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And it's animated!

There's a shockingly unfathomable level of data compression that these local LLMs are able to remember in an encyclopedic way, so many obscure little things.

There's a summary of this essay on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Guillotine

This is a 1957 essay by Algerian-French philosopher Albert Camus.

One way AI can help here is identifying prior art. Write a quick sketch of you idea, and ask an LLM with uncapped long-running web search capability to find if any prior art exists!

That revenue number is almost meaningless, since they give out tokens at a loss. Especially with Composer 2.5 tokens are sold at a steep loss. They could certainly grow to $8 billion/year, with this negative revenue / heavily subsidized subs, but what will happen if Cursor decide to be profitable, or maybe to even just break even?

Composer 2.5 is very heavily discounted with a Cursor subscription. You effectively pay 2% of the API price of Composer 2.5 Fast with a subscription.

Does Deepseek offer any discounted tokens subscription like that?

Composer 2.5 Fast that Cursor is giving away for very little has been amazing.

Couldn't just a single Flatpak release be sufficient?

Flatpak can be set up on many/most distros.

What do you mean it's dead? It's up at: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23 with the last benchmark having been in February 2025, but they don't run their benchmarks that often, only once a year or less as its rounds history indicates.

Used laptops are such a good deal that you could something high quality in excellent condition for so little that I almost can't justify buying something like this. Like used Dell XPS laptops are ridiculously cheap and they're amazing for the used price.

Or really buy any laptop rated highly by Dave2D or other reviewers that's 4 to 5 years old.

Linux can run games better than both Windows and Mac. Steam's Proton derived from Steam now runs Windows games on Linux with better performance than Windows.

I'd like to see a study that compares Python and Ruby, against (1) Rust, (2) C, (3) C++, (4) Zig, (5) Go, (6) a JVM language (like Scala or Kotlin or Clojure), and (7) the main CLR language (C#).

I would imagine that all 7 of them absolutely trounce Python and Ruby.

Python and Ruby have been an immense environmental (and type safety) disaster.

JS though (via V8 and other engines) has been surprisingly fast. I've always wondered why Python and others couldn't copy some of the tricks V8 uses to be fast...

He was Staff-level as well. That's minimum $500k a year or more. And tenure often grows pay disproportionately at Google. That's easily $20 million lost.

You'll talk to people and it's like 25% of their brain has been taken over by a parasite that replicates itself by amplifying their tribe's Talking Point of The Day.

This is so true.

So many people just parrot whatever nonsensical talking point they heard.

Regurgitating things without an ounce of reflection or critical thought.

Nationalization is arbitrary and wrong. That's not what I'm proposing.

We'd largely be transferring shares in companies to the treasury bond holders, ie the people and orgs who hold US debt.

The federal government might for example force mega-sized private companies like Koch Industries to go public to get an accurate market valuation (or just sell it to private equity by starting a bidding war on it across many private equity investors).

The wealth tax cutoff would be determined by the national debt. It might fall to a relatively harsh / low threshold like 99.9% of assets over $20 million. Or maybe 99% of assets between $20 million to $1 billion, and 99.9% on assets above $1 billion.

Treasury bonds themselves would be subject to the wealth tax, so someone with $100 billion in T bonds might just see 99% of $80 million erased. So even the total number of T bonds payable will drop under this wealth tax.

But someone with $100 million in shares in private and public companies will see their shares transferred to the federal government, and then eventually sold.

Once every T bond has been paid off, Congress and the states could try to close the centuries-long chapter on debt by trying to pass a balanced budget constitutional amendment.

I don't think it would be bad for equity in any way. It might actually be good instead actually.

First, the general public would have more disposable income if we shift more of the tax burden on the ultra rich.

Second, people like Elon Musk won't be able to give themselves massive bonuses that are essentially paid by diluting common stock.

Also, with regard to the U.S., the U.S. could wipe out its national debt with a one-time wealth tax, and also pass a balanced budget const. amendment so it never ends up deep in debt again.

Lastly, perverse and extremely greed-based exploitative businesses might become less common, since there aren't ultra fat executive paychecks. Although it might still happen if a large group of people are able to make a somewhat high salary off such schemes.

Perhaps U.S. workers could threaten to strike as well...

In India, you've got lots of relatively-speaking well-off people. And extreme poverty that would shock and boggle the mind. Poverty worse than in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions of the "middle class" (which is just making over $12k USD a year) literally drive their cars through impoverished streets into their homes.

Is this true for all carriers? Or just Verizon? Several Reddit threads say that it's just Verizon. T-Mobile users report being able to bootloader unlock after getting their phones carrier unlocked by T-Mobile.

Sadly, Verizon Pixel phones, even after carrier unlocking, seem to be forever blocked from using GrapheneOS.

You're implying that the U.S. securities worth hundreds of billions held by a nation will be under threat of theft (by the U.S. government itself?) because the nation doesn't "have bargaining chips"?

So the U.S. will begin to rob and plunder the bank accounts of countries that don't have a bargaining chip?

Is that where the U.S. heading? The daylight roberry of the bank accounts of foreigners?

A sovereign wealth fund with over $1 trillion USD (so with over $1 million per Emirati citizen) which invests heavily in U.S. equities will be sold for pennies?

So U.S. equities will be sold for pennies?

Are you predicting a U.S. stock market crash bigger than the Great Depression, when oil runs out?

Don’t we need at least four for 100 Mbps?

This is amazing work. Thank you.

At that point you can still fall back onto swap on NVME.

This is pretty darn awesome. I haven’t checked it out yet, but I’m already psyched about it.

Eventually, if they’re old stock European-American, that essentially means that they’re the descendants of invaders (i.e. illegal immigrants who never got the consent of the Native Americans to settle).

This is factually wrong. Freedom of speech (1st am.) is for all.

They're in the "get 'em hooked" stage of the drug deal.

You're implying that people are selling inference at below cost right now. That's certainly not true for most third-party inference providers. I doubt API pricing at Anthropic or OpenAI is being solid below cost either.

The only place where you get what you're talking about are the fixed price plans OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, etc. sell.

The stuff coming out of young republicans is beyond the pale. These kids are making vile jokes about doing a genocide / Holocaust of Democrats, minorities, their political opponents, etc.

And they’ve been consistently doing it for so long in this chat, that it’s hard to dismiss this as some crass joking. It seems like many of these people sincerely hold pro-Nazi views.