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- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Twitter currently has $1.5 billion/year deficit which is a lot, even for Musk, to bankroll.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
Check Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox by Lina Khan (FTC). A very detailed review of how Amazon is a monopoly and how they dodge antitrust legislation.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
That’s not how it works. Or, rather, that’s not only how it works. Sure, advertisers dream of users who see an ad once and run to buy a product. But ad effects are spread over time. They build brand recognition. They fake familiarity. Say you are in a supermarket and you want to buy a new type of product that you haven’t bought before. Very likely you’ll pick something familiar-sounding, which you heard in an ad. Ads pollute the mind even if the most obvious effects are, well, obvious and easily discarded, more subtle influence remains.
- Comment on Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
Exactly!
- Comment on Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance 2 months ago:
Gutting defeated/ousted manager’s projects is an obligatory and unavoidable ritual in corporate environment. Competent or convenient employees are pulled into other teams, pesky/unconvenient ICs are fired since everything can be pinned on the loser. Projects are often dismantled - even profitable ones to remove any possible foothold for a comeback. Shit, now I want to write a corpo book but styled like high school biology textbook.
- Comment on Sousou no Frieren • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Episode 21 discussion 9 months ago:
Frieren is just so awkward, first she looks at Flamme and then squats to copy her. Image Image
Honestly Richter just gave them a good advice. Also note the shape of his complex spell.
But she planned to hurt you without killing you.
We call it a reward over here.
Denken "I wanted to visit a grave"
___ Lied as naturally as he breathed.
Compare the complexity of Frieren’s spell to Richter’s.
Denken never misses an opportunity to advance his cause by holding Richter. Image
Their nod/smile to each other after both pass is so cute.
I liked everything in this episode except for Serie’s male voice which I hated. She deserves better.
- Comment on Sousou no Frieren • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Episode 20 discussion 9 months ago:
Denken “The youth is wasted on the young”.
- Comment on Sousou no Frieren • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Episode 19 discussion 9 months ago:
- Comment on GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better. 1 year ago:
Research linked in the tweet (direct quotes, page 6) claims that for "GPT-4, the percentage of generations that are directly executable dropped from 52.0% in March to 10.0% in June. " because “they added extra triple quotes before and after the code snippet, rendering the code not executable.” so I wouldn’t listen to this particular paper too much. But yeah OpenAI tinkers with their models, probably trying to run it for cheaper and that results in these changes. They do have versioning but old versions are deprecated and removed often so what could you do?
- Comment on is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn 1 year ago:
cs.github.com is the best code search ever offered, especially at GitHub scale.
