I asked the other day whether they've actually spoken with these people that they keep posting such takes about, and thus far my presumption is "they haven't". posts like the above reinforce that view
froztbyte
based on the method of Dank L33ks, I have had some insight into this thing, and.... boy howdy, just wait until y'all see the bit about the russian marten
oof, now you need to pack even more dice for an extra subway saving throw
oi no spoilers ;p
I’ve learned so much langdesign and stuff over the years simply by hanging around plt nerds, didn’t even need to spend for a single dragon book!
(although I probably have a samizdat copy of it somewhere)
which naturally leads us to: having to fix a portage overlay ~= “compiler engineer”
wonder what simonw’s total spend (direct and indirect) in this shit has been to date. maybe sunk cost fallacy is an unstated/un(der?)accounted part in his True Believer thing?
I was curious so I dug up the post and then checked property prices for the neighbourhood
$2.6~4.8m
being thiel's idea guy seems to pay pretty well
gigabyte selling shovels (and not even just random shovels, specialty shovels that need a fixed type of mobo to use)
not gonna spend much effort on it now but if someone runs into an actual worthwhile review showing training performance numbers I'd be keen to see (my expectations are that it still does not do very much, and that runtime quality still underperforms relative to VC-subsidised platforms)
irl winced at this
yep, I was seeing some folks reckon it might be 20~30x what they’d make in later royalties. I’m not knocking the suit or the value to authors - mostly just wishing it were more so it might cause an even sharper effect
"and if we're making a ton of money tomorrow, just imagine 3 months from now!"