If that’s the real price and the games are then also $25 cheaper, sure. They’re not giving you that money for free, the average consumer spends the same amount on the system+games either way. If they decide to use a misleading pricing strategy to manipulate people they don’t get to complain when people use products they bought differently to how they were intended.
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So blame the dumb business plan?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?'
691·6 days agoNot sure every software engineer needs to know this. If they’d said web developer I suppose this would really be expected knowledge, but then you’d probably want to shoot them anyway.
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politics @lemmy.world•Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? | Fortune
28·21 days agoBecause he makes money from it, capitalism and fascism have no borders.
Edit: and I’m sure he’s voted with his dollars.
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World News@lemmy.world•The Guardian view on perceptions of superpowers: the world isn’t Chinamaxxing, it’s America-avoidantEnglish
4·29 days agoWorse, it’s from redpill/4chan/related corners of the web.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Companies should by law have to pay you for each interview round.
6·2 months agoOk? They do that anyway. Sometimes people leave and they have to hire externally.
China is strategically investing and they don’t care about Africa, only China
Yes, sure, it’s not altruistic. But there’s a huge difference between non-violent trade relationships which benefit one party more, and also benefit the other party, just less, and purposefully ensuring that an entire continent is in a constant state of civil war and desperate poverty so you can extract the maximum amount of resources through slavery. China’s foreign policy is absolutely for its own benefit but they’re taking a “rising tide lifts all boats” approach there and while there are some specific things which are fair to criticise it’s way better than what other major powers are doing.
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World News@lemmy.world•Restaurant forced to shut because it is too hot for staff to workEnglish
181·2 months agoheat protection rules in Germany are actually quite weak, above 30 they have to let you wear some lighter clothing and give you water… but yeah I think over 50 would not be allowed
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World News@lemmy.world•Pakistanis who gang-raped French tourist in front of her children after her car ran out of fuel will be executedEnglish
210·2 months agoNot everything which involves a reference or comparison to a similar thing is whataboutism, smartass. “Pakistan has a rape problem” implies that there’s somehow something special about Pakistani culture or environment which makes it so, and that it’s distinct from rape culture in other places. It’s perfectly valid to push back at that by saying that actually there is a global problem in this regard, and the only reason to single out specific countries like this is to stoke racial animus.
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World News@lemmy.world•Pakistanis who gang-raped French tourist in front of her children after her car ran out of fuel will be executedEnglish
727·2 months agoYeah, unlike the west which definitely doesn’t have any kind of rape problem.
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politics @lemmy.world•Maine Senator responds to claim from challenger Graham Platner that she sent him to die in Iraq: "That was Platner's decision to serve. He was not drafted"
94·3 months agoIf you are American it 100% does. Why would you think the moment you signed up would be the moment they would stop starting wars suddenly? I mean, fuck senator Collins obviously, what an awful ghoul, but she’s correct in this case. Anyone signing up to be in the military has to own what they’re signing up to do and it’s not like there’s no way to know.
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Technology@beehaw.org•SHL0MS(famous prankster on X/Twitter) baited AI haters by posting a real painting by Monet, claiming it was AI generated. The post got viral(>6M views) as art critics started deleting their replies
10·3 months agoI don’t think that’s relevant to their comment, this isn’t branching out of their field when they’re old and senile and success has gone to their heads. This is probably in the top 100 most famous paintings (or at least some from that series are) and extremely recognizable, just the fundamental basics of the field. Even when he started on his crazy vitamin C megadosing bullshit, Pauling almost certainly understood the electronic structure of atoms just fine.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•It ensures that the agent does a good job
31·3 months agodamn, Charlie really fell off
Or for short, The Aristocrats
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.world•‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workersEnglish
1·4 months agoYeah, but they never really systematically subsidised fares as such, except for some one-off bonuses to attract divers and stuff like that, in the sense that they didn’t systematically pay drivers more than people were paying per ride. They subsidised it in the sense that the cut they took didn’t cover their development costs, servers, marketing, etc. But those costs don’t increase linearly per customer and they also plateau as the software stack matures, so there’s a path to just raising prices and getting to profit, and each additional customer brought them closer to profit even while the subsidies existed.
OpenAI and Anthropic are paying something like 10x the amount for inference as they get from subscriptions, let alone free usage and training costs. So each new customer is taking them further from being profitable. And if they jacked up the prices 10x, so that the basic subscriptions were a few hundred and the pro ones a few thousand a month, they would still be in the position that Uber was when they were doing the subsidies for their infrastructure. I think it’s fairly obvious that they wouldn’t be acquiring customers very quickly at those prices.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.world•‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workersEnglish
1·4 months agoThat’s got nothing to do with how expensive it is to serve models to customers which is what was being discussed.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•NATO would have joined Iran war if US succeeded: expert
8·4 months agoWho gives a fuck about voters lol, this war is unpopular in the US too. As if they care what we think about stuff.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.world•‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workersEnglish
3·4 months agoThe cost of inference has passed the cost of training quite a while ago and it’s by far the majority of expenses



Yeah, but the function isn’t always called stringify