Sweeney is not very smart, is he?

Here is a frog, please help me split its hairs

Galetti also espoused the benefits of AI in her message to employees, and claimed the oft-criticized technology is already allowing companies like Amazon to “innovate much faster than ever before.” She suggested it’s important for the company to reduce its headcount in order to take advantage of the perceived opportunity presented by the tech.

This screams of, we need to cut heads so we can pretend to be innovating with AI somehow

Most likely, they are just hiding all the sunken AI investment that has returned nothing in terms of revenue

long past the point of continuing to extend the courtesy they constantly deny everyone else

Not almost, it is exactly that

Microsoft could have issued a note to the tone of “we were not consulted” but their vaporware spine did not amount to even that little

so if you want to be a pedophile, senile, racist with a full diaper, play Halo… got it Microsoft

I can’t wait for this “investment” to go so down the drain for them…

Better to have fewer alternatives that are not coercive monopolies that a few more which are.

Hey Apple… Fuck you

Performance ‘Our Top Priority,’ Gearbox Says

Really? I thought we were to either suck it up or move on… I moved on

30 minutes? I tried buying since 10 est and was only successful at 2 pm

LogSeq

Well, the truth of that is quite a bit different than how you put it, and it’s also more carrot than stick.

True, I misremembered… however, this is anti-competitive practice 101 anyway

What Microsoft did surely sucked for everyone, but fortunately, we live in a world where their recent efforts to do similar things aren’t working.

But the fact they keep trying these anti-competitive strategies and have no consequences for them is a problem. We cannot rely on “it didn’t work for them this time” as if that is a solution because next time it would work for them and then we are all fucked for another few decades

I learnt most of the story from this book Renegades of the Empire

The story is summarized here: https://gist.github.com/kirkegaard/1055336

It’s all about how DirectX/Direct3D was launching and competing with OpenGL (the open standard).

In a nutshell, MS literally ported games for free to Windows (Doom95 being the flagship example) and/or subsidized the development of games for Direct3D so there would be no appetite for OpenGL.

This is equivalent to Amazon or Walmart selling their stuff at a loss until all competitors go bankrupt

when Windows “challenges” others, they don’t compete on merit… it’s easier to blackmail game developers by threatening to kick them out of Windows / Xbox platforms if they develop for Linux… this is how we ended up with “windows is the only os for gaming” back in the 90s

added, best of luck with the rest of the development

sure, but that can be said of literally anything. It would be interesting if LLM were at least new but they have been around forever, we just now have better hardware to run them

Besides that, a lot of the value is derived from the market trying to figure out if/what company will develop AGI. Whatever company manages to achieve it will easily become the most valuable company in the world, so people fomo into any AI company that seems promising.

There is zero reason to think the current slop generating technoparrots will ever lead into AGI. That premise is entirely made up to fuel the current “AI” bubble

Not necessarily… if I gave you my “faster car” for you to run on your private 7 lane highway, you can definitely squeeze every last bit of the speed the car gives, but no more.

DeepSeek works as intended on 1% of the hardware the others allegedly “require” (allegedly, remember this is all a super hype bubble)… if you run it on super powerful machines, it will perform nicer but only to a certain extend… it will not suddenly develop more/better qualities just because the hardware it runs on is better