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"Owning hardware is wasteful": Slop Altman wants your RAM in the cloud where it can be rented back to you. (reddthat.com)
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[–] 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That begs the question: what tool did dear Sam use to acquire his skills in the first place? Since at least one of his own computers certainly played a role in his career (and he couldn’t possibly have used it to its full capacity for decades) this attitude speaks volumes. Even though his own personal computing power helped him get to where he is now, he denies that same opportunity to everyone else. Fuck you, Sam.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    Sam's primary skill is grifting, you don't need a PC to develop that skill.

    According to rumours he barely knows how to code and he is said to misunderstand basic machine learning concepts. It is however true that he might have needed a PC at some point in his 2 years of studying computer science before dropping out. Even though I remember that at my local university people weren't even touching a PC in the first year and were being tortured by theory and math by hand instead, to understand the foundation before going anywhere fancy. Maybe that has changed in the meanwhile.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    To be fair, you don't need RAM to code - modern CPUs have ~5MB of cache and that's enough for an entire Lisp machine.

    Also, let's be real here: any computer from the last 40 years is enough to code on, as is any RasPi or knockoff (or with a bit more than zero effort/expertise, basically any system that can run Doom, which is basically any system). The most expensive parts are the screen, keyboard and mouse.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    For compiling it might make a bit of a difference, doesn't it? Even so, yes, you can probably get some 200 EUR Mini PC and have already way more than you need.

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