DonThomasitos

I agree, thanks for clarification. I did not want to argue in favor of Socialism - my criticism here is that „free market correction instruments“ like antitrust, monopoly etc are absent.

We see the fundamental forces of capitalism at work: To justify valuation, Google needs to grow. When they feel a ceiling, they broaden their search to anything legal that makes customers pay - even if it contradicts their longterm interests. This created countless attack angles for startups. The good news: we already have a solution! Monopoly laws. In case of the internet, no company should be able to have this much power.

The bad news: US decided to weaponize big tech’s leverage over the world and does not enforce these laws anymore that fix vanilla capitalism.

It would be great to have a few screenshots on the readme.md or Doc pages to understand quickly what we‘re talking about.

The difference to a deadlock is that a deadlock is a inability to move, the zugzwang is an obligation to move.

Hahah! Like Bitcoin: equal distribution of wealth - except for us that joined early, we get most of course.

I love it. Ofc it‘s unclear if and how this can be enforced, but we MUST find a proper solution to this problem. It also extends to images and videos. ML should not become an escape hatch for copyright evasion. We invented copyright for a reason - without it, our capitalistic system is flawed and unfair. Not in a sense that it‘s not „nice“: each system has its stress limits, and if we bias the odds continuously in favor of few, we risk instability.

Part of the story why we can‘t feel the hypothetical productivity gains of the last century is that certain goods became 1. more expensive and 2. last shorter. This movement (as mentioned in the tractor example) might be the result of people realizing this: what drives GDP (expensive throw away crap) might not always drive wealth.

Incomplete blog post! Where was the comparison vs. a 1x1 pixel font?

This AI fatigue is called genflation.

„Claude, merge these branches and resolve conflicts. Ask me if unclear.“

16M$ VC money saved.

Exactly. It sounds like a detail that you can‘t eat and drink while you‘re in VR - but for casual experience it‘s friction and you resort back to a screen.

„Clearly, VR technology isn’t fully ready yet.“

Disagree. It‘s quite mature and usable.

I worked on a software that offered VR as a feature. The user‘s started enthusiastically with eg. dedicated VR rooms. But it became clear that the immersive delta to a screen is surprisingly low. We‘re all trained to immerse into 2D screens on a daily basis. If you then observe how people are ridiculed while wearing a VR headset by their colleagues or how people with complicated hair style hesitate wearing a headset: then you understand why it‘s just not a good fit for B2B.

What else should they do? Stop releasing any updates until they reproduced any obscure bug report?

Thanks for making me laugh - great poetry :D and so true. I can‘t stand people w/o kids complaining about their parents.

Impressive thought. It could also be a built-in mechanism by nature to reshuffle the cards.

Fantastic! I always wonder if the original console devs would be able to provide bonus insight.

The irony is that this guide is written like a system prompt. We‘re all working with LLMs too much these days.

But even on campus? Weird.

I don‘t understand why you would train a NN for an operation like sqrt that the GPU supports in silicon.

Everything in git can and must be merge-able when merging branches. After all, git is a collaboration tool, not a undo-redo stack.

Isn‘t it ironic that we software devs laughed for decades when we automated other people‘s work with our code - „it‘s called progress, deal with it, dinosaur!“ But now we see that a meteor might have hit our planet too.

One part of me tries to resist and tell you that our craft is not becoming an archaic relic, the other half already knows you‘re right. We just can‘t put the ghost back into the bottle and now‘s a good time to re-calibrate your passion.

Nice summary! I missed the mention of EQ-VAE when it comes to generation quality. Tiny trick, huge impact! Have you tried it?

LinkedIn is Tiktokified social media brainrot disguised as serious work. „Hey - you‘re not wasting time, you‘re building your network and gather industry knowledge!“

LinkedIn is full if so called professionals who make a living by leveraging their brand. If you‘re not one of them, leave

Does anybody really understand why this hasn‘t been done? I know about ongoing efforts but is it really THAT difficult?

Cool! But isn‘t that already common wisdom and the basis for the omega3 fanboy culture?

Since most application run in the browser nowadays, the OS becomes less meaningful and more of a layer between browser and hardware.

If you see your PC as a tool, not a gimmick to consume, Linux is the only choice. Even MacOS crappifies over time and becomes a Windows copy over time.

Since they ship globally, never. At least not if it‘s ONLY Germany who‘s declining.

They peaked at a time where the competition‘s offering was still immature, partially even retrofitted combustion cars.

Now the landscape has changed and TSLA lacks innovation. Personally, i still enjoy fanboy talk from first-gen Tesla drivers while they try to dream of a come back once Elon‘s wonder weapons finally arrive to turn the war.

The web design of this blog is at the intersection of unusable and awesome