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Duties are paid only if the products are being moved from outside into the US. And the other way around it matching tarrifs were enacted (they're almost always are). Digikey Europe might be affected because of global economic consequences but not directly by tarrifs. So short term the price should not change if you're not buying from the US (both ways)

Chat GPT series X, not compatible with Chat GPT X.

Frankly. Whoever decided on this last gen naming at MS needs to come forward. I would love to know what crazy unacceptable collection of circumstances allowed that to happen.

I think the ad revenue is only attractive for new entrants and serves as motivator. Allow to go full time for low pay earlier and invest in the channel. At the point where you need return you have to have sponsor deals and/or merch and other streams.

If you don't burn out before that.

Sunlight is publish the findings and take action after.

They're firing people's, seeing the repercussion and the publishing a list of program names. Not evaluations, not analysis. Nothing substantial, just gotcha out of context strings.

Do you think the entirety of USAID was "fraud" and waste? What about the US park service?

I am not American and the only time I saw my country do this kind of action in this manner was during its military government.

This gets repeated a lot but in reality hiring is a skillset that good programmers sorely lack.

I think the amount of money is explained in part by hubris. People in high positions think they're at least what they earn more smart and capable than people at the bottom of the org. So its reasonable, expected, borderline obvious that a computer bot can replace that person. So you're betting on the ability of it to get rid, if not of your junior devs at least the majority of your customer support staff.

In reality people doing "menial" jobs are smart and learn and operate with a lot of nuance than people ignore given unfamiliarity or just prejudice. Do you prefer to talk to a chatbot or a real human when you have a problem, how confident are you really, that even if the bot knows what the problem is it would be able to solve it.

Lots of problems with customer care is anchored in the issue that support staff is not allowed to fix or resolve problems without escalation or attempts at keeping you from costing more money. The bot might be better at it for the company because it will frustrate you enough to give up that 30 bucks refund, idk.

Ai seems to change a lot the dynamics of corporate jobs but I haven't seen yet anything that would be a game changer outside of it. Its great for searching company unorganised and messy knowledge bases.

They don't seem to care about Ai either. The vast majority of people care about the value they're getting, companies care abut open source because its usually free.

I don't think we expect a company to exist solely making a proprietary web server anymore and be a behemoth of 300B. OpenAi might end up at the same model as Nginx or Docker if they don't pivot or find a different model.

Every year seems like we get worse at naming things in non confusing ways. I am waiting for the o1-pro-max now, pro max ultra and pro max ultra plus.

Though I agree that the damage will be limited I don't think it would be very concentrated on people paying attention. Considering notifications get pushed and heavy use of large group chats is common in south America does not take much for it to be promoted to laypeople by the more active followers of Javier. Older people particularly at risk given the excessive trust they give to people In position of power, knowledge of technology and readily available savings in USD on non savings accounts or investments.

The only life worth living is the one that maximizes shareholder value. /s

We don't need to sort every letter but we need to deliver them by hand. And packages, etc.

How many people are required to run the government compared to the size of the population they serve is absolutely a valid metric and makes tons of sense. Not only comparable historically but also across countries.

Per Capita is per person, not GDP btw.

My PC was never updated because the capable 7700K was not supported by win 11 even with TPM. Microsoft dropped the ball hard on system requirements.

The last question to me is the most interesting. I am starting to believe that they don't consider it a failure because they might be lending the money as a bribe to be close/hold something to the guy influencing the president.

Like Trump getting money from DB over and over.

Same way he fights for freedom of speech.

Btw, I have a bridge to sell, interested?

I would be careful with the 4d chess angle given how the twitter deal went through.

Technically correct. Best kind of correct. I stand corrected.

"It's almost like I am good with money" twitted Musk sharing a link for an article citing the 97 cents on the dollar sell out.

It's incredible that Twitter is still worse than it was before the sale on almost any metric you can think of, but because he purchased his way into the government the market just bails him out on the chance they might get on his good graces.

It's just like Trump getting all that DB money. If you're rich and powerful enough you can indeed win over the house and take on the banks. I wonder how much is just the banks counting on this being a way to pay for influence and not really loans worth giving.

I wonder if its better than the current version where my soul gets possessed by youtube shorts for 40 minutes.

Being a criminal is illegal in many places.

I think there is a conjunction of factors at play. Only slower film available means no clear images of action. No digital copies means that most pictures have had LOTS of time to deteriorate before being digitised and reproduced. Most people see images from the 30s as a one copy of a picture the great great grandpa had in a shoebox kept in a moist cellar and no negatives to recover.

I think most people would have had contact with old pictures from newspaper and books that did not prized image quality so you mostly see bad quality pictures with low dynamic range.

The most important pictures of the olden eras, in an artistic setting, would also be experimental photography which is not necessarily concerned with sharpness and traditional qualities, so you see weird stuff.

And, the main culprit, as for most of society misconceptions. Movies and tv shows, you have to age and crap out a picture to look old. I am certainly that the screwed up videotape effect will skew a lot of the expectation of old footage from the 80s-90s.

Put all of that together, there is where I think the expectation comes from.

I have the book Great War, Photographic Narrative. With images from the first world war, the quality of some of the images is outstanding. Those same images would've look terrible on old mass produced books and newspapers.

Thats for giving you credit. Not for spending your own balance.

Asking the treasury to do ideological/legal analysis of transactions is the same as giving your bank the responsibility of approving your credit card expenditure based on their idea of what you need/should buy.

The fact that they're going for the payment system and not for contract/orders analysis is exactly the red flag people are and should be concerned about.

Even If I take everything you said here to the T, being brilliant in making tech startups does not AT ALL mean they'll be brilliant understanding government processes and structures.

This over arrogance of us techies thinking because we're good with computers we're the best at everything is what people are annoyed and, justifiably critical of.

You're going to be responsible to assess and dismantle a government agency with thousands of employees and billions in budget being in your twenties with ZERO gov experience is indeed a huge red flag and not merely putting a target because they're young.

We've all met incredibly accomplished people who are not to be trusted with sharp objects. Expertise in one area does not translate to another easily.

This is what I get on ollama for deepseek-r1:14b. I have no clue how most of this things work and where the triggers are placed. Its a bit eery what it responds for Taiwan.

`` ` ~ ollama run deepseek-r1:14b "Whats the biggest criticism of the government of china?"

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I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.

That's a very reductive and limited way to look at art. You're right in stating it as decoration but I would not conflate the two. Different things, both valuable in its own right.

That seems like a problem of a single large provider and not a connectivity problem. It's a monopoly issue that would be less of a problem if a single or even a minority of players were not the largest producer.

At least electricity can be produced more broadly than gas where you had to win the lottery of location or game of Thrones of imperialism.

Next people will want a interconnected communications channel between countries. Utter pipe dream.

And he will receive the ultimate penalty. A very stern talking to!

Thats a long time to spend in it. Likely stuck trying to quit vim.

He might be getting divorced, at 40, it would explain a lot to me. Not the he did not have this misogynistic view before, but that it was better for him to keep it to himself. Both at home and to avoid backlash into his company.

Now that powerful people are rediscovering that immense power and money gives them a free pass from consequences of being a dick, masks are falling.