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gonzalohm··on The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly
I mean, that's the core of capitalism. That's why we are getting worse and worse products over time. Once economies of scale hit its limit, the only way to increase profits (which is what capitalism requires) is to decrease quality.
gonzalohm··on I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
That $1 of compute is not taking into account R&D spending, infrastructure, etc.

And that's their only revenue stream

gonzalohm··on How I Fight AI Brain Fry
I feel like you should do the opposite? Use your brain for real life coding exercises while working. The kind of problems you solve with LeetCode are so disconnected from real life complex systems
gonzalohm··on Writing as a thinking tool
I feel that way about coding. Sometimes you have an idea and a plan to implement it. But once you start coding you realize that some things were not fully right or way more complex that it should If you let AI code for you, you will lose that
gonzalohm··on Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
And sail the ship into Berlin?
gonzalohm··on Good Luck Getting a Cheap GPU. AMD Is a 'Data Center First Company,' CEO Says
I really don't understand the strategy of these companies. I don't care much about AI, but at some point, the current AI models will be able to run in old hardware. Hopefully that would leave room for other manufacturers to get into the market. I understand that right now it's really hard to compete because it requires top notch manufacturing processes. But that's not going to be the case forever.

By being hostile to personal consumers, they may make more profit now, but what's the long term plan?

I still run my 2060GTX and it's fine

gonzalohm··on GitHub's new Git storage architecture
That's exactly my thoughts! AI generated code is not good code, it's just engineered to look good
gonzalohm··on Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
What do you mean about Alan Wake? It's available in online stores
gonzalohm··on Crunchy Moms became 'the most dangerous' group on Facebook
What about Peter Thiel, the guy from Flock, Sam Altman? I think they are also right there
gonzalohm··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
I feel that way but about Anthropic and OpenA lol. Didn't they just get caught sharing your email with every website every time it does a search?
gonzalohm··on Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory
Do you think next year is going to be more favorable? I think investors are wondering where their money is and how anthropic plans to be sustainable long term. But that's the same for every AI company
gonzalohm··on Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory
Wasn't that because of the tariffs?
gonzalohm··on Search for everyone
What's even the point of DNS based safe search? Anyone can change their DNS and use DNS over https, how does DNS safe search work in that instance?

Also blocking the search is pretty weird, what prevents me of typing the URL directly?

gonzalohm··on Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
What's the overlap for that people with Graphene OS users?

You are going through the trouble of installing a privacy first OS and the first thing you do is handle your data to AI companies? That's pretty odd

gonzalohm··on Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
I think progress in that area has kind of plateaued no? We got to a point in which the AI post processing was too noticeable and creating weird artifacts (like the ones in those hyper-zoom pictures) and companies took it down a notch. You can probably find open source alternatives that can compete with closed source ones
gonzalohm··on People say they want small smartphones–Enough Phone will put that to the test
I want a smaller phone, but $599 for it, that seems excessive. Especially considering that the storage is with a microsd. I already had bad experiences with flash storage, I want something more resilient
gonzalohm··on People say they want small smartphones–Enough Phone will put that to the test
Why do you want a closed ecosystem?
gonzalohm··on Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients
Did your insurance pay after finding out that you actually needed one?
gonzalohm··on Moving our warehouse off DuckDB
Right, there is an option to scale horizontally, if a lot of queries are queued, Snowflake can spin up another node. But that doesn't help if you query is spilling to remote storage. You need a bigger node to speed up those queries.

Snowflake has an option to add more resources, which is supposed to be vertical scaling, but it doesn't work as well as increasing the size of the warehouse

gonzalohm··on My Favourite Laptop
I don't think Framework aims to be a laptop that you just set it up and forget. You own everything and that comes with some concessions. Things won't always work, software will always be tricky to make fully compatible, etc.

But that's the price to pay to actually own your laptop.

That said, I heard Mac OS quality has been going downhill since a few years ago

gonzalohm··on WTF Ubuntu?
Which OP doesn't pay, as they claim they use Ubuntu because it comes as default with VPS
gonzalohm··on Moving our warehouse off DuckDB
How does Snowflake use that information? You still need to pick the warehouse. It would be cool if there was an "elastic warehouse" where heavier queries are routed to bigger Warehouses, but that's not the case
gonzalohm··on WTF Ubuntu?
"The free operating system that I use is not giving me enterprise level security updates"

I believe you can contribute to Ubuntu's source code right? Why don't you fix the issue then?

gonzalohm··on So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now
In which ways are you forced to use it though?
gonzalohm··on Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers
After stealing all personal work from the internet one must say
gonzalohm··on What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on
Yes, and distance from Earth actually decreased during part of the year (I believe)
gonzalohm··on A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages
Yes, exactly! If it reads that it took you 10 minutes to code then I'm not paying shit
gonzalohm··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
I can send you a picture of the undercarriage of my 2014 car
gonzalohm··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Search numbers are down because Google search has become crap. I know a lot of people which I don't consider tech enthusiasts and they moved from Google to duckduckgo.

I have moved to Kagi myself

gonzalohm··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
Jokes on you. In the Northeast cars rust in less than 10 years. We don't need parts
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