Spivak

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by Spivak 11mo ago
I think part of the answer is that if you're going to use both it's nicer to use Windows with Linux as the guest than the reverse. MS clearly put a lot of effort to make the integration nice and it shows. Like how Parallels on mac
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by Spivak 11mo ago
From experience from my peers getting pregnant it's the cost of a "selective reduction" (which can be 1 to 0). Newly pregnant friends are spending $$$ on tests in utero to weed out children with such things. You're free
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yeah I think the advantage of OSS models is that you can get your pick of providers and aren't locked into just Anthropic or just OpenAI.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Which is why in Python in practice you pay the cost of moving your data to a native module (numpy/pandas/polars) and do all your number crunching over there and then pull the result back. Not saying it's ideal but it's a
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yeah, 25 req/sec/process is abysmally slow. You can write slow in any language. You don't end up seeing these kinds of complaints about Ruby backends and Ruby is the same order of magnitude in terms of speed.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I can't wait for police badges to double as contactless payment terminals.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
No it doesn't, people switch ISPs and phone plans all the time for on the order of 1x difference.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
People are being weird about this. ChatGPT has no moat because switching costs are zero. There's no investment into a particular AI service. ChatGPT has mindshare but that's not the same as it being a moat. The fact that people wi
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Do you feel the same about Python's contemporaries—Ruby, JS, Perl, PHP? More generally it seems a condemnation of any language that runs in either an interpreter or a VM which might even include Erlang and Java as well.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
The money quote is that it's not at all clear whether the sudden VPN usage is from kids or from adults to (I think rightfully) don't want to hand over their government id or their CC to random websites. Because yeah, fuck that shi
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I don't think I would want to hang out in any online space where the n-word is a shibboleth. The practice of asking members to do something that would ostracize you from the rest of society is cult behavior—even if it's not intend
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by Spivak 11mo ago
You can't imagine why a forum of predominantly adult men in their late twenties to mid forties would be interested in an article about aging gracefully and maintaining warm healthy relationships with their peers?
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I'm not saying they should or will give up on these markets, just that their margins aren't likely to be great. There's already so much AI porn right now . There's no reason to believe that OpenAI will be any better or
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by Spivak 11mo ago
That is exactly the parent's point, that while those things could bring in revenue, the competition in those industries is already incredibly fierce. And that's before potential new entrants into the space on the AI front. Even in
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I mean sure but none of these even claimed to help you do things you were already doing . If your job is writing code none of these help you do that. That being said the metaverse happened but it just wasn't the metaverse those weird
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by Spivak 11mo ago
This is exactly the kind of tortured logic I was talking about. By going this route you're actually agreeing with me and then doing whatever mental gymnastics necessary to twist everything that only harms the individual into some commu
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I think your comparison is more apt than you think but not for the reason you say it is. The Internet of today is like the Las Vegas of today—a largely sterile corporate theme park whose only real goal is just separating you from your money
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by Spivak 11mo ago
There is Minecraft the standalone game that you play either by yourself or on a private server with friends you know IRL. That's totally fine. Then there is the wider Minecraft community based on a constellation of public and semi-pub
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yes. That is exactly the point. The opposite of nannying is the dignity of risk. Sometimes that risk is going to carry harm or even death. I don't think anyone who is arguing against nannying in this way would bat an eye at the potent
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by Spivak 11mo ago
It sounds like your CTO took the opposite message of the book. Well the modern interpretation anyway. But can't really argue with not rewriting working code, even the Oracle licensing is probably is probably nothing in terms of cost. M
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by Spivak 11mo ago
You go first then. It can be a you cut I choose type thing with gender roles. Because let me tell you dude I and every other woman is picking the men's package in this deal. You go ahead and be a 50's housewife if you think it&#x2
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yeah this all just seems objectively worse for end users, like me, who are spoiled with cheap reliable and completely isolated from the internet devices.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Okay but you do understand that what you're suggesting costs the full salary a woman (because of course it would never be men asked give up their careers) could earn for the family and the economic gains that come with it. Back of the
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by Spivak 11mo ago
How about a different angle then since you seem to be of the opinion that words related to sex can't be in the vicinity of children. Book stores. There aren't age ratings for books and a 8 year old is not only free to wander aroun
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I didn't take that message away from the blog at all. They seem perfectly content to be an 18+ app but are musing on the fact that, functionality wise, it doesn't actually have any sexual content. Just the vague suggestion that yo
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Why not just make a performant ARM device? Apple demonstrated to the world that it can be extremely fast and sip power.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Of course, you should instead believe your own anecdotal evidence that marks a tally every time you hear about a crime, which if you watch local news is always, but doesn't mark a tally every time there isn't a crime. Fun fact tha
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by Spivak 11mo ago
But why? Do you feel the need to respond to those weirdos in the street yelling about how god hates fags and the end of days or whatever? Is anything gained by acknowledging them at all? There's plenty of real stuff this admin is doing
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Does there become a point where reporting on this kind of stuff is just feeding the trolls? Ars is both giving them the reaction they want and platforming their nonsense. The government put up a poster that says vaccines bad very autism and
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by Spivak 11mo ago
It was the 2002 ePrivacy Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive What the law wanted: putting regulatory friction on tracking cookies by requiring collecting consent will make sites do less tracking.

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