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I haven't seen the actual policy. This is a blog article with a cropped screenshot.

I don't agree with a simplistic keyword ban.

I do agree with a ban of anti-scientific / pseudo-scientific gender ideology. Everyone is tired of it. That fad is coming to an end. It has no place in the CDC or any scientific publication. It belongs in the trash along with the other idiotic crazes and fads we left behind (Lobotomy craze of the 40s and 50s). It is a primitive, backwards, insane ideology.

At some point in the future everyone will look back at the trans mutilation of children the same as we look back at lobotomies today. Many of the victims of trans ideology will be happy to see these policy changes.

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.

Irrelevant
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.

Re:I still like Sublime Text in 2025 on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:58PM (#42892664)
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.

Re:I still like Sublime Text in 2025 on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:53PM (#42892615)
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.

Re:I still like Sublime Text in 2025 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:19AM (#42876262)
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.

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

Homophobia? Are you insane? Fuck off.
I never said that anything he did with open source is relevant to charisma. I didn't even mention the word.

His reputation is just unappealing to many people.

Yes he is reminiscent of Elizabeth Holmes.

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.

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.

Re:Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @11:27AM (#42854194)
LOL

This is kindergarten level of political analysis

Your comment on sexism made me laugh out loud

Everyone is fascist now. Meaningless buzzword.

Re:Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @10:48AM (#42853662)
You’re wrong about the facts, not me.

Not whataboutism.

You completely missed the point. It’s about the idiotic interpretation of the Proton CEO’s tweet. Kindergarten level of understanding of politics based on ultra dumbed down MSM propaganda for brain rotted individuals. He got attacked for nothing by shit for brains Redditors.

Re:Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:16AM (#42849073)
Democratic Party ticks many of those boxes.

You are a simpleton if you believe Democrats are pure innocent angels. That is idiotic.

The Proton CEO was not endorsing anything harmful. It was the exact opposite of that. Something wrong with your reading comprehension.

Re:Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:30AM (#42838748)
Get psychiatric help. You are deranged.

This is the post. It's nothing. Just a mundane political opinion.

https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660

Re:Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:20AM (#42838687)
Normal adults can accept that others have different political views. His views seem kind of mundane. Majority voted for Trump. It's just ordinary politics.

You sound like an ideological extremist to make such a big deal out of that. I think you are the one who has a defective thought process.

This is the post. Just expressing a normal political opinion. https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660

Re:AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:20AM (#42837991)
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.

Re:AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:54PM (#42832777)
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.

Re:AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back on Sunday January 26, 2025 @04:50AM (#42829057)
It can emulate a bad English speaker if prompted to do that.
Re:Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain on Sunday January 26, 2025 @04:13AM (#42828904)
Counterpoint to what? The article is nothing but vague speculation and personal opinions.
Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:25AM (#42766686)
California is only 34% European/white https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-population/
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Keynote at CES 2025 [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:55AM (#42671775)
1080p is enough for the masses and even a $200 used GPU can run most recent games smoothly at native resolution
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Keynote at CES 2025 [video] on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:52AM (#42671768)
It’s more enough for gaming.

Buy their datacenter GPU if you need more VRAM.

Re:App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @12:01PM (#42559971)
It’s a third world mindset where we end up with the software equivalent of public defecation, living in squalor and filth.
Re:86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:59AM (#42548251)
It runs on other CPU architectures and it emulates older PCs which include other hardware besides the CPU.
That is an oversimplification of history

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

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/

Re:First time ever, AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @06:42PM (#42056199)
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-...

Re:Intel might be too big to fail on Sunday November 03, 2024 @12:38PM (#42034564)
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"

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