Jokes on them, I always get the same order. Can’t ish something in me if I’m already done before I get started. That said, I’ve had MDs once in two years, and it was because it was almost 2am in the middle of bfn.

After the first st Petersburg attack, there was a bus with civilian passengers allegedly hit by Ukraine. It does happen, but I’ll believe it was not intentional coming from Ukraine. That’s just Russia’s favorite past time though.

So… This is about the World Cup, not the FIFA video game franchise.

I like the ioniq 5 n and it would be my choice if I were given an EV as a daily driver, but the range is too low at around 220 miles. I would be able to survive on that will minimal issue, but I take 3+ hour one way trips fairly regularly for events or to see friends. If that was closer to 300 mil range, I think I’d be fine with it as a lot of super charger will get to 80% charge in about 15 min. My average fill up on a road trip is probably 10 min, so I could live.

The biggest factor is msrp on the ioniq 5 n is like $65k, so not happening.

Almost 17 years ago, Iowa became the first state to legalize gay marriage. 14 years ago the first states legalize weed. There has been slow but growing acceptance of minorities and large parts of the US since at least the 90s.

I’m not going to sit here and pretend the US has been all sunshine and rainbows, but it hasn’t always been on a crash course. Reagan was a big turning point for US politics that has certainly degraded the overall political landscape of the US since. It’s undeniable that it’s been a hard downhill for about 10 years now, but we had relative domestic peace for many years before that.

That’s tough. Policies like Citizen United were a direct result of 9/11 and contributed to hidden and foreign money, and more corruption in our elections which may have aided in Trump’s victory but has definitely benefitted the GOP takeover in Congress.

On the flip side the damage Trump has done to the US has been incalculable. I don’t know if we’ll know the “correct” answer to this for another 15+ years. If significant positive change were to come from this, it wouldn’t nullify Trump’s actions, but it would certainly look different years later. I don’t see it happening, but until it doesn’t, there’s still a chance. There were no wins that came from 9/11.

We got ourselves a keyboard warrior here.

Absolutely not defending Microsoft. I’m just saying that it was obvious even a couple of years ago that this current pricing model isn’t feasible. It was always part of the plan to jack up prices, because that’s how every subscription service operates. In the case of AI, the expenses are astronomical and the pricing has never been close to something resembling profit.

You’d have to be truly ignorant to not know that it was going to happen (not saying that you are). It’ll be interesting to see if there any legal recourse, but I’m guessing not.

All of these companies are hemmoraging money to train and provide LLMs. The only option is to charge more. This current increase, IMO, is an alpha test for future increases. Unless there is a major jump in the technology, moreso the logic to train LLMs more efficiently, the cost has to keep going up to stay solvent for most of these major players.

There will be some major bag holders soon. Who’s is gonna be? The funnelers or the funnelees? How does MS bounce back having integrated copilot into everything?

The meme you responded to was about Democrats and how when they do the right thing, they’re still criticized for things out of their control, like not getting getting a 2/3 vote on war resolutions as the minority party.

It wasn’t the best word choice. I did say ‘the’ inflation to try and separate it a bit, but should have rephrased.

The inflation of computer component costs, the topic of this post.

Aug 2024, I purchased 32gb of RAM for $109. That same kit today would cost me $509. Sept 2025 I got a 250gb nvme for $33 that is now around $85. The inflation is real.

I don’t think there’s a chance that happens either at the consumer level or mass adoption at the enterprise level. The estimated price of that nvidia surface ultra is expected to be around $3000. Only a handful of power users will pay that, and others may just buy it for the computer power. Right now for the basic user it’s about $30 a month for basic AI plans. How many people that are willing to pay that do you think are willing to pay 100 years up front to then pay a subscription to then manage a local model?

Also, there are a lot of viable free models available right now that people can download for free. I have a recycled i5, 8gb ram machine that can run some basic models that are cable of doing 90% of the stuff the average person wants. My desktop with far better specs can run far more powerful models. The thing is, most people don’t know these exist, and if they do they don’t know how to set them up or are too intimidated to try.

That’s just for consumers. Trying to host that at an enterprise level is much more difficult. Assuming the business has the tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to support 100s or thousands of users, configuring governance on LLMs and everything associated with enterprise management that is currently handled at the current companies will fall back on the business. That will probably require hiring specialist, or at least expanding the work force. If it takes 1 $3000, unreleased and untested laptop, imagine the cost to support a company, especially one doing software development.

Even with all of that, training the models isn’t going to get cheaper. It’s going to get more expensive as more data centers are built. Operating costs will go up, and unless these companies start charging upwards of 3k a month per user, they won’t be profitable on AI alone. Obviously they are making money on other things like selling user data, but none the less, costs have to go up for even the notion of making money for these companies.

What do your propose the Senate and House Democrats do without a majority?

There’s an argument that the air is overpriced so it was worth paying more for a better option. Now that the cheap option starts at 40% cheaper than the cheapest air, it is a good value. I’m not making that argument as I have no stake or knowledge in apple sales, just throwing out possible reasons. I think it’s more likely that they are poaching Windows users to some degree.

I think that currently, a lot of places are replacing junior devs with AI. As senior devs retire or quit because of AI, there won’t be skilled juniors to take those positions. It’s my belief that there will be a vacuum left that needs to be filled by people that can code, not just use AI to vibe code.

I could definitely be wrong, but it’s kind of cyclical like the dotcom bubble too. There was a surplus of devs, then a shortage. I think we’re approaching the latter. If/when the bubble pops, we’ll find out.

It’s expensive to get a degree, but I also think having at least basic coding understanding both fundamentally changes the way a person thinks for the better and to be good, you have to have a good breadth of knowledge on computers and a wide array of different processes across different fields, so you become a more well rounded person.

Anecdotally, I pivoted from sys admin for a decade to full stack in my mid thirties. I was fortunate to have a connection that got me in the door, and it’s been a lot of work starting over, but I’ve done it. You mentioned in your country that it’s not feasible, but maybe if you can find an in somewhere or if the landscape changes significantly enough that unavailable positions open up, you might be able to catch a break.

I bought 5 of these last September at $99 each https://ebay.us/m/x9d0kn. When I did some searching about a month ago, I found a couple for around $150 of the same model. So I paid less initially than I thought.

I’ve been putting 12tb used SAS drives in my Plex server. The used market went up about 30% from last year for the same drives. I think I paid $115 each before, now they’re $150.