asadotzler

3 ms·

31.
by asadotzler 2mo ago
Even a few tens of billions in fines doesn't come close to putting Meta into insolvency. The histrionics are entirely uncalled for. A billion dollar fine is entirely unnecessary to dissuade a typical driver from speeding. The fine need
32.
by asadotzler 2mo ago
Closer to three decades than two.
33.
by asadotzler 2mo ago
First time you're caught, you are no longer a project contributor and your deceptive conduct will be forwarded to all other major open source projects with warnings that your code cannot be trustworthy and is a well documented legal li
34.
by asadotzler 2mo ago
It was Sun's project before Oracle bought Sun. Sun worked a lot with Netscape back in the day to make Open Source Software happen at all. From 1998-2004ish, Netscape and Sun were the open source projects and the strongest proponents of
35.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
You're the odd one. I've been involved with and seen this at plenty of SV interviews. I've seen it from more than one interviewer at one company with one candidate.
36.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
You're so close.
37.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
You threaten to ban any existing contributors lying about their code and you increase scrutiny of new contributors. You can go a step further and reach out to any other projects that the lying contributor works on and let their leadership k
38.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
10 years ago I was doing walk-throughs of a 10 year old Sketchup model I made of my home -- using Oculus Rift. There's nothing special here.
39.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
It's not. I did a walkthrough of a Sketchup model of my home using Oculus Rift almost exactly 10 years ago.
40.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
It's been 2.5 years and Apple still hasn't sold out of its test run of 500k units. About 350k of those sold in year 1, about 50k sold in year two, and less than 20K so far in year 3. Workers at Apple's flagship retail stores
41.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
The experience was terrible. IN good VR, you control the POV. Those games just tossed you around to different areas without warning. It would have sucked a lot less if they either kept one view or if they gave us a way to control the view c
42.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
Do you believe Apple will continue to spend billions on a device that caters to niche enterprise use cases and is today selling in single digit thousands per month, if that? If so, qhat other Apple products out there suggest that enterprise
43.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
Vision Pro is dead. Apple couldn't move 500k units in 2.5 years. The Vision Pro tables are disappearing at Apple Stores. Apple's major web pages no longer advertise it. Executives won't commit to follow-up Vision Pros (or Air
44.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
A company that distills LLMs should be called "Moonshine" not "Moonshot" Ba-dum-tss
45.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
s/announcement/claim You don't get to call Moonshot's a "claim" and this political hack's an "announcement." They're the same thing. Treat them the same. Diction designed to favor one of two
46.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
Not to mention the cases where the AI labs would have lost in court so bailed and settled for billions. Just this week, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5B in a settlement to avoid losing a pretty cut and dry case.
47.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
What precedents can you cite and specific examples of their applicability. That is, what would Anthropic's lawyers take to court? You can't say because there's nothing there that couldn't be ripped apart by the least leg
48.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
The baker stole 100% of the flour to make the bread. He also stole the water and the salt and the yeast and the heat for his oven. What he didn't steal was the time he put into crafting a recipe for bread and the time he sat around wai
49.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
OpenAI says they're not just distillation. "Some observations on Kimi: 1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that." If you put any faith in c
50.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
The US subsidized its EV industry with about $120B over the last 15 years, and that's what they gave out despite congress expecting $300B in their reporting just a few years ago. So, it's not like China threw hundreds of billions
51.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
The upfront costs are actually a lot higher, but still absolutely trivial in the big picture. OpenAI pulled in $120,000,000,000 in one round of fundraising and they're closing in on $200,000,000,000 total. Even at 1 billion dollars,
52.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
OpenAI said it: "I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation" They know it's real effort that's doing this well, not just "copying off someone else's test." It's real and
53.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
Webkit started as a fork of KDE's KHTML and KJS. It makes good sense.
54.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
When a vendor bundles their own code with Webkit, it's quite easy for that vendor's code to have it's own security vulnerabilities, yes commonly in the UI, but also to open security vulnerabilities in Webkit. There's als
55.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
Launches are not $74M. That's retail pricing. SpaceX's launch cost, the internal spend to put one Falcon 9 Starlink payload in orbit, with a return to launch site booster recovery, is about $15M. If you're going to make such
56.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
5 years is a Starlink's typical lifetime. Data center satellite lifetimes will probably be shorter. Demise sooner, replace more often. GPUs get more energy efficient every year and leaving the slower, hungrier chips up there much longe
57.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
Apple doesn't engage in that behavior against other companies? Apple doesn't abuse the legal system for business gain? Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. (1988–1994) -- Apple lost its ass on this one,
58.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
It's not scary. I received one of these letters for the DOJ vs Microsoft trial while working at Netscape and it was less scary opening it than the email from my cube mate titled "you won't believe it." The lawyers told u
59.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
>For the near future it seems that the new models will consume whatever improved hardware capacity we have. But they're not. Meta, SpaceX, Microsoft, Amazon, they're all leasing out capacity to others. If they were truly constr
60.
by asadotzler 3mo ago
Windows and Mac have billions of users.

More ›