bentobean

This is a joke.

Someone has to win. It might as well be me.

I would really like to hear more about these acquaintances who think they are evolving.

> We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months.

If true, how much of this is a result of:

1. Genuine technical advancement

or:

2. Shoveling trillions of dollars into compute resources in order to service incoming LLM requests in a way that is completely unrealistic over the long term?

In other words… are we talking about genuine, sustainable innovation that we get to take with us moving forward and benefit from? Or are we talking about an “improvement” that is more akin to a mirage that will eventually disappear when the Ponzi scheme eventually collapses?

Now all we need is a thumbnail next to each headline showing the author making some stupid face.

I’m not so sure that equating more laws produced with “greater productivity” is necessarily the right idea.

I can still remember what my fourth grade teacher once told my parents:

> Your son could do anything he wants if he’d just sit down and shut up.

Is the US perfect? Of course not. But considering the alternatives, yes - I am glad the US can serve as the arbiter.

> It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region. — Ali Khamenei

Does that sound like someone who should have a nuclear arsenal?

> It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

> Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.

> Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region.

> Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.

- Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran

Those who defend the Iranian regime or suggest that the Israeli government is the greater threat do so to their disgrace. SMH.

I think it’s a nonstarter that conflicts with 1st amendment principles, but I don’t necessarily disagree with the underlying sentiment that you’re expressing. Things like this are just the price we pay for living in a free / democratic society. But kudos to you for thinking outside the box.

You’re right. New plan: let’s ban all paid advertisements except for those that are approved by a committee of government officials. /s

Sure, and after that let’s ban: potato chips, sugar water, sex outside the hours of 6:00 - 7:00 PM, caffeine, plastic straws, and non-bran-based cereals.

Yes, people need to take care of themselves, but part of that involves a degree of personal responsibility.

“Let’s ban paid advertisement.” This is not a serious discussion.

I don’t feel demoralized.

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I grew up in the Adventist church. I am still a Christian (although no longer Adventist). While I don’t agree with it at all, it is actually true that there are some weird pockets within the denomination that either overtly or tacitly approve abortion. It’s very bizarre.

It’s important to bear in mind the distinction between slavery and indentured servitude. While both are terrible, projecting modern day morales onto scripture on this subject isn’t appropriate. It’s not like people could file for bankruptcy as we know it 2,000 years ago. You had to work it off.

Where I live, there is a chain of "vacuum repair" shops. There are like 4 - 5 of them in an area no bigger than 60 square miles. I've always assumed they were a money laundering front. Are that many people repairing their vacuums?

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.

Wait, I’m confused. Are you both insinuating that Bill Maher is a Trump fan?

It's funny—S3 started as a "simple" storage service, and now it's handling entire table abstractions. Reminds me how SQL was declared dead every few years, yet here we are, building ever more complex data solutions on top of supposedly simple foundations.

First it was Facebook, now it’s Twitter / X. What you’re essentially saying is - “I can’t take a platform seriously where many / most of the people disagree with me.”

Welcome to programming’s universal truth: All code decays. Not because we’re bad at our jobs, but because we’re too good at surviving in a system that incentivizes speed over sanity.

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