I don’t buy this. 18 years of experience and everyone prefers people who have no pre-llm dev experience instead? Not a single company values an engineer who actually understands the code he commits?

Pretty sure this is just someone trying to sell us even more doom.

That’s all of Samsung Electronics’ profit and only the chip plant employees are included in that 45000 figure. If they’re going to share the entire company’s profits, it would be divided among 260k people. And the demand is 15% of profits to go into a bonus pool. This would be more like 42k per person if divided among everyone.

SK Hynix employees had the advantage that they only have the super profitable memory and NAND business. Samsung also makes phones and other shit that brought in way less profit per person, as you don’t really get 80% profit margins on most products. So if it’s just the chip industry employees getting the chip industry profits, the number could be a lot higher, otherwise the chip industry employees’ generated profits are going to subsidize bonuses to everyone else as well and the amount per person will be lower.

It’s phat.

The AI data centers have purpose-built racks to let like 10x more power through. A single rack for the newer ones is in the range of 100kW, but there’s talk of planning for even more power density for future generations - I’ve heard of 600 kW racks and potentially 1MW racks. Your average normal data center isn’t equipped with enough cooling to run a significant amount of them, nor are they wired for that kind of power unless built very recently. Just 3 years ago, the GPUs used in data centers were much less power hungry (~400W per chip then vs over 1kW per chip now).

It also doesn’t make sense to run just a few GPU racks in one data center, a few in another, etc for running frontier models. They benefit too much from low latency, high bandwidth interconnects.

There are for sure many data centers in Europe that can run modest sized LLMs, no problem. Probably even train them. But we don’t have many data centers that would make it economical to run frontier models. AFAIK there’s one in Norway that OpenAI uses, and Anthropic doesn’t have consumer-facing compute at all in Europe (Not sure if enterprise clients can get a special deal).

New AI datacenters are being built in the gigawatt scale. It’s a truly disgusting amount of power, my entire country peaks at under 2 GW in even the coldest winters.

If there was any efficient way to run frontier models in general-purpose data centers, you bet OpenAI and Anthropic would be doing it en masse. Anthropic in particular is starved for compute, that’s why they enacted much stricter usage limits a few months ago. Plus they’d definitely benefit from lower latency, as inference itself takes time and you want the user to start getting output as soon as possible so they’d perceive the service as more responsive.

So sure, we can run AI workloads in Europe. Hell, I’ve run LLMs on my low-end PC. Mistral uses American cloud companies’ European GPU compute capabilities. But they have much smaller models than GPT 5.whatever they’re up to now or Claude Opus.

If the US controls Iranian oil, at worst things will go back to the old situation for Russia: Their oil is worth less, and they have to sell it through back channels.

As long as Iran keeps the strait blockaded, Russian oil is worth way more (like it is right now) and currently the US is allowing it to be traded out in the open.

Europe and China, on the other hand, may find common ground here since both are net importers of oil and gas AFAIK. Russia is a net exporter of both.

Any time I’ve had a car that’s not already a rusty piece of shit, I keep it waxed to protect the paintwork which in turn protects the body panels themselves.

That, however, does not apply to my current car, nor the last 5 pieces of shit.

A publicly traded company is owned by a school of rabid pirahnas that want to shake all the loose nickels out of it, and will pursue any self-destructive tendency if it generates a short-term return.

Run by, not owned. You see how BlackRock and Vanguard are listed as major shareholders for all big publicly traded companies? Those are actually made up mostly of retail investors buying ETFs. But you don’t control the shares you own through ETFs and the companies managing the ETFs tend not to actively manage anything either. It’s a combination of the other shareholders who control the board, and they might not even own a very big part of the company in reality.

Truth is, privately owned companies can be even worse than public, but public is basically guaranteed to be bad.

So I did read a bit about narcissism a while after splitting up with my ex (after she claimed she’d read about narcissism and her new boyfriend ticked a bunch of boxes and she told me about them and they were all things she did to me). Apparently there are subtypes of narcissistic personality disorder. Some see themselves as literal gods while others absolutely resent themselves.

