You joke buts not like those are exclusive at all.

For example, pump and dump schemes have both an up part and a down part. Not hard to understand things can be manipulated in either direction to benefit a specific group.

>For example, pump and dump schemes have both an up part and a down part. Not hard to understand things can be manipulated in either direction to benefit a specific group.

The pump and dump analogy doesn't really work because the crash associated with the "dump" isn't something that the organizer wants, nor do they benefit from the crash. It's just an unfortunate side effect from them cashing out and the truth catching up to them. Meanwhile the OP argues the opposite, claiming that companies knowingly made bad loans to create a crash, which implies more nefarious behavior than the standard explanation of bubbles caused by irrational exuberance. The latter is a conjecture that's not supported by any empirical evidence or even anecdotes.

They do want the dump to crash if they're shorting and if they plan to re-buy at rock bottom to pump and dump again.

They mean with traditional hard computation, not LLM magic.

Easy to dev for. Runs on a potato. There are many maps and modes.

By design, you don't trust it. You never hand out the keys so there's no secret to back door. The task is never unencrypted, at rest or otherwise.

What makes something easier in magit than, for example, SmartGit?

I haven't used SmartGit, so I can't really compare.

I would single out the following for Magit:

1. Single key strokes for actions and toggles 2. Discoverability through "slide-ins" (TFA also explains this)

For 2, this means I press "c" for commit, this opens a popup showing me the next keypresses and what they do. So I can build up muscle memory for commands I know that are fast due to 1, and I can discover options that might help me due to 2.

If I don't know what to do at all, there's Ctrl+c, Ctrl+c to discover "entry-points" for Magit shortcuts.

I would also highlight that in Emacs magit one can always drop back to command line by pressing "!", which I do, when I don't know how to do something in Magit. Like "git submodule update --init --recursive".

We can use technology to increase production and have a progressive tax. There is absolutely no reason we need to endure the extreme wealth divide.

If there is a need that people pay for, and it took 10 people, and technology comes and it can now be done by 1 person, that is a great thing. That’s not a bad thing at all. That’s exactly how the world progresses forwards. Everyone can get the need met, and at a cheaper cost, while freeing the other 9 people to do something else useful.

That is why we have the standard of living we have today

I genuinely cannot understand why this comment was killed. Even if you disagree with the position, there's nothing at all objectionable about how it's being presented.

I think it’s because it’s ignoring the impact of concentration and the range of affected jobs. When, say, people switched from animals as the primary source of motive power for shipping, relatively few people immediately lost their livelihood because the things now using engines still employed tons of people (a delivery guy had to learn to drive but the rest of the job was similar) and a bunch of new jobs were created.

Now we’re being promised a wide range of white-collar jobs all being affected at the same time, always in a way which reduces the number of total jobs and concentrates power in people with assets. The position that people will find new things is begging the critical question of whether those people will have the money to get started or customers who can afford to buy from them, especially when sharecropping using someone else’s models with no guarantee of non-competition.

Perhaps white collar employees have felt jobs not conducted in an office are beneath them. Because a wide range of physical jobs pay a lot more than office work already

Not many pay “a lot more”—your plumber is not taking home what she charges you—and that often comes with unpleasant working conditions, overtime, or extended time away from home. That’s like talking about tech salaries as if most people are L7 staff engineers at big tech companies.

Most people are not making that much in blue collar work, but even if they were, it’s also not like freshly-laid off people can just switch overnight. Lots of that work isn’t great for middle aged people, etc. and anyone retraining is going to need support for training, certifications, etc. but that’s happening when they have the financial obligations of a successful mid-career person.

For example, say Google actually developed AGI and canned everyone. What happens to the market in Mountain View when everyone is trying to enter construction work or become auto mechanics at the same time that those industries are hammered by a lack of customers, and the real-estate market suddenly has entire blocks for sale?

That last part might seem extreme but I saw it in San Diego in the 90s: the defense contractors laid tons of people off after the Cold War collapse, and that meant that entire neighborhoods went from having streets of engineers who worked at the same places all scrambling at the same time. Fortunately, that wasn’t permanent or every sector of the economy (and some of them were able to repurpose things like carbon fiber aerospace techniques into golf clubs and bicycle frames) but there were literally people with engineering Ph.Ds competing for $15/hour QA jobs just to have health insurance.

Great, just point me to the physical jobs that will hire someone over 50.

The govt can't spend money well

Steam Machines will likely not be $399, for one. But a hacked ps5 is hardly a replacement either.

A PS5 with such a low firmware will also be around $800 on eBay most likely if not more

If they hadn't killed it, it would have a visual editor by now. Or worse, dominated by Maya integrations.

If they sell a magic app building machine, its not crazy to ask them build an app with it, is it?

To be fair they can, they'll just run 10k agents and some $20k worth of tokens and they will have a slack replacement without any manual coding, Sure it will have missing features like search and permissions, security will be figured out later, and you can't compile it on your machine, but it's 80% done, how hard can that 20% be?

Still better than Slack and Teams.

the sad part is ... its likely true.

Of course it is. Making shovels and digging holes are different skills and require different organizations.

But this is a magic shovel that digs holes and tunnels all by itself exactly as intended. It should be able to do this without any special skill involved in prompting it.

You're thinking post-scarcity. We aren't there yet, but one say well have a magic wand, magic shovel, and magic anything else that is currently scarce.

You sound like a low-information luddite. Have you tried this week's latest model? You're probably prompting it wrong.

Sorry, I don't follow how a sarcastic joke about the claims of post-scarcity would make me a ludite or imply that I am saying models today aren't useful for certain tasks.

They too are being sarcastic.

no it isn't

But it's not unreasonable to ask the shovel salesman to show me a hole that model of shovel was used to dig.

Can you imagine how well they'd sell their product if they could actually demonstrate it's capabilities by just, at a whim, duplicating a non-trivial software product.

Why do that when they can sell you a shovel to do it yourself?

why don't you buy a subscription and ask the magic machine yourself.... You just need to take out your credit card....

Note that they likely mean the list of candidates is large not the user history. This is for an API so perhaps 2% of client requests implemented batch requests, providing the opportunity for batch processing of that request.