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by Matl 4mo ago
I am the same, but at the same time I don't want to make assumptions about how viable it is to run a useful index for a small company. I assume they looked into it and deemed it non viable, but would like to know more.
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by Matl 5mo ago
And yet both countries, unlike Iran, are US and European buddies. Because it's not about democracy, it's about playing ball and letting Israel occupy Palestine in peace.
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by Matl 5mo ago
I feel like people working on things for free can be cut a little bit of slack and not always be policed about any random person not linking their 'attitude' for some comment on a PR they made or whatnot. But I guess it's eas
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by Matl 5mo ago
While all the comments about GIMP needing a total UX overhaul etc. are likely valid, it's worth noting that there's something like 2 people working on the bulk of GIMP at the moment. It's not a startup that has just raised a
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by Matl 5mo ago
I mean it's not hard to understand where the author is coming from. It seems like these days even a hobby project has to meet some kind of 'is there a market for it' threshold of justifying its existence. So your parent may&#
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by Matl 5mo ago
I dunno, DeepSeek v4 Pro is rather on par as far as I can tell, maybe not with 5.5 Pro in all areas quite yet, but close. I think China is thinking more about the application layer on top of models as going to matter more than the models th
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by Matl 5mo ago
> Fundamentally, the Chinese model of governance does not protect the individual. For all its faults, the US model is based upon the idea of individual liberty Look, am not here to defend the Chinese model but I find it interesting how c
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by Matl 5mo ago
I am from Europe. I feel comfortable saying that many in Europe do not care about what their governments or companies do to foreigners, (at least not enough to inform themselves about it). However looking at the polls in the US gives you a
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by Matl 5mo ago
No it means that perhaps the US should finally start looking at itself instead of just asserting that it doesn't need to because China. That doesn't mean China should not be criticized. But to me it's clear that the China bla
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by Matl 5mo ago
The US assisted a genocide, literally kidnapped the president of a sovereign country so it could take its oil, threatened its own allies with invasion and started a war of aggression against another so that it can take their oil, all in a s
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by Matl 5mo ago
Oh absolutely.
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by Matl 5mo ago
> USA data protection protects data of US citizens only, foreigners data is not protected HN is an American site. If you look at the US government, it is going to fearmonger about anything China related, because they haven't had a g
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by Matl 5mo ago
> capture the notepad++ macos market Is it big? Notepad++ is big in the Windows world but I am not certain that it is automatically big on Mac. They have much more Mac-native feeling editors like TextMate, Nova, Cot, even SublimeText fee
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by Matl 5mo ago
> do you really think anyone thought or said GPT-2 was AGI? > I don't think you do. I don't think they did. I think the marketing around it was such as to imply to the general public that it's not that far from AGI&#
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by Matl 5mo ago
Yes, but it would seem that Chinese models are much more efficiently trained than the US ones, (i.e. with fewer resources). Europe doesn't invest nowhere near as much as the US does into tech, so we need to either figure out how to be
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by Matl 5mo ago
> I've seen the idea that GPT-2 not being released was marketing hype at least 6 times since Mythos was shared. That's not what I am saying. It's not that GPT-2 not being released was marketing hype, it's that OpenAI
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by Matl 5mo ago
considered that by OpenAI for marketing purposes that is But yes, perhaps it would have been better for all of us if they haven't.
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by Matl 5mo ago
I mean, at least we're not melting the planet trying to predict the next token that sounds about right.
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by Matl 5mo ago
I get what you mean, but to be fair it seems like you can get away with copy pasting what's in the doc your linked pretty much if you don't care to customize any further.
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by Matl 5mo ago
Why even put this out? This is weeks after the whole Department of War thing, days after the article about Sam Altman being a pathological liar (as if we needed one). If the intention is to bury all that then I think it's going to have
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by Matl 5mo ago
Well, yes, I meant that you don't need any 'special' tooling for Sqlite, whereas you do for pg.
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by Matl 5mo ago
Because it's a single file you can back up like any other?
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by Matl 5mo ago
Oh, nice, when I last tried it about the M1 timeframe, it still didn't. What that convinced me of is that macOS is just not for power users.
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by Matl 5mo ago
Can macOS snap windows to the side yet without external plugins?
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by Matl 5mo ago
Pure ALSA would behave like that because the currently playing process would take exclusive control of the hardware. Upsite: Highest quality playback. Downside: Only one process could play audio at a time.
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by Matl 5mo ago
> average life and standard of living in China and purchasing power is far worse than in America yes No. Certainly not 'far worse'. Purchasing power is actually greater now according to many stats. So is things like access to h
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by Matl 5mo ago
The index you linked to is published by The Economist, a major pro-capitalist oligarchy mag, you citing it as objective is like when the IDF investigates itself. Yet even they admit the US is far from a full democracy. It's kind of lik
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by Matl 5mo ago
> Wait so America is getting increasingly authoritarian and you are afraid of authoritarianism so you chose option B - Authoritarianism > Make it make sense If Option A is a country that pretends is a democracy, but in reality is an o
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by Matl 5mo ago
I am not American and you have misunderstood my point. The point is that if you want to have the privileges of a global hegemon and go around the world and accuse others of being authoritarian governments i.e. China, then your shit better b
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by Matl 5mo ago
> but that is functionally equivalent, the "anarcho" part was the point, not communist or capitalist. I don't think they're functionally equivalent today. A libertarian today is most commonly understood as someone who

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