Aurornis

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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> It's still obviously making them money. They’re obviously making money on the whole purchase and program because they’re a business, not a charity. The assumption that they’re making significantly more money on this than direct sa
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
You know those financially irresponsible people don’t need this program, right? They would have used a credit card to buy it with much worse terms You seem tilted at Apple for offering a financing option, but your real gripe is apparently w
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
I take it you’ve never purchased an Apple refurbished product? They’re in excellent condition. They do not look like 2-year used and abused trade ins. If trade-ins are going back to the refurb inventory (which I don’t know if they do) then
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> Perhaps a minority will buy a new model every year It’s not just a 1 year program. The comment you replied to had numbers for the 4 year option.
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> A lot of people aren’t going to have that $433 at the end of the lease to purchase the device outright I think you're looking at this too much from the perspective of someone who wants to own the phone, not as someone who wants to
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
You don’t need to do it. It’s an option. Also calling the latest iPhone “basic consumer electronics” is out of touch. The budget options are older generation iPhones or other phones, not one of the most expensive brands on the market.
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> This is truly the most dystopian timeline. Why? Leasing has always been an option that some people and businesses prefer, depending on the circumstances. It’s commonly done with cars. In business situations leasing can be very common b
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Interesting decision. As far as I can tell, the iPhone Upgrade Program was structured like a loan where you owned the device but kept making payments. You then had the option to trade up to a new phone and add more months to the loan, or to
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Classic GitHub issue thread: Someone shows up and tries to explain it’s not a bug and never could have worked. Everyone else points out that it does work on other Mac hardware. Person doubles down and tries to claim that the bug was that it
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
You can’t build a frontier model with one single thing. This is an incremental improvement but it doesn’t explain the entire success of the model. The training set is immensely important, regardless of how you feel about distillation.
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Models are not a collection of training data. The entire model is shaped by the training data it sees during training. What we call knowledge is encoded as weights. Something we identify as knowledge is the sum of many weights across the mo
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> The point that the major labs don’t seem to get is that the vast majority of use cases simply don’t need models that have 50 PhDs and can speak 12 languages. Most generic use cases do benefit from a model that has been trained broadly.
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> Nothing linked Klayme to the girl. No intimate images were found. Klayme did have a Kik account, but cops couldn’t even show that he had accessed the service during the period in question. > Still, Klayme was arrested and hit with t
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
This looks like a meme or attempt at a joke. > Bun is the quintessential AI slop project at this point. Inheriting that is no easy task. I don’t think any human should sacrifice their sanity untangling this mess of 600K lines of slop cod
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
This is what a PAC is. Political Action Committee. They primarily only get headlines for outrage topics when people don’t like what they’re pushing toward. Many of the top PACs are from groups like realtors or sheet metal workers lobbying f
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Washing solar panels is one of the current popular business ideas on social media. It’s an easy pivot for anyone who already has some experience with much harder home repair handiwork involving a ladder. The reason it’s popular is because m
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> It's ridiculous that in the 21st century, publication standards have fallen to the point where for most works a disposable format is the only type available - where no amount of money could buy a truly decent hardback copy. This i
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> And no, no AI company has ever come to us and asked to run training on all of our scanned copies The value of most very old books for AI training is very low. You don’t really want your AI training data to start biasing toward outdated
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> Various people have claimed that Bun in Zig had a lot of tech debt. If they’re to be believed, This is one of the funnier takes on the rewrite. Bun was held up as a flagship Zig project for years. Then they chose to rewrite in Rust and
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> Its one thing to get a head start using this trick, its another to actually learn the code of your rewrite. I worked for a startup that stopped feature development and did a complete rewrite of a huge codebase. I was assigned to a side
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Claude Code has a huge userbase. This is an impressive result so soon after the rewrite. This is an impressive milestone for their rewrite. There are a lot of comments trying to downplay this as being unimpressive for some reason, but I can
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
AI completely broke some of the signals management used as proxies for team competence. In the past, teams that moved quickly and had a proof of concept to show management were valued for the speed of their execution. Usually a team that co
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> Federal prosecutor success rate is over > 90%. This is a misunderstood statistic. Federal prosecutors won't even pursue cases unless they think there's a high chance of success. They don't operate like two private par
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> They're driven by separate circuitry with direct memory access, often integrated on the die of chips meant for these applications In embedded SoCs the memory bandwidth is often shared between the CPU and the GPU. There is not a se
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Misrepresenting or concealing important facts that constitute breach of contract is fraud. In the example above, part of signing the contract is agreeing that your usage of the vehicles doesn’t involve reselling them. Signing that contract
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> some small company realizes they dont really use their cars that much so they rent them out again for 3 days a week to get some extra cash. is that fraud? Most likely, yes. There's a common fallacy that once you pay someone for a
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
The abuse is factored in to pricing and quota structure. I have some past experience with subscription plans for a much less interesting product. Abuse is inevitable. As you do your math on the subscription costs you look at the actual usag
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
> I don’t dislike Rust As someone who really enjoys seeing all of the different programming languages and their approaches to different problems, it’s becoming obnoxious to hear the constant battles among people who think programming lan
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
The reasonable reaction is to ignore the vocal minority. It’s tiresome when other language communities start engaging in a battle with a vocal minority of another community. Every language has its annoying maximalist pushers. The play is to
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by Aurornis 3mo ago
Most new markets are funded by initial investment capital. Early entrants operate at a loss as they grow. This isn’t as unusual as some people are trying to make it sound. This has been happening since the dawn of finance. I thought this wo

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