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Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:57PM (#50346053)
I think this will depend on the commoditization, or lack thereof, of the AI models. If they are more or less interchangeable, Apple will have made the right bet.
Re:Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:08PM (#50189364)
If you can't take the time to write me a hand written note, I don't know why I should bother reading it.

You are picking an arbitrary thing that isn't the substance of the work, the styling of a page, and insisting it matters. Seems odd.

Re:Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:45PM (#50184830)
Everything anyone does comes with resource constraints. Does everything warrant a custom designed web page?
Re:Yes, and on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:14PM (#50023633)
Rugs aren't live running systems, so not analogous.
Re:Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:32PM (#49647435)
This is very similar to George Lakoff's work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff

A good place to start for anyone that is interested is his book Metaphor's We Live By.

Re:AWS Acquires DuckDB on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:23AM (#49449784)
Sure, but that's not generational wealth.
Re:Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:52PM (#49075374)
Yeah, I would also assume that anyone talking about VTI wouldn't try to time the market, but that's what he was talking about so :shrug:
Re:Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:00PM (#49072474)
First, don't park it in actual cash or you'll lose value to inflation which is currently running high. At a minimum put it in treasuries.

Second, trying to time the market is almost always a suboptimal strategy. The question is when will you likely need the money? If you won't need it for 10 years or more, keep it in index funds. Otherwise, treasuries.

This is the most naive comment I've read in a long time.
This isn't true unless you're limiting your reference point to Trump's second term.
Re:Building on ATProto on Thursday July 23, 2026 @03:23PM (#49026783)
If the primary user concern is "all data is public", then the utility of ATProto is extremely narrow and will likely lose to something with a different philosophy.
Is kimi making a profit? How subsidized is it by the Chinese government?
Re:Grok 4.5 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:53PM (#48839020)
Let's compare concrete and equivalent people or institutions. I'll nominate Elon to represent "right wing philosophy" since this is a conversation about grok. What's an equivalent, in terms of importance/stature, that you'd nominate to represent "left wing philosophy". From there we can compare the accuracy and truth seeking of both. Warning, Elon has a terrible track record on this front.
Re:Resetting Xbox on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:40PM (#48820248)
It's more like evolution through natural selection. If you can buy a treasury that returns 3.6%, you will NOT invest money in a business that has more risk, is only returning 3%, and has no believable growth story. Even worse, if you own shares in that company, you will sell them and shift the investment dollars to something with better returns or better chance for growth.

It's this competition that leads to prosperity, the alternative is central planning which leads to poverty.

Re:Resetting Xbox on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:26PM (#48810713)
That's a 3% margin which is unsustainable. It's less return than you can get from buying treasuries, which means that if they don't improve it they will go out of business.
thanks, that's exactly what I was imagining.
We may need to create a community driven version of SO. Hard for it to be a successful business these days.
Re:Use Boring Languages with LLMs on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:30PM (#48283824)
Except for the part where he says that he found Go infuriating to use as a developer prior to LLMs.
Re:Use Boring Languages with LLMs on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:27PM (#48283767)
> This is annoying but only needs to be solved once at the start, either by the LLM or the human guiding it. A single prompt of "Set up a uv project in this directory with Python 3.13" is enough that it's never an issue again for that repo.

This isn't true. I'm mostly using python and UV with claude and it periodically decides to try to run scripts directly instead of using UV.

pretty sure humans had hierarchy from the beginning.
I think it's people that do that, not capitalism. This happens in every system that has existed in human history.
You didn't really address his main point. Will this lead to higher levels of pollution that will have real health consequences? Oddly you suggest it's not valid to raise concerns around health consequences.
I honestly can't tell what conclusion you want us to draw? The vast majority of cows raise for agriculture are not raised in the ways you describe. Beef is the leading cause of deforestation in the rainforest!
You can absolutely survive and thrive on a vegetarian diet, and there is decent evidence suggesting you're health will be better.
It's the leading cause of deforestation which is a major factor in climate change. It also is a major contributor to climate change for other reasons. Since you mentioned energy, it's also much less energy efficient.

Isn't this something to care about?

Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:55PM (#47252118)
If you're trying to link clang, this laptop is not for you. It's for people that would consider a chromebook for their use case.
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:53PM (#47252089)
Gifs. I'm only half joking.
Re:Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:51PM (#47093763)
What model did you use? Curious if something like Opus 4.6 does a better job.
Then why aren't Europeans using them?

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