covid was a last gasp for zirp. the interest rates were growing since 2016 and would've remained high if not for the pandemic.
covid required a quick return to zirp to save the economy from a crash, then required a quick return to high interest to save the economy from inflation.
if not for covid, the zirp era would end more gently. covid overhiring was the last hurrah for companies to use the low interest. if not covid, there wouldn't be overhiring and subsequent firing
the market would be as bad as now (or dare i say, *normal*), but it would be stable bad, not whiplash.
I went back to CDs because the friction of having to stand up, walk to the player and change the disc is enough to stop me from skipping songs every few seconds.
For discovering new music, I go to the flea market every so often and buy some random discs. Some are unlistenable, but a lot are alright. I found New Mind[1] this way and really loved it.
This is part of why I like vinyl, you can't even really choose a track, you just listen. (the other part is that my vinyl collection is about 80% from my parents, and its just cool personally to have the same physical copy of the media that they did)
Also, many libraries still have CD collections. In the pre-iphone days I used to max out my library account getting CDs, rip/copy the ones I liked, and repeat.
> This is part of why I like vinyl, you can't even really choose a track, you just listen.
It is a tad harder on a player without a [working] soft-lower mechanism, but still 100% doable as track boundaries are clearly visible on the surface of the vinyl.
Same as beer or any other drug - just a way to have some fun and not destructive provided you can control yourself.
Though, the one time I opened a CSGO gun case and felt the dopamine rush, it was way stronger than any drug I've done. Not that I'm a "highly-experienced individual", but alcohol, weed or adderall don't come close to a CSGO case. Gambling feels much riskier.
I can't think of any addiction worse than gambling. It can ruin the life of a family quickly whereas all other addictions are in general only self destructive.
Regulation and education are where the sane middle ground is. You don't outright ban the stuff (which is expensive and doesn't work anyway) but you keep the worst of the harms it causes from getting too out of control. Sadly, gambling is under-regulated and we'll probably all be suffering for a while as a result before regulations are tightened back up.
I agree that sane regulation is the most likely successful approach in the world we currently live in. A large cultural shift would be required for total prohibition to be successful.
Alcohol is the only painkiller which can be infinitely self-administered. There's value in that. It's quite ancient, been proven to work, which is why it's probably stuck around so long.
What are you talking about? Fatal alcohol poisoning hits long before infinite self-administration. And there actually are many other far safer painkillers than alcohol.
Not from the perspective of Microsoft. It sells OneDrive and Office 365. It makes money from ads.
>so let's run the same user mode with a different kernel?
The kernel is a piece of legacy cruft that isn't necessary for selling OneDrive and Office 365. It's only a cost. Throw that out and replace with an off the shelf Linux kernel. With some minor tweaks, it can sell OneDrive too. Then you can fire a lot of kernel developers. The line goes up.
I've been thinking recently about a search engine that filters away any sites that contain advertising. Just that would filter away most of the crap.
Kagi's small web lens seems to have a similar goal but doesn't really get there. It still includes results that have advertising, and omits stuff that isn't small but is ad free, like Wikipedia or HN.
It's challenging to decide where to draw the line. Is it OK that wikipedia begs for donations? Sites that use affiliate links can be full of crap too, although technically ad free.
I think its worth exploring.
BTW, HN has ads. They post job openings at their start ups, these appear like posts but you can't vote on them. Launch HN is another way this site is monetized, although that seems quite reasonable and you can vote/flag those posts like any other.
I'm wondering if the future meta is to write articles that don't actually target the truth, but what the AI most likely believes, as in most likely hallucinates.
The SEO solution is to be in the list of results that the search engines return to the LLM. That list is relatively small.
You don't even get into the "LLM evaluation" stage unless you're one of the top X number of results for the LLM search. Being that the LLM search uses the search engines and not the LLM, it's fatal if you don't score high enough for the search engines. Whatever makes your results top hits for the search engine is what it will take to get the LLMs to notice you in the future.
ie - for now, OpenAI is dependent on the search engines when doing research. So it's actually the search engines that represent the gatekeeper.
I would think it has to be Bing. There are some articles saying it is, but nothing official I could find. Using Google sounds like a strategic blunder.
I tried a similar setup when in college, albeit with a X230 and a 1050Ti, and it worked amazing... for a few minutes at a time, since it blue-screened often.
I never managed to figure out the issue. The BSOD was something about a gpu timeout. It worked perfectly at home but shat the bed at the dorm. I assume there was some nasty interference there.
You're arguing about whether it makes sense for China to invade Taiwan. I agree it doesn't right now, but that's not the topic here.
The topic is the claim that Taiwan has explosives around TSMC factories, which is ridiculous. So what exactly is your point?
PS. Rozwiń? Nie o tym jest dyskusja "czy Chiny to zrobią", tylko o tym czy Taiwan zrobił to co powtarzane tutaj bezsensowne plotki mówią. To są dwie zupełnie różne sprawy, mimo że mogą się wydawać tożsame.
if not for covid, the zirp era would end more gently. covid overhiring was the last hurrah for companies to use the low interest. if not covid, there wouldn't be overhiring and subsequent firing
the market would be as bad as now (or dare i say, *normal*), but it would be stable bad, not whiplash.
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