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by bachmeier 6mo ago
That's a good explanation. It would make a lot of sense for them to link to it when they're asking for donations.
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> Instead, people act like they're buying in to a 50% share with their $5 and then act like they cofounded the project forever after the donation. You've twisted the timing. My comment is about "Give me money." "
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
I've been using Thunderbird for decades, I've donated in the past, and am likely to donate again. With that out of the way, the lack of transparency as to what happens to my money kills the incentive to donate. "How will my g
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
In the US. And that's only because when Activision makes a digital "sale" they have no legal obligation to follow through and give you what they promised.
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> I never understood why meta decided to join the race. I can think of at least two reasons. Price and customizability. If they train their own models on their own data, they potentially have a better model at a better price, and they&#x
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
I think it's been clear from the beginning that the per-token price of usage was far below what it will be when firms have implemented their profit-maximizing price plans. "AI winter" will happen when these firms start maximi
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
I'm happy I invested in setting up Codex CLI and getting it to work with ollama. For the toughest jobs I can use Github Copilot (free as an academic) or Gemini CLI. If we see the per token price increase 5x or 10x as these companies mo
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
Yeah, here's what Bezos wrote. I seriously doubt it ends with the opinion section: > I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages...We are going to be writing every day in support of defense of two pillars:
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> We're fine, the trick is to remember to GET OFF THE INTERNET and remember that reality isn't the same as the Internet. That works fine, except in the cases where the bad news reflects reality, or understates how bad the reali
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
So is there something I can take from that table if I have a 24 GB video card? I'm honestly not sure how to use those numbers.
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> Fairly straightforward but a ton of bitch work. The LLM blasted through it like it was nothing. One might argue that this is a substitute for metaprogramming, not software developers.
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> Using a coding agent seems quite low skill to me. I agree if that's all you can do. Using a coding agent to complement a valuable domain-specific skill is gold.
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
I agree with your conclusion, but that's by design. The goal is not to tell people the truth (how would they even do that). The goal is to give the answer that would have come from the training data if that question were asked. And the
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
That's probably true to some extent, but I'm not completely on board. > 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Television and calculators
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by bachmeier 7mo ago
> Why is that argument always applied against Linux, and never against for instance macOS, which also can't run Windows software? There's a certain type of technical user that gets joy from coming up with arguments, good, bad,
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by bachmeier 7mo ago
Another day in the post-copyright world. Surely someone somewhere is already using this to test the effect of copyright laws, should we decide to go back to that world.
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by bachmeier 7mo ago
My interpretation is that Claude did what Knuth considers to be the "solution". Doing the remaining work and polishing up the proof are not necessary to have a solution from this perspective.
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by bachmeier 7mo ago
Didn't see this until now, but it's still worth a response: > You believe that builders are this nefarious cabal. No, calling them profit maximizers has nothing to do with them being a "nefarious cabal". When folks co
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by bachmeier 7mo ago
> I could see a company setting a 6-month timeline initially, so they can reevaluate the program and choose how to evolve their support for open source. There's nothing about this "for open source". This is for the celebri
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
> You can sell a bigger house for 600k, or a 35% smaller house for 425k, odds are you’ll sell the bigger house quicker. Yes, and that's the point I was making in my comment. What's driving the price gap is that you're sell
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
> No wonder it a builder has to build something over 2000 SQFT to make it pencil out. I'm with you up until that. Maybe there are places where you have to build over 2000 sf due to regulations. For the most part, this is an industry
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
If you visit the Mozilla website right now, you will see "Break free from big tech — our products put you in control of a safer, more private internet experience."
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
Yes, in the same way it's hard for Tim Cook to not run his company on Windows 11.
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
This is a good example of why it's insane that nobody at Mozilla cares that they hire CEOs that have only a LinkedIn page. If you want to visit the website of the Mozilla CEO, you have to create an account and log in. No big deal if it
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
Time for folks to familiarize themselves with Linux distros designed to run on older hardware. My 2009 laptop runs great, with the exception of the browser. Oh and the fact that 32-bit software is harder and harder to find.
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
> It is correct. Just because your livelihood might hinge on a specific project doesn't mean that its developers have any obligation to accept your patches. I think you responded to the wrong comment, since I didn't say anythin
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
> Open source is a no-strings-attached gift, and all participants should recognize it as such. I've always felt this is incorrect. First, because lots of people use open source to further their careers, it isn't. Open source co
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
Years ago, I tried the hot new Linux distribution. I tried to install a couple of popular packages, but they failed, due to lacking a dependency. I installed that dependency and it worked. It's natural to file a bug report for this typ
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
> a non-trivial percentage of SF Bay Area techies have a shot at financial independence (let's say, $10M in the bank) You can become financially independent in most parts of the US. You definitely do not need $10M. $1.5M is enough.
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by bachmeier 8mo ago
This is, like, the most ironic comment ever posted on HN. An article about cat nutrition could hit the front page and the Rust fanbois would hijack the conversation. In this case, however, Walter was not the one that brought up D. He was re

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