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I think eventually, some form of self updating llm memory will replace skills, but in the meantime it is token inefficient for the model to have to parse the entire repo from scratch every time, and skills are an imperfect way to shortcut some of that (drawbacks being the skills are sometimes wrong or outdated)

That's... not what an ab test is.

tbh this is how i remembered that time as well. If you look at recommended system requirements for something like Max Payne (in 2001) vs Unreal Tournament 2003, everything had basically doubled

I would argue that many companies would in fact be better off disappearing for a year, rather than constantly thrashing the company to chase the latest trend.

And judging from the ZIRP hiring sprees and tokenmaxxing, CEOs are more often the driving force behind wasteful spending than they are the safeguards against it...

I feel like we are basically reliving the COVID era supply chain crunch, that it's basically inevitable that in 18-36 months more capacity will come online and prices will crash back to earth.

Whether OEMs like Apple pass these savings along to consumers is tbd though.

I wonder if apple could or would offer a subscription for a OSX VM that you could remote into? That plus a neo would be an excellent combo for me

Everyone hate paywalls, ads, and aggregators. So what business models are even left? Are we just going to have patron supported echo chambers and propaganda from now on?

Not even attempting to control for these factors makes this seem more like a push poll than an actual study

Yeah agree, share of wealth definitely went up for folks who had the money to be invested in the stock market.

My recollection is that some combination of stimulus checks / COVID dynamics made it much harder to hire low wage workers, so employers were "forced" to raise wages in response. At the same time, higher wage workers who got "normal" raises were not keeping up with inflation.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-job-growth-picks-up-may-...

Its interesting, I thought it was pretty well established that COVID era stimulus helped lower earners make real gains, even adjusted for inflation, while higher earners who did not get stimulus checks lost ground?

From page 36 of the paper: All deciles during this earlier period experienced annual real wage growth, with the growth being the largest for the bottom two deciles of the wage distribution.

Nah management consultants are leeches. If they really thought their clients could turn it around with One Simple Trick (that only 22yo ivy league alums could see) they would close up shop and move into PE.

tldr ad funded industry claims key that ceos of competitors for clicks are "hated by young people"

Sure but that's a pretty far cry from G.P.S. is terrible and is hurting your brain

> “I don’t think there’s enough research yet to say G.P.S. is terrible, that it’s hurting your brain,” Hegarty said. But it’s clear that turn-by-turn directions prioritize stimulus response over cognitive mapping.

Articles like this one annoy me so much, where is clear the author started with a premise and backfilled the "evidence". The New Yorker would never publish this kind of speculative innuendo if the article was for example about vaccine hesitancy, so it's frustrating to see that stanard relaxed for other topics.

>the strategy is transparent, he's trying to commoditize his closed rivals

TBF, I think the same can be said for something like Apple's "commitment" to privacy, in that their own ads business never took off so they leaned into their edge over Google.

"If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, you're the asshole."

The irony hopping into a popular post to promote your own tangentially related blog post where you rail against "advertising" is papable.

What's your point?

Potato potato

Well yeah, have you seen how badly some of you people drive?

"Ultimately, people will vote with their wallet"

Seems like a bad way to legislate this, since everyone else on the roads pays the price for cut rate self driving

It's called consentual sex

A right to privacy also includes the freedom to forgo privacy in return for other benefits.

No one in history has ever had an opinion independent of "influence"

SQL generation has gotten very good, and most of the problems listed are no longer as big of a problem. addressing schema rot was always a tedious chore, but now is easily ameliorated by delegating to coding agents. Drifting definitions are solved by giving the agents access to the pipeline code.

However, in my experience the answer a business user needs is rarely the answer to the question they initially ask. Asking for clarification, pushing back on poorly framed or conceived asks where most of the value comes from. LLMs are still too eager to jump into the code, and the sycophancy problem is especially challenging in this space.

But why would a business want to have it's internal communications be on a platform like signal? none of the privacy features feel relevant to work related communications, if anything I think a company needs the ability to see all communications on platforms it uses for audit ability, collaboration, etc

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the advantage of decentralization and cryptographically signed events in the context of a work chat/ coordination tool? Could a company not accomplish the same goal self hosting something like zulip?

Would they have published this study if the correlation was inverted, or would that have been rejected as spurrious bc it goes against our priors?

FWIW they are generally not allowed at majors / world championships / Olympics, just at invite meets where the goal is to promote a fast time

Partially. They're called rabbits[1] (or pacers) whose official role is to run a specific pace, who help encourage a fast race overall rather than a slow buildup with a fast kick.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacemaker_(running)