Gormo

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by Gormo 5mo ago
People objecting to buildings existing on account of the possibility that other people might do things they don't like inside them are in the same category as horse paste connoisseurs, in my opinion.
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Why does the construction of buildings to run business operations of any kind need to be "marketed" in the first place, absent manipulative media campaigns trying to manufacture a controversy around them?
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Was anyone proposing to eat AI? Was anyone proposing to do data processing with a pot roast? Why is the difference in what specific use case the consumers of these products are serving with them one that's relevant to the discussion?
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Why do you presume yourself to be part of the "we" in question? This seems like it's a case of other people using their own resources to do things that don't involve you; what's your stake in it? And given your cor
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Even in the PC world, the most common resolution in for CGA, EGA, and VGA remained 320x200 for many years. With square pixels, this would be 16:10, but the usual case was that this resolution was displayed fullscreen on a 4:3 display, so i
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by Gormo 5mo ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. How would the friction inherent in conflating layout and semantics together depend on the experience level the programmer? Different programmers might have different ways of dealing with that
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by Gormo 5mo ago
There's an important form/function distinction here, though. Indentation is useful for human readability, but braces function to give unambiguous direction to the compiler or interpreter. I think conflating these two different p
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> The only point of difference I would identify is that I think a democratic government is more accountable than the monied interests to which it is a necessary counter-balance I'm not entirely sure about that. It makes sense in th
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> I think, aggregation, extraction and emulgating is something else. Aggregating information, extracting underlying concepts, and combining those concepts into a unified expression is indeed the vernacular meaning of "synthesis&quot
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> I'm afraid, the essence is that is not. Re-sequencing content is not the same as synthesis Drawing different sources of information together into a single understanding is quite literally the definition of "synthesis" in
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by Gormo 5mo ago
The point is that the AI inferencing is equivalent to a person reading half a dozen separate papers, comprhending the basic concepts of each, relating them together into a mental model of the topic, and then writing an essay that summarizes
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Yeah, that was an annoying move, but a bit more understandable in terms of the support overhead of dealing with controller installations in a wide variety of disparate environments. They could have continued to offer it in an "unsuppo
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by Gormo 5mo ago
The mainframe model fell apart the moment that microcomputers became powerful enough to satisfy same use cases sufficiently. Centralized GenAI will also become obsolete as soon as local LLMs are capable enough to satisfy the same use cases
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by Gormo 5mo ago
But in the present moment, it seems like countries are themselves even more outside democratic control than multinational companies are. The mechanisms of democratic accountability in political institutions are today are demonstrably dysfun
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> To stop this, I a month or two ago put most of my Amazon Redshift research web-site behind a basic auth username/password wall. > It all remains free, but you need to email me for a username and password. That also creates fric
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> True. It's a massive shift of power, all being centralized. It may seem that way in the short term. But in the long term, the tendency in technical development is for the infrastructure and capital requirements for new technology
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Perhaps some of the same people and organizations who have poured funding into AI firms that have yet to attain profitability.
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by Gormo 5mo ago
There are plenty of people who care about the underlying concerns that "anti-trust / anti-monopoly enforcement" is trying to correct, but recognize that the only mechanism ever proposed for addressing those concerns usually i
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Ubiquiti really should be the model for every company selling hardware today. Their business model is a straightforward "sell a good product at a reasonable price" approach, and they seem to be quite successful at it without needi
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> I don't think they baited and switched? Technically true, because bait-and-switch refers merely to advertising an attractive product offer in order to lure people into a pitch for a different product. In this case, they actually
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> I've always been told it's called business. The "business" ended when the sale transaction concluded. The fact that you were the seller in that past transaction doesn't entitle you to vandalize goods that now
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by Gormo 6mo ago
Neither analog nor emojis. An analog emoji would just be a picture printed on paper.
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by Gormo 6mo ago
> no, but in first century bc and after that the roman world was connected enough that rich young romans were doing their version of the grand tour. So "yes", then.
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by Gormo 6mo ago
> Yeah, though AFIAK these event loops still suffer from blocking on (eg) complex json parsing or anything CPU driven (where real multithreading shines). This is only a problem if the JSON parsing is being done inside the event loop itse
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by Gormo 6mo ago
> For one, you architect your codebase into separate layers and logical chunks that are self-contained and can be reasoned about independently. That's not always possible, but you draw as many firm boundaries as you can. You don&#x2
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by Gormo 6mo ago
It does take a lot of work not to break things. That's why "move fast and break things" are traditionally closely coupled: it's hard to avoid breaking things without slowing down. But why would responsible AI users -- a
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by Gormo 6mo ago
> My strong hunch is they are moving to closed source because it is now trivial to copy a product with AI clean rooms. Which, tbf, is a totally valid reason to move closed source. The "clean room" part of clean-room reverse eng
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by Gormo 6mo ago
> Now this is no longer viable and in fact it is simply helping competitors. So why do it then? > The only open source that will remain will be the real open source projects that are true to the ethos. Well, the second point seems lik
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by Gormo 6mo ago
EasyAppointments ( https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments ) is still FOSS. We managed our team calendars on it at a previous company, but I rolled out Cal.com due to more apparent support and sophistication
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by Gormo 6mo ago
But doesn't AI ultimately obviate "move fast and break things" by making it easier to move fast without breaking things?

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