Russia thinks the Trump Presidency is amazing for them. First Trump cuts support for Ukraine, then Trump blames Ukraine for keeping the war going by dastardly not surrendering to Russia. And now Trump is raising global oil proces, radically increasing the income of the Russian state. All while delegitimizing the US.

China probably cheers on the weakening of US power too. And US Republicans also overwhelmingly supports Trump, for reasons known only to them.

So if you add up Russia and China (enemies of America) and Republicans (but I repeat myself), way less than 98% of people wants Trump dead.

Best Easter since 2026 years ago.

What does that even mean?

Gold is fluctuating wildly in price. It is meaningless to talk about measuring commodity prices in gold.

A Shakespeare quote is relevant here, about those blowhards:

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

It allowed unserious people to sound tough on Iran on TV. But until Trump, there were no chance of them actually going through with it, if given power. They truly had to ignore even the most basic of Iran expertise, known even to laymen like me.

Everybody but Trump knew that Iran would close the strait of Hormuz. Which made it incredibly stupid to go to war with Iran. For reasons which are right now self evident, not that they were not evident before.

So no, nobody but a mentally declining idiot like Trump would have gone to war with Iran.

The Iran War seems likely to be a result of Trump’s fancy though, not a move chosen by Trump’s puppeteers.

While Vance is a puppet of Thiel, this is not a zero sum game. Vance would probably do less damage than Trump.

Please tell us where your window is - how can we avoid climbing through your window, if we don’t know which window we are not supposed to climb through.

I am just not very informed on the oil industry, so I didn’t want to sound like I did in case I was talking out my ass.

No no, I am not criticizing. I am all for using the correct level of qualifiers when speculating about things you know you don’t know with certainty.

If only the people talking out of their ass about the current conflict in the middle east would do the same…

My theory, it’s not the government that has the oil

That is not a theory, that is just a fact.

In theory the government could and should impose price controls, for the common good. But Trump and Republicans are obviously not going to tell the oil oligarks that they can’t have lots of money.

Vance famously said that Trump was America’s Hitler. And then when given the chance for power, enthusiastically became Trump’s VP. Vance is also quite intelligent, if lazy. Vance is obviously a nihilist opportunist.

So my money is on Vance not believing a word of it. But just saying it because Vance thinks it will give him votes when he runs for US President.

Sony loves making their own custom formats.

Stuff is just getting more expensive, because of demand competition with AI. There is no reason to think that production for non-AI computing will ever hit literally zero.

I am always surprised at how cheap it would be to save the world - for example decarbonize to stop global warming. $10 trillion is 1/4th the US national debt. That kind of stuff is payable, if we want to.

But another 20% will still vote for the next Republican who is not Trump. Even though the systemic Republican incompetence that led Bush II into the Iraq War is exactly the same systemic Republican incompetence that led Trump into Iran War.

RAM used to be ~$4/GB. So 300*4=$1200. A price increase of $1200 is actually pretty darn affordable to get self driving, surely?

Sure, there are other components than RAM needed. But the RAM is not what would make it unaffordable.

The world is not that simple. There are too many combinations to try. And you risk hitting local maxima, even if doing the gradient thing.

I were simply unable to convince Codex to split a patch into separate git commits in a meaningful way. There are things that just doesn’t work.

Still useful for lots of stuff. Just don’t use it blind.

If used by an expect developer, then the combinations are not just random “lucky” choices.

Well, yes, that is a central point.

I am a senior programmer. LLMs are amazing - I know exactly what I want, and I can ask for it and review it. My productivity has gone up at least 3-fold, with no decrease in quality, by using LLMs responsibly.

But it seems to me that some people on social media just can’t imagine using LLMs in this way. They just imagine that all LLM usage is vibe coding, using the output without understanding or review. Obviously you are very unlikely to create any fundamentally new solutions if you only use LLMs that way.

only to find out you didn’t provide adequate requirements for your config.

Senior programmer. I know exactly what I want. My requirement communicated to the LLM are precise and adequate.

The database was an arbitrary example. A more relevant example would be tenserflow layers in a neural network. As I understand it, you can in some cases get a novel solution to a problem just by choosing a smart enough combination, with the right data.

ChatGPT absolutely knows how to help doing the grunt work setting up the tenserflow configuration, following your directions.