It does not. The $1 of electricity can be simplified to just a $1
However, the way the parent worded it ie $1 of compute electricity - requires the compute to exist and temporarily be loaned. Otherwise “just a $1” would require a massive capex to buy/build compute.
Self driving cars have existed for at least a year now. It only took a decade of “1 years away” but it exists now, and will likely require another decade of scaling up the hardware.
I think AGI is going to follow a similar trend. A decade of being “1 years away”. Meanwhile, unlike self driving the industry is preemptively solving the scaling up of hardware concurrently.
Having both worked at Amazon and still in the cloud industry, to me this seems like a strange take.
Apple leases these computers from Amazon like it would from any other colo. Why wouldn’t these servers be considered Apple servers?
Barring a major privacy violation by AWS (which doesn’t seem likely), or some other sort of 0-day hack the data on these servers is entirely private to Apple.
I now get to the gym (or some form of exercise) 6 days a week. That was entirely because I made the decision to go to the gym and watch some YouTube.
Then I’d end up staying 90 mins but I’d get my 50 min workout in with a lot of long breaks! Then things started becoming a habit but I still have many days where I just watch YouTube at the gym lol
I think one of the most important lessons in life (even as a healthy person) is realizing “motivation and action are cyclically causal”
Of course “action follows motivation” but even when not motivated “motivation follows action”.
For example, even as a healthy person I am not always motivated to go to the gym after a busy day at work which I am “so tired from”. I go dispite the lack of motivation. Unsurprisingly, I walk out of the gym feeling re-motivated and “with more energy”.
I turn a lot of real photos into cartoons. I love the feature!
Most recently I took a photo of my grandma and me, asked Gemini to make it a cartoon, asked Gemini to make the new variant into a birthday card.
My grandma loved it! I was happy to make her something custom. Buying people cards just never felt right to me. Writing was also never my strongest suit - so this new form of expression for me has been enhancing :)
The only remaining thing I need to do better is getting the card printed! I wish that also was only 12seconds of work.
I empathize with your opinion Dig1t. War is horrible and meat grinders are especially so.
But when a victimized population like Ukraine decides it wants to keep fighting. Especially given:
> Ukraine should be opposed to depopulating itself.
Then you gotta ask yourself:
Given they would rather die than suffer the consequences of a compromise.
Then maybe they know something about the consequences of that compromise that you and I can’t? and if so, maybe we should continue trusting the victims to not compromise ?
I have a painpoint. The company I want to do business with is a company willing to solve my painpoint for me for some money. Im willing to pay them and the ecosystem to solve it for me.
You have a painpoint. The company you want to do business with doesn’t want to solve it for you, for any amount of money. You want to force the company to solve your painpoint at my expense.
Seems very much like you have problems, and you’re making your problem into a me problem?
> Apple pretending "to protect me against myself",
I find this to be a feature. Please protect me against "myself" (sometimes I'm tired, sometimes drunk - and dark patterns around the web can get to me too).
My guess, knowing nothing: Apple will drop the AppStore payments commission to 3% (for the first $X MM of payments).
I don't love Ads based rev stream, but Apple needs some revenue source for the AppStore. Currently the 30% of virtual goods payments is getting a lot of scrutiny. They have already started to reduce it to 15% in many cases. It just makes sense that this will get reduced to 3% over time.
Apple is pivoting to Ads so that they can reduce the % without much of an impact to their top and bottom line.
The Russian people really can impact change in their country and now is the best time. They just need to find a way to be united about stopping Putin.
Many more Russians will likely die, but sadly that’s always been the cost of building a democracy. I would have much rather preferred a world that wasn’t so brutal to achieve something so critical.
I read this earlier today and it clicked so well, “no country was born a democracy”.
Every democratic country in the world had at one point a few brave souls who were both sane and put themselves and their families in mortal danger to “maybe possibly potentially make life easier for a large number of unknown [not yet born] people”.
So yeah, it happens and is relatively common in history. I hope the Russian people find some extra courage and get Putin to step away from Ukraine and also Russia.