That tracks. I say this because of all the things Trump has done, going with Dana barely moves the needle in terms of what we expect out of him.

David Graeber might have something to contribute to this subject.

We could call it the Intel Principle. ;)

To be pedantic, value is in the eye of the beholder. Cost is how much goes into something, Price is how much someone wants to pay, Value… that is much more subjective.

Oil costs $50 a barrel to pump, priced at $100 on the market but when it comes to value could be seen as providing $20,000 of human labor.

Not trying to defend AI junk, like seriously people, just do the work yourself. But value is such a hard thing to quantify.

About the only time I have been like ‘Yeah alright, I get it’ is if you have a sort of writers block. Get a rough draft spat out but then bounce of that, but do not rely on LLM junk for anything more than that.

Five figure!? That’s a bargain. many are going well into six figure territory nowadays.

Ram man Sam should fall into a Dam.

It was always heading this way, I am surprised it lasted as long as it did.

I knew it was a flop well before it even came out for one key reason. Remember when the iMac/iPod/iPhone came out, it seemed like everyone else started trying to desperately copy Apple on those. Other businesses saw these and immediately thought “Oh crap we need to catch up now!”. Before iPhone even released Nokia was demoing a phone (that never came out) in which they rushed multi-touch onto Symbian OS just to not look behind.

Cybertruck came out and nobody else even remotely hinted at copying it. Every car company was like ‘Yep, you guys can just go for it, we won’t stop you.’.

It has been kind of sad seeing his decline. Look at his writings from 2010-2015 to where he ended up on Youtube and the decline was steady with it finally hit rock bottom in the last year or so.

He craved attention in any form that he could get it.

Now how on earth could that create any kind of performance anxiety?

To quote Adam ruins everything from 10 years back! THE HYMEN DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikXim4wevc

Okay, so changes to the oval office are prohibited, but blowing up the east wing for a glorified dance warehouse isn’t? Cool 🤔

Don’t put the cheesecake factory down like that. It is a much classier establishment. Cheesecake factory wasn’t in the Epstein files.

No them cuddling up to Trump was an extinction level event, it just took a decade for the blow back to become loud enough.

Key reason is here and exactly as you suspect. Funding models are changing as we continue the race to the bottom.

The business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years. After careful consideration, we have reached the difficult decision that our publishing model is no longer sustainable.

To be fair to the 1980’s, a Hercules video card in 1982 adjusted for inflation would only be about $1700. We are way beyond that point.

An original Macintosh 128K would set you back $8100 in today’s money, so I guess in that regard Apple hasn’t changed. ;)

At least the Macbook Neo comes with a lot more flashy stuff.

It is starting to feel like it. Might not see price decline for a while yet, but the upswing on pricing is nearing breaking point.

I suspect if anyone is buying these is because of them needing to meet an existing strict spec. Not sure what that would be but it is a possibility.

I hadn’t been keeping a close eye on pricing but was blown away the other day. The Nvidia RTX 5090 launched at $4090 here in Australia, that was already obscene. Nowadays almost 2 years later, you are lucky if you find one under $12,000!