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by Frieren 2mo ago
Numbers say that the number of attacks are increasing: https://radar.cloudflare.com/security/application-layer?date...
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> Bill Gates' biggest fear was that it would turn into IBM. Good news, it did not. It is worse.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> Most founders in these accelerators must be fairly young? Therefore, most of them have never developed real applications without tools like Lovable even if they're technical founders. Why do investors put their money in companies
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> Though Apple may never release such glasses but Google via Samsung will purportedly be releasing theirs this fall. The old "let's break the law as much and as blatantly as possible, our lawyers will delay any punishment until
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> short of a government regulation or a monopoly, Phone companies used to be monopolies, in Europe they were owned by the government as a public service. But when they become profitable politicians betrayed their citizens and sold them.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> I see it as akin to building a machine which can do the cooking for you. More like buying a microwave and frozen food. Unless you are actually training the LLMs.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> and some are even leaving the country (around 100k left last year) They have them in Spain, and they are retired. Do you want them back?
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by Frieren 2mo ago
From 1945 to 1980 inequality was the lowest in the USA. From 1980 onward economic inequality exploded. I understand that you cannot follow my point without this important piece of information.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> The “Social-Communicative” level barely changed in size. But nearly a quarter of the words in the 1953 list are gone, and 39% of the 2023 words are new. Humble, loyalty, fellowship, generous, polite, and companionship gave way to commu
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> to fit all sorts of applications. Yes. In 1985. Processor allow for things like garbage collectors that in the 80s would have been a terrible waste for most uses. Most game developers will never create a 3d engine while 80s developer
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by Frieren 3mo ago
As someone living in Stockholm I find this very interesting. A football field, or a rose garden are very good public infrastructure, and I will never argue against them. But I love to go around Stockholm forests. Yes, these are not parks bu
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> After all, Elon Musk, the American tycoon who owns X and Tesla and is a former adviser to President Trump on public spending, personally campaigned to support the far-right AfD party in the German elections. The USA is supporting the s
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by Frieren 3mo ago
C++ was designed as an universal way of writing low level system code. It has some abstractions above C, but still allowing for all kinds of optimizations. (Think using a class vs a template, similar abstraction different impact). To use C+
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by Frieren 3mo ago
Why should software companies hire electricians and carpenters by the thousands? Because these are not AI companies, these are infrastructure companies as their main source of revenue and cost is renting and building infrastructure.
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> A couple of years and millions spent on PR? And LLMs are "intelligent" all of a sudden, is what everybody says nowadays? Inequality gives a few people the resources to change the mind of millions. As far as inequality remains
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> bizarre design decisions They are not bizarre but a good compromise between consistency and optimization for any possible existing and future CPU architecture. What the author correctly points out to is that GSL implementation does not
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> “understand the work you are dispatching, and if you don’t, ask questions until you do” My rant about this, not directed to the commenter but in general: I wish people would have been so interested on discussing and planning with teamm
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by Frieren 3mo ago
The USA has stolen intellectual property from ALL AROUND THE WORLD. AI is not trained just in copyrighted USA content. Other countries have a say about it.
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> I don't actually think the current administration, or the people behind it, actually care about real world economics anymore. They are aristocrats. They are worried about accumulating more power then their peers, about alliances t
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> For 2.5 more years. That would not be a big problem. But the next Republican president may be even worse than Trump. Trump is just the symptom of a deeper corruption problem. That things will fix themselves when Trump is not in the Whi
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by Frieren 3mo ago
I am all for Communism and giving more priority to projects that help all society. But this is not it. It would help if the power grid was public property, thou. It would help if the power grid was build so the majority of citizens profit.
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> To others it's a statement that corporations should be held blameless, and access is a moral right that shoudn't be limited on consequentialist grounds. The old, what is better for the rich VS what is better for society.
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by Frieren 3mo ago
Yes. When management is bad then having a public discussion will end up in retaliation. My advice is not to always discuss in public, but that companies should encourage that behaviour and punish toxic management. You made a very good point
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> The article seems to be about arguing with your boss in _public_. This is the main reason that most abuse happens in companies. Discussions are kept private so nobody can add 1+1 and see how toxic are certain bosses. This also enables
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> Microsoft They have fight open source and open standards for so long that it is in their DNA. Open source and standards are the best most efficient solution, but proprietary platforms have the money to buy politicians and create FUD in
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> good luck forcing Meta When I was a kid there were fines for factories that polluted water. Most of the time they were not found out, and when they did they just paid the fine that it was cheaper than to solve the problem. Regulations
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by Frieren 3mo ago
I think that many people on startups miss this part of development, robust stable products that do what is expected from them. Most companies software should not move fast and break things but it should be stable, provide the functionality
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by Frieren 3mo ago
Solved! Now Meta is a pro-privacy company. /s It is 10 years too late to trust Meta on anything.
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> Not all red or unreadable sectors necessarily indicate failure. Many copy-protected disks include intentionally malformed sectors that cannot be read by standard logic. How they know? ;)
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by Frieren 3mo ago
> The ants carry out prophylactic amputations. This not only protects the colony from infection but also doubles the survival rate of the injured workers. To keep everybody around you healthy makes the probability of caching a disease l

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