Yeah, right? Like, that deal sounds like a no-brainer, to me.

Sure, the game could go viral and explode and make money hand over fist, and he’s missing out on that potential… But it probably won’t. And $650K is a lot of money, and he doesn’t need to keep grinding for years to make it happen.

With a paid off house, it’s easy to stay afloat just coasting until he finds something new that excites him.

Who wouldn’t take that deal?

Really? I was just watching some of their newest videos with my son and we thought they were great. I haven’t noticed a drop in quality.

That quote I strongly agree with, but I think you completely misunderstand what the professor means.

A huge problem in education right now is students using AI inappropriately, in many different ways. As an extension of the “digital literacy skills” education has been focusing on teaching in the last ~1-2 decades, educators are now teaching “AI literacy” skills, because students are using it wrong all the time. And it’s unacceptable both academically and professionally.

AI literacy skills are mostly about teaching students how bad AI is, what it can’t do, and why they should not rely on it. Like, understanding how an LLM works means that students will understand that they’re just fancy word predicting machines, not “intelligent” in any way. Students who understand this are much less likely to trust LLM output.

AI literacy skills are not teaching students how to vibe code faster.

Yeah, fair. I was more thinking in terms of a neurodivergent special interest, but desired to “hobby” to be more inclusive of neurotypicals.

Eh… I think it’s fine if some people want to subscribe to a car. Some people really like cars, and want to have the newest model. They can lease a car, then return it (lightly) used for someone who is price conscious to get a cheaper car with warranty protection.

I buy old, used, cheap cars because I don’t give a flying fuck about what I drive. The cheapest I can get my $/km, while having a reliable vehicle, the better. Sub $10K CAD direct buyer sales are great, for me.

I think it’s a waste of money, but I’ve spent $thousands on my hobbies, so who am I to judge someone else for their hobby spending, assuming they can afford it.

Right? Like, what’s the market for a 4GB video card in 2026+? 720p gamers?

ikr? My video card died last week. RIP my wallet.

CachyOS has been great for me. Granted, I’m comfortable enough with computers that I can search to find answers to things, so I’m not sure if I rolled through issues that might challenge others, but it’s been a fantastic experience. I switched about a year ago. Couldn’t be happier with it, and I’d recommend it for anyone who’s put off with the limitations inherent in running an immutable distro.

Sure, but if they sold it, they’d have less losses which is strictly better.

Can’t you download the old update, though? I think that’s a thing, anyway. But maybe not in this case because…

Music licensing is its own insanity, and game publishers are kinda screwed on those rules. Licenses in music only permit distribution for a certain timeframe, and digital downloads are considered distribution, so when their licenses expire, they can’t legally distribute anymore.

And the RIAA are litigious assholes, so you’re gonna get sued if you don’t comply.

Is it, though?

As with all things PC gaming, it depends on the game.

Is it capable of 4K@60Hz in some games? Absolutely.
Is any computer capable of 4K@60Hz in all games? Of course not!

To me, this change is just clarifying things for people who are ignorant of technology, and to avoid stupid/silly complaints that the Gabecube can’t run the latest and greatest at 4K/60 fps.

100%. It’s impossible to time a crash, but I’m so ready for the circular investment house of cards to come falling down.

The longer this goes on, the more wasted “investment” there will be in the sunk costs of datacenters for demands that will never exist, and the worse the recovery will be.

I doubt we’ll see an 89% 1929-level drop in the markets, but 80% wouldn’t surprise me. It’s going to be very hard for a lot of people if market loses that severe materialize.

Yeah, but that’s not their fault, it’s the capitalist system as it’s been twisted by neoliberal economic theory.

What we need are rational marginal tax rates (80%+ on income over $10 MM/year) and no significant capital gains exemptions (say, 50% inclusion on first $10K capital gains, 65% on next $40K, and 100% inclusion advice $50K). Add a 1% wealth tax on all wealth above $10 MM, 2% above $100 MM, and 3% on wealth above $1 B, then billionaires aren’t nearly as much of a problem any more.

The US started its death spiral in the 1976 with Buckley v. Valeo. I don’t see how they can reverse course, now, but that was the start of the end.

Not sure what you’re getting at, here. Are you expecting Steam to sell these at a loss (or even just break-even) out of the goodness of their hearts or something?

And then have scalpers resell at a tidy profit because they’re selling the hardware for less than the current market rates, for that matter…

Exactly. And the few things GenAI does well aren’t that compute intensive and can run on local models.

LLMs are terrible at writing new text that matters, i.e. anything at all technical or important. But they’re good at reformatting content into properly structured English, editing text for grammar, and explaining everyday concepts. But they’re so good at those things, that a tiny model running on consumer hardware can do it.

So, I don’t understand how anyone can possibly expect LLMs to be a profitable business. Where are the moats?

In my experience, the trick to this is to get a list of changes to make yourself, rather than trusting the machine to actually get it right. (Unless you’re in a dev/test environment and don’t care much if it fucks it up.)

Many independent cybersecurity experts have told me that these models are as or nearly as skilled as elite human hackers, which is why Anthropic and OpenAI didn’t release them publicly.

Citation needed.

Here’s mine:

The bugs Anthropic used to justify a $100 million consortium, eleven Fortune-100 partners, a “too dangerous to release” decision, and global headlines that “frightened the British” — an open-weights 3.6B active-parameter model finds them too, for eleven cents per million tokens.

Most, maybe, but off the top of my head, I can think of two easy counterexamples:

• Warren Buffett’s wealth is in diverse investments; it’s only inflated insofar as the entire stock market is overvalued
• Gabe Newell’s wealth is almost entirely in Steam, which isn’t even publicly traded so can’t really be overvalued by “hype”

I paid $105 CAD ($77 USD) for 32GB of DDR4 (2×16GB) in Feb 2023. The same RAM is now $295 CAD, and the cheapest available 2×16GB DDR4 kit is $265 CAD. It’s not even DDR5 and it’s 2½× the price over 3 years later.

Insanity.

I should really get around to selling my 4TB M.2 SSD I have for my Windows dual boot that I haven’t booted in over a year…

I think you’re missing the point; this is between the US, FIFA and, of course, all affected teams/players/officials/fans/etc. If the US isn’t meeting their obligations to FIFA, then what does that have to do with Canada?

Canadian diplomacy is always affected by the juggernaut South of us. It’s frankly a bit ridiculous that anyone would expect Canada to burn political capital on denouncing the US for this.