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It also doesn't matter for a simpler, and much grander reason.

All LLMs are trained on the corpus of humanity's knowledge, the legacy of everyone who's ever lived and our civilization as a whole.

Anything that prevents or circumvents the accumulation or gatekeeping of this knowledge and puts it in the hands of more people (that are not AI company shareholders) is a good thing. Whether that is done by open sourcing the model weights, the training set, or by making the output better and cheaper, it is all fair game and is, as another poster mentioned, inevitable in the long run.

Anything presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

It's like the century old fable about the businessman and the fisherman.

Nothing new.

If I turn up my volume loud enough, then the car next to me is going to be listening to the same song I am :)

The AI craze not only destroyed books, but many small websites who couldn't bear the load of constant scraping, or many communities that took open forums and took them offline or put them behind closed doors.

There is less publicly available knowledge now on the Internet than there has been 3 years ago.

tl;dr educational nimby-ism.

And we all pay the bill for the shortage.

A good rule of thumb is "if you think software can solve a problem, you probably don't understand the problem."

Someone let American health care startups know that. Not sure what any of them are doing, but it's not lowering health care prices for anyone.

Do you consider the possibility that some of those people gave good answers?

Not to mention AI assistants are really good at helping you solve problems on Linux.

Yeah, I know, it's not the same as "knowing" a system when you just copy paste terminal output, but if it solves a problem and converts 1 more person to Linux from W - that's a win.

The takeaway is the same that's been there for thousands of years - do stuff together, in real life.

Bonus points if the stuff you're doing is challenging.

Apparently (checked with AI), Hero 4 Black was the first camera with 30 fps 4k video and was released 12 years ago already (how time flies)

Frankly, after 4k/30 and 1080p/60, there are strong diminishing returns, because most people these days watch videos on their phones in suboptimal conditions (or older desktops that may still be on 1080p), so what are they going to do with your 5k/6k video?

Sure, you can keep doing minor improvements to sensors and optics, but for a consumer it will not justify getting a new model for $500.

Also, competing with smartphone cameras which have gotten better over the years. I bet 99% of people would not be able to tell a gopro video from a phone video.

Sounds like the story of Mozilla/Firefox on the software side.

25% and rising market share, wonderful extension ecosystem.

Nope, gotta copy Chrome. With expected results.

Hey, still 10x better than piping whatever into their Claude CLI and submitting.

Well, technically she's a half corgi half mutt (from Strelka), but the point still stands.

As always, uneducated ignorant people make life hell for everyone else.

In order for a democracy to function, you need people that are able to evaluate political promises as bullshit or not. If you believe nonsense from grifters, you get either what you described or the current US admin. Or Brexit.

I'm sure there are more examples of this in history.

I mean for starters you could clearly label everything that was uploaded/created before 2023/24 and the slopocalypse.

AKA lying. No need to steelman dishonest small-time crooks and marketers from China.

Also, it's not the voltage, but over-current that reduces overall produced energy.

Typically the mAh is listed at some standard discharge rate, unless the cell is specifically advertised as a high-current draw cell. But either way an honest supplier will provide the draw/capacity table for you, rather than cherry pick the best one.

The excess deaths from heat/cold are a rounding error compared to the demographic crisis in developed countries.

People aren't getting together and having children at even replacement rate (2.1)

The OECD developed countries population basically peaked a few years ago, even including migration. After the peak, they're on track to lose 300-350 million people in the following 40-50 years.

For us Imperialists, 10C is 50F.

That's nowhere near close to correct.

Fuck all the night owls, right?

with the only cost being people complaining for a day afterwards

Tell me you never had issues with sleep without telling me you never had issues with sleep.

Maybe a bicycle. If you ride a bike long enough on US roads - you probably have a death wish.

Given the gun ownership rates, I wouldn't be surprised if someone gets shot for doing obnoxious shit in a road rage incident.

Have you ever tried playing a sport in 32C and high humidity?

It's 45 min break.

Exactly.

AI can just give you the details like an encyclopedia article. You still have to know at a high level how something works and which article to look for.

AI is just a more forgiving way to ask something, compared to the searches of the past (e.g. searching a scientific journal database). And (for now at least), AI is a good way to avoid the ad-ridden web.

Aliexpress used to ship almost exclusively from China, so your package took 4-6 weeks in a best case scenario.

The value prop of Amazon is (was?) getting your item fast (not cheapest anymore and certainly not highest quality).

It was very common in the 2012-2018 era. Batteries have gotten larger (less cycles) and better (sustain more cycles before losing capacity) since then.

Also phones don't have the same sophisticated circuitry or devices as a car to keep batteries in an optimal state, e.g. Nissan Leaf gen 1, which had significant range losses (on top of having a small range to begin with).

999/1000 times if you track the package, it was going ground on a freighter.

That price is generally way too low to include air mail.

No wonder Amazon decided to basically create their own logistic chain.

Fedex/UPS cost for a single package is roughly ~$13.95 (this was ~5 years ago when I was working in ecommerce) and even if Amazon was getting a huge discount from them for the volume they do, it was still probably nowhere near $1/package.

What's kind of an annoying side effect of this is that you have all this fancy new display tech, like quantum dot LED (marketing term, but w/e), or OLED, but it's all pointless because you're just watching it with crappy compression, negating the quality gains.

"Knowing how things work" is a stone-age attitude.

What absolute nonsense. To openly admit to be proud of one's ignorance.