I had the choice when buying a new PC to go with single threaded 64-bit or multiple cores. Particularly for gaming, I figured a single core was all I really needed, and 64-bit was the future.

The correct choice at the time was multiple cores. Everything going to 64-bit wasn’t going to happen until that computer was long dead.

Yeah, nuance exists. Weird, I know.

They could, actually. I was there, in the olden times.

Not efficiently, of course. And these days it’d be a disaster. But it was possible.

I’ve been banned from plenty of subreddits and things. Generally it involves going into a circlejerk and telling them something they don’t want to hear.

r/conservative, r/antivax, r/Tesla, either of AI or anti AI, whatever.

The corp doesn’t get the tax break either way.

You only get it if you claim it (in the US), of course. Nobody is tracking that for you.

The corporation does not get a tax break.

They get the PR, and they get some leverage over the org they’re donating to. But, you know, the leverage is that they stop collecting money to the org, so if you refuse to give in the first place then…

It’s better to give to the charities of your choice without needing some other corp to effectively advertise and collect for them, but that seems unlikely. It probably is helpful that someone is out there advertising. It may be worth making that deal with the corp.

Why is it anyone’s business if he’s a virgin or not?

That was painful to watch for many, many reasons. The commentary, the interview questions, and of course the answers.

Do yourself a favor. If you already know Fuentes is a self-avowed Nazi, don’t give that video attention.

How do I put this.

AI isn’t exactly the cause of the rise in the price of hardware. Only 1/6th of the purchased Nvidia cards are actually in data centers. Same for the memory.

We’re not using it.

What’s really drumming up all the prices is that the billionaires are convinced that AI is going to replace tons and tons of people. It’s not. It’s the insane corporate hype that’s doing all the damage.

It will replace some, sure. The same way the electric drill replaced carpenters. One electric drill does not replace one carpenter. That’s not how that works. Instead the carpenters can work a bit faster and their job is a bit easier. It’s worth buying and it’s worth using, but it doesn’t really replace a person. Accountants didn’t disappear as a profession when spreadsheets were invented.

There were books written in the 1980s about how household appliances raised the standard of cleanliness. Turns out people change clothes more when cleaning clothes doesn’t involve a washing board. And I don’t think Roombas replaced that many jobs either.

In particular, I think this is a thing that will happen for software development. I don’t think it’ll reduce the number of developers we need. I think the standards for development will just be higher. All the front end stuff in particular is going to get easier, and you won’t need as many frameworks. We’ll especially need just as many devs, if not more, in the short term. Someone’s going to have to fix the mess all these companies are going to make after they’ve fired half their devs and tried to just vibe code everything.

Because AI in this case is the opposite of help, in case Illecors wasn’t clear enough.

It’s almost like it needs a dedicated person to hold its hand as it does your job. I wonder who would be well suited for that task.

It likely doesn’t help that the kids use “AI” as slang for “bullshit”.

Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but…

They’re not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don’t function with less ram.

It’s just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn’t matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.

A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.

The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.

I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.

It’d be a public service in more ways than one.

5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.

anti-China and anti-Russia

Uh huh. Yeah okay.

We’ve had enough projection for a lifetime this decade.

Remember r/reddit ?

Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.

Probably more of the motivation than the listed offense.

As part of the community team for LW, I’ve worked towards this goal as long as I’ve been here. I do not have the authority to make it policy.

But considering, A. There aren’t that many big communities, and B. Users seem to hate any kind of moderation anyway, it doesn’t seem like a big stress point at the moment.

The users have demanded that US news should be allowed in World News because anything that happens in the US affects the world. And, uh, I’ve tested this and it seems to be consensus. I hate it, but any mods that tried to enforce something sane have left, and the users have gotten their way.

I guess everyone just browses all anyway, for now. So they don’t want things removed that have comments regardless of where it’s posted.

If you can read it, they can read it. They have root on the company device.

We have .ml propaganda blaming our only hope of resistance for everything the Nazis do.

It’s not much different from the projection tactic the GOP use. Just in this case it’s “you didn’t stop it”.