alkonaut

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by alkonaut 1mo ago
Not only is it closed for marine traffic, they even shut the website.
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by alkonaut 1mo ago
There is no relative/percentage increases noted (understandably). Just because i'm lazy: roughly how much more expensive is it to work with v4 flash and v4 pro through the API, compared to before the price increases? Is it 2x, 5x,
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
I mean the only way to separate them would be to separate them at training would it not? If there is zero python in the training set, then you have a smaller training set, should be able to have fewer weights in the model
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
I wonder if this is a fair calculation including the fact that multiple WebView apps should be sharing the same libraries in memory. If you pay 0.5-1GB to load the edge/chromium libraries but that memory is amortized over N different a
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
Should be possible with a physical firewall (rule in router, pi-hole, whatever) right? It's not a sellable solution but still... I hope that these fines and the rules on "algorithmic content" will perhaps make this possible t
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
Yeah they use snapchat and TikTok, with a sprinkle of instagram. The problem with these are: they offer two features 1) a social feature. You can send DM:s or comment your friends picture of an ice cream 2) Brain-rot algorithmic short-form
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
Here's where the important difference is: unless you actually finished the wordpress thing, or ever had active users etc, it would never have become a maintenance burden. If it's not fun to maintain, I burn it. For me, the reason
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
Yeah. I enjoy 2-4 most, 1 is the next, and 5 the least. I think the litmus test here is "if you knew could never deliver this to anyone, make money of it, get recognition for it, or even make it solve one of your own problems you have.
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
Haha Yeah if you do step 1 with AI you risk creating "an AI powered marijuana platform for global AI solutions" (The inevitable South park Reference). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8fapIDnrMI
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
Programming has five phases effectively: 1) You figure out what problem to solve. 2) You figure out HOW to solve the problem. 3) You actually implement the solution. 4) You see the solution work, for yourself. 5) You ship/deploy/p
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by alkonaut 2mo ago
I usually prefer apps to sites if there’s any usability improvement over the webpage - which there usually is. If the app just shows a webpage then no.
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
Thank you
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
”Not being interested in politics” doesn’t mean you aren’t interested, it just means politics happens to work for you. Its a strongly political take on the world too. Politics isn’t a subject like sports or tech. It’s something that permeat
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
Someone might at least read this discussion and come away with a feeling that there is something controversial about using a product or service, and read up on it before buying. If that happens to even one prospective customer then the ener
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
There is no separation of politics from anything. You can’t discuss sports in a sports forum and pretend it’s possible to keep politics out of it. Likewise with tech. If HN’s guidelines pretend that’s possible, they’re mistaken. You could m
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
Oh ffs. Just like I would much rather drive a Chinese car than a Tesla I’d much rather use a Chinese model than an X one. That’s just where we are now. Whether it’s good at anything at all doesn’t interest me. It could match Fable at 1&#x2
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
I'd be willing to accept this: Scan on end user's devices, but never transmit the result of that. Only report it ON the device itself to the user. A false positive when you send a pic of your naked kid to your spouse might show a
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
What constitutes a replaceable battery in this regulation? I don’t want hatches on things. Especially not phones. It’s fine to have some screws between me and a battery, if that makes it have 1% more capacity, 1% more rigid or be 1% more wa
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
> ”No .net, nothing” Not sure this is possible, or provides a meaningful ”lightness”. The 4.x CLR is an OS component as expected as Win32. You could have it as a separate download but I don’t really see the point. I agree with the overal
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
But who insures the ship and its cargo? And what's the premium? No one cared about sailors before either. But if the ship sinks then you cash out from Lloyds. But if the risk premium increases by a lot, then that adds to the cost of th
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
I hope so too. But I fear that it will feel inadequate if we know there is always a $20 online model that is an order of magnitude better. I don't think there will be a "good enough" local model so long as frontier models loo
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
I wonder what the reason is to not go humanoid but super-human? Lack of training data? For example, having 3 arms would help a lot of tasks. Or having fingers with twice the length of human fingers and 4 joints on each finger could enable t
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
I did 81/100 (not my first language) but I probably only knew 60 from before. But I speak other languages and so I can usually decode an origin of a word or I have seen other words in English or another language. So it’s not a test of
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
Without the MS account, it is _much_ harder to sell OneDrive, Copilot, Office365-whatever subscriptions etc to their users. I get it. I get that they need to upsell their customers OR their product would be more expensive. I'd be happy
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by alkonaut 3mo ago
I’d happily pay $500/yr more for service to not even have to consider that
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by alkonaut 4mo ago
I think something similar applies in many parts of the world, _but_ I also think that the response from the OEMs is basically "fight the warranty claims hard when there is third party service involved, and just honor the warranty with
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by alkonaut 4mo ago
The right to repair thing is a spectrum. On the one hand you have the John Deere inkjet model. But on the other end you have the normal car manufacturers who don't make it impossible, but who incentivize using 1st party repair. Are we
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by alkonaut 4mo ago
This is especially nice in the age of AI. I (the graybeard senior developer) does all the risky refactoring. I can take a performance issue and turn it into six regressions in half a day ($100). Then everyone is impressed when I let Opus fi
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by alkonaut 4mo ago
Yes it can't be used 24/7 for 5-minute charges because then the buffer does nothing. But if there is never back-to-back charges then I'd argue it's also kind of pointless because when the speed most needed (when there is
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by alkonaut 4mo ago
> it operates with a hit list "hit list" sounds very "discriminate"

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