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  • Skills Are the New CLI

    4th paragraph:

    Skills don’t replace CLIs.

    Great start.

    Anyway, skills are basically an alternative to tools. I believe Anthropic made a big deal about them. They come with all the same downsides using an LLM at all comes with, which means they’re fallible, nondeterministic, and possibly even an attack vector. But hey, it saves you remembering a few flags for git so whatever I guess.







  • While I can’t speak to the amount itself (somehow the industry as a whole settled on 30%), I do think it’s fair to say that Steam, the App Store, and the Play Store aren’t just payment processors. They also are platforms for users to discover new software/games, and they do a lot of advertising for developers. I can agree with the fee being too high, but I don’t think it’s fair to compare it with PayPal, which only processes the payments.



  • For roughly the price of a single 9800x3d*, you can buy a complete laptop with a long lasting battery and decent enough specs for web browsing, video playback, and basic office work. It’s unfortunately one of the better devices on the market at that price, especially accounting for the battery life.

    *Edit: okay the processors came down in price. Fine, the cost of a kit of decent DDR5 memory, then.

    Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

    One of the few, I take it?







  • My point was more along the lines of online being impractical. Sure, you can still connect to servers running old software (in which case kernel updates aren’t useful to you anyway), but anything with modern security or software is going to just not run at all on it, whether because the software is too heavy for the processor or because it simply was not compiled for it (and cannot be).

    Point is, I think we both agree that the only reasonable usecase for these processors is offline or on a separate network (LAN/tunneled/etc).





  • If he were remotely believable, I’d be skeptically supportive. He’s full of shit though, as he’s always been.

    “So in a single building, we can create a lithography mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design.”

    He does know how long it takes to make a single wafer at scale, right? Well actually, I guess he doesn’t. GamersNexus has a good fab tour on YouTube that goes over the process and explains just how long it takes for the full production chain, from start to finish. It’s not a very fast process.