If you are the platform holder you can run code directly they cannot easily be spotted by bots.

It's really easy to spot a third party fingerprinting JavaScript library running on a browser. As soon as you spot it you can shut it down.

It is much harder to do that when the fingerprinting libraries are tightly integrated into the main code on the page. It's still doable but it's much much harder.

This means that if you're the platform holder you can much more easily detect a bot and ignore the garbage data they are generating.

On the other hand if you're not the platform holder all you can do is trawl the website and hope you don't get picked off as a bot. And you will have to devote a lot of time and money and resources to that. Then you also have to figure out what is and isn't AI slop and that's going to be a huge competitive disadvantage because a ton of your computing power and resources and programmer time gets spent on it.

Everyone thinks in terms of absolutes instead of gradations and that's the mistake you're making.

your startup is going to be disadvantaged let's say 10 or 20% versus the major platform holders.

That Gap will let them lower their prices and then you combine the fact that they're making money off the platform and can more easily subsidize themselves.

They will quickly run you out of business and at Best buy you up to get your engineers and whatever tech you might have stumbled on and at worst they just run you out of business and you have to go find another career.

I think it depends on the base you're working from. If you're starting at 60 or 90 FPS and using it to get up to your monitor is high refresh rate then I think that can work pretty well.

But if you're starting at 30 FPS and using it to get up to 60 then yeah that sucks.

Most esports are going to be the former. You use it to hit the 120 or 144 Hertz refresh rates. At that point it's like an ultra complicated version of free sync or gsync. Completely different tech of course but same basic idea that you're trying to match the frame rate of your monitor to the output.

And for Sony too. It's massively underpowered compared to a PS5 but good enough is good enough.

Sony at least has a half full of exclusives. They're the only game in town for baseball. And they have the last of us, Horizon, God of War, Astro boy and ratchet & clank.

The only thing Microsoft has is Forza.

So basically at some point in time as a kid you start wanting an Xbox or a PS5 so you can play call of duty with your friends because it runs better there. Assuming there aren't networking issues than the switch 2 hardware more or less solves that.

I don't think the difference between 4K gaming and 1080p gaming is enough to drive a huge number of upgrades. Back in the day I remember getting up pretty big edge out of going from 320x240 to 640 by 480 all the way up to 1024x768 playing Duke nukem and Shadow warrior. Shadow warrior especially because the weapons would Auto Target and the effect was more pronounced to the further away you were on the map.

There are some advantages to a more stable image here in there at distance but once you get to 1080p you have to be really hardcore to notice. Like shmup players they can notice an extra two milliseconds of lag.

Probably because if they screw up you lose data, as was the case here AIUI.

It's a shame that safe UVC lamps (222nm) are still expensive and need moderately high voltages to work. We could be disinfecting a lot of stuff with them if they were more common.

Ed sat there while Trump talked and talked and talked and talked and talked. At the end of the conversation Trump had given up everything he wanted and Ed had made out like a bandit.

Trump is famous for being a terrible negotiator among anyone who is paying attention. The news media has been covering that up now for about a decade.

Melting ice is a national security issue now. It's opening up routes for Russian ships that were previously closed for most of the year, or entirely.

They should remember TACO. You don't fold to Trump, you wait him out.

I'm an embedded developer, and wanted to build a web app. Not sure where to start, so I decided to try asking ChatGPT.

It did okay at first with the basics, creating a minimal set of PHP and associated files. Helped me set up the database, even offered a .sql file to import. But then it started to struggle. It couldn't debug its own code for importing a CSV file. Went round in circles.

Eventually I fixed it myself. It was a useful starting point, but I'm seeing warning messages that some of the tech it selected related to Google Maps is deprecated. There is a lot more functionality to add, so I'll see how helpful it is.

The other issue is that the interface isn't great. It often suggests changes, but doesn't give enough context to easily integrate them.

I should try Claude.

Dude if Walmart isn't big enough to qualify for antitrust enforcement then nobody is. And that's my point. With the way the laws are enforced, mind you not written just enforced, there is zero chance of anyone enforcing antitrust law on Walmart or ever allowing anyone to any of the spaces they occupy.

Walmart is the king of anti-competitive in the retail space they are legendary for it. It just boggles my mind. You're the frog who's been in the pot for so long you don't know you've already been boiled.

Because how are you going to train your models? Where are you going to get the data to do the training?

The reason new texts spreads is because patents expire. They used to expire even quicker than they do now but even nowadays they're only good for 20 years.

But it doesn't matter if the patent expires here, most of the tech is open source and freely available because it's just math. But without the training data all that math is worthless. And unless you control a platform you are not going to be able to get a hold of the training data for free like the platform holders do, so you can't compete.

AI as a technology inherently leans towards duopoly at best.

As soon as you have a dominant market position you are subject to antitrust law. You do not have to commit an overt crime. The appearance of a crime brings in The cops.

Against individuals that would obviously be bad news but we're not going up against individuals we're going up against large companies that dominate markets.

Basically antitrust law enforcement is about having a referee for capitalism. So as soon as it looks like you're going to do something dodgy you're stopped from doing something dodgy.

If you've ever heard the phrase red flag law it's like that. If we already know you're probably going to commit a crime we don't let you commit to crime and then punish you because well, every time we do that we never actually punish anyone. And everybody knew that and everybody still knows it. We know for example that when we fine companies that is literally just the cost of doing business to them.

Not that it matters. At this point you can commit as many crimes as you want as long as they are federal and you've got a spare couple million bucks for a pardon. It's more like an indulgence.

With access to use for AI training data very soon. This means that meaningful and effective AI will be owned by a handful of major platform owners. Microsoft, apple, Facebook, reddit, and maybe Twitter and blue sky.

They're the only ones who will be able to do effective bot detection so that they can tell the difference between AI swap and actual human content that can be used to train an ai.

What this means is the capital that makes up ai, and it is capital like anything else you use to produce things, is going to be owned by five or six companies at most and the stocks of those companies will be owned by a few thousand people.

And then a bunch of folks will convince themselves that they own stock because they have a 401k or they do some light Day trading. None of which gives them any say whatsoever and how the company is run...

Some folks will mention the ability to do a shareholder lawsuit like what was done against Elon Musk when he tried to get that 55 billion dollar pay package. The problem with that is Elon already bribed the Delaware legislation to change the law and he's in the process of pushing his pay package through. That's why he's driving fake self-driving cars all over Austin he's trying to pump his stock before he grabs his money and runs...

On the other hand the lawyers who did that lawsuit got a ton of money out of it because of the way the law is written. But Tesla shareholders in general didn't see a dime and still don't have any meaningful way to stop Elon from getting his 55 billion...

That's just the most obvious example. The takeaway is that it's yet another market that's going to consolidate into a few players it's just going to do it much faster than we are used to.

That was Walmart's tagline for years as they put small business after a small business out of work.

Consumers will go wherever the prices are the lowest. Boycotts don't work because after 45 years of market consolidation and zero antitrust law enforcement you can try another company but you're going to find its owned by the same people so it's doing the same thing.

Think of capitalism as your car. It needs regular maintenance. We stopped doing the maintenance 45 years ago. It's a wonder the car even turns over anymore.