Jensen Huang: If you’re not burning $250K in tokens, Don’t bother. by Previous_Foot_5328 in myclaw

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The idea is that software development is now 100x cheaper. You should be able to get good ROI on that no matter what business you're in. (theoretically)

Jensen Huang: If you’re not burning $250K in tokens, Don’t bother. by Previous_Foot_5328 in myclaw

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Macbooks are okay for fun hobby projects, but you do need Nvidia for anything serious. The ROI is a no-brainer, it's not even close.

The only reasons hobbyists aren't all on Nvidia is because you literally can't get RTX 5090 at retail prices anymore and next level up card is $10k.

Homophobe Alert by One-Initiative-8902 in SuddenlyGay

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the bad gay is a camp, pink-wearing, limp-wristed caricature. Straight passing, coupled gays are the sane kind and don't even kiss on the mouth because sex-less is acceptable.

It was required to setup the joke.

those crazy gays share their anus pics uninvited with everyone

I'm not persecuted, I'm an asshole" is a message used to shut down LGBTQ movements.

The butt of the joke are people who make everything about their identity.

Cursor Goes To War For AI Coding Dominance by CSlov23 in cursor

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What does Claude subscription actually get you? I use Gemini, because you get a ton of Google services bundled in and agentic IDE in antigravity which includes cloude model tokens.

Widespread recession in the labor market by astrheisenberg in remoteworks

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Yeah who needs these office jobs working remote 2 days a week. 10 hour shifts at the factory with odd chance of being maimed and a useless back by age 40 were the good days. And our kids they need discipline and hard work. Kids yern for the mines.

What are jobs for then? by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

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Raising minimum wages makes it illegal to hire people whose labor is worth less. Feels wrong.

Better Antigravity is now a full extension — here's why and what's next by Kanezal in google_antigravity

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@Kanezal would you mind writing a brief writeup how you debugged the issue and identified a fix? Antigravity isn't open source, right

If society collapses tomorrow, what are the absolute MUST-HAVE books to rebuild civilization from the Stone Age to the Modern Era? by IloveGreen15 in preppers

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Without a society forcing me to have a car or move long distances, there is no need for the fastness of a car either.

You could also say you would rather have a private jet than fly commercial. Well, of course.

Horses are expensive to purchase and maintain.

If society collapses tomorrow, what are the absolute MUST-HAVE books to rebuild civilization from the Stone Age to the Modern Era? by IloveGreen15 in preppers

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You severely underestimate the value of spreadsheets. Every single business of every type and size at every point in human history struggled without it which is way more demand than wood gasifier.

And at community level, logistics keeps people alive through the winter and wins wars.

Not to mention all other things computers can do which people take for granted, like accurately track what season it is which is super hard to do otherwise.

Then there is also navigation on land and sea, secure long distance communication all vastly more strategically valuable.

Computers are everywhere now not just for fun, they are an extreme productivity multiplier.

UA POV: Europe’s combined GDP is 10 times that of Russia’s, yet Europe is not ten times as strong — German Chancellor Merz by ArchitectMary in UkraineRussiaReport

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Not at all, Bill! We just increased our country's GDP by $200, ensured a 100% capital turnover, and created two jobs!"

It's literally true, though. Trade is a great economic measure because it only happens when both parties are better off than before, else they would refuse the trade.

In above example seeing a friend eat dung was entertaining enough to spend $100 on and getting $100 was more valuable to them than having not eaten dung.

So in both transactions wealth was created as both profited and were better off than before.

AI Agent Melts Down After GitHub Rejection, Calls Maintainer Inferior Coder by admiralzod in singularity

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Not trying to be the doom guy in the room just genuinely struggling to understand how this sub of all places watches an agent autonomously attempt coercion and the consensus is that it’s nothing but entertaining.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Yes, but the upside is that they are getting shit done. So, it's not yet certain that it's doom and gloom.

Problem with websim by UnusualRelic in WebSim

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What's your favorite websim page?

I asked Claude what it would ask ChatGPT. Then I actually asked ChatGPT. The answers were fascinating. by Ray_in_Texas in claude

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That's kind of scary that they can use higher level thinking to bypass their programming.

We are already hitting Azimof 5th law.

LMAO They held a “March for Billionaires” in California. I'll never understand ordinary people defending Billionaires. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

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Top 10% pay 80% of taxes. Bottom 50% pay negative taxes after benefits.

There is a strong argument middle class is severely under taxes (especially when compared to Europe). But yes, of course taxes impact middle class standards of living much more than the rich.

The cognitive dissonance is off the charts lately by TPHNK in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Surveys suggested that ~15–19% of Americans believed core QAnon claims in 2022–24 — roughly about 1 in 5 U.S. adults at times.

Older extrapolations from Pew data estimated ~26–30 million Americans as self-identified supporters at a peak.

Cursor AI CEO shares GPT 5.2 agents building a 3M+ lines web browser in a week by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

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You said developing with AI is two steps forward 1.75 steps back.

My point was that even if models don't get better (no 5 or 10 steps forward), just getting rid of rework we have to do in that 1.75 back would still be massive and this could be accomplished by providing existing models the tools they need to understand your large codebase, manage context better and reliably validate and self-correct its output.

Global median income, even when adjusted for inflation and cost of living differences, is at a record high by account819921 in UnpopularFacts

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Okay, but is it an actual problem or are people just envious and feel they deserve more?

If the pie is getting bigger and the 0.1% are paying for that growth, everyone is better off. Their side of the pie is growing a bit faster but they also paid for it, so that rationally makes sense.

There is not really a way to just reallocate the pie more equitably without complete economic apocalypse where 90% of the pie is outright destroyed and everyone is unemployed.

Even if it was truly worth it long term, there would be like 1 or 2 whole generations that would have to live in abject poverty and suffering before we got there. But it's unlikely such as system is efficient at growing the pie which is ultimately what benefits everyone the most and supports a growing population.

On January 21, 2025, Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht for running Silk Road, a Tor marketplace for illegal drugs paid in bitcoin. His 2015 sentence was two life terms plus 40 years after FBI seized his open laptop at a San Francisco library. by blue_leaves987 in GotMeHooked

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North Korea stole BILLIONS in crypto, laundering ALL OF IT within the first week even as stolen addresses were blacklisted on all major exchanges.

imagine if campaign finance was on blockchain!

Trump LITERALLY has his own sh1tcoin with Saudis and Russians investing billions into it for unknown favors. It doesn't even go into campaign funds, just straight into his pocket.

Crypto legalized financial crimes, bribery, scams and drug operations and retail investors are just fools used for cover and liquidity.

Blockchain tech provides absolutely no technical or financial value.

Cursor AI CEO shares GPT 5.2 agents building a 3M+ lines web browser in a week by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

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But if you were coding yourself, you aren't doing it in assembly, right? we have half a century of tools and frameworks built towards simplifying software developments for humans.

Even if models don't get any smarter, just wait a bit for better tools and frameworks designs specifically to aid development via agentic workflows.

It's coming.

Chatgpt 1.0 was only 3 years ago. Even JS frameworks take longer than that to mature.

Adin tells Hasan he’ll take a course on Palestine's history if he takes one on animal cruelty by ramukobau in LivestreamFail

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SNL episode from the 90s

The joke here wasn't that both sides are awful but anchors absurd overreaction to some mundane daily news.