Comment by hypfer
2 hours ago
A lot has been said about DHH, but, I think the moment where you can see that the guy has _clearly_ lost it is this quote:
> It is impossibly fast. And you know what? The binary? Half a megabyte. Half a fucking megabyte. I— you could fit that on a floppy disk almost. With a little compression. This is the other payoff.
The guy now(?) thinks like a lossy abstraction that speaks in tropes.
He has become the LLM - I would say, if I didn't know that even a 9B one can tell me with absolutely certainty how much space there is on a fucking floppy.
There is no reason to get into all the politics stuff when this is where the guy is at. Basic fact retrieval.
(Pedantically, one could now argue that it was not clear which floppy format the guy was referring to. And yes, that would be true, but by thinking that thought, you have thought about the sentence more than its author has.)
I don't get it. Are you saying floppy disks were usually bigger than half a fucking megabyte or smaller?
I'm missing something (as usual) because I don't see what's wrong with his statement.
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> but by thinking that thought, you have thought about the sentence more than its author has
Overanalysing someone's spoken sentences isn't the badge of honour it might appear to be.
I don't understand what you think is so objectionable about that quote. It's one of the least mental things he's said.
You've never made a minor mistake during a presentation? (I await your confident "no".)