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New comment by xcv123 in "Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge"

xcv123 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:31:22 +0000

The value is purely speculative no matter which source.

It’s only worth what a buyer is willing to pay for it.

The company is now private and has no stock price. It’s not for sale.

It mostly has the same user base today so the value to an interested buyer is probably not much different to what it was before the sale.

New comment by xcv123 in "Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge"

xcv123 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:26:02 +0000

Irrelevant

New comment by xcv123 in "Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge"

xcv123 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:24:38 +0000

Twitter had no choice. It was either that or shut down the company within a few weeks. Bankruptcy.

Jack Dorsey apologized for over hiring and accepted responsibility. Before the sale to Elon Musk, he had doubled the number of employees since 2017.

Employees were posting on TikTok about their typical work day. Most of them were doing nothing. Dead weight.

New comment by xcv123 in "I still like Sublime Text"

xcv123 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:58:22 +0000

Yes it depends on what exactly you are doing.

IntelliJ enables quick refactoring of large JVM projects without messing with language servers. It's all integrated and just works out of the box.

IDEAVim plugin provides the Vim keybindings and the Vim editing mode so it's the best of both worlds for me.

New comment by xcv123 in "I still like Sublime Text"

xcv123 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:53:30 +0000

OP thinks IDEs are toys. I think Vim is a toy (beyond its functionality as an editor where it is definitely not a toy).

I've been using IntelliJ for at least 10 years now.

If you have used it, you know what I'm talking about.

IDEAVim plugin provides Vim key bindings and Vim editing mode, so it has the best of Vim and an IDE in one application.

Refactoring and navigation in IntelliJ is superior to whatever you can hack together in Vim. You can integrate Vim with a language server but then what's the point? Just use an IDE.

At work we are forced to use a specific IDE. It's a niche programming language not supported by any other software. Vim is not an option.

New comment by xcv123 in "I still like Sublime Text"

xcv123 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:19:24 +0000

Some of us have jobs and do this professionally, not as a hobby. That’s why we use an IDE. Vim is a fun toy where you can hack together a poor man’s IDE but I grew out of that phase a long time ago.

In some cases we are forced to use a specific IDE. Not optional.

New comment by xcv123 in "Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI"

xcv123 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:50:49 +0000

Yes, Steve Jobs did not sound like a caricature of that voice.

https://youtu.be/H5Tv4V9uxDo?t=46

That's how it is in the real world. I think you are the homophobic one here.

Some gay men sound like that, but not all.

The current CEO of Apple is gay but doesn't have that voice. He speaks clearly. Easy to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7bpYaxgC5o

New comment by xcv123 in "Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI"

xcv123 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:37:19 +0000

Steve Jobs did not sound like a caricature of a gay man or a valley girl (no vocal fry, very charismatic speaker) and was never laughed out of the room in negotiations (one of the strongest negotiators the world has ever seen).

Steve Jobs was charismatic. Sam Altman is the opposite of charismatic.

New comment by xcv123 in "Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI"

xcv123 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:28:30 +0000

Charming? His vocal fry is unbearable to listen to. Worse than nails on a chalkboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJZpO3bTpg

TSMC management thought he was an absolute clown when he asked for $7 Trillion. They call him "Podcasting Bro".

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-rejects-podcasting-bro-s...

He turned OpenAI into ClosedAI. He is a lying greedy sociopath.

It's possible (or at least I hope) he will fade into irrelevancy within the next few years, replaced with a less delusional and less insufferable CEO.

New comment by xcv123 in "AI slop, suspicion, and writing back"

xcv123 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:20:49 +0000

It's literally a model.

Large Language Model (LLM).

Hundreds of layers with a trillion weights and you think "nothing is modelled" there. The comments on this site are ridiculous.

Studies have traced individual "neurons" in LLMs that represent specific concepts. It's not even debatable at this point.

New comment by xcv123 in "AI slop, suspicion, and writing back"

xcv123 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:54:45 +0000

No. Not explicitly tagged. They are initially trained on vast amounts of data which are not tagged.

You fundamentally misunderstand how this works.

The LLMs learn the various grammars and "accents" implicitly. They automatically differentiate these grammars.

Sounds like you still have this idea that LLMs are a giant Markov chain. They are not Markov chains.

They are deep neural networks with hundreds of layers and they automatically model relations at extremely deep levels of abstraction.

New comment by xcv123 in "AI slop, suspicion, and writing back"

xcv123 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:50:04 +0000

It can emulate a bad English speaker if prompted to do that.

New comment by xcv123 in "Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain"

xcv123 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:13:18 +0000

Counterpoint to what? The article is nothing but vague speculation and personal opinions.

New comment by xcv123 in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

xcv123 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:25:20 +0000

California is only 34% European/white https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-population/

New comment by xcv123 in "Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]"

xcv123 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:55:45 +0000

1080p is enough for the masses and even a $200 used GPU can run most recent games smoothly at native resolution

New comment by xcv123 in "Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]"

xcv123 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:52:05 +0000

It’s more enough for gaming.

Buy their datacenter GPU if you need more VRAM.

New comment by xcv123 in "App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)"

xcv123 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:01:11 +0000

It’s a third world mindset where we end up with the software equivalent of public defecation, living in squalor and filth.

New comment by xcv123 in "86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines"

xcv123 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:59:36 +0000

It runs on other CPU architectures and it emulates older PCs which include other hardware besides the CPU.

New comment by xcv123 in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"

xcv123 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:53:53 +0000

That is an oversimplification of history

https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-Declaration

New comment by xcv123 in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"

xcv123 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:58:31 +0000

Change the chart to logarithmic scaling. You need to use log scaling for long term stock market charts

The dotcom crash was huge in terms of the percentage drop

Nasdaq crashed 84%.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/xm2zypvg/