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by arnaudsm 3y ago
This topic is polarizing because it shows how Silicon Valley betrayed its original hacker mindset of openness in favor of tech feudalism. I'm pleasantly surprised to see the EU standing in this battle. This is a good thing for hackers,
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
The latest Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 on AMD 7840U are the closest thing you can get to a Macbook, with near-M3 performance and decent Linux support, while being much cheaper. My only regret is the soldered RAM.
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
Related : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
I know marketing folks prefer poetic names, but I wish we had consistent naming like v1.0, 2.0 etc, instead of renaming your product line every year like Apple and Xbox does. Confusing and opaque.
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"Au large" means "off the coast"/"at sea" in french. Slightly poetic and retro, and symbolizes their entrance in the big league of LLMs.
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Many financiers are willing to trade quality with cost reduction.
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It's called banning, and it happened many times in human history
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AI generated influencers are a thing, even on OF nowadays. Our last value will reside in "human authenticity", but maybe that can be faked too
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
Parsing markdown is multiple orders of magnitude easier than Microsoft Word, especially before docx. And it has the merit to be human-readable in plaintext!
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
Great cautionary tale about how quickly formats get obsolete, especially closed source ones. I use markdown, plaintext and png for all the documents I need to store long term. Even if these formats disappear, I could trivially reimplement m
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
Posterity only remembers the most acclaimed pieces, there are plenty of airport novels no one remembers and that have nothing to envy to modern Tiktok.
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Gaming is more active than reading. Maybe you're also thinking of imagination's involvment?
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The article above is about their decline in consumption
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Of the past yes, but what about the present and future?
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Why do we obsess so much over legacy form factors? Watching movies, listening to 2h conference talks, playing a 60h narrative videogame, and reading scientific papers in PDF may not be as noble, but they are equally meaningful to me.
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Yes, like they prefer self driving cars over trains !
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We already have that in Europe, it's called "strong government regulation" and it's great at certain tasks
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And AI is only accelerating an already existing trend. Freebooting and content farms have existed for a decade now. I wish too that consumers will grow tired of low-quality stolen/generated content, but that is not the case yet. Take s
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
Paying brilliant researchers then refusing to ship their work happened at Kodak, Xerox, and now Google. History repeats itself
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
I bet they'll rehire like crazy in AR once the Apple Vision Pro is a success. I miss when Google had vision instead of trend following lazily
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
I wonder if in 2034, we'll be able to run GTA V in the browser for free with some cool open source project
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by arnaudsm 3y ago
I agree Gnome could use more polish and customizability. But it is my favorite desktop by far. His opiniated design is both a blessing and a curse, but like Apple, I accept the tradeoff: the UX is too good compared to the other players. Pro
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What's the median viewport height?
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The UX of entry level laptops is terrible. Windows 11 + vendor bloatware are poisoning the well, I completely get why people are going iPad-only
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Great comparison, that's even more worrying. If we suddenly loose fossil fuels and fertilizers, the lack of agricultural skills will probably kill billions.
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Now that the iPad kid generation is growing up, I fear most don't even know what a file system is. The post desktop world is real. Abstractions are comfortable, but they might reduce the number of techie teenagers like OP in the future
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I'd be very interested in watching traditional competitive programmers tackling these challenges. Can they beat low-code excel ?
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I miss when ML scientific papers had actual science in them. Now they all feel like ads.
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Is that including storage? Renewables at unusable at scale without it, since they're intermittent sources. Also France has ~$50/MWh nuclear power.
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Contextual autocorrect has been on phones for a decade. It's still far from perfect. Many ambiguities are not trivial, even for an LLM

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