EntrePrescott

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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
ya think the new version of the song will be: "Radio killed the Video Star" ? cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
reminds me of a quote in the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog" (context: Stanley Motss, a Hollywood producer played by Dustin Hoffman, helps Conrad Brean, a political spin doctor played by Robert de Niro, to stage a war in order to cover u
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
The main reason is that (post-acquisition) Redhat, in a push for monetization, killed Centos, thus forcing lots of people to quickly find a replacement… and OpenSUSE happens to be the biggest close enough relative (rpm-based etc) distribut
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
in retrosprect - re-reading my last comment again, too late for editing - I just noticed that there is a small detail error in it, owed to my technology/development-oriented bias that is too detached from the brand marketing and sales&
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Apple even takes it even one step further: they understood (Just like haute couture, cosmetics and luxury watch brands before them) that it's neither the product nor the technology nor even the interface itself that's what's
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> podman runs or builds containers? It does… in the same sense that docker (the program/tool) does, that is: both are not container runtimes (such as containerd which docker uses, or runc and crun which are the options typically use
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> Because it removes the explanation of the motivation that it will primarily benefit their personal usage. Does it? I'd say that they have far more benefit of the project than the common commuter… it's just a different use. Th
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> its weighed in my balance by the fact that I'm contributing under the GPL Are you sure you're contributing "under the GPL" though? It's common for such dual-license commercial projects to demand (lest contribut
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> Doesn't that reinforce the parents' point that (…) I don't see how it would. The reasons why a country with 1/10th the GDP and 10x more corruption still manages to complete their subway projects 10x quicker at 1&#x2
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> the flavor of Thai food While we're at that subject: The national administration of Thailand has for the last, well, more than twenty years, been very actively pushing a big gastrodiplomacy and economy program (with certifications
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> performance has become increasingly constrained by memory latency, which has grown much slower than processing speeds. Sounds like they would oddly prefer memory latency to grow as least as fast as processing speeds, which would be ter
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> The Moscow metro is not just for vanity - the nomenklatura don't take the metro, the people in squalor do... That's like saying the vanity construction projects of Roman emperors weren't for vanity because they were used
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
JUCE is a dual-license commercial product though: Apart from a small ISC-licensed core, it's GPL or commercial. While I totally respect the decision of the JUCE developers to want to make a living out of their project and to adopt a li
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Indeed they have a problem there. For that matter, I don't see how "OpenAI" could even try to legally enforce its terms against competitors training their models using the output of "OpenAI" models… at least not wit
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> That conflicts with the natural rights that people would otherwise have to do what they want with atoms or bits they possess not natural rights but natural possibilities - which by the way are totally disjoint from "rights" w
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> like the lack of certain kinds of configuration isolation by default could you please explain a little what kind of "configuration isolation" you mean? > and the general difficulty of configuring certain kinds of things li
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Where is the license? As is (in absence of a clear information about copyright and license terms) it looks dangerously like some random dude just ripped the icons from AWS and misleadingly tells everyone they can just go ahead and "Dow
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
The choice of topology of the package and layering system - be it a tree as in OCI or a more general graph topology as in Nix - is only a very small part of either of these systems. I agree that the general graph topology is superior in som
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
I like the principle of Nix that one can simultaneously install different versions of the same software and make layered choices of what version to use with what or depending on the use case. Nix has spearheaded that principle and that&#x27
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
more like: perpetual war for perpetual profits of the military-industrial complex. Eisenhower (who had been a five-star general before becoming president) warned about it in 1961… he saw it coming, but people didn't listen or didn&#x27
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
seaweed is the new GPT?
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
the need for decompression (and the required decompression time) is very much dependent on the duration of the dive (i.e. how much gas is dissolved into your blood depends on how much time your blood was fed gases at higher pressure). If yo
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
that figure in the low tens of thousands along with the menace of extinction just reminded me of an interesting thing about the demographics of another species of large animals (though not that large)… one that is already extinct: the Tyran
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Dunno why, but that just reminded me of the term "landwhale" (also written "land whale") which is common enough in American English whereas you never hear/read about it in European English.
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Indeed, it's bad enough when they mix up units of the same dimension, but ignoring different dimensions is even more stupid (though it has the advantage of being more easily detectable without even having to check the numbers). In that
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
yeah it's still only a cute little baby now, but wait until it grows adult and is 500m long and hungry… it will no longer be "kawaii" then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Chat GPT 12: The paperclips get chatty and semi-sentient. Clipy-GPT12 is born. Windows RGPT edition is released (Real good pretrained transformer), as the worthy successor of Windows RG (real good) edition. For those who wouldn't remem
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
… but still the weights are increasing ;)
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Or even so-called "dead" languages. I'm looking forward to the day where there will be a good locally hosted LLM-based assistant for Latin… both for learning and for helping to formulate "native" quality texts.
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> They had already markedly increased their loan drawdown from FHLB from $3B in 2021 to almost $9B in 2022 For that matter, I kinda wonder about the risk assessment and loan decision mechanisms of those FHLBs. Even aside from the fact th

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