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by api 7mo ago
A popular misconception is that manufacturing is done in China because it’s cheaper. That hasn’t been true for a while. There are cheaper places, many of them. China is now simply the best, at least when it comes to electronics and adjacent
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by api 7mo ago
Take a look at crates like arc_swap if you have a read often write rarely lock case. You can easily implement the RCU pattern. Just be sure to read about how to use RCU properly. Well done this pattern gives you nearly free reads and cheap
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by api 7mo ago
When leftists say "capitalism" they mean something closer to what conservatives and free market libertarians mean by "fascism."
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by api 7mo ago
My take for a very long time has been that any model trained in violation of copyright should not itself be copyrightable. It should be public domain. This would mean any model for which the trainer did not have permission to create a deriv
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by api 7mo ago
They are? Most of what VC funded companies do has been done before at a smaller scale, often with less polish and at a higher price. VC money is used to scale up, cut costs with scale, capture markets, and then usually prices go up later de
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by api 7mo ago
Biofuel makes more sense for airplanes. No conversion even necessary. You could fuel up a 737 with properly formulated biofuel and fly it now, though a lot of validation would be needed to be generally allowed especially for passenger fligh
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by api 7mo ago
All VC funded companies that release free or underpriced products and services, capture market share, then raise prices or enshittify? The entire business model of VC funded tech?
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by api 7mo ago
Other than some very askew bizarro rationalists, I don’t think that many people take AI hard takeoff doomerism seriously at face value. Much of the cheerleading for doomerism was large AI companies trying to get regulatory moats erected to
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by api 7mo ago
That’s a design issue in etcd.
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by api 7mo ago
In Minecraft it’s well known that lasers of even moderate power can ruin camera sensors. Only in Minecraft though.
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by api 7mo ago
Does it require people change defaults? If so then 99% will never use it. A system or protocol is whatever the easiest user journey is. Anything outside of that will never be seen by many users unless there is some value to be gained by goi
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by api 7mo ago
Mine is just bizarre. I logged in a few months ago just to peek and it was AI generated conspiritainment brain rot about aliens and the Illuminati and Nazi UFOs. I found it kind of hilarious but also horrifying. Lots of fake archaeology pic
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by api 7mo ago
Listen to Eisenhower, JFK, even Reagan. Are we children? Obama seems like this great orator because he was just… okay. Like he could speak and sound like a coherent adult. That should be the bar. What are we doing?
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by api 8mo ago
Ten seconds of searching: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1qv0vpi/... The propaganda take I keep seeing is that you can get arrested for misgendering people or something, but these ar
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by api 8mo ago
Screams giant honey pot to me. And my taxes need to fund a VPN when there’s 50 cheap VPNs on the market? What happened to reducing spending?
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by api 8mo ago
The dilution factor is something I hadn’t thought about. Dump a few hundred foreigners in a town of 5000 and that’s very noticeable and some people will find it jarring. Dump ten thousand foreigners in a metro of three million and nobody wi
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by api 8mo ago
That’s true across much of the world. It’s also true past vs present. Listen to US politicians even as recently as the 1980s vs now. Our political class today is justifiably a pathetic laughing stock.
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by api 8mo ago
It’s the same in the US. Proximity to a city correlates strongly with all forms of openness. It holds nationwide. There aren’t really blue or red states, just predominantly urban or rural ones. I still don’t quite understand why. The contac
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by api 8mo ago
The bigger problem is that making software easy to use is stupidly expensive and hard and is usually the kind of work devs hate. So it’s usually not possible for free software to do it, hence free software usually makes no impact outside ve
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by api 8mo ago
Yeah it could have been useful but I feel like they nerfed it from the start. Still wasn’t a big fan. I was hoping it was a tease for a fully software defined haptic feedback based keyboard. There’s the obvious usefulness and coolness of th
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by api 8mo ago
I can download uncensored models pretty easily. There’s even uncensored frontier models. My machine isn’t big enough to run those but you can rent power to run them pretty cheap if you want.
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by api 8mo ago
Are you kidding? Look at who runs and funds OSI. It's a revolving door. The main purpose of OSS for the last 20 years has been to "commoditize your compliments" and/or dump on the market to destroy competitors. Any licen
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by api 8mo ago
Beat me to it. Facebook/Meta, Twitter/X, Google/YouTube, and TikTok have done quite a bit more damage to the Internet than AI. The future of the net was closed gated communities long before AI came along. At worst it’s maybe
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by api 8mo ago
Greenwald supports both Putin and Trump, for starters. He's either insanely clueless, a propagandist who is being dishonest about his goals, or an accelerationist who thinks making things worse will make them better after (magic happen
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by api 8mo ago
You gotta try though. Just one hit. Listen. Next time you buy weed from me I’ll throw in just a few fentys for free. You gotta try it, man.
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by api 8mo ago
He’s not wrong but screw Glenn Greenwald. I assume his solution will be to back the current or next strongman, because strongman rule will save us? It’s like the “don’t tread on me” militia crowd voting by like a 90% margin for a regime tha
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by api 8mo ago
Hindsight is 20/20. We didn’t realize just how powerful it would be. Same with addictive stuff like engagement maxxing algorithms and infinite scroll. Now the new challenge is to figure out how to put those dogs down. This always happe
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by api 8mo ago
It’s a network. You can move but will your community? We are absolute slaves to network effects. How many things do you continue to use even though you hate them because everyone else also continues to use them even though most hate them? D
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by api 8mo ago
Because nobody ever lied in print media or in person? What we are seeing is the consequence of a formerly high trust society collapsing into a low trust one. There is no place to hide from that. The Internet is made of the same stuff as pri
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by api 8mo ago
Why would anyone not think a Sparc server could host a web site? An old IBM PC or even a Commodore 64 can host a web site. I think there’s a few online. I’ve seen them before. I’ve seen a lot of younger “cloud native” age developers who hav

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