My wife has a good way of putting it; “We can’t be a progressive country if we’re not a country at all.” It sucks that we live in a world where such things are necessary, but they are necessary no matter how much we wish they weren’t. You don’t have to be pro-war to be supportive of a strong enough military.
They’re just getting ahead of the curve on inflation. Don’t worry, they’ll have a $500 and $1000 ready soon enough. Those will be your new $5s and $10s by the time Donald is done with the US.
My wife coming home from six months deployed overseas.
Good news; you can make someone regret just about anything if you try hard enough.
Good call, honestly.
Deadass murdered her own kid. Stone cold.
They were the start of it, but they didn’t account for all of it. And, to be clear, it’s very much an over-correction. As usual they’re going to swing too hard in the opposite direction figuring that everyone else is doing it too, so if they have to hire people back, well they’ll be doing it in a flooded labour market so they can probably just re-hire the same people for less money.
You’re correct and I have no idea why idiots are downvoting you for saying this. Obviously, yes, to some degree companies are testing the waters on using “AI labour” in place of people - Klarna, etc - but for the most part AI is a useful excuse for these companies to dump a bunch of headcount that they warehoused for years just to keep everyone else from getting there first. In large part this is also because investors have finally started to wise up to layoffs not actually being an automatic good for a company. Used to be the word layoffs instantly jacked your share price, but now it’s more of a wait and see attitude, if not outright concern, so they have to wrap up the layoffs in a big AI coat to make them look good.
Edit: To clarify this a little, it’s not just overhiring. It’s that these companies were in a massively over-hired position - many still are to varying degrees - and they’re being pushed to show “growth”. There aren’t really a lot of ways left to do that (capitalism is basically eating itself), but reducing headcount gives you at least a temporary bump in profit, since your overheads go down right away, while any loss of revenue takes a while to hit. The combination of bloated headcounts and a need to show higher profits is the toxic swamp water here, while AI is the packet of kool-aid powder they’re adding to make it look good.
2nd Edit, to previous poster: You should read the article though, it has far less to do with “AI layoffs” than it does with Jensen Huang desperately trying to put out fires, which is very telling.
Transformer model AI has atrocious unit economics. The only way it really works is in some kind of post-scarcity environment where we simply don’t care how much it costs to run.
Crypto only solves problems it creates, or creates new problems out of the ones it solves. It’s a horrendously complicated way of wasting compute power to ultimately achieve nothing.
Please leave Spotify
a disappointed review…
Fixed that for you.
“How is it possible that AI became productive and useful only six months ago, and they were somehow laying people off two years ago because of AI?” he added. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
This is very telling. Jensen is pulling this “6 months” figure completely out of his ass here, but the reason why he wants that number to be true is because it moves the goalposts. If AI hasn’t actually, really, been here for even a single fiscal year then it explains away everything. Suddenly the fact that it’s made zero impact on productivity, that no one is making any profit on it, all of that becomes justified. “It’s still early.” You’ll recall that this was the narrative around crypto too. Every time anyone criticized anything about it a herd of sheep would bleat “It’s still early” even over a decade into the technology existing.
Investors are starting to ask serious questions about when these tools are actually going to start delivering greater productivity to their companies. Managers are starting to get the screws put to them about why their budgets are ballooning to cover subscription and token costs with nothing to show for it. Jensen can’t have that, because AI is the whole reason why his company is on top of the world, so he’s trying to reset the clock.
For the record, there’s absolutely no evidence to suggest that AI has ever become productive and useful, but that wouldn’t fit Jensen’s narrative either. So instead he has to invent a world where AI is totally productive, 100% useful, just trust me! When did that happen? Oh, just now. That’s, um… Yeah, that’s why you didn’t notice. It just happened, right before you walked in.
You can transfer your playlists to any other streaming service. It’s super easy to do.
This was kind of a given (what with it being built here) but it’s a good decision even without the economic factors. NATO as a whole is basically standardizing on GlobalEye so even if Saab weren’t building it on a Canadian platform there would good reasons to pick it.
From what other people are saying, Qobuz allows you to buy to own and download.
Pretty much all of them have some sort of store offline mode for their mobile app, but that would obviously be in a DRM’d format.
I do not believe a word that anthropic says
Nor should you.
You are correct, and what the previous user suggested is absolutely terrible opsec. Also correct-battery-horse-staple doesn’t work nearly as well as claimed. Yes, I know, it’s shocking they the guy who makes 4 panel funny comics on the Internet didn’t actually invent a revolution in computer security. The reliance on common, easily spelled, easily memorized words significantly reduces the overall entropy level. But, more importantly, the biggest risk factor has always been password re-use. Passphrases still have to be either stored or remembered and trying to do that for every single component of our online lives is just insanity.
(Yes, Randall Munroe is a very smart guy who does a lot of great research for his comics, but in the end he is just making funnies on the Internet, not writing an academic paper for peer review).
For my money, just run vaultwarden. The biwarden code is all open source, if they do enshittify everything will get forked, and you’ll be running your own infrastructure anyway so you’ll be fine.
That’s the one feature I’m still waiting for Tidal to add. Otherwise I’m very happy with it.
There’s no question that Spotify still holds an edge in terms of features, but in the end I decided I was willing to put up with the loss of some conveniences to actually support artists, and take my support away from a company that keeps behaving so shittily.
Throw shit, get hit.
What’s your long-term business plan for when Anthropic starts charging per token, at a rate that actually reflects their costs?
What makes you think they’d be unhappy about it?