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How many users did Netscape have?

Californian seems like a state with a golden goose they keep trying to kill in ever more idiocitally inventive ways.

You assume far too much competence.

Police have unions.

And what if congress renames it tomorrow? They have the votes. These sort of procedural gotchas are as stupid as they are boring.

> And what if congress renames it tomorrow?

Then tomorrow it will be the Department of War. Just like When Congress voted to split the old Department of War into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force, and to take both of those and the previously-separate Department of the Navy under a new National Military Establishment led by the newly-created Secretary of Defense (and when it later to voted to rename the NME as “Department of Defense”), things changed in the past.

> They have the votes.

Perhaps, but the law doesn't change because the votes are in a whip count on a hypothetical change, it changes because they are actually cast on a bill making a concrete change.


This is a willfully ignorant misreading of what's actually going on. They've decided to use the "Department of War" moniker in part because they think it sounds cool, but more significantly because it demonstrates they can break the law with impunity. Hence, there has not been a vote on the matter.

What law?

Like op said, they have values. You just don't agree with their values.

AI demand isn't going away. It will just move from the data center to the local machine. On device AI is much better for the customer than it being in the cloud. Expecting people to stick with a few dozen gb of hbm is going to be the 'no one needs more than 640kb' of the 2030s.

> On device AI is much better for the customer than it being in the cloud

Which is exactly how you know it will always be nerfed. The last thing these guys want is to take their claws out of our data.


It's being delayed by ai companies from running on local consumer grade machines specifically by making the cost of entry too expensive. OpenAi buys 40% of wafers to ensure the price of memory stays high.

Hmm, never considered a targeted squeeze at consumer run models by way of slowing hardware proliferation. It "made sense" to try and box out other AI companies but I guess they also have a pretty strong vested interest in keeping VRAM low or preventing some kind of high-memory PCIe ASIC from getting cheap broad adoption.

Another thread suggested that OpenAIs primary play is to get big enough that it's too big to fail, funny to think that it's not a funding runway or algorithmic moat, just a hardware vault and the longer you can stop boats crossing it the more chance you get your fingers in all the pies.


> AI demand isn't going away.

I'm not sure about that. When was the last time you have used Copilot prompt in Run dialog or Notepad?


About 10 minutes ago in Emacs.

That's not fair. Anybody could've done that.

Now try to really sincerely use copilot prompt in the Run dialog.


I'm on Linux.

Ah so you want things done the easy way? That's not fair. Everybody could have been running Linux and avoiding Microslop whatsoever.

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Not so. Evil mode is a great text editor.

Half of developers are below average. Half of developers say that the code Ai produces is amazing. Would you like a venn diagram?

Latest developer surveys (StackOverflow, DORA, DX, Pragmatic Engineer, etc.) show AI adoption up to 85 - 90%. Can you incorporate that into the venn diagram? ;-)

minor correction: they say AI produces code that is 'mostly' amazing.

You’re saying that AI is already good enough to replace 50% of developers. Sounds like you agree it will be very important.

He's saying the good half of developers have to deal with the increased slop output of the bad half. Probably will be overwhelmed by it, in the end.

It _can_ produce slop if people stop thinking. I've also seen it do just fine, when people know when, where and how to use it. That's the part that frightens me, not the code it makes itself.

I will have to bring out the Venn diagram.

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