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by api 26d ago
> every implementation idea rediscovered five times and wrapped in a new README That's open source since forever, unfortunately.
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by api 26d ago
With AI Apple is doing their classic strategy I guess: wait and then follow with something that learns all the lessons the pioneers learned. They're letting everyone else pay for model training, with the obvious end of the road being o
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by api 27d ago
There are probably people in Apple who think desktop is dead or pro-only and didn’t think many people would want a lower end cheaper Mac. Why wouldn’t they just get an iPad?
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by api 27d ago
Reading the comments: Why do so many people still think NAT equals firewall when they're not directly related? I guess it's because they're normally packaged together for practical reasons. They're both packet handling f
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by api 27d ago
Firewalls, both at the perimeter and locally, was what patched over this. NAT had nothing to do with it. You can have firewalls with no NAT just fine. You can also have NAT with no firewall. NAT is not about security and never was. It'
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by api 27d ago
Uhh... you can have a firewall without NAT, including one at the perimeter. This is a very common misunderstanding. NAT and firewalls are separate concepts. You can also have NAT with no meaningful firewall -- a port remapping NAT that allo
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by api 27d ago
I think looking at a for-profit corporation to take a moral stance is like expecting the police to plant trees, or the local school board to pave the roads, or the DMV to run health policy. It's the wrong type of organization for that.
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by api 27d ago
Apple has a huge opportunity here to lead the market for machines to run local models if they step into it. Their stuff is already better than what nVidia is offering with stuff like the DGX Spark. It's a niche market but it's a m
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by api 28d ago
Last post in this thread for me... We won't go back. That's the thing, the false option. I think you underestimate how much being poor sucks. I personally call this the "it's better to reign in hell" principle. So i
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by api 28d ago
I'm not saying nothing will ever change. That's a misreading. I'm saying asking people to sacrifice will both be rejected and will not do enough, and that the only answer is changing where we get energy. Environmentalists h
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by api 28d ago
If that's true it would mean fixing this injustice would just even out who gets to have what. It would not meaningfully reduce consumption, certainly not enough to make a huge difference in CO2 emissions. (There might be one exception
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by api 28d ago
> It's not poor people who stand to lose from degrowth, it's the ultra rich. Trivially false, and I think this is the root of it. I'm lazy so I asked Claude Fable, but what it gave me is in the same ballpark as a blog post
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by api 28d ago
Yes, I've read tons of stuff like this. It won't work. You can absolutely trim a lot of fat from the modern lifestyle, but then you'll be left with a residual. Meanwhile the developing world will keep developing and we have n
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by api 28d ago
Get in a time machine. Go back to 1970. Make sure world starts phasing out all coal power by 2000, replacing with nuclear and what renewables are available then, and make sure modular scalable reactors are available for China so they use th
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by api 28d ago
The AI companies should have their AI fix their crappy inefficient crawler code.
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by api 29d ago
You’re right but it’s a point I’ve tried to make for years to no avail. The V4 limit is one thing that does this. The other is DNS, which is inherently hierarchical because it’s a tree. The whole structure of the net and the web promotes th
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by api 29d ago
If you can’t help, it’s okay to look away. People sometimes get mad at this, like it’s callous or privileged, but what’s the difference between focusing on problems you can’t help and slowing down to stare at a car wreck? If you don’t slow
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by api 29d ago
Beef is extremely resource intensive. It’s one of the least efficient to produce foods. So some of this is inflation but some is surely costs going up for that reason. Look at world and US population across that time frame. Supply and deman
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by api 29d ago
That’s just stupid.
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by api 29d ago
Is the justice department allegation true? Or is it just that this group provides privacy and security stuff and that group happened to use it? If I sell hammers and someone buys one and bashes someone with it, it’s not my fault. If I sell
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by api 1mo ago
I agree with you about the technology. It’s the most exciting thing to me since discovering the Internet in the early 1990s, or since the web. Unfortunately the big AI companies seem to be run by showmen and weirdos whose brains have been s
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by api 1mo ago
Extremely small or very heavily quantized LLMs can generate hilarious results. You can also get wild shit if you dial temperature really high.
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by api 1mo ago
A major problem with closed mobile platforms is that if you have an App Store monopoly, why do you need to care? It's why all the app stores are absolute trash. Not sure how Apple handles DMCA but I know they're known for capricio
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by api 1mo ago
Environmentalism comes in at least two forms. IMO they are entirely different things. One form is science-based and concerned with finding out how to engineer our civilization to be more sustainable and compatible with the Earth's ecos
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by api 1mo ago
Integrated RAM with tensor processing seems like the end game for silicon that's actually efficient at running AI models. Or integrated flash with TPUs? That would be awesome. Flash your model onto a model-processor and run it.
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by api 1mo ago
The modern term for this is accelerationism: allow things to get worse or even make them get worse to force the Big Change that we "really need." Usually that big change makes things worse, unfortunately, because magic does not ha
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by api 1mo ago
No, not really, though that's been tried and hasn't been that successful. Hasn't worked when either the left or right have tried it. What I'm doing is arguing against the us-vs-them conspiracist framing and pointing out
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by api 1mo ago
(Thanks for knowing about ZeroTier! BTW my opinions are 100% my own, not those of my employer yada yada.) I have a rule: if we are still talking about a problem, it's a hard problem. It's true in engineering but also in other fiel
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by api 1mo ago
I run these things in VMs, and as a user in the VM, and give them access to just the tree I want to work on via mounting. I use Parallels on macOS for this but any VM will do. That way my actual primary machine is at least strongly isolated
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by api 1mo ago
We definitely have problems, but I'd check those stats. When you do that, you see something interesting. There are three things, the "three devils" as I heard one article call them, that are largely responsible for the percei

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