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by bambax 11mo ago
The parent isn't arguing you're not getting a good value out of the product. It says that users' contributions don't cover production costs, which may or may not be true but doesn't have much to do with how much val
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by bambax 11mo ago
Europe should certainly increase its defense spending (and actual capabilities). But the reason NATO exists isn't just to please Europe. The US have a direct interest in containing Russia; I don't think they can afford to simply s
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by bambax 11mo ago
The general problem is the US are a bully and Europe just caves, always. We should put up a serious fight. Block all US imports, starting with tech, and see what happens. Who cares if we sell less champagne??!?
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by bambax 11mo ago
Nobody was ever prohibited from coming to the office. If you like it, do it. But forcing people to come to the office when they hate it, is counter-productive.
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by bambax 11mo ago
You don't need openrouter if you already have everything set up in your own AWS environment. But if you don't, openrouter is extremely straightforward, just open an account and you're done.
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by bambax 11mo ago
But don't you need some kind of AI to filter out the replies? And if you do, isn't it simpler to just use a local model for everything, instead of having a local AI proxy?
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by bambax 11mo ago
I like Google Search for simple searches and still use it all the time. But for "complex" searches that are more like research, ChatGPT is actually pretty good, and provides actual, working links whereas Gemini seems to hallucinat
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by bambax 11mo ago
openrouter.ai does exactly that, and it lets you use models from OpenAI as well. I switch models often using openrouter. But, talk to any (or almost any) non-developer and you'll find they 1/ mostly only use ChatGPT, sometimes onl
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by bambax 11mo ago
The problem with ads in AI products is, can they be blocked effectively? If there are ads on a side bar, related or not to what the user is searching for, any adblock will be able to deal with them (uBlock is still the best, by far). But if
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by bambax 11mo ago
But does "formally verified code" really go in the same bag as "normalized database" and ensuring data integrity at the database level? The former is immensely complex and difficult; the other two are more like sound eng
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by bambax 11mo ago
Came here to ask the same question. How do they benefit from showing less videos? I don't get it.
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by bambax 11mo ago
I still don't understand why Google gets such a bad rep. I think it's fine. And about AI "summarizing" web results: while sometimes useful, you absolutely need to check the source. AI can make stuff up, and it can also s
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by bambax 11mo ago
I unsubscribed from Spotify six months ago and didn't look back. Navidrome works extremely well.
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by bambax 11mo ago
Jellyfin is quite good.
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by bambax 11mo ago
Yes there should be something like a "mechanical license". Content owners would set their own price but it would be the same for everyone and they shouldn't have the power to pick their licensees.
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by bambax 11mo ago
Yep. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=exponentially%...
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by bambax 11mo ago
Ok yes "exponentially" was hyperbolic. Mass scales linearly with volume, but volume is proportional to the cube of the radius (not linear). Also, in practice, small imperfections can have a disproportionate impact on the resistanc
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by bambax 11mo ago
Yes, using carbon fiber was also a very bad decision; it was known for a very long time that it was only good for single-use sub, because after the first dive it was too damaged to continue. In 2014, Virgin Oceanic, which had similar plans
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by bambax 11mo ago
Cameron did several TV interviews about the Titan, why would they redact his name? He didn't mince his words either; he was extremely critical of the whole thing before and after the disaster.
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by bambax 11mo ago
The number of stupid decisions that went in the design and construction of the Titan is astonishing. One of my favorites was that, after putting on the carbon fiber around the tube, they would sand imperfections to make the surface perfectl
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by bambax 11mo ago
It's a bad situation allright, but sucking up to Trump even more isn't going to make things better. Europe needs to grow a pair, help Ukraine way more, and be prepared to fight Russia sooner rather than later. In France recently t
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by bambax 11mo ago
Yes! Maybe that's the whole point of poetry, to bypass defenses and speak "directly to the heart" (whatever said heart may be); and maybe LLMs work just like us.
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by bambax 11mo ago
Yeah, I had a semi-popular extension on MV2 that I didn't migrate to MV3 and let die -- not worth the hassle IMHO, and I didn't want to be part of that move anyway, which was as user-hostile as they come (all in the name of "
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by bambax 11mo ago
Google Plus was insanely disastrous. And there was a guy, generally well respected, who was in charge of search I think? who went around advocating for Google Plus on forums, and people responding: if one needs Google Plus to find things, d
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by bambax 11mo ago
Well said. I use AI often, but I don't want it "in" any other tool. It's annoying and in my experience, tools get worse the more "intelligent" they try to be. They get in your way and become unpredictable. I wa
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by bambax 11mo ago
> bring back the Greasemonkey way