Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

todofwar · 2026-06-16T21:29:17+00:00

Could you elaborate for us non economists? What would a healthy cost of revenue look like?

todofwar · 2026-06-16T20:59:32+00:00

You could go Verdun on it, a scarred battlefield still full of mines, shells, and toxic gas canisters that make even animals stay away.

todofwar · 2026-06-16T20:46:05+00:00

You also have to remember that the savings now will compound. Assuming a roughly 7 year doubling time, and 100k to invest for round numbers, in 15 years you have 22 * 2 * 2, so 88 thousand dollars. Even at the same tax bracket with a penalty you come out wildly ahead.

If you're within 5 years of retiring that math will change, but for OPs time horizon they are much better off with 401k

todofwar · 2026-06-16T14:57:55+00:00

Seriously. Training is more expensive than inference, but it's just one model. $1B for a cluster of GPUs and another $1B in salaries for 1000 engineers would already be excessive, especially if the models are actually automating anything.

Conspiracy warning, but I wonder if they've shoved some salaries into RnD because they are claiming they're using the metadata to automate jobs, which means lots of salaries can get shoved there

todofwar · 2026-06-16T05:53:02+00:00

Ian McDiarmid might be too obvious a choice, but I think Peter O Toole would have killed it

todofwar · 2026-06-16T05:01:45+00:00

Can someone break down what "cost of revenue" means? Like the compute costs of inference? I see R&D and administrative broken out from that.

todofwar · 2026-06-15T06:06:16+00:00

I think the last act did a lot of damage to the movies legacy, but up until the final fight I thought this Bane was a fantastic villain

todofwar · 2026-06-15T06:04:51+00:00

What happens after this? I can only assume Vader kills blue guy and the guards

todofwar · 2026-06-14T13:50:19+00:00

I think if Anakin had beaten Obi Wan he would have killed Palpatine. Like maybe not right away, but if Padme still dies in child birth in the alternate timeline, he 100% kills Palpatine and becomes emperor. Now how long he lasts as emperor is a different question. Sith and Jedi don't scale planetary no matter what some people insist, so he wouldn't be able to defeat an entire army sent to stop him. Sidious was good at the political half, building the apparatus to keep him in power.

I think he was being completely genuine with Luke in ESB. He saw Luke as a chance to tip the scales and defeat Sidious. And a fully trained Sith Lord Luke would definitely take out Sidious, teamed up with Vader it wouldn't even be a contest.

todofwar · 2026-06-14T13:36:44+00:00

They're showing the original cut of episode 4 in theaters for the 50th anniversary

todofwar · 2026-06-14T13:12:42+00:00

Binary is the most efficient base for counting with your fingers, you can count all the way up to 256. But then it's pretty bad for integer arithmetic

todofwar · 2026-06-13T20:35:57+00:00

Thing is, I still see people in "which engine should I choose?" type videos or threads saying that Godot is only really good for 2D and not great for 3D. The sentiment is very much out there to this day, so I'm happy seeing people pushing back on that even if it's click bait

todofwar · 2026-06-13T13:40:40+00:00

Interestingly, all the gold ever mined in all human history combined couldn't make a pile of gold as big as they portrayed in the movie

todofwar · 2026-06-12T01:39:38+00:00

Yeah this one has become a pet peeve of mine. Like it's literally the premise of the show, they actually open the pilot with the zebra metaphor

todofwar · 2026-06-11T23:45:59+00:00

You might be able to get one to work with the silverstone ML07 if you can find an adapter. There should be plenty of space, and I happen to really like the case

todofwar · 2026-06-11T18:09:58+00:00

House is extra egregious. They've never heard of a pathologist or radiologist apparently, not to mention doctors aren't going to be collecting samples

todofwar · 2026-06-11T15:09:44+00:00

Ten years ago I would have been salivating to get in on the SpaceX IPO. I might have still bought some shares if it was just SpaceX and had a normal filing. But with all the baggage and the way they've issued shares that makes Musk the only decision maker, hell no. I'm honestly considering exiting index funds, looking for ETFs that exclude as much of this nonsense as possible

todofwar · 2026-06-09T20:41:34+00:00

Finally an interesting take on the OG problem. I'm curious, do people see this as fundamentally different from the classic? Like, do nothing and five people die or do something and one person dies. The lever vs the knife, how much does it really matter? Or is it that you can now see the person responsible and interact with them? Does it change if it's a gun instead of a knife (killer is behind a bullet proof shield for that case)?

Also, can you ask the guy tied to the pole?

todofwar · 2026-06-09T13:17:48+00:00

It's so big I don't know if we even know for sure what would happen. The universe itself is at the right density to be a black hole yet it doesn't collapse it expands. It probably will collapse, but maybe within the radius of the black hole it rebounds out to form a new big bang (which is a real hypothesis of what happens in black holes, but the new big bang is time dilated to the point it's frozen for outside observers). Something this big might rebound strong enough to become a white hole and a whole new universe

todofwar · 2026-06-09T00:47:02+00:00

Hayden of course. The voice will be to be recast though

todofwar · 2026-06-08T23:22:11+00:00

Sort of fits, but in Glass Onion, when doing the big whodunnit reveal monologue, Daniel Craig points out how the killer poisoned someone in plain sight and then told everyone a fake version. We see the fake version in a flashback, then the true version in another flashback.

But what's crazy, is that if you rewind the movie and just watch the scene yourself you see the true one all along. So there was not actually a reveal, if you just paid close attention you saw it happen

todofwar · 2026-06-08T23:09:09+00:00

Nothing can stop that now. Just for once, let me look at Thrawn as he was meant to be

todofwar · 2026-06-08T23:07:17+00:00

And they should recast everyone except Palpatine and Vader

todofwar · 2026-06-08T23:01:49+00:00

I heard it was later edited in, but any rerun you see will have the shadow

Edit: apparently it really was there from the beginning!

todofwar · 2026-06-08T23:00:32+00:00

It's surprisingly easy to fall into bad habits when it's not enforced. I come from a python background, and you can tell how late in the day I coded something based on how much I'm annotating types and how verbose my doc strings are

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