimplification of history

https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-Declaration

xcv123··on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market
Change the chart to logarithmic scaling. You need to use log scaling for long term stock market charts

The dotcom crash was huge in terms of the percentage drop

Nasdaq crashed 84%.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/xm2zypvg/

xcv123··on AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space
Outdated info. AMD / TSMC has beat Intel at efficiency for years. Intel has fallen behind. We need them to catch up and provide strong competition.

Intel has just been removed from the Dow index. They are under performing on multiple levels

https://apnews.com/article/dow-intel-nvidia-sherwinwilliams-...

xcv123··on Intel might be too big to fail
Homelessness due to mental illness and drug addiction

Fentanyl and meth imported from China and other countries

EDIT: For naive downvoters. It is an observable fact. Drugs are destroying people and causing homelessness. I have witnessed it first hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5AeGKSDVdE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwlIAjcYypA

Look up "Philadelphia zombies"

xcv123··on M4 MacBook Pro
More megapixels on a tiny sensor does not make it more advanced. At a certain point it only makes it worse. That doesn't tell you anything about the quality of the image. There is way more to digital cameras than pixel count.
xcv123··on M4 MacBook Pro
They want you to buy a Mac Pro or Studio for that
xcv123··on Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers
Bose noise cancelling headphones. Just leave them switched on without music playing. It will actively reduce the noise level.
xcv123··on Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary
Depends on the individual. I don't use those shortcuts on Windows either.

I almost never need the menus. I set the view settings globally, applied to all folders.

There are keyboard shortcuts for actions within those menus, like cut/copy/paste. The shortcuts are more configurable than on Windows.

F4 opens a terminal in the current directory

That's all I use 99.99% of the time

xcv123··on Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary
We have Kubuntu for that

EDIT: for stupid downvoters - Kubuntu is an official Ubuntu variant. It is officially part of the Ubuntu project. https://kubuntu.org

xcv123··on Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine
That’s better than I thought. But you still need to ensure that power source is clean, otherwise it defeats the purpose.
xcv123··on Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine
Is your country 100% EV now?
xcv123··on Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine
The fastest EV is nothing compared to the fastest ICE.

Top fuel dragsters accelerate from 0 to 100 mph in 0.8 seconds.

I have tried fast EV and it's boring. I prefer my loud meth injected turbo diesel BMW (520 lb/ft at the wheels, pulls like a Tesla but is not boring to me)

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