Windows 11 has been broken since launch. If you have more than 20 files of mixed types (especially media files) in a folder, the new file explorer takes 10 seconds to load the folder. In Windows 10, the same operation took less than a second.
Windows 11 is so comically slow that I sometimes feel the warm nostalgia of using the Intel Pentium desktop shared by the entire family when I was a kid -- click, wait 3 seconds, click, wait 3 seconds, click...
It's important to keep in mind that articles like this one and many more were written exclusively as PR pieces. They were not written for the people on this forum. They are not column pieces, blog posts to share thoughts, or call to actions. The sole purpose was to get the media talking about the article so that the general public view Dario et al. as good guys who are extremely conscientious about AI safety to the extent that any blunders from the closed labs are unintentional woopsies.
AP's report on Dario's article is titled "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up" (https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-dario-amodei-d59552e...). The gist of the reporting is "AI has become so capable that it is dangerous; AI executives all agree we need to slow down, with Dario's article being a prime example". It would be generous to even say that the reporting scratches the surface of the complexity and nuances of AI-related problems. Yet, this is perhaps indeed news to people who don't follow the tech and AI spaces.
Technical knowledge aside, there is a huge gap in awareness of AI progress between this forum and the general public. The closed labs are playing that ignorance to their advantage with posts like Dario's.
One feature Firefox is really lacking is shortcuts on Android. I use Firefox on all my devices except my Android tablet. When I have a physical keyboard paird with my Android tablet and want to use keyboard shortcuts to open new tabs, switch tabs, etc. on Firefox for Android -- well, the shortcuts just don't exist. This is the only reason I use Brave instead of Firefox on my tablet. Hella annoying because my bookmarks and browsing history are not synced on the tablet, but I chose that over always having to touch the screen just to open a new browser tab.
After RAM prices climbed 200% between August and November of last year, a store associate at Micro Center encouraged me to buy some RAM sticks if I needed them because "prices might continue to rise for a few years". I told him that was ridiculous and nobody would tolerate it if prices got higher. How wrong I was...
I was facing a similar situation when I upgraded my system about a year and a half ago. I wanted to upgrade from 32GB RAM to 64GB. The kit (DDR5 6000) was $179. I knew that I might want to add an additional 64GB later on, so I had to decide if I should wait for prices to drop further.
I decided to get the extra RAM. Boy am I glad now. If I thought this was just a temporary spike, I would be tempted to sell the extra memory (I don't really need it yet), but I don't see prices falling anytime soon.
I built a new main rig in November because I saw the memory prices going up. I overpaid about AUD$110 above its RRP. The same kit is now AUD$610 above RRP from the same retailer.
Here's hoping I can wait out the current shortage before any upgrades (I typically only upgrade every 5-7 years or so anyway) or replacements, because I do not plan to pay the new price.
If it makes you feel better. The US government looks like it might start removing some of the 28k troops that are stationed in South Korea over this. No reason to keep them in a country that enables this sort of behavior.
An admin upset about inflation driven negative economic sentiment and a country that is slow rolling a couple hundred billion in investments. Current events.
What else do you know about the inner workings of the current administration… and seriously reflect on why your answer isn’t “lol what? Absolutely nothing!”
Probably for the best. No hosting nation of imperialism has ever benefited and now we see what the US is willing to throw away because their corporations are upset.
If there is something Korea doesn’t lack, it’s manpower.
The US troops are more likely there as a political shield. Indiscriminate bombing would kill them too, hence drag the US into war so any enemies of S Korea have to act judiciously.
If you think the US public has any appetite for more wars you're straight up delusional. Iran War is going to cost the GOP the house + senate, something that wasn't really a sure then say even 7 months ago.
If anything more foreign bases will be closed in the upcoming years to reign in the reckless spending + endangerment by the DoW. It's not only politically easy, foreign bases don't have representation in Congress, but it's a great to sell alternative governing visions (less on foreign imperialism vs more domestic spending).
> Over time the concept of search has mutated from 'locate the exact item I'm looking for' to 'show me a list of semantic search results'. Somehow nobody noticed.
I think many people noticed the change. However, when semantic search first came about, it was useful and not the only option. Being able to see items similar to my search term on Amazon was analogous to browsing products in the same aisle in a physical store, which was helpful when you wanted an item from a category but haven't decided on the exact one.
The enshittifying and infuriating difference now is that the choice of using semantic search have been taken away. It is often the only option, and the definition of things that are "semantic similar" is a mile wide. I appreciate semantic search when I have good use cases for it, but please give me the option to turn it off when I don't need it.
Linux might freeze from occasional OOMs, but Windows is sluggish and unresponsive even when RAM is far from full with all its unnecessary background processes. That's the difference for me.
This feels like an attempt to get more of Musk's non-coder fans to start vibe coding slop-products. "You can now code with Grok via Cursor and host your code on Origin, all without leaving Daddy Elon's ecosystem."
If they can cut the price of Sol by 50% and the price of Luna by 80%, then the original price might have carried a massive operating margin. They might still be serving the models at a profit after these price cuts, but we will never know.
I don’t think there’s a real answer for this. Margin depends on whatever number the accounting department wants to make up.
Do you include research and training costs? Of all models or only the ones being served? What percent of the R&D budget do you allocate to inference? What about data center capacity? Do you count future commitments? All the circular financing deals? Do you count employee equity grants as costs? At what valuation?
We also have another solution for "whatever accounting decides": generally accepted accounting practices. It's far from perfect, but GAAP figures are what you should be looking at; not "adjusted GAAP" or whatever invention.
It is a well-accepted fact new shoes make you faster. Current science suggests it is due to the lighter weight from lack of dirt, though there is a competing theory which says it's an optical illusion due to the fact the pure white streaks resemble speedforce.
Beating or comparable to Opus 4.6 in benchmarks. Opus 4.6 was released in February, 2026. So if we still want to talk about a "6 month difference" between Chinese and American AI, the sentence should now be:
Chinese (small model) AI is 6 months behind American (largest model) AI.
Wonder how many X usage this would consume when it becomes available for everyone. Fast mode already consumes 1.5x usage for 2.5x speed. Hopefully, this does not mean 8x usage for 14x speed, but rather something more reasonable such as 4x usage.
Windows 11 is so comically slow that I sometimes feel the warm nostalgia of using the Intel Pentium desktop shared by the entire family when I was a kid -- click, wait 3 seconds, click, wait 3 seconds, click...
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