Yes, and then the nice midsized companies will be bought out by bigger American ones.

After the last one they never really lowered prices back, we were still buying near crypto era priced GPUs before the AI boom.

Source on TSMC hiring ex-Apple employees lol

Apple uses TSMC’s services because there’s a huge difference between what Apple does (chip design) vs what TSMC does (chip manufacturing).

It wouldn’t be “years of failure and low output”. It would be years of nothing to build the infrastructure and then flip a switch.

No, the failure and low output come AFTER the switch is flipped, unless you get a TON of industry know-how from TSMC. First you have nothing, then you have low yields until you figure out the processes.

After the last crypto bust, prices stayed up though. They’re still way higher than before the last crypto boom.

And nVidia, AMD, Intel all know better now than to overproduce consumer GPUs.

Nvidia already made tons of profit off it. They’re the ones selling shovels.

Vibe coders will ask the AI to write everything in Rust, memory usage will be reasonably low

The people writing everything in Electron are gonna have a fun time with their users though.

Not a bad idea… except they already IPOd and you inject AI into everything to wow angel investors, retail investors are less susceptible to this particular type of bullshit and index funds (reddit on russell 1000) are immune altogether. I suppose there are still wall street wealth manager types who might fall for it while playing with someone else’s money

Well I think it’s different for scientific discoveries where something is either found or not. Software and other products… There are niche things that may never exist without the author, and there are generic things that would be created in one form or another anyway. Once programming languages were a thing, general purpose high level languages were bound to happen IMO and there are infinite possible languages.

That emoji is incidentally how I feel about this whole thing being possible

Oh wow I didn’t realize Pascal was even older than C, thought it showed up in like mid-70s or early 80s. To be fair I’ve ever only interacted with Delphi, not OG Pascal.

While I don’t necessarily like C, I am happy for C-style syntax over Pascal-style, which I’ve also worked with. Give me braces over begin and end any day of the week.

Seems you’re too reserved to ever become a konqueror.

Creators already get paid very well for posting on YouTube.

Not since Pewds made some nazi jokes 9 years ago. Think they’re only now getting back to where they were before that.

There are also a ton more people doing a lot of niches, so now you get fewer views.

A good rule of thumb for me is, if I see adverts on YouTube and on TV for the same company or product, then they are charging too much…

That I can agree on, but then again, how would they even sell their product if there’s no advertisement? The companies that don’t charge too much and then stuff some of it into advertisement, tend to go under.

But if a creator has ads on premium that costs x amount each month.

Creator doesn’t really know if you have premium or not and many users (me) will also have adblock so they don’t get a cent from these views. That’s why many will show you ad-free videos on Patreon or Nebula. No sponsor segments if they know you’re a paying customer.

I’ll literally watch Map Men sponsor segments on purpose (along with a few others)

Not to downplay dmr’s importance here because he quite literally is the father of modern computing, but without him we’d just have something else and perhaps it would’ve been a bit later. A different systems programming language and a different operating system everything else is modeled after. High-level programming languages weren’t a new concept when he wrote C. Before B they already had Fortran. Funny to call any of those High-level in 2026, but that’s the whole importance of C, isn’t it? It made writing complex systems easy compared to assembly languages or even fortran.

I’m not gonna bother doing a writeup about Jobs, we all here know he made precisely Jack shit.

Completely vibe-coded project it seems, even documentation. And yet:

Human-Origin Source License

Also love this:

You may not, without prior written permission from the Author:

- ship or maintain a modified version outside the contribution-purpose
  rules;
- maintain a divergent private or internal fork;
- port, clone, rebrand, or recreate the Covered Software;
- create an API-compatible replacement, behavioral clone, competing
  implementation, or Derivative Implementation; or
- use AI-assisted implementation mining to create, improve, test,
  document, or validate a Derivative Implementation.

Look, I use AI too (mostly to speed things up by working on multiple items in parallel), but I’m not gonna stuff “human-origin source license” on anything I use it for, nor do I think creating API-compatible replacements, competing implementations, etc, should reasonably be possible to block with a license… Also, quite literally, he’s creating tools for reverse engineering, which in itself is generally in breach of the license of whatever software is being reverse engineered. Fuck off and use a FOSS license, whether it be permissive or copyleft…

This is… uh…

It reads like the author doesn’t know what containers are. Because this is actually a great use case for containers unless I’m missing something.

Now, do I want reverse engineering software from someone who in 2026 doesn’t know of a better way to manage dependencies than “tell AI to install everything”? Not particularly lol

Also:

Install Eclipse Adoptium 21: https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=21

It’s Eclipse Temurin not Eclipse Adoptium. And why not install from distro repo?

Install from https://cmake.org/download/

Also why not from distro repo?

Install Visual Studio 2022, or apt install build-essential / xcode-select --install

NOW distro repo is fine, but only if you use an APT based distro?

and then 3 more dependencies it tells the agent to install from websites.

The weirdest thing is you can get much better results from AI. I’m 99% sure this person gave the AI particularly bad instructions to generate the install instructions, or used a cheap, crappy model.

Script needs to be updated, Rust wasn’t particularly popular back then (if it existed. I don’t know how old this one is, but it’s pretty old)

Also like besides it just being humane… When everyone is housed, you don’t see the homeless so the selfish among us should be happier too. Better aesthetics.

But tbf not all homeless people are willing to comply with rules like no alcohol or no drugs. Where I come from, we mostly have homeless people on the streets in the summer. In the winter they go to shelters because it’s too cold and that outweighs the ability to get drunk.

Yes. It’s because a corporation, particularly a distant foreign one, is anonymous so you don’t think about it as much whereas if some local guy leaked her nudes, it would most likely reach her friends and family. At least that’s what I think is the reason.

What are all the conceivable ways to you? Anyway, the Renault 5 is almost as much as the bigger id.3 neo here and we don’t have anyone selling the Alpine version as it’s more expensive than the 5 and thus too expensive for such a tiny car.

And all of these cost at least 4x as much as a similarly sized but lower power BYD does in China. That’s how much cheaper the Chinese can build their cars. When they sell the same batteries to Renault or VW, the batteries alone likely cost about as much as BYD’s entire car. And we can’t really produce these batteries at such scale here in Europe because of pollution regulation. China processes most of the world’s lithium and cobalt. Only hope we have is coming up with a magic battery chemistry that doesn’t come with a ton of environmental issues, but unfortunately Donut Labs is more than likely a scam.