They proved my point brilliantly.

Jokes on them, LLM will never scale into a general purpose AI, nor even a profitable one for 99% of use cases. Yet the trillions being poured into data center hardware has a half life of about 3-4 years of utility, meaning hundreds of billions are guaranteed to be wiped out. It may be possible to get another fundamental breakthrough, but realistically this isn’t possible because the current AI models have been around for 15+ years and it took more than a decade for them to actually mature to a bare level of usefulness. We aren’t seeing these so we know trillions will be guaranteed to be flushed down the crapper, while vastly increasing our utility bills, cutting jobs not out of productivity gains but to afford the hardware, and while AI won’t ever go away, these fools and their money will soon be parted. That’s why he’s sweating.

A public square is owned by the public and is public property with people having a right to be there generally. 99.999% of “public” discord space is privately owned, without guarantee of constitutional right to speech (as in US), without any rights in general and you may be banned for nearly any or no reason at any time with no notice. Pubic services are subject to freedom of information (or at least were before this administration) and therefore any algorithm, rules, or similar must be disclosed whereas private ones are often curated by proprietary means. Public squares are paid for by the public and are generally incredible value for the $ spent and offer you a valuable thing whereas if you aren’t paying through the nose you’re the product and will be played to maximize engagement and extract maximum value, usually in ads.

Maybe it’s time we demand an actual online public square for discourse, one that’s free at the point of service and that ideally has the same overhead to value our public roads provide. Because now no one actually uses public squares, information is far easier to share electronically it does not make sense to do it physically, and it’s physically impossible to have the same reach as electronic when you have a powerful message that will organically spread. The constitution guarantees you can’t be silenced for nearly any reason.

It's normal that the most expensive version of something changes price less, often not at all, when other models are experiencing high inflation. The most expensive model is already the highest price the buyer can bear.
Cheapest 9070XT is now priced less than a mid-priced 9060XT.

Same with anything else; cheap milk doubled in price, but grass fed organic milk didn't change at all.
Cheap eggs quadrupled in price, pasture raised local eggs didn't change.

I paid $439.99 for my 9060XT in January, exact same model is $649.95 right now, a difference of $210,62.

Definitely a thing.

On the contrary, when you introduce your experience as relevant to a conversation then people's assessment of your experience is something they evaluate. That's why you share your experience; because you want others to take it into consideration. You'd have to be very simple-minded to think they'll just agree with you blindly without weighing your words.

Cast iron isn't unbreakable, and if you think it is that's very consistent with a person who packed it poorly, resulting in damage. Everything you say is just reinforcing that the system was working, you were a poor seller and rage-quit when people demanded you do better.

Yes. And... "duh?" Are you an idiot? (Don't answer that)

On most purchases it says, "Buyer pays return shipping." There is no financial gain by smashing something and then paying shipping to return it. They end up out their shipping, they lost money. So yes, you demand they return it and use their refusal to return it to win any dispute. And you put a comment on their feedback that they refused to return it. (And don't add additional insults that make you look bad, just give the relevant facts concisely)

It's not rocket science. There are lots of sellers who have huge numbers of sales, and they don't have the levels of bad buyers that the neckbeards on slashdot claim. Less than 1 in 1000. People who claim most of their buyers are trying to scam them are toxic sellers. In the case of the slashdot neckbeards it's probably unintentional; they're probably just too anti-social to comprehend what the normal "common sense" market expectations are for a seller. I mean, just click on their comment history.

Neither, it's just more popular right now.

Cyrix released their MediaGX CPU with integrated GPU (and audio chipset) in 1996.

I guess you'd be shocked to learn that that is actually an everyday occurrence. It's usually pronounced "Delphi" instead of "Pascal," though. It's popular in enterprise because it provides deep windoze integration at the same time as portability to mobile OSes.

You started strong but, as usual, you quickly went off the rails.

He's just an executive who got lucky who made a ridiculous buyout offer he can't finance so he can stay relevant. He's not "in power." He's in charge of a shitty little company that is failing slower than expected because they're popular with dude-bros and incels. He wasn't elected to anything, he isn't running for office, and the political system has nothing to do with this story at all.

I have about $500 of vintage tools I ordered from ebay in the mail right now. I've also got over a dozen camera lenses that I purchased on there.

They're a thriving business with a high profit margin, reasonable debt load, good cash flow, and consistent modest earnings growth.

Also, enshitification of the work environment and mistreatment of employees in general makes for a who gives a crap mentality that’s backed up by a belief of a bad reference no matter what you do. This leads to indirect sabotage of everything and long term rot from the inside. Eventually even billion dollar momentum crumbles under its own mass. It’s myopic late stage greed.

There are 10 kinds of people that understand Bigfoot. Those that do and those that don’t.

I was picturing a woman with a lot of makeup and an affected smile typing loudly, measured. You know she can type twice that fast, but she knows everybody stopped to listen.

Most people only have access to that via websites, so checking a new password by transmitting it to a third party would be the worst thing they could do.