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by bakugo 1y ago
Don't get me wrong, I do wish Mistral's models were competitive with the Chinese ones. But right now, they simply aren't, and might never be in the future. If you want the best option available while keeping your data within
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by bakugo 1y ago
Are they the best European option, though? I haven't checked, but surely there's at least a few services hosted in the EU offering DeepSeek etc inference.
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by bakugo 1y ago
Could you ask them? Sure, but good luck getting it. In theory, forcefully changing the terms of a service after payment without offering a refund should clearly not be allowed, but in practice, it very much is unless you're willing to
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by bakugo 1y ago
> I mean thats also pretty black and white as well, right? Not really. I'm not making assumptions, just recognizing the behavioral pattern after the fact. The creator of the app could've just quietly patched the issue and moved
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by bakugo 1y ago
> now here's how to fix it (he didn't tell him, he just says in his blog post "it's easy") If you're running a service that handles sensitive user data and need a third party to tell you how to update your w
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by bakugo 1y ago
> This stateless nature isn’t a bug - it’s a feature > This isn’t just about keeping a chat history - it’s about building and maintaining a model > Understanding this distinction isn’t just about getting the terminology right. It’s
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by bakugo 1y ago
Another great example is when the "Cultural Marxism" article was converted into "Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory", an entirely different article claiming that the concept of cultural marxism was actually always a &quo
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by bakugo 1y ago
Looks like it's going to take a while to come back up. > Sorry, but it's bad news: we haven't been able to restore the DB primary filesystem to a state we're confident in running as a primary (especially given our exp
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by bakugo 1y ago
Actually providing examples of real tasks given to the AI and the subsequent results would break the illusion and give people opportunities to question the hype. Can't have that. We'll just keep getting submission after submission
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by bakugo 1y ago
> but uses a community funding model instead Sadly, that model is often not sustainable for various reasons. The site recently lost a significant income stream when Patreon rugpulled their account. It was originally started to fill a pre
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by bakugo 1y ago
When companies like Google talk about a device being "secure", they don't mean secure from malicious third parties, they mean secure from the user. The device is considered "secure" if the user cannot do anything wi
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by bakugo 1y ago
> If you want an open phone, buy one. There are none that are usable.
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by bakugo 1y ago
> Plenty of experienced developers build web applications using the active record pattern. Yes, but why? Why was the "loose PHP files with no framework" pattern abandoned, but not active record, when in many ways it's a re
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by bakugo 1y ago
> it's a perfectly viable approach used by a lot of very experienced developers to build very successful applications. "Lots of people use it" doesn't make it good. Lots of people in the past have written "succes
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by bakugo 1y ago
Symfony and Laravel are fundamentally ideologically opposed. Laravel is designed from the ground up to be used by junior developers who don't care about pesky things like maintainability and scalability and just want to put out the min
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by bakugo 1y ago
> There's a reason why Laravel is more popular than Symfony. Yes, and that reason is being more beginner friendly at the cost of pretty much everything else. It's not related to overall quality at all.
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by bakugo 1y ago
> what makes you think they couldn't produce a larger, smarter, more expensive model? Because they already did try making a much larger, more expensive model, it was called GPT-4.5. It failed, it wasn't actually that much smart
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by bakugo 1y ago
> I see no fundamental limitations that would prevent further improvements How can you say this when progress has so clearly stagnated already? The past year has been nothing but marginal improvements at best, culminating in GPT-5 which
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by bakugo 1y ago
What you're doing wrong is that you're asking it for something more complicated than babby's first webapp in javascript/python. When people say things like "I told Claude what I wanted and it did it all on the first
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by bakugo 1y ago
> in the end I can access my bank from a web browser. If your bank allows you to access all features from a browser, consider yourself lucky. Mine requires the app to authorize any online transaction.
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by bakugo 1y ago
> They only match you with players nearby and its a lot of fun Must be great if you happen to live near one of the limited server locations with a high number of players queueing for casual. I don't, and casual matchmaking is comple
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by bakugo 1y ago
Maxmind's GeoIP database is the industry standard, I believe. You can download a free version of it. If your site is behind cloudflare, blocking/challenging by country is a built-in feature.
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by bakugo 1y ago
Yep, I have one of these too and the speeds on it are unbearable. It's one of the cheapest "brand name" SSDs you can get for a reason.
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by bakugo 1y ago
> I don't understand where that sentiment comes from. Human nature. Refusing to accept being told "no" by some greater force is the instinct that pushed humanity forward to where we are today.
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by bakugo 1y ago
I should've made it clear that it's not a block rule, just a challenge rule. Those people can still access the website, they just have to go through the "checking your browser" page that you're probably familiar wit
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by bakugo 1y ago
robots.txt is obviously only effective against well-behaved bots. OpenAI etc are usually well behaved, but there's at least one large network of rogue scraping bots that ignores robots.txt, fakes the user-agent (usually to some old Chr
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by bakugo 1y ago
It's more likely that the project itself will disappear into irrelevance as soon as AI scrapers bother implementing the PoW (which is trivial for them, as the post explains) or figure out that they can simply remove "Mozilla"
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by bakugo 1y ago
> To me that's profound. It implies that not only was management not concerned about the start up time, but none of the developers of the project ever used a profiler. Odds are that someone did notice it during profiling and filed
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by bakugo 1y ago
I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding the primary purpose of an ORM. It's in the name - Object Relational Mapper. It's meant to ease the mapping from SQL query results into objects in your code, and from objects back
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by bakugo 1y ago
> unless you consider it not merely self-expression but an intentional motivator for “more mature” (which not infrequently goes hand in hand with “financially able”) people to subscribe to a commercial offering I'm fairly confident

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