Not just Internet, but the most abhorrent version of it, aka algorithmic rage-bait machine the Web 2.0 had become. I can see why people don't value free speech anymore, when the speech had become mostly astroturfing…
> Both the article and your comment assume that the only mode of interaction for natural language is a very high level description of programmer intent. No, the article explicitly says that the difference is formal vs…
Today I turned no-flicker-mode on and it broke scrolling in tmux
> Array-based solutions are able to guarantee that an element is never relocated This is an array of pointers, I mentioned it in the post you're replying to. It completely obliterates the "cache-friendliness" argument,…
> Vector of pointers almost always wins In what way? It's the same thing with additional overhead on copying the vector when adding/removing elements. Not to mention you can have a lock-free intrusive list, and with…
It's pretty useful, just not as a "sequential container" as people are usually taught. And definitely now with an interface C++ provides. There are two main cases for linked lists: 1. When you need a persistent version…
Pixel itself is very mediocre hardware, it's not hard to surpass. The battery is my main problem with it, my current pixel can't barely survive half a day of usage.
> It could, for instance, do so on the grounds that it is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Act, which safeguards platforms from legal liability for content posted by third parties. But then the platform…
I did live before internet bc widespread internet came quite late to my country, and I must say it wasn't all that different. Dating, job search and social interactions were actually easier and more pleasant.
> I can bank from my pocket My opinion on that is, it's not such a big gain compared to legacy banking with checks, phone calls etc. All the operations you can do now you could do with legacy banks, just a bit slower.…
Exactly. I believe that growth caused by the rise of IT, be it Internet or LLM, will be marginal, because the benefits for humanity are very marginal compared to that caused by steam engine, wing, antibiotics or…
> The economic system itself is incompatible with the physical reality of a finite planet The economic reality is perfectly compatible with finite reality, because growth is not a function of resources. An email is more…
When you say €20 worth of tokens is it fair direct API call price or subsidized claude code?
Or when the Internet came and made memory kinda obsolete. Why remember facts if you can simply index them and then lookup on demand. But now we delegate thinking itself, so I wonder what is left.
> Is 'reading the code' really an option? You need a proxy. 100k is small, but you're right, it can be millions. I usually skim through the code tho, and it's not that hard. I don't need to fully read and understand the…
I think people expect the star system to be a cheap proxy for "this is a reliable piece of sorfware which has a good quality and a lot of eyes". I think as a proxy it fails completely: astroturfing aside stars don't…
> to eliminate "useless eaters" It can't. It can't even deal with emails without randomly deleting your email folder [1]. Saying that it can make decisions and replace humans is akin of saying that random number…
> at equivalent adjusted income levels What is equivalent adjusted income level? PPP between Russia and USA is around 1.8. Median annual salary in the US is $57 ($1196 per week), median salary in Russia is $13200. Even…
> Poverty levels Poverty levels are measured relative to median. Poverty in US and poverty in Bangladesh, Russia or Vietnam are completely different things. In the US poverty line is about $16k, while in Russia for…
> We all know the average white collar worker doesn't actually work for 40 hours despite being at the office. Yes bc now this worker works same 3-4 hours but 4 days instead of 5.
> The average person gets no benefit from this You are proving the point. The avg. person gets an enormous benefit from it, even in countries like USA, Japan or Korea with far less generous welfare. The gap in standards…
> I am very happy with this I'm not. If you are european and will inherit something it's fine, but if not you'll barely be able to afford a house and a tiny investment portfolio. And at the face of the immense collapse…
> Nearly no one I know in NL and DE works more than 36hrs per week. And we all have a sh”tload of holidays and irregular days off additionally. In DE I would argue that this is due to punitive taxes and I wouldn't call…
It probably is still subsidized, just not as much. We won't know if these APIs are profitable unless these companies go public, and till then it's safe to bet these APIs are underpriced to win the market share.
