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Comment Circle jerk (Score 2) 15

Estimated OpenAI revenue for 2025: $12.7b
Estimated loss for 2025: $9b
Estimated spend commit so far: $1.4 trillion

What is another $10b.

"The report notes that this deal helps strengthen Cerebras' IPO prospects."

That all checks out. It doesn't have to be real for the grift to work out. What is another card to house of cards.

Comment Re:What does Musk say to Trump about this ? (Score 3, Insightful) 72

> He's not wrong. The birthrate is plumenting.

And is that a bad thing? How many people can this planet comfortably support without it all turning to shit? At our current population rates, we are burning more oil and spewing it in the air for others to breathe, faster than ever before. And that is just one example of many. People are living longer. Way longer than before. Why would we want billions of additional people piling on to the planet?

I do not know what the correct number of people this planet can currently support. At least with our current state of tech. But 8.3b seems to be more than it can handle. When the technology improves and we could live more sustainably, then perhaps it could support more.

Comment It usually starts out as a trickle.. (Score 5, Interesting) 29

but ends in a stampede. Some people are going to be left holding the bag... of manure.

OpenAI is projected to have a revenue of a little less than $13B in 2025. That is revenue. Not profit. They didn't have a profit for this year, but instead had a loss of $16B. Their spend commitment is $1.5T!!!!

This lunacy is not limited to OpenAI. People have lost their collective minds. This is not going to end well.

Comment Sigma BF = $2000 simple camera (Score 1) 15

Some of these cameras baffle me. Sigma's new BF camera is expensive at $2000. It does not offer any new features over its predecessors. It takes away features. Its main selling point is simplicity. Well, we already have cell phone cameras for that. I fail to understand the target market. Somebody jokingly said that it is an expensive camera for people who hate photography.

Comment Re:BRICS dropping anchors (Score 1) 9

> BRICS will acccccccidentally be dropping and towing anchors EVERYWHERE

Under sea cables are not a new thing and have been around a long time. Some do get cut accidentally. But there is no evidence to support the claim that BRICS are colluding to cut all under sea cables. People live in metaphorical glass houses. If you throw a rock at someone else's house, they might overreact and bulldoze yours.

Comment Completely unreliable data (Score 2) 34

As others have pointed out, you cannot rely on this data for anything meaningful. You could lay people off for any reason and blame it on AI, or lay them off because you think AI would do their work but use a completely different excuse.

This is a good example of completely pointless legislation that adds to the red tape problem.

Comment Windows sleep problems are very old (Score 1) 71

Microsoft has known about the issues with power draw during sleep for many years. Linus TechTips on YouTube even did a name and shame episode on this issue a number of years ago. It got Microsoft's attention. They said they would work on the problem. But the rot must have been very deep. Issues persist to this day. Microsoft has created a monster that they do not know how to control. And they appear to be making things worse as of late with their forced AI tools.

Comment Re:A huge crash is coming (Score 3, Insightful) 92

Agreed. I cashed out all of my investments.

The president of US is asking his own DOJ to give him $230m using taxpayer money because of emotional toll from having lost the 2020 election and various other BS things. There are no parallels to this. Every day I wake up to find out a new massive screwup at the national level. How can any govt. be so destructive to their own country?

We are thoroughly screwed. MAGA wanted to screw over the libs. But they have no idea of the destruction they have unleashed on the American public. When shit hits the fan, they, many of them poor and uneducated, will be first to feel the pain. Farmers who voted overwhelmingly for Trump are already there.

Comment Some people? (Score 4, Informative) 26

> ...during the beta testing period over the summer, user feedback suggested that some people would prefer to have a more opaque option for Liquid Glass.

It is possible and likely that most users prefer the opaque option. Particularly when you show them text getting rendered on top of text. You really do not want transparency in such cases. Transparency is lunacy in UI design. It may look "cool" in some controlled demos. But otherwise looks like a hot mess.

I remember in the early 2000s seeing some Linux terminals that implemented it. The cool factor lasted all of 5 seconds for me because readability was shit.

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