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“look, Mme Karen, this is definitely not a rotten tomato. it can’t be a rotten tomato, we don’t sell rotten tomatoes. you can see here on the menu that we don’t have rotten tomatoes on offer. and see here, on your receipt, where it says quinoa salad? absolutely not rotten tomatoes!” explains the manager fervently, avoiding a tableward glance at the pungent red blob with as much will as they can muster

decimal is a severely underappreciated library

a ferengi wouldn’t - props for keeping in character at least

I dunno how to tell you this but the Setting Money On Fire company isn’t losing money on account of it being a weirdo NPO structure…

you don’t understand how technology companies money. they’re not always working

and who’ll supply the model and training and updates and data curation, dom? is it as manna from heaven? do you merely step upon the path and receive the divine wisdom of fresh llm updates?

fucking hell

your Tech Friend is giving you bad advice, stop listening to them

this is correct as to the background of the term itself, the reason ed uses it here is because it is the term that he selected some months ago when he listed “some likely pale horses that signal the bubble popping”

I believe our esteemed poster was referencing the oft-seen cloud dynamic of “making just enough in margin” where you can tolerate a handful of big users because you have enough lower-usage subscribers in aggregate to counter the heavies. which, y’know, still requires the margin to exist in the first place

alas, hard to have margins in Setting The Money On Fire business models

oh, so you’re that kind of fygm asshole

good to know

there is, but this isn’t (the primary) it tbh

they were only “near AGI” before their most recent funding rounds closed, after that they were “a few thousand days” away