Give him one of these and when he hits the maps app it’s straight up Trump World.

If I saw what emulation and decomp/recomps are doing I would grab at any penny I saw.

I laughed with everyone else and then tried to find out how magnets worked and I found explainers for electromagnets and permanent magnets.

It’s about style. Who are you going to believe, academics who are careful in what they claim and are forever hedging because even 6 sigma isn’t 100% or business people who are absolutely certain when they speak whether their certainty is warranted or not?

I don’t have a personal or professional workflow that would benefit from AI. I have not been impressed with any generated art or writing (knowingly, so far). I pretty much only know it for the enshittification of search results. It might be great at coding, I’ll never know because in my first 49 years of life I’ve only needed to code enough to get a D+ in my Pascal class. It might get great at generating art but I haven’t had to generate art since my sophomore year of high school. I hear it’s good at scanning lab test results which is great for future me when I need a lab test result but doesn’t come up for me in the day-to-day. There are plenty of other useful things I’m sure it can do for other people but the stuff they say it can do for me right now is nothing I’m interested in having done for me.

Using youtube logged out gives you the general algorithm filled with crap I would never consider watching, at least mine’s curated. It gave me a little too much hope in Kamala but it’s not like I fought any less hard for her. I aggressively cull my feed and it’s pretty much just the creators I subscribe to. If I want “discovery” I filter reddit by youtu.be or youtube.com.

My youtube algorthim is filled with AI-skeptics (Eli the Computer guy, Ed Zitron, Prof G Markets) so this has been the slowest car crash I’ve ever gotten to watch happen. If Donald had actually focused on inflation all of these debt-sensitive AI plays could’ve continued to whistle through the graveyard. The skeptics have called out coreweave as being potentially the first domino to topple and their 6 year debt is trading at 15% right now. Thanks to plummeting token costs, they need to double their token sales every 90 days.

If I’m at the wheel or some other newbie vibe coder, FTFO. Senior devs that use it as a time-saving tool? I’m happy to trust their judgement.

Where did I say famous? Read harder. Water concerns are separate from wreckless vibe-coding concerns.

Nobody freaks out when skilled programmers/professionals use AI, it’s actually a tool for them and not full-on skill substitution.

Rolling with my 5800X3D 'till the wheels fall off and even then I have a 5700X3D as a backup. I’m not upgrading until 5090-level GPU performance is available for less than $800.

It’s not annualized in the traditional sense. They take their highest revenue day and multiply it by 365.

The best DDR4 CPU (5800X3D) isn’t a bottleneck until you get past 5090 levels of GPU performance. By the time I can afford better than 5090 performance I will be unable to afford DDR6.

I’m lazy enough without AI. I remember watching Her (2013) and thinking no, nope, not me. I believe I would be particularly vulnerable to something like that. I tried very early versions of ChatGPT and recently tried local LLMs but can’t say I’ve had much fun or found them useful in my personal or professional life.

In 2023 when I built my PC and ran a benchmark and it said I had a top 3% PC (now top 7%) I was PROPER chuffed. 3DMark is the ultimate pay-to-win and there I was with my lower middle-class-salary (and no kids). I have low double digits in gaming hours on the machine in the last two years and pretty much use it as an HTPC. I just loaded up the Witcher 3 Remastered and maybe I just don’t like gaming. I have a 5700X3D/9070XT as a backup and an 11600K/6900XT as a backup-backup. I had grand dreams of sim racing and local LLM and retro gaming and nah.

My youtube algorithm is filled with AI doom/truthsayers and it feels like everybody else is taking crazy pills. Ed Zitron is a bit theatric but there’s nothing factually wrong with his arguments. Eli the Computer guy explains it in plain language that would be easily refutable should a refutation exist. I’m not shorting anything but I’m certainly not going out of my way to add any funds with significant exposure to AI companies.

When I built my 5800X3D/7900XTX PC, my research told me I’d need a 5090-class GPU to make my 5800X3D a meaningful bottleneck. As the 7800X3D and 9800X3D were released I could not afford a GPU that would make me want/need to upgrade my CPU. I will not have the fastest PC for the next few years but I can’t imagine 5090-class GPU performance being available for less than US$1000 before DDR6 is mature.

I pretty much used to vacation in Vegas exclusively but with resort fees the value isn’t there. I priced airfare and a week of hotels in NY vs Tokyo and Tokyo is much cheaper. I’ve gotten too used to easy access to cannabis so that and communication in English are my priorities for my next trip; I’m targeting Vancouver.

Old.reddit still works fine on firefox on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 8+ but my PC, pixel fold, and every other device only lets me view the old style when browsing multiple subreddits. If I want to see an individual subreddit I append the address with a banned sub e.g. old.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales+narcofootage.

A one-time tax of 5%. Any respectable billionaire is confident they can make that up in a year.