Yeah, it always felt like the worst decisions under Spencer were forced onto him by investors. For sure, there’s some leeway in how you please investors, and she will be given more leeway at the start as well, which could get out of a rut and make things somewhat better.
But ultimately, I still expect her to play the CEO role for a profit-driven corporation. Because that’s what she was hired for. She was not hired to be the saving grace of gamers.
Yeah, still wild to me how they seemingly bought up half the gaming industry and how little output they produce from that…
Yeah, for folks with previous programming experience, I generally recommend the Rust CLI book, particularly the first chapter
It makes you build a small, usable program and shows you concrete ways to handle some intermediate topics, like error handling, unit tests, bundling etc…
Yeah, they have to fight it tooth and nail, because it threatens how they want to do business on a conceptual level. But I also cannot see how they would argue this case.
If another webpage said those publishers are a right cunt (written by AI), that would be defamation for sure. So far, Google was allowed to say those publishers are a right cunt, because they were quoting another webpage.
If they’re not doing that anymore, if they’re not even paraphrasing what another webpage said, but just making own claims, then that’s their own responsibility.
In theory, I could imagine a ruling that says that paraphrasing doesn’t have to be accurate at all times, but in practice, this would be absolute bedlam. Any webpage could publish the wildest misinformation and just say that, oops, they were paraphrasing.
So, even if they can get such ruling through, there would need to be law changes sooner or later, which explicitly make it illegal again.
Oh yeah, for sure, but they do mean generative AI in this case, because it’s the hype du jour.
Well, whenever I’ve talked about this in the past, there was always someone who asked “You put (sweet) peanut butter into your savory food?!”.
Wikipedia also says that it commonly contains sweeteners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter
But yeah, not sure if that’s maybe specifically a thing in the US. They do love to put sugar into everything and I just came across this article, which mentions that when PB&Js became popular in the US, sugar was still seen as good: https://www.thetakeout.com/why-americans-love-peanut-butter-best-vs-rest-of-world-1850648598/
Yeah, I find it difficult, too, especially since management hasn’t caught onto this yet and still wants me to specialize.
And of course, the answer is that I should specialize in AI, because there’s currently a lot of new development happening there. But that knowledge is also getting obsolete by the minute, with ever more tools coming out and then again other tools that operate those tools for you.
The one thing I hold onto, is that no matter how the situation evolves, the basic job requirements for software engineering, i.e. being smart and being able to learn quickly, will always be an advantage.
I don’t think it’s possible to hold onto the confort zone from before, even if the industry implodes from the AI costs becoming transparent. But yeah, I do think we’ll land on our feet in one way or another.
Yeah, I use unsweetened peanut butter (effectively just mushed peanuts) in lots of recipes where tahini would normally be used.
I still need to figure out, if I’m using tahini wrong. 😅
Sesame always tastes bitter to me, as does tahini. Peanut butter doesn’t…
Xbox tried to play nice and put their games on PlayStation. Sony didn’t return the favor.
My assumption is that Microsoft made their games non-exclusive, because it gives them more sales in the short-term. If you need a good quarter to please investors, that’s an easy way to do it, at the cost of your Xbox brand.
At least it would be wild, if they assumed that Sony, a profit-driven company, would just return the favor.
Which I really hate, by the way. What even is the point in trying out different weapons, if you can’t find one that’s just stupidly overpowered?
One reason why the LLM playing field is kind of levelled and “being first” isn’t all too meaningful, is that the research was already out there for quite some time before the hype started.
The hype got kicked off, when these large corporations figured out that pouring lots of money into this approach does something. Well, and when there were lots of cheap GPUs on the market from cryptocurrencies imploding.
But as soon as the hype was there, getting investors to give you lots of money and getting GPUs, that’s something virtually any company could do.
Having said all that, the other points still stand and they probably could’ve held their position without even being the best platform. Nevermind especially that Microsoft is most certainly getting lots and lots of investment money for LLMs, too.
I would not consider industrial-made bread to be healthy in the first place, though.
Genuinely my gut reaction to this post was that if it’s packaged in plastic, it’s not going to be healthy.
Also seems to have moobs. Or very bushy armpits. Certainly one of the two.
Spoiler: It’s neither of those two bread packages.
“Great-grandmother” is another example where the great=big meaning still shows up…
“Verbatim” often works…
Did not expect that kind of law change from such an aggressively Conservative government. I guess, there is ample reason to put the NIMBYs into overdrive, though…
Don’t think, Grok was a thing yet back then…
“City limits” sure is one of the signs of all time.
Well, them being largely starch/carbs isn’t helping either.