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by GuB-42 3mo ago
It sounds like a pretty good deal, so I assume you got it before prices went crazy, like mid-2025. At that time, you could get a decent entry-level Windows laptop for around 700 euros that can do pretty much everything you want a laptop for
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
My parents (both teachers) always told me to respect books, and it means keeping them in good shape, among other things. It is almost a religious idea: books represent knowledge, something that is important and must be preserved. To be hone
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
AI changed the perception of the "information wants to be free" idea. In a sense, AI companies did a lot to "free" the information, they took everything they could, including pirated data, and put them all into a model,
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
The first reason is price. Macs are expensive, you may argue that it is worth it but it is still a lot of money. The Macbook Neo change the deal somewhat, really good value, but even with that, it is not the cheapest laptop by far. The seco
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
These names are for humans to remember and to type-in, not just for computers. And whimsy names are more memorable, which is a good thing. Random strings are for computers, not humans.
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I was also surprised, but it makes sense. It is based on user-generated content, it has a comment system, followers and stars (similar to "likes"). There is even an attention economy, and some gamification. Social media doesn&#x27
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I didn't notice that. Some software got buggier. Other software improved. I didn't really notice a pattern in the recent months. Microsoft is doing quite bad, and they make a lot of software many people use on a day to day basis,
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I trust the judges on that one, they know the law better than I do, obviously. I am also not discussing about who is at fault, I agree that it is on OpenAI. I just don't want, say, some company that is even shadier than OpenAI to launc
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I think you are confusing trademarks with patents. Trademarks don't prevent you from copying anything, they only prevent you from being misleading regarding the origin.
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
As much as I hate OpenAI for hijacking the term "open", and I love the idea of OpenAI losing, I am not sure if I agree with it. Trademarks are first intended to protect consumers, so that if it says Coca Cola, then the Coca Cola c
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
When I had to fill up the ESTA form to enter the US, this is what was in the "social media" drop down list: - ASKfm - Facebook - Flickr - GitHub - Google+ - Instagram - JustPaste.it - LinkedIn - Tumblr - Twitter - Vine - VKontakte
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I'd say farming. Not agriculture in general, Monsanto is one of the most hated companies, so is John Deere, and farmers hate them too, but the ones working on the field, preferably crops over livestock. I think that farmers are somehow
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Some people consent to it, and they have a voice too. If they win and you didn't also consider the technical solution, you will find yourself not only with a law you disagree with, but also with a terrible technical solution. So whatev
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
As someone who wrote a lot of C and legacy C++, I find the first form easier to understand. The "int i=0; ... ++i" part is just your typical C-style loop. And the "auto&& it: vec" is the for-each kind of loop tha
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Technically, yes. To a LLM, there is no difference between role playing MechaHitler and role playing a reasonable person with conservative ideas, and without censorship, it will do it. All big LLMs are censored, Grok is censored too, but we
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
> If the terrorists were very smart, they'd realize that... There are a lot of very smart people joining cults, including people who just wanted to study them and were fully aware that what they believed in was nonsense. Terrorist g
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
What is the issue? It is fiction, it doesn't pretend to represent reality in any way. It is more about badass cyborgs than it is about fear mongering. But it is dystopian fiction, a genre that has its roots in real society problems tur
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Except it is not the right question in a market economy like ours. The right question is "what is the value (in dollars) of the right for farmers to repair their equipment". If John Deere values it more than farmers, then they wil
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Grok called itself MechaHitler after being prompted by a user to do so. It was a jailbreak and not indicative of its default stance. You can do that with any uncensored model. For less extreme views, you can make any model lean on the side
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
It can be seen the opposite way. If you don't call out my lie, you are just a bootlicker who cannot be trusted for anything requiring initiative. If you do, then you can be a real partner. There is still a subtlety. You have to call me
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I don't know the law in Portugal but I will assume the principles are similar to other western European countries. If you have book that are actually banned in these countries, I don't think many people will call it awesome. Books
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Hopefully, Europe has learned its lesson. The way it was handled post-WW2 is pointing in the right direction. WW2 was the direct result of that "historically consistent belligerence". Simplified history: lots of tension in Europe
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
You mean an up-to-5% increase in capacity, and slightly decreased weight, depending on the product? The truth is that the product with the 16% reduced capacity (Switch 2 Pro controller) is 7g lighter and the one with the 5% increased capaci
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
In France, it is somewhat more complicated. The title "ingénieur" is not regulated, it is a job title and anyone can have it if the position calls for it. What is regulated however is the engineering degree ("diplôme d'i
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
I think the mission of libraries go beyond providing the most popular books. There is that, of course, a library that doesn't have the books people want is a bit pointless. But having a few titles that are not as popular help preserve
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Try to find an typical consumer inkjet printer on AliExpress, you won't find any, or if you do, it will be someone reselling the usual brands like HP or Canon. You will find label printers, industrial printers, 3D printers, thermal pri
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Some cards don't have any form of security. For example Konami "e-amusement" cards are just an ID number, which is also written on the back of the card. It is a username so to speak, the password is the PIN you enter when you
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Very common on EU news websites. Workarounds include: - reader mode - "behind the overlay" extension (and others like it) - archive.is - probably many others
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
It is probably fine, it is kind of a best case scenario: porting a good code base with lots of unit tests, all hand-written. Not much can go wrong here as the LLM is kept in check by the original code, the tests, and the fact that the topic
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_sensor#Automotive_appli... It looks that some O2 sensors that don't require a reference have been used (titania sensors) but even though they have some advantages, they are les

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