fake: OP is not a frog in a suit
gay: OP did girl kissing
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They don't need to, OpenAI and Anthropic are running at a huge loss to keep it cheaper to use them than to buy the comparable hardware required to replace them. The only way running open source models is cheaper is if you ignore hardware costs, or if you have a very specific and unusual usage pattern (i.e. constant 100% capacity, and not a clock cycle more or less), or if you go with another cloud provider who are also running at a loss.
That doesn't even stand up on its own terms.
Farenheit doesn't "intuitively" tell you whether there's going to be ice on the road or whether your pipes are liable to freeze, and also has the added pain in the ass that on a very hot day you need 3 digits to represent the number instead of 2, and doesn't even compensate for it by removing the possibility of negative values which can still also happen.
On top of that the extra scale doesn't give you a perceivable difference between the numbers, that is to say, I could put you in a room and ask you if it was 70F or 71F and you'd basically be guessing.
Celsius on the other hand is eminently relatable: negative number means ice/snow, single digit means heavy coat, tens means lighter coat/sleeves, twenties means nice, thirties means hot, forties means remain indoors.
Imagine if Mazda made an mx-5 EV or Toyota made an 86 EV.
I'm pro-EV in general (pro-trains notwithstanding), but don't see the point in that. I'd rather they just got the people who designed the MX-5 and GT86 to design EV sports cars on their own terms. An MX-5 EV would just be there to remind you how much more fun the ICE version was to drive.
You've hit on my bugbear with most post-apocalyptic fiction: pretty much universally humans have shown that they will tend towards co-operation when placed in situations of hardship. But most writers, game designers and preppers want you to think that when civilization collapses everyone will be like "there's no rules any more! I can murder whoever I want and take their stuff!"
hang on a minute, there's spaces around your em-dash! An AI didn't write this at all, this is fake AI! I call Shenanigans!
Yes, though it goes further than that even if you ignore the politics.
Linus is undoubtedly talking about when an LLM is used in a very specific way in his imagination where it's helping a competent programmer spot some things they might have missed, but the programmer is still diligent and professional and genuinely does take responsibility for ensuring the quality of their commits. Where the delusion comes in is grossly overestimating how many people are actually like that outside of his inner circle of world-level experts. What's happening in all the other open-source projects is a flood of low quality garbage PRs from meat proxies.
Using established and tested security implementations instead of rolling your own has been considered good practice since forever. It's not a bad thing.
The alt text on that strip seems especially pertinent
I've spent time in over 30 countries, including developing and emerging countries, and the US is by far the one I felt the least safe in.