The difficulty is that “winning” in this case is setting up a monopoly or duopoly and slowly increasing prices. It’s not clear if OpenAI can get so far ahead of the competition that it becomes a two or one horse race. Right now Anthropic and Google are at least as good. And the open source models keep them all honest pricing wise.

OpenAI will likely keep their billion users, and likely monetise them fairly effectively with ads. Their revenue will be considerable. It’s less clear that OpenAI will “win” and their competitors won’t.

A loiter drone on the other hand can probably afford to take a minute to identify a target before dropping on it.

Yeah Astro is a great choice for a static or mostly static website. Moving to Astro is not a slight on any other language or framework.

Aiui they are also migrating their backend api(s) from rust to node. They were already using astro with rust on the backend (after dropping ssr with tera).

Education doesn’t help here, what are you talking about?!

Educated people can read as many books as they want about manipulation and still be susceptible to it. The manipulation works on a much deeper emotional level. We can’t change who we are, no matter how much education we get.

Being told by a brand “you’re fat” hurts no matter how many papers you’ve read or published and “you’re still thin and beautiful and desirable!” feels amazing.

Not quite “brands bad”.

It’s more that buying clothes across brands becomes confusing for women. That’s a worse outcome for women.

The villain isn’t the brands, it’s the vanity sizing.

Sorry, I don’t agree. And I won’t be taking questions at this time.

What kind of analysis are you expecting? Someone explaining why Tesla’s stock price is justified despite the falling car sales? It can’t be explained because it’s a meme stock.

I wouldn’t worry about that. There’s plenty of software yet to be written, in many languages. If anything, Rust’s success has shown that it’s definitely possible for a new language to succeed if it offers something new.

The other tailwind for Zig is that it’s easier than ever to translate an existing codebase with tests into a new language with AI.

Their own libc project is wicked. They are gradually replacing C implementations with zig and in the mean time the C implementations effortlessly link and compile in the same compilation unit as the zig code.

Wait till he sees a billionaire sacrificing himself for others.