Aurornis

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by Aurornis 1mo ago
Unless there's a full on scandal or emergency, boards don't force CEOs out quickly. This would have been building for years with multiple rounds of trying to de-escalate and get the situation under control.
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> Steal 20$ out of a cash register and make the local news. Waste a billion dollars at a corp and make insane decisions and ride out on a golden parachute. Getting pushed out of a position is very career damaging at the executive level.
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> Meta simply stole the username because they could, and gave the old owner nothing in return. The name changed happened across platforms including Twitter\X. Meta doesn’t own X. Is nobody reading the article? This comment section is cra
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
Incorrect. This happened across platforms including X.
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
The band has been silent on the matter, which is an extremely strong indicator that they got a boatload of cash in the deal. Everyone is reaching for pitchforks but all signs point to the band getting a huge payday.
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
I'm talking about the actual lawsuit, which is linked in the article. That's what I was reading. Amazon did grant extra breaks. The dispute is that they didn't grant them fast enough and that she expected to be paid for them,
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> $19 iems sound better than airpods, the bar is that low, but normies don't care, I have several sets of high end headphones and have spent more on audio equipment than I probably should. I enjoy my AirPods very much. They're
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> But I recently acquired a schiit vestri and I pair these with some old wired seinheisers (HD1). I cannot overstate the drastic difference in quality. These sound better because they're $500 full-size headphones, not because they l
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> Or feature Thunderbolt rather than normie USB-C so you can record 4/8K ProRes to an SSD, The old iPhone 17 Pro has USB 3.2 Gen 2, which is good for 10Gb/s. You can already record 4K60 ProRes to an external SSD. This feature a
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
I skimmed the lawsuit. As far as I can tell, the complaint is about getting 4 x 15 minute extra breaks during the day and lighter work. Amazon did grant them, but the complaint is that they didn't do it fast enough. There's also s
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
This study was limited to the program in Quebec, but this discovery is alarming > and also that cohorts with increased child care access subsequently had worse health, lower life satisfaction, and higher crime rates later in life. There
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
LLMs are not the same as auto routers that have existed for decades. They function completely differently and are capable of taking more context into account, all the way to fetching and reading data sheets and considering design compromise
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
Use as training data has been tested in court multiple times and cleared. I know some people want it to be a legal violation, but it’s not. Also these are audio models, if you hadn’t noticed. The training sets for this type of work is very
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
No, you’re arguing against the first part of my comment without reading the whole thing where I addressed the value proposition. A 100K free device license is a generous gift to small companies. Past 100K, it’s more than fair to ask that co
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> NP-Hard is NP-hard... "heuristics" in this case is just a euphemism for a fantasy cost-function to scam shareholders. I don’t know why you’re trying to make this so hard. The problem is NP hard whether I do it or a machine do
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> If I'm happy with the weights you've given me, and I'm not using your compute for inference and not wanting or needing any updates off you, why should you continue getting money off me and my customers? Because they own
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
If the magic LLM pixie sprinkles can brute force their way to a solution using viable heuristics and their training data, I will use them.
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> The one thing I will say, is that my experience of hardware engineers is very gatekeepy. Stay away from Reddit and forums if you want to see where the open minded people are looking. There are a lot of communities where EEs are experim
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. In a normal office environment I would guess most people actually want more AI features. Most people aren’t passionate about hand writing their
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
I found this graph of LibreOffice downloads https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads Switching to the monthly view, the downloads are actually mostly flat going back to 2019 I can believe that the downloads record has
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> So much for all the EdTech startups that want you to use their AI teachers. The AI they’re talking about is not EdTech AI-based teaching tools. It’s students who use ChatGPT to handle work for them so they can ignore any teaching parts
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
This is the current meta-game for AI videos on social media. Repost a recognizable AI figure talking about something and then write a description about how it contains more information than something more expensive (in this case, paid cours
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
When a donation-dependent organization starts losing people over its mission, the board takes notice and adjusts course. Unless they're so far gone that they don't care about taking down the organization to pursue activist side qu
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
For a problem like this it doesn't matter. The part the LLM generated was a hurdle to clear on the way to the final result. Once the final result was achieved, you know the earlier step was valid enough to get there.
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
They’re legally indefensible and are an existential threat to the entire organization. The reason many of us donate is for the internet archiving part of the business. When an organization starts taking donations and doing other things with
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> They want control on the walled garden. It would have been trivial for them to lock out other operating systems entirely. Even the Asahi team has been much more appreciative of Apple leaving this open.
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> when they can just share a pdf. I assume your question was in good faith, but the information needed to support an entire platform like this is not as simple as sharing a PDF. I’ve spent parts of my career working on much simpler platf
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> I don't see how it's any different than opium During the marijuana prohibition days the resounding chorus in the discourse was that marijuana was not physically addictive like other drugs, and therefore we must treat it diffe
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by Aurornis 1mo ago
> I have in essence deleted the vast majority of my social media accounts years ago, but stayed a passive and rather anonymous consumer on Reddit, X and YouTube Most of the people I’ve known who struggled with doomscrolling had establish
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> I understand why the AI people want it to help with the latency between the CPU and GPU. The reason AI users like it is because it provides a large amount of higher-bandwidth memory at a price much lower than an equivalent GPU. If you

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