So you just discovered offshoring of jobs? Like it has been going for the past decades.
I don't see how AI or twitter changes anything to the outlook of the C suite. Lower spending increase productivity. If hiring Poles instead of Americans can achieve this goal, they were always going to do that.
What a condescending post. You either haven't used any recent models if you make that statement.
Anyone who used GPT3.5 and any other newer model know that hallucinations have gone down tremendously.
Of course it's not perfect, here and there are inaccuracies or plain hallucinations, but it's impossible to state that it's still the same garbage it was 3 years ago.
Mechanical and Ergonomic keyboard prices suffer because they are niche and way lower volume. The switches are not that expensive if you use common ones, but if you want some special keycaps, prepare to fork some good money. Most of them are made in very low batches and most of the expense is in the molds you have to make.
Your $10 keyboard is probably so mass produced that literal millions have been manufactured. Versus custom-ish keyboard designs that are made for at most a thousand buyers.
> but it seems we are almost at a golden age again with respect to good enough (if not popular) hardware.
I don't think we're in any golden age since the GPU shortages started, and now memory and disks are becoming super expensive too.
Hardware vendors have shown they don't have an interest in serving consumers and will sell out to hyperscalers the moment they show some green bills. I fear a day where you won't be able to purchase powerful (enough) machines and will be forced to subscribe to a commercial provider to get some compute to do your job.
> whenever you engage in your trade or profession is not the same
Feels like this is overstating the facts. Afaik, twice did the author on N++ did include a small political message in a release.
Is it really "whenever"? Blowing this out of proportions because some are so allergic to any political message that twice in 10 years is being pushy..
In the end, everything involving more than 2 humans is politics. You may want to ignore some topics, but those may be important to others. Until the day you yourself want to bring some attention but you're met with an "apolitical" response saying it's not the time or place for it.
But you do see questions about water usage for AI in data centers?
Articles about families living close by, which water bills exploded recently?
On the other hand, you don't see commenters saying that they are indifferent to their access to water, and that they are tired seeing others being engaged in the conversation.
If it's not impacting you, I don't blame you not participating. But I feel (general) you don't get to push down on others because they are discussing important topics (to them).
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