Are you saying that when this bubble bursts, we'll have crypto bros hype crypto again, so they can make a buck with their cheaply gotten but energy hungry GPGPUs? Fsck what a nightmare...

In Switzerland, there's very little corruption, similarly, because it's all legalized...

Philips Semiconductors are now called NXP, also spun off. And Philips also founded TSMC. How the mighty have fallen...

Pff, amateurs. I'm supervising my bunch of loop managing agents, which loop over looping the loop writer agents so the agentic loopers can agentically loop the looping agent loops. Catch up, you're already falling behind!

Reminds me of that old quote about how computers let you make your mistakes very accurately and incredibly fast.

Just because you're recursively automating and parallelising code generation doesn't change the fact that you're a moronic wannabe-developer and have no idea what you're doing, Jack.

Or maybe it won't. Results show that model performance starts degrading sharply as the absolute size of the context window grows -- anything beyond a certain size (I think it was about 100k) seems to approach a systemic limit, so bigger context windows are a marketing thing without much relevance.

In England, crossing a road with a safe middle section, he'd look to the left, see nothing, walk into the street and get instantly hit by a car from the right... His last words might well be: Scheibe! I hat to haven looking ze ozer wey, und ze Car was right to run me over...

Switzerland won't ever get that far in the near future, because electricity generation is around 60+% hydro and 30% nuclear. (Plus 5 percent solar / renewable.) From that point, getting 50% of electrical power from nuclear would require tremendously increased consumption for the Swiss to enter into the green side of your list, which isn't desirable for obvious reasons. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Maybe you were joking, but I find it highly amusing that people still seem to utter the meme-ish "you'll get left behind" in earnest.

Mate, if LLMs ever become able to cash in even a fraction of the productivity gain cheques the providers have written, there's nothing to fall behind on. There very selling point is that it takes no time or skill to "catch up".

Claude seems to not have been involved in the games side of things at all, only peripherals etc. He doesn't even have a MobyGames profile (vs. his brother Yves who is credited on more than 600 games there).

Also, in pretty poor taste. Also, factually quite off. Ubisoft used to publish excellent games. Rayman. Splinter Cell. Rainbow Six. Ghost Recon. Beyond Good & Evil. XIII.

They don't need their own cameras, they can just piggyback on the network the "good guys" have set up.

We're not living in the middle ages anymore. It makes quite a difference if being in public means a neighbour could see what you're up to, or if it means there is a database that allows anyone with access to, within seconds, profile your every step, movement and action in public over the last 5 years. It feels like a big enough difference to warrant some laws protecting against it.

Godwin's law has lost a bit of its edge, now that actual, open, self-admitted Nazis are once more taking positions of power in Western democracies.

During my engineering classes, the example was made time and again, that NTSC was accumulating a specific drift, which got cancelled on PAL. Now I was too late to the States to see any NTSC TV in action, it was all already digital, but plenty of acquaintances have, and all agreed that "our (analogue) TV is better than their (analogue) TV" which may or may not have been the case, for this and or other reasons.

What I do know of a friend who worked in video editing, back in the day for MTV, was that for broadcast, everything had to be smashed such that all TVs could show the image. He gave me a VHS of Aerosmith once, saying the quality of that was going to be way beter... He couldn't bear to watch his work on broadcast TV.

Making a good car as opposed to a hard to fix, planned obsolescence iPad on wheels might drive sales and numbers... Not saying getting more efficient is a bad idea but the other thing might do more for the bottom line.

Redhat makes money selling support. They pushed Systemd. Makes sense. No one could push back well enough. Here we are.