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Nah, I’m not convinced. All I’m convinced of is that you don’t like density, not that it isn’t part of the solution. You don’t get to tell everybody else what the options are.

You raise reasonable points. It seems like a common trend is that housing prices go up anyway due to outside investors buying up property, high income workers moving in and wanting luxury apartments, etc.

Seems like we need to solve the demand part of the puzzle as well. There’s definitely no single easy solution here.

It could also be that too few cities have increased housing supply, so the local effect is totally overwhelmed by a national or global effect.

Either way, the bill is going forward, so we will be able to see the effects and reevaluate its effectiveness.

I don’t think the idea of “just let the population go down” is a reasonable approach. Especially since it will be poorer people pushed out, even lifelong residents who are displaced by highly paid newcomers.

It’s better to try something new and find out you were wrong than to never even try to solve the problem.

Can you list some examples where a city has tried this and it failed?

The only example I can think of is Minneapolis, and they have seen lower rent increases than similar cities, so it seems successful.

But outside of that, I just don’t think it’s been tried enough to really make any conclusions right now.

So basically you want to reap all the benefits from living in a big city without any of the downsides.

California has been trying this for decades and it really isn’t working out, except maybe for people with very high salaries.

Increasing density is the only realistic way to address housing affordability.

If you want rural, then don’t move to a metro area with millions of people.

I wish Microsoft would have never changed the business model of Windows away from paid upgrades.

Now they have no incentive to make good upgrades. Instead, they are only incentivized to add privacy-compromising services that nobody wants or asked for.

Could you please explain how a "neoliberal assault on occidental values" could be causing a deficit of programming jobs in Iraq?

I feel like you're just coming in with an ax to grind that has no relevance to the question being asked here.

Not really. The fact that it came out on top in an iPhone when all the others use large heat sinks and fans makes this result even more impressive.

Sure, under a heavy sustained multithreaded load it’ll throttle.

But the average user will never encounter this. Typical web browsing and office tasks are bursty and mostly single threaded.

Gaming is the only area where it may be more of a problem. But it’s fine for this to simply not be a great gaming laptop. Most laptops aren’t.

That’s brutal.. I wonder why the Apple Silicon transition seemed so much smoother in comparison.

That’s just the thing. Your definition of an “objective metric” can be totally different than somebody else’s.

Biden’s definition of the objective truth is very different than Trump’s. It doesn’t matter what the actual truth is. Whoever’s in charge gets to decide what gets censored.

Do you think Elon would ever shut up about it if he was getting threatened by Biden and the FBI?

Not really. The Switch 2 has many of the most popular games available on other platforms. Plus a lot of Nintendo exclusives. They are not the same for sure, and YMMV for specific titles.

May as well get a Switch 2 at this point. Then at least it’s something new.

Maybe they just want to see one of the biggest stock bubble pops of all time in the US.

Who gets to decide who’s naughty? One day it’s the Biden admin, and the next it’s the Trump admin. That’s the tough part about censorship.

You can leave it up to companies, but what happens when Trump allies like Elon Musk and Larry Ellison buy up major platforms like Twitter and TikTok?

Do we really trust those guys with that much power?

A direct line to threaten decision makers? Or to point out possible misinformation spreaders?

I’d like to invest time into the Linux gaming ecosystem. Though it’s a little daunting that so much of the work would need to be done by Nvidia and major game studios that don’t really care.

Windows just feels irredeemably mediocre at this point. Maybe Windows 12 will improve things, but I’ve been pretty down on 11.

You can use a framework that abstracts all the WASM to JS communication for DOM access. There are many such framework already.

The only issue is that there’s a performance cost. Not sure how significant it is for typical applications, but it definitely exists.

It’d be nice to have direct DOM access, but if the performance is not a significant problem, then I can see the rationale for not putting in the major amount of work work it’d take to do this.

What was it? I would also like a rec in this genre.

True, it may be profitable for pro users. At $200 a month for ChatGPT Pro, it may only take a few years to recoup the initial costs. Not sure about energy costs though.

And of course you’d be getting a worse model, since no open source model currently is as good as the best proprietary ones.

Though that gap should narrow as the open models improve and the proprietary ones seemingly plateau.

Perhaps said software could even form an end to end encrypted tunnel from your phone to your local LLM server anywhere over the internet via a simple server intermediary.

The amount of data transferred is tiny and the latency costs are typically going to be dominated by the LLM inference anyway. Not much advantage to doing LAN only except that you don’t need a server.

Though the amount of people who care enough to buy a $3k - $10k server and set this up compared to just using ChatGPT is probably very small.

Not sure about the Mac Pro, since you pay a lot for the big fancy case. The Studio seems more sensible.

And of course Nvidia and AMD are coming out with options for massive amounts of high bandwidth GPU memory in desktop form factors.

I like the idea of having basically a local LLM server that your laptop or other devices can connect to. Then your laptop doesn’t have to burn its battery on LLM work and it’s still local.

That feels like.. something the compiler should be optimizing for you? I would certainly be among those questioning this code.

That’s the dream with dependent type systems, but from my very limited exposure to them, it seems like it’d be very difficult to encode complex constraints like all of your company’s business logic in this way.

Not saying it can’t be done, but I think it’s a bit telling that no such language has ever caught on.

Unit testing can also be used to verify such constraints and is much simpler. It obviously doesn’t guarantee correct behavior like a proof, but if the tests are comprehensive, it can do a great job.

I also have no idea on the numbers. But I do know that these same companies are pouring many billions of dollars into training models, paying very expensive staff, and building out infrastructure. These costs would need to be factored in to come up with the actual profit margins.

I’m talking about how it impacts society in general, not you specifically. Also, I don’t think you appreciate how deeply AI will affect your life in the future.

The next time you get a CT for example, it might be an AI system that finds a lung nodule and saves your life.

Or for a negative possibility, consider how deepfakes could seriously degrade politics and the media landscape.

There are massive potential upsides and downsides to AI that will almost certainly impact you more than a coupon company.

You must be living on a different planet if you think the adoption and societal impact Groupon was ever remotely comparable to AI.

Qualcomm has a lot of money and Arm wants it. They’re not shy, but greedy.

At what point in time were we ever responsible adults with technology?

Deepfakes have the potential to totally destroy the average person’s already tenuous connection with reality outside of their immediate vicinity.

Some will be fooled by an endless stream of fakes and others will never believe anything again.

Politicians will dismiss footage of them doing or saying something bad as fake. And many times, they’ll be telling the truth.

We are already living in a post-fact world to some extent, but buckle up, because it’s about to get a lot worse.