I had an email from openai last night saying I now have to credit up front for api usage, rather than paying at the end of the month. Thought it was a bit odd for user paying like $3 a month for embeddings. Then looked at the news.
I think they have cash issues. Can’t get more uses due to lack of gpu, and current users are costing too much.
The Dutch flower markets are still a big tourist attraction, on the top lists of things to do in Amsterdam.
People say “bubble” with their mind so focused on what they think is dumb ways of spending money, and they miss the lasting cultural impact, which is actually what matters.
I’m not a fan of the apes(there’s more interesting tighter communities in the nft space), but I see more and more ape-branded stuff appearing here in China. That’s probably not making the nft holders any direct money as they’re unlikely to be paying for taking the images, but these waves are unpredictable.
The more complete quote from Brand is: “Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away.”
People often only remember the first bit…
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“ On the one hand you have—the point you’re making Woz—is that information sort of wants to be expensive because it is so valuable—the right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information almost wants to be free because the costs of getting it out is getting lower and lower all of the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other”
I’ve recently been enjoying using Alive with vscode(and copilot). Everyone suggests emacs+slime but it always felt like too many things to learn at once. Being able to use my usual ide has made it so much more pleasant. Recommend it to newcomers.
All of your examples, bible etc, have all been repeatedly edited for different cultures and age groups.
People act like this is the end of Dahls legacy, yet his stories have probably been discussed more in the past 24 hours than the past few years combined.
I recommend the book Graveyard clay on the death on languages, and how the dead are still as chatty as the living- in many ways the dead are harder to silence.
The idea of “official” is intentionally being rejected. There is no official version of anything, just community consensus of the spec, from which anyone can implement a client.
In the past the ethereum foundation has made their own wallets/browsers/clients but they’d rather focus energy in other places and instead have grants and donations to others to help them get started and to operate their own companies.
The reason is to break away from being an authority, over time the EF should become less powerful. They are making decisions to reduce their importance and the reliance the ecosystem has on one group. Ethereum users were never ethereum foundation users.
The other listed organisations and their clients are all excellent. This is a much more healthy approach.
I think they have cash issues. Can’t get more uses due to lack of gpu, and current users are costing too much.