gross

can't tell if you're being facetious but yes, there's not enough cash in the world to double energy/silicon fab capacity in a year. Infrastructure takes time, hardware is hard, and you have to be willing to bet that the demand will be there 5 years from now to make an investment today.

Until one has the entire supply of world GPU production, cash can solve it by out bidding others

TSMC would never allow all of their output to only one customer. You have an over simplified view of this.

One could always make existing infrastructure more efficient. Nothing better than post-mature optimization.

this is teleological thinking. it's not necessarily the case that things get better over time.

there's a lot of evidence things do generally get better over time, though. Jon Haidt and his ilk... I forget all involved... have done research into it

obviously it can be bumpy and maybe there's a Great Filter or you happen to live during a bad period but life is certainly much longer and less brutal than it was for 99.9% of human history

Things have mostly gotten better through centralization and unification, which is certainly a way of getting better.

yea but which people ;) unless you want to in that in-group, crypto, rage and all, better off without it

It takes me longer to login to PayPal than it takes to install Dash-to-Panel: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/

Maybe that's just what $10 worth of labor looks like in today's economy, though. Times are tough.

this is the mentality of the modern age, as shaped by america and all empires before her, e.g. supreme leader khomeini no longer exists because the man americans voted for as head of the armed forces decided it would be better this way.

I don't think the discourse is about just this one guy, it's about an entire class of people for whom swiping around a smartphone is a bewildering experience they managed to live their whole life so far without. If you're not adept at it, it makes you feel stupid, maybe you haven't had that experience but there's more to being a luddite than stubbornness.

If I can get along with the rest of my life on a flip phone, it seems pretty unreasonable to buy a device just to buy sports tickets.

> If I can get along with the rest of my life on a flip phone, it seems pretty unreasonable to buy a device just to buy sports tickets.

I would agree. It also seems unreasonable to expect the organization to make an exception to a completely legitimate anti-scalping measure for one person.

>for one person

For everybody. Nobody should be forced to use a proprietary phone app.

Why not? Going to a Dodgers game is not a constitutional right, if the business wants to make it harder for people to give them money that might be stupid but it's their right.

It's true it can be done but many business owners are not hip to cloudflare r2 buckets or github pages. Many are still paying for a whole dedicated server to run apache (and wordpress!) to serve static files. These sites will go down when hammered by unscrupulous bots.

The library's archive is not a service provided by the newspaper

So? If the newspaper's website is willing to serve the documents, what's the problem?

The point is, if you're pleading with others to respect ""intellectual property"" then you're a worm serving corporate interests against your own.

I may be a worm but at least I respect that others might have a different take on how best to make creative work an attainable way of life since before copyright law it was basically "have a wealthy patron who steered if not outright commissioned what you would produce"

meta had the gpus to train llama because of their capital spend on horizons, so at least they were in the game, but maybe he didn't see "chatbot" as a trillion dollar product category