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2 points·by damnitbuilds·il y a 2 mois·3 comments

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damnitbuilds
·il y a 25 jours·discuss
I asked a question, you moron.
damnitbuilds
·il y a 30 jours·discuss
"Noticed how your HN submission is greyed out because of all the downvotes?"

Downvotes mean nothing on HN, alas.

Factual statements are downvoted because some people don't like the facts quoted. And, worse, mods find that okay.

It makes HN a worse place for serious discussion and for finding out the facts about an issue, because what is discussed is driven by lazy, stupid people's sentiments.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
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damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
Shorting is not as easy as you think. You have to time it right and you risk big losses.

KNOWING OpenAI et al WILL fail is not enough to make money from that.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
"Landing a rocket again nobody had thought it impossible."

Erm, ESA thought it was a dream:

"Twenty years ago, before SpaceX had launched a single rocket, Richard Bowles, a sales director of the European Arianespace launch consortium, said SpaceX’s ambition to launch, recover and reuse rockets, cutting the price of launches in half, was a dream.

‘SpaceX primarily sems to be selling a dream. Which is good, we should all dream,’ he said. ‘I think reusability is a dream… How am I going to respond to a dream?… First of all you don’t wake people up. They have to wake up on their own… They’re not supermen. Whatever they can do, we can do.’"

https://spectator.com/article/spacex-has-put-europe-to-shame...
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
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damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
Books like this are for tech bros what horoscopes are for sad old ladies.

They are full of platitudes that sound relevant to people's problems and desires, that pretend to be based on science but have no actual basis in facts, provably do not work, and yet are still popular amongst the people they let down again and again.

Anyone who could write a book with advice that worked the way this purports to would be too rich to need Kickstarter to fund his books, for a start.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
You should, however, ( assuming your ideas are correct ) be able to look at a company and tell if it is following your ideas or not and will therefore ( assuming your ideas are correct ) be successful or not, and therefore make billions investing.

Have you done that ?
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
Trump attacks renewables, coal dies.

Trump attacks Iran, Iran is more powerful.

Trump pushes cryptocash. Cryptocash crashes.

Atrack me, Don !
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
Seriously, what sort of fuckwit downvoted this ?
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
If you drop a dumb bomb on an area, it kills everyone there.

If you release an autonomous drone in an area, it will probably kill everyone there, but might use its AI to decide not to kill some people there.

Why is the latter worse than the former ?
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
Boycott evil companies.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
"Similar analyses were done on wheels, which were observed to be sequentially numbered (i.e., 1, 2, 3, ..., N)."

Ah. So that's what sequential numbers are.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
YET ANOTHER story about how great AI is...

...written by YET ANOTHER guy pushing an AI company.

Stop this nonsense - you are embarrassing yourselves and fooling no-one.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
The author picked Napoleon because of the belief that he was shorter than average and included a sum showing that they think he was shorter than average.

Napoleon was not shorter than average.

-> Bad History.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
This article is just an advert disguised as journalism.

" Most experts agree that Turkey’s strategy for success in hair transplantation no longer relies on low prices or volume; instead, it hinges on creating an unshakable brand value through innovation, purpose-built technological equipment, and medical expertise that has proven itself on a global scale. "
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
Tech means things should get progressively better.

Why don't companies see that people will pay a reasonable amount for better things, but making it worse and charging too much means people will go elsewhere ?

We have seen through the enshittification, IBM, NYT, HP, Netflix, etc. etc.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
My "Oh shit" moment was when my boss got the bill for me trying to vibe code a bugfix.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
"B"

Because "billion" was too hard to type.
damnitbuilds
·le mois dernier·discuss
I like socialism. I believe in people.

I hate the demented woke. I believe in people.

There is nowhere for normal sensible people any more.