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Ginden commented on No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/jnord
lelanthran · 6 days ago
> That being said not all users max out their plan,

These are not cell phone plans which the average joe takes, they are plans purchased with the explicit goal of software development.

I would guess that 99 out of every 100 plans are purchased with the explicit goal of maxing them out.

Ginden · 5 days ago
My employer bought me a Claude Max subscription. On heavy weeks I use 80% of the subscription. And among software engineers that I know, I'm a relatively heavy user.

Why? Because in my experience, the bottleneck is in shareholders approving new features, not my ability to dish out code.

Ginden commented on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection   spectrum.ieee.org/age-ver... · Posted by u/oldnetguy
Ginden · 20 days ago
"Age-restriction laws push platforms toward intrusive verification systems that often directly conflict with modern data-privacy law" - when you make rules contradictory, someone always violate these laws, and you can use selective persecution to "convince" companies to favor you, the incumbent politician. You don't even have to use such power, just a "joke" may be enough to send have any rational CEO licking your shoes.

European proponents of "anti-big-tech action" make it pretty explicit - broad discretionary power should be given to executive branch, because otherwise "international corporations" will use "loopholes" (and these "loopholes" are, in practice, explicitly written laws used as intended).

Ginden commented on The RCE that AMD won't fix   mrbruh.com/amd/... · Posted by u/MrBruh
ano-ther · a month ago
Not that this isn’t bad, doesn’t this only apply when an update is available?

So you have to be on a shady hotspot, without VPN, AMD has recently published an update, and your update scheduler is timed to run.

That would be a little less than “immediately own anyone with ATI”.

Ginden · a month ago
You need only a device on network to spam DHCP messages with malware DNS. So you don't need "shady hotspot", only compromised device within network.
Ginden commented on Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global   wsj.com/world/middle-east... · Posted by u/Agreed3750
sysguest · 2 months ago
hmm maybe this can be easily solved?

1. make a starlink+wireless mesh-network (eg. using BLE) that can handle multiple connects/disconnects seamlessly

2. mount those starlinks on cars/trucks/motorcycles/etc. hide those on ditches, buildings, etc.

Elon should work on that "starlink <-> wireless mesh-network" part (eg. app or device)

Ginden · 2 months ago
> easily solved

Asynchronous (you don't know when and where you will get Internet/local network connectivity) mesh (there is no gov infrastructure to be trusted) networking in presence of malicious (gov operated) and unreliable (destroyed by gov) nodes is probably among hardest problems known to computer science.

Ginden commented on The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/1659447091
Ginden · 2 months ago
Mining in Arctic is a technical nightmare. Typical alloys become brittle in these temperatures, darkness severely limits operations and/or workplace accidents, transport requires ice-breakers, permafrost is fundamentally unstable (heat from buildings melts it, causing sinking), and you need to pay people a lot to work there.
Ginden commented on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026   economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
worldsayshi · 3 months ago
> your competitors will be able to replicate in few months.

Will they really be able to replicate the quality while spending significantly less in compute investment? If not then the moat is still how much capital you can acquire for burning on training?

Ginden · 3 months ago
There are multiple tech companies with quadrillion-deep pockets.
Ginden commented on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026   economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
password54321 · 2 months ago
Not sure why they put so much investment into videoSlop and imageSlop. Anthropic seems to be more focused at least.
Ginden · 3 months ago
Because almost everyone involved in AI race grew up in "winner takes it all" environments, typical for software, and they try really hard to make it reality. This means your model should do everything to just take 90% of market share, or at least 90% of specific niche.

The problem is, they can't find the moat, despite searching very hard, whatever you bake into your AI, your competitors will be able to replicate in few months. This is why OpenAI is striking deal with Disney, because copyright provides such moat.

Ginden commented on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates   lwn.net/Articles/1043103/... · Posted by u/blueflow
LtWorf · 5 months ago
Apple never upgraded to GPL3 coreutils, bash and remained away from anything GPL3…
Ginden · 5 months ago
Oh, you mean specifically GPL v3 license, not any GPL license.

Yeah, broad tivoisation and patent clauses make it a problem, because making any patent litigation on unrelated grounds has potential to lose ability to ship the entire OS.

Ginden commented on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates   lwn.net/Articles/1043103/... · Posted by u/blueflow
IlikeKitties · 5 months ago
The rewrite has NOTHING to do with security and is all about licensing. coreutils are GLPv3 rust-coreutils are MIT
Ginden · 5 months ago
So what? Standalone binaries don't infect other things with copyleft anyway.
Ginden commented on Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him   electrek.co/2025/08/25/sc... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
Ginden · 7 months ago
> given support to these fake public interest groups in attempts to sue wind projects out of existence.

Remember - that's the core issue. Development of housing or green energy projects or industries with low externalities should be by-right.

u/Ginden

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