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Take a look at her campaign donations, where she flies, how often, where she stays, which restaurants she attends and everything else involved.
It’s millions and millions. She did a good job of keeping her husband out of the spotlight.
$49 to $125k sounds like a fictitious “we don’t know” number. It’s amusing. And politicians will lie directly to you.
How many cuils you reckon?
>Maguire is Jewish, with ancestral ties to early Jewish settlers in California.
Sir, we are going to have to ask you to leave.
> Some reports are putting her net worth at $49,000 or $125,000.
lol
> I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t think the Cursor team weren’t standup people with high character and kindness
Somebody screenshot this please. We are looking at comedy gold in the next 3 years and there’s no shortage of material.
I disagree with this article and what it attempts to do: frame the acquisition using a conjecture. The only thing to “believe” are the authors reasons - which are flimsy, because they are the very thing we need to be critical of.
I don’t know why the acquisition happened, or what the plans are. But it did happen, and for this we don’t have to suspend disbelief. I don’t doubt Anthropic has plans that they would rather not divulge. This isn’t a big stretch of imagination, either.
We will see how things play out, but people are definitely being displaced by AI software doing work, and people are productive with them. I know I am. The user count of Claude Code, Gemini and ChatGPT don’t lie, so let’s not kid ourselves.
You’re welcome to try but something tells me people resort to these satirical takes precisely because they (you) are powerless to do anything of significance.
You are welcome to continue posting nonsense but the world will move forward with AI with or without you.
Any time I see posts like these, my challenge is simple: to anyone who is an ardent supporter of someone like AOC and thinks she gives a shit, go look at her bank account. Try to take it away. She will be right there with the tech bros.
None of these people have any loyalty to a cause. They are all mouthpieces to Mammon.
It is not about outperforming the compiler - it’s about being comfortable with measuring where your clock cycles are spent, and for that you first need to be comfortable with clock cycle scale of timing. You’re not expected to rewrite the program in assembly. But you should have a general idea given an instruction what its execution entails, and where the data is actually coming from. A read from different busses means different timings.
Compilers make mistakes too and they can output very erroneous code. But that’s a different topic.
The reason why that formatting is not used is because it’s not useful nor true. The table in the article is far more relevant to the person optimizing things. How many of those I can hypothetically execute per second is a data point for the marketing team. Everyone else is beholden to real world data sets and data reads and fetches that are widely distributed in terms of timing.
Some of this can be reduced to a trivial form, which is to say practiced in reality on a reasonable scale, by getting your hands on a microcontroller. Not RTOS or Linux or any of that, but just a microcontroller without an OS, and learning it and learning its internal fetching architecture and getting comfortable with timings, and seeing how the latency numbers go up when you introduce external memory such as SD Cards and the like. Knowing to read the assembly printout and see how the instruction cycles add up in the pipeline is also good, because at least you know what is happening. It will then make it much easier to apply the same careful mentality to this which is ultimately what this whole optimization game is about - optimizing where time is spent with what data. Otherwise, someone telling you so-and-so takes nanoseconds or microseconds will be alien to you because you wouldn’t normally be exposed to an environment where you regularly count in clock cycles. So consider this a learning opportunity.
My bad, I should have been more clear: tech journalists have always been paid shills.
It’s a milquetoast rant but I got nothing - the employee is right. You should prepare for the world and stop acting so shocked. You had decades to call out journalists for being paid mouthpieces but you didn’t because they spewed nonsense that you agreed with and benefitted you.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. Prepare for what happens next. FAFO.
You let them oust Brendan Eich. I have no sympathy whatsoever because you let the charlatans into the project and now you’re complaining.
Nobody stood up for Brendan. Nobody is going to stand up for you.
Only fools approach hyenas in good faith. You have to be naive to allow yourself to get swindled by internet marketing junkies.
I’m all for prefacing each post that comes from a16z with “Asshole Alert” so that we know who we are dealing with upfront.
We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it.
It’s a Fark.com style applied to HN. Maybe we should do a SomethingAwful theme next?
Yup. And if you dared to bring this up in the comments (ie. your own rewrite of a title/post), you’d get reminded of the guidelines and downvoted/flagged. Because fuck honesty - we are here for clicks and engagements.
This is a good step. Next: disclose financial incentives and other motives just to nip it in the bud.
Your analysis is out of date I think. This has already happened. Poor NXP just got their asses handed to them by the PRC. The fab they have in Italy looks nice but PRC has many of those.
You’ve got more patience than me. I read the title and decided I won’t bother reading the rest.
> Reddit is becoming less believable than ChatGPT.
Hard disagree, and I’ll cite a simple example: Reddit isn’t one community. It’s a hub and spoke model. There are many good communities with curators and SMEs.
My canonical example that’s counter to this is HN. No offense to anyone but Reddit doesn’t have a hive mind - communities do. And HN hive mind is wrong more often than right and has been targeted by all sorts of astroturfers along the way. I personally take very few comments on here seriously, no takes seriously, and mostly show up to read comments by some actual hard cred people (f.e. animats). Everyone else might as well be a shill bot. AI doesn’t change this. I still get cream of the crop from Reddit.
Having said that, social media isn’t dead. It’ll transform. Two things are eternal: 1) women’s need for attention, 2) men’s need to get laid.
Turns out the kids are alright after all!
Sigh. I get it. I just don’t agree with it but fair point.
Sigh…
“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.”
Top comments in this thread have a serious “my hands are registered as deadly weapons” energy to them. Nonsensical LARPing.
/pol/ has entered the chat.
As a DIY fixerupper who has had a fair share of repairing all sorts of household appliances, I truly do like the simplicity of washing machines. It is good to be able to reduce its bare function down to something that can be manually operated. I anticipated a gearing system for these reasons which the article kindly mentions.
I haven’t seen the insides, I would probably incorporate some sort of a heating element but given power requirements it probably would not be hand driven at that point. Maybe im wrong and they have one? I do enjoy the sturdy construction and repairability of this.
I suppose it’s too on the nose but I think the bigger story here is just how big of a task it is to run, and maintain, electricity and current required for everyday life. It is a big barrier.
“As the HN poster proudly clicks on the reply button having delivered a blow to the vast ignorance of a stranger, a train arrives somewhere deep in rural China carrying Uyghurs ready for their re-education.”
Same issue exists with Tor exit nodes. It’s anonymous in that you have a hoodie on with a giant spotlight right on you.