Then there’s this one and I think that’s also the one you were thinking of:

Compensatory narcissist Seeks to counteract or cancel out deep feelings of inferiority and lack of self-esteem; offsets deficits by creating illusions of being superior, exceptional, admirable, noteworthy; self-worth results from self-enhancement.

My ex ticks so many goddamn boxes.

1. Spends more money than she (or realistically, her partner she mooches off of) can afford to. Always shows off new things, but then sells them for cheap so she can buy other new things.

2. Sometimes wants to help people… Except nobody wants her help because she keeps bringing it up afterwards. For months, if not years.

3. Has to have multiple sexual partners, but also NEEDS her partner to be committed to monogamy and loyal so she can feel in control.

4. Constantly talking shit about her friends and what she considers stupid decisions or physical or personality flaws on their part. A lot of the time she accuses her friends of doing things she does (theft, cheating, prostitution, etc). Insults her friends behind their backs for being overweight even if she’s no different. etc.

Our entire life together was a game of keeping up with the Joneses. Over the course of 2 years we had like 50 baby strollers, nearly half of them were bought new. Which she always had to show to her friends. There was a lot of other shit too, but this bullshit bothered me more than all the lying and cheating. Now that her new boyfriend also left her (or she left him - depends on who she’s talking to), she’s telling me about job opportunities she has (has been unemployed for months, why not take one already?) and what car she’s planning to buy for money that someone’s apparently gonna lend her… While she’s crashing on someone’s couch because she was kicked out for not paying rent for several months.

There are so many other things, to the point that she’s a danger to people around her, both physically and emotionally. But she’ll never admit it to herself and get help :/ And unfortunately, until my kid’s old enough to decide not to see her, we have to have shared custody because she doesn’t do drugs and physical violence is pretty hard to prove after the fact.

Ah yeah, IMO neither consoles nor PCs are all that great for smartifying your TV in this day and age. There are cheap Android TV sticks and boxes you can use instead. Less power consumption than running a whole ass console or PC just to watch a movie, convenient remote, etc. Better app availability than consoles, simply more convenient to use on the big screen than a PC.

That’s what I’m doing, even though my PC is close enough to the TV to run a ~5 meter HDMI cable if I wanted to. Hell, I could play without jellyfin if I did, since I don’t have a separate server currently, but I still find my Android TV box more convenient.

As an upside, the Android TV box gets 4K+HDR streaming when I do use a streaming service (I have a deal where I share my Apple TV+ with a friend and get their Disney+ in return). My PC doesn’t do that because streaming services hate Linux users and limit Linux users to 1080p or lower.

Back when I used plex, I used to just use the TV app, but there isn’t one for Jellyfin on Samsung, so I just don’t let the TV itself connect to the internet anymore. Never should have in the first place, but it was pretty convenient till I needed Jellyfin

I’m lucky enough that the few rich people I’ve personally interacted with, haven’t been such insufferable pricks.

If I give any real information, I’ll probably dox myself to any of my old coworkers, but old boss and his wife were super hard workers, net worth in the high tens or perhaps even a few hundred million. They spent a couple of decades building the company, no outside investment (he was the founder, but she joined him when it was still pretty tiny). At the end of it, she wanted to sell and retire, he was unable to let go of his “baby”. So he killed himself, she brought in private equity and everything went to shit just as I was leaving anyway.

They held a bunch of meetings too, but it was product design and direction related any time I had to join one. And they actually knew the needs of the target audience of the product we were building - I did not, as it was VERY far removed from my job as a software engineer. Essentially they functioned as analysts or project managers, except with 3 or 4 decades of experience working on the same product. They’d also interact directly with customers for product feedback, including some they’d managed to retain for nearly 2 decades.

There was another company where the owners and leadership were much worse, but I never personally interacted with the CEO. He was pretty close to what you describe, with the business lunches and everything, but then again he brought on multi-billion dollar companies as customers so it seems that bullshit works lol. Personally, I’m an introvert who needs to recharge after prolonged socialization, but I’m also a social butterfly who can chat for hours and bullshit through anything, so I could probably pull that job off fairly easily, but I don’t have the whole “bunch of multi-millionaires owe me some favours for shady shit I pulled years ago to make them richer” thing going on for me that getting that job in the first place requires.

