Big disagree on the best - Use of Weapons, Surface Detail and Consider Phlebas are the favorites of my partner and me.
Not that the 3 listed are bad just that I like my 3 more :)
huginn
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3.4bn is their gross - we have no idea what their operating costs are since they refuse to share them.
Some estimates say they're burning 8 billion a year.
The latest releases ChatGPT 4o costs $600/hr per instance to run based on the discussion I could find about it.
If OpenAI is running 1k of those models to service the demand (they're certainly running more since queries can take 30+ seconds) then that's 200M/yr just keeping the lights on.
I am not! I hadn't heard of it until just now. Very neat project.
No I'm just someone with a particular interest in corvids who feels represented by a god of Thought that is a bird
What a mediocre story
Classing dying corporation spends more on their patent lawyers than they do their programmers. The IP lawyer to programmer ratio going positive is the death knell
Every single phone application does this. The entire Google and Apple app store economy is built on the local host doing something to make it easier on the servers.
It all works because it's fantasy my friend
They're scum for the grift but flappy bird doesn't deserve a trademark. US IP laws are draconian enough.
Ayn Rand here ain't black
Ok.
Say the N word then.
Go yell it at people.
Do it.
Go on.
I honestly think that difference in opinion speaks highly of Banks as an author - the books speak to us differently and he wrote diverse enough stories that they capture each person separately.