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- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
They would need a new core design
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
Do you know how much money you have to pay to make a RISC V chip? Even less than that, since it’s free
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 weeks ago:
It depends, if you work in a statically typed language you can just use a tool to refactor. I bet a ton of advice is from JavaScript programmers where it’s simply not safe to do this.
My first job doing JavaScript I realized the IDE’s refactor tool wasn’t aware that two variables of the same name were in fact a different variable. Due to how scoping works, it’s hard to write a reliable tool to rename variables for JS. I accidentally introduced a bug renaming a variable.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 weeks ago:
I’d rather be a bad programmer that gets stuff done than a good programmer who’s just jerking off about proper design
t. good programmer
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Nice try, Satya
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 month ago:
Is Amazon a tech company?
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 month ago:
Google maps is already good enough as a replacement. In fact in some countries it’s the best review aggregator
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 month ago:
Programming is already too hard for a regular person
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
I guess when edge stops supporting v2 you’ll just look at ads then
I won’t
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Or Firefox?
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
I don’t know if those work, and whether they continue to work against a state adversary. When you find a new workaround, there are ways to detect it
Reality is actually fairly hard to block because the VPN sends a hello to the camouflage website. It uses the connection to the camouflage website to pretend it’s sending data from it, when it’s actually sending data from the real destination.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
They just block the VPN protocol, you need to pretend to be a website
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
It’s blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
It’s blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
Normal VPNs don’t work in Russia, you need one that’s masked as usual traffic now.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 1 month ago:
45% now since the data only goes back 100 years
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 1 month ago:
S&P 500 up this September officially
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
There are always new techniques and improvements. If you look at the current state, we haven’t even had a slowdown
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
The amount of waste is tiny. Coal plants cause more radiation than nuclear plants because of tiny amounts of radioactive matter in coal. You need to burn so much coal the amount of radioactivity is higher per unit of energy.
Until we shut down all coal plants we shouldn’t even think about closing nuclear plants
- Comment on Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal 1 month ago:
It used to take a computer with a ton of ptocessors to beat the best human. Now your phone can do it. When your most common tasks can be done on a phone NPU, and fewer GPUs need to be in the cloud it will get more efficient
- Comment on Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal 1 month ago:
Vault number 98, 2k, 2003, 7, 8, 10, 11
- Comment on Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal 1 month ago:
It puts out literally zero carbon. Once you build a nuclear plant it’s 100% green after the construction
- Comment on AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem 2 months ago:
My man, by the time I read this comment it was 1% down YTD
Shows how much you know, talking about returns over a few months
It’s up 361% over last 5 years, which is beating $QQQ (tech stocks in general) which is up 138% and $INTC which is down 63%
$NVDA is up 2295% over that time frame and it’s a ridiculous comparison, almost no company grew that fast
$AAPL must be shit since it only grew 309% over 5 years, right?
- Comment on AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem 2 months ago:
If you bought it for $700 back in the day, that’s $1000+ in current dollars
- Comment on UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London 2 months ago:
It could. For example, I learn better by myself than in a classroom setting.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Let’s say I browse to a YouTube link. I have an ad-blocker, so ads don’t load. How can I read the TOS when the video already played? I can’t agree to the TOS yet because I haven’t read it yet
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Because his video got removed for ad blocking and/or talking about third party clients
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
We already knew about back to school sales, they happen every year and they are priced in. If there was a real stock market dump every year in September, everyone would short September, making a drop in August and covering in September, making September a positive month again
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
The broader market did the same thing
$560 to $510 to $560 to $540
So why did $NVDA have larger swings? It has to do with the concept called beta. High beta stocks go up faster when the market is up and go down lower when the market is done. Basically high variance risky investments.
Why did the market have these swings? Because of uncertainty about future interest rates. Interest rates not only matter vis-a-vis business loans but affect the interest-free rate for investors.
When investors invest into the stock market, they want to get back the risk free rate (how much they get from treasuries) + the risk premium (how much stocks outperform bonds long term)
If the risks of the stock market are the same, but the payoff of the treasuries changes, then you need a high return from stocks. To get a higher return you can only accept a lower price,
This is why stocks are down, NVDA is still making plenty of money in AI
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
It would if everyone already had it installed.