JohnFen

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by JohnFen 1mo ago
> "Telemetry" is not "spying" or "collecting personal information" or whatever else uninformed people like this blog author try to dramatize it as. Whether or not telemetry counts as spying depends on whethe
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
It's a huge factor regarding my own software choices. I think that subscription models for software are terrible for users and lead to worse software, so I avoid them entirely. Note that I don't include paying for ongoing services
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
Like with any software, you can't ever really be sure if they share this data with other entities. That's part of why I don't let software phone home, FOSS or not.
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
Well, of course they'd say stuff like that. They've made an extremely large bet and absolutely have to make it pay off, no matter what that does to the rest of us. So far, all I've seen from these companies and tools is that
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
If a person is just specifying the desired result to a genAI system and taking what is generated, then yes. That person hasn't created anything any more than they "created" something by hiring a person, specifying what they w
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
You don't need any real educational resources to get good at soldering. Any random primer will do. It's genuinely a simple task that doesn't require a lot of explanation or have a lot of tricks. What gets you good at solderin
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
Every time I get my teeth cleaned by someone new, they comment that I must be using an electric toothbrush because my teeth are in such good shape. But I don't. I use the least expensive manual toothbrushes I can find. They're alw
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
I have preferred vendoring for a very, very long time. Not only does it ensure that I can always build, it also ensures that I remain in control of the software I make and reduces support headaches when other people build it. As an excellen
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
That niche being "people with far more money than sense".
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
> Only if that particular sect's holy book is not from God. Every sect considers their holy book(s) to be from god, so that claim is meaningless unless you are a member of that sect. In terms of explaining "why does god allow e
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
The genAI companies , including Anthropic, are not aligned with human values.
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
But that's an answer from a particular sect, not from a god.
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
There are few people whose financial/investment advice I'd trust less than Trump's. All such statements from him are intended to enrich him, not you. If you have to take a hit to make him richer, he's fine with that.
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
No, I wouldn't. Particularly not if the God were a force that I considered malevolent.
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
Tariffs are unlikely to achieve that alone, or if done in the way this administration wants to impose them. > America's entire government budget was once paid by tariffs on imports, wouldn't it be nice to return to no taxes? Ta
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
I wasn't asserting that, I was only pointing out that they can call any feature anything they like on their own maps. But no, I don't want them to take a political stance on every naming dispute. In this case, however, when the &q
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
> So you prefer google to be the arbiter of what are official names within each country? No, but they are certainly the arbiter of what names they use on the maps they produce.
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
True! And the correct name in all contexts that matter is "Lake Ontario". It's almost as if people don't know that "Ontario" is not a Canadian name, it's a native American one, and the province is named af
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
> 1. Do you program/develop ML apps? Yes > 2. if yes what language do you use: python or...else? Python and C++ > 3. Is the architecture you're using transformers based or something else ? Something else > 4. do you tr
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
> while NetBSD and OpenBSD don’t want any clanker-written code contributions. At least we still have alternatives for the time being, and ones that don't use systemD, too!
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
> LLMs wouldn't work without learning on massive amounts of text, so using the entirety of human thought and existence is a very practical step. Practical or not, it's abhorrent. But it wasn't trained on the entirety of hu
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
And still true.
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
Cloudflare doesn't reliably let me through.
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by JohnFen 1mo ago
My friends and I are just going to refer to it as Lake Epstein until/unless the executive order is undone. I mean, Trump isn't the only one that can unilaterally change the names of things and in the end, what matters isn't w
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> Would a brand actually pay for this? Yes, the right brand would. Perhaps not for a lot of money, though. > What would the advertising space be worth? I don't know, but I expect an advertiser is going to take reach into account.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
It's enforced heavily in the US as long the perpetrator isn't overly wealthy and/or powerful.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Yes, the "doomer" position (which is hardly the dominant viewpoint) is obviously highly speculative and therefore extremely suspect. But that's equally true of the "superabundance" position.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Yes, Trump won both elections. I never said otherwise. I said that he only won the popular vote in one of them (Americans only voted for him once). In the other one, he was selected by a small group, not by the citizenry.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Americans voted for him once. You're redefining what "winning the vote" means.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> something not so common in US I think Not as common as many places in the world, but it's also not rare. How true it is in the US depends a lot on where in the US you are.

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