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It's cult stuff. They may literally not care when or even if they ever become profitable.

Like half of these bozos expect that they, or someone else will succeed in creating a superintelligent robot god and at that point few 10s of billions of dollars will not matter much.

Man, the discover feed truly is useless. Not only is it mostly posts from people I already follow. Now it also apparently contains MAGA trolls posting the most inane ragebait.

What a dweeb, I think he just likes to be insufferable.

Adorable. And ironic, considering how the notion that people are not 100% with your program and that you have to convince them apparently made *you* uncomfortable.

Anyhow, I've procrastinated enough today. And honestly, I think your heart is in a right place, but you're needlessly being a dick.

I dunno man. There are lots of people who don't view good ol' capitalist democracy as just a "pause on the road to fascism". And I don't think being a party pooper is gonna change their mind.

This is funny to me because in my neck of the woods the carts are chained to the corral and each other and you have to insert a coin (roughly $0.5 dollar equivalent) to unlock one.

You get the money back when you return it. Felt it always worked good enough.

Meh, Trump is not an actual de iure king. So "no kings" necessarily means a broad definition. You're overthinking it.

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …

Man, I didn't want to be negative about LLM's for once, I really did.

But if you want to show off a "cool new thing" and you have to caveat the only example with:
"Look I know this is complete trash, but..."

what the fuck am I supposed to think about that?

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...

No, I don't think that's correct. There's definitely another position:
I churn out AI slop and pretend that it's not shite.

I would argue that one takes the least amount of effort.

Truly. And here I was thinking that Sammy would manage to burn more money in 2025 just in "absolute" numbers. Oof.

Hold up, hold up...
So without the accounting nonsense:
2024 - $3.7B revenue - $5B loss - 1.35 loss/revenue
2025H1 - $4.3B revenue - ~$8B loss - 1.86 loss/revenue

How, just why? Arghdjdjdk...

OK, maybe I should have just written: paying more cost to get more benefit does not necessarily mean better cost/benefit ratio.

"So many of the complaints about AI seem focused on just trying to use it cold without additional context."

AI is sold as a way to do things faster than before. So having to spend a lot of time and effort it kinda loses its appeal. And there's always the competing option of doing it "boomer style"

"This tool does not reliably provide good output unless you put a lot of effort into using it. This is somehow the users fault."

Open plan offices

I saw someone today unironically argue that "trying to fix disabled people" (like helping people in wheelchairs walk again or blind people see and such) is eugenics and leads directly to genocide.

I haven't felt this imbued with the Spirit of Centrism in a long time.

Ye, I couldn't remember even my home number. Paradoxically, I can remember my mobile phone now, because I have to enter it everywhere.

Also apparently the fault of H1B's and off shore workers according to a comment the author approved of.

I don't follow, I was talking about what communists did.

Four highway lanes in a trench i.e. an almost literal traffic sewer filled with vehicles viewed from bus front window.

Just Parisian traffic on Sunday noon, nothing to see here...

Flying to (Paris-)Beauvais today and had to turn my phone off seconds before I managed to snap a picture of LGV Nord.

Ryanair, please, I want my money back...

I'm confused, who are supposed to be the fascists in this situation?

Lul, this always reminds me that there was a giant statue of Stalin in Prague that was removed by (checks notes) *communist* Czechoslovakia right after his death.

It's the joke they deserve.

Brno discontinued and then restored tram service on it's north-south axis through the old town some years back.

What makes it interesting is that there is also a small circle of tram lines around the center that serve most of the tram traffic.

Center of Brno from openrailwaymap.org

Brno discontinued and then restored tram service on it's north-south axis through the old town some years back.

What makes it interesting is that there is also a small circle of tram lines around the center that serve most of the tram traffic

What... what level of irony is this?

Akshually, it's more like horse & buggy driven by a mechanical turk 😜