Pretty damn unlikely indeed. The kind of people that he could persuade to sell a private jet and save money by chartering don’t exactly have a lot of time for social media unless it’s something like xitter or reddit or instagram, which they only use to market their shit. Either they’re too busy working, or too busy enjoying all their wealth.

This one is going to be a difficult one for me to avoid, being a huge fan of arcadey racers and the Horizon series in general :/ 4 and 5 were pretty much the only live service games I’ve ever bought (except a few MMOs I’ve subbed to back in the day).

Upside is, I haven’t really had much time to play games lately, and won’t for at least a few more months, so even if I do end up caving in, it probably won’t be for a few more months. Maybe they’ll manage to enshittify it by then and I won’t be interested lol

There’s different types of tax and different ways to skirt by.

A lot of taxes can be skirted by making your private jet owned by your company. Now it’s a business expense, not taxable income. But of course the IRS isn’t very happy about it if you use it for personal reasons. Of course most still will. VAT/Sales tax? Yea you get to claim that back in most countries if buying things as a business.

Then there’s a whole other issue on lack of excise duty on jet fuel. This applies to both private jets and airlines. If you drive a car, you have to pay excise, but not if you fly. Yay! (Ideally, in my opinion, both should be taxed, but public transit (not airlines though) should receive an exemption for the excise similar to how farmers get it in my country). IIRC this is a global issue too.

You still end up paying minor amounts of tax on different things if you fly a private jet, even if it’s owned by your company, but… percentage wise, it’s nothing compared to a regular commuter who privately buys a car and fuels it up at a station.

Honestly, if not banning them altogether, private jets used by companies should at least be taxed as if they were owned by a private person. There’s little business use case for being able to fly a tiny amount of people anywhere on a whim. It’s purely for personal convenience of the ultra rich.

It was actually written by a guy who runs a charter jet company. The target audience quite literally is people who can afford to fly private. It helps him to sell a bit more outrage over what’s actually completely sensible.

He sells charter flights. The cheaper and more sensible alternative to outright owning a private jet without having to see plebs on your plane, with like a tiny bit less flexibility.

The private jet tax might actually benefit him, he’s now taking advantage of it to pull attention to charter flights.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the worst part about KeePassXC. It’s vibecoded crap.

Is RiiR still all the rage? Perhaps it’s time to oxidize KeePass. There are a few libraries for kdbx files and at least one ready-made CLI.

They don’t really report profits since so much is circular. They just increase both sides of the profit/loss equation at once which makes them look bigger without actually making any profit.

If you, I and a third person create three companies and just pass the same 100 dollar bill in a circle 10 times a minute as full time jobs 48 weeks a year ignoring holidays, we’d each have 115 million in revenue to report. We’d just also each have 115 million in expenses so there’s no profit.

Motorola doesn’t make memory. This is about the memory business growing so ridiculously profitable overnight that the employees are looking to be compensated via an annual bonus that would make them all millionaires (in USD or EUR, not just won lol) in a year or 2.

I do hope they get it. Probably not great for an already aging society if a bunch of people start retiring early, but hey, their labour is what made untold riches possible for Samsung, nvidia and AMD.

PS5 and XSX run better at 4k resolution than my 3060ti does at 1440p in at least some games.

And those are all used prices. That nearly 6 year old GPU probably no longer has any warranty, unless someone bought it when the next 2 generations were already out. Not sure I’d trust used memory either when prices are as high as they are right now, people would be hella motivated to try to sell their old failing sticks. I’m also not sure where you’ll get a 512GB SSD for $60. Cheapest 512 GB NVMe is 90€ near me. The Playstation has an 825 GB NVMe, or 1TB for some models (2 for pro, but that’s overpriced).

The same price range (or a tiny bit less) still gets you a brand new PlayStation 5 with warranty, rather than potentially 5-6 year old components (hell, the DDR4 could be even older). You can also save money on the console too if you go used.

I’m a PC gamer, but let’s not kid ourselves by saying that PC gaming isn’t more expensive to buy into. It is. You do get a multifunctional machine though. I use mine for work and arguing with strangers on lemmy, for an example.

PC prices are also going up by hundreds of dollars. Look at what RAM and storage are doing.