Well FFmpeg is roughly 1500k, but it's C+Asm and it's dozens of codecs and pretty complex features. SBCL is around 500k I guess. I'm not saying that this is necessarily too much, I'm genuinely asking if this is a bloat…
Not just Internet, but the most abhorrent version of it, aka algorithmic rage-bait machine the Web 2.0 had become. I can see why people don't value free speech anymore, when the speech had become mostly astroturfing…
> Both the article and your comment assume that the only mode of interaction for natural language is a very high level description of programmer intent. No, the article explicitly says that the difference is formal vs…
Today I turned no-flicker-mode on and it broke scrolling in tmux
> Array-based solutions are able to guarantee that an element is never relocated This is an array of pointers, I mentioned it in the post you're replying to. It completely obliterates the "cache-friendliness" argument,…
> Vector of pointers almost always wins In what way? It's the same thing with additional overhead on copying the vector when adding/removing elements. Not to mention you can have a lock-free intrusive list, and with…
It's pretty useful, just not as a "sequential container" as people are usually taught. And definitely now with an interface C++ provides. There are two main cases for linked lists: 1. When you need a persistent version…
Pixel itself is very mediocre hardware, it's not hard to surpass. The battery is my main problem with it, my current pixel can't barely survive half a day of usage.
> It could, for instance, do so on the grounds that it is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Act, which safeguards platforms from legal liability for content posted by third parties. But then the platform…
I did live before internet bc widespread internet came quite late to my country, and I must say it wasn't all that different. Dating, job search and social interactions were actually easier and more pleasant.
> I can bank from my pocket My opinion on that is, it's not such a big gain compared to legacy banking with checks, phone calls etc. All the operations you can do now you could do with legacy banks, just a bit slower.…
Exactly. I believe that growth caused by the rise of IT, be it Internet or LLM, will be marginal, because the benefits for humanity are very marginal compared to that caused by steam engine, wing, antibiotics or…
> The economic system itself is incompatible with the physical reality of a finite planet The economic reality is perfectly compatible with finite reality, because growth is not a function of resources. An email is more…
When you say €20 worth of tokens is it fair direct API call price or subsidized claude code?
Or when the Internet came and made memory kinda obsolete. Why remember facts if you can simply index them and then lookup on demand. But now we delegate thinking itself, so I wonder what is left.
> Is 'reading the code' really an option? You need a proxy. 100k is small, but you're right, it can be millions. I usually skim through the code tho, and it's not that hard. I don't need to fully read and understand the…
I think people expect the star system to be a cheap proxy for "this is a reliable piece of sorfware which has a good quality and a lot of eyes". I think as a proxy it fails completely: astroturfing aside stars don't…
> to eliminate "useless eaters" It can't. It can't even deal with emails without randomly deleting your email folder [1]. Saying that it can make decisions and replace humans is akin of saying that random number…
> at equivalent adjusted income levels What is equivalent adjusted income level? PPP between Russia and USA is around 1.8. Median annual salary in the US is $57 ($1196 per week), median salary in Russia is $13200. Even…
> Poverty levels Poverty levels are measured relative to median. Poverty in US and poverty in Bangladesh, Russia or Vietnam are completely different things. In the US poverty line is about $16k, while in Russia for…
> We all know the average white collar worker doesn't actually work for 40 hours despite being at the office. Yes bc now this worker works same 3-4 hours but 4 days instead of 5.
> The average person gets no benefit from this You are proving the point. The avg. person gets an enormous benefit from it, even in countries like USA, Japan or Korea with far less generous welfare. The gap in standards…
> I am very happy with this I'm not. If you are european and will inherit something it's fine, but if not you'll barely be able to afford a house and a tiny investment portfolio. And at the face of the immense collapse…
> Nearly no one I know in NL and DE works more than 36hrs per week. And we all have a sh”tload of holidays and irregular days off additionally. In DE I would argue that this is due to punitive taxes and I wouldn't call…
It probably is still subsidized, just not as much. We won't know if these APIs are profitable unless these companies go public, and till then it's safe to bet these APIs are underpriced to win the market share.
Well FFmpeg is roughly 1500k, but it's C+Asm and it's dozens of codecs and pretty complex features. SBCL is around 500k I guess. I'm not saying that this is necessarily too much, I'm genuinely asking if this is a bloat…