I've found duckduckgo to be a pretty good replacement these days. A few years ago I found myself using !g often to hop over to google, but these days I've been getting by without any !g ... I'm not sure if it's because duckduckgo has gotten better or google has gotten worse, but either way it's welcome.

I don't think it's so crazy to resist television, radio or the internet. Our literacy rates would likely be a lot higher!

It only costs $40,000.

People routinely buy cars that cost double that. This is a machine that people that typically earn six figure salaries use to do their work on. Exactly the target demographic that would buy/lease expensive cars as well. And then those get used mainly to commute to work.

I don't really need one. But I do have a 4.5K mac book pro for work. Yes it's a bit overpowered. But it's the main vehicle with which I earn a living and it routinely saves me time by blazing through builds and generally doing things quickly for me. I have slightly more GPU on that thing than I need. But it's nice to have the option to experiment with some of the open weight AI models.

> People routinely buy cars that cost double that.

Maybe it's the "routinely" or the "people" part, but "people" generally don't ever buy a 80K car, it's a small fraction of the population who can afford such luxury cars. And I'm sure the ones who buy cars for 80K, unless they're car enthusiasts or just plain billionaires, don't do so "routinely" either.

And you would buy it through your company so it won’t be quite as much net. Surely no one is buying these just for fun

> Surely no one is buying these just for fun

-_-

Some of us worked hard in life and have spare money, sue me!

the landing page showed "$3,299.00" and I had my candy store moment for a few secs.

5 years ago I could not afford top shelf coders. Now I cannot afford top shelf machines.

This is why I prefer simpler setups for personal use/hosting. Something like cgit that has no accounts has much less surface area for this kind of issue.

Why is building a wall racist?

Because the president of the US is trying to deflect attention from wanting to sleep with his daughter, having a sex trafficking friend and probably sleeping with children, and being bad at starting wars by blaming foreigners for Americas problems?

But you know this already.

I, for one, am over the sealioning of MAGA. Why ever engage with someone who literally never engages in good faith?

Those are all terrible things but none of them are racist, unless the word has a new meaning.

Disgusting? Xenophobic? Sure.

That doesn't make it any less interesting :)

It does. Some people would still be interested but lots of people would not. The net interestingness would certainly decrease.

Here I was thinking 1MB still feels way too large.

What does the average zigger do?

Wish the article was written by a human. When I read lines like: “Agents draft. I approve. Agents execute.”

I convulse a bit.

A simple qemu virtual machine is nice and quick to spin up. I mainly work inside an openbsd or linux virtual machine. I use a different vm for each project and I have a "sandbox" vm I use to run random things I download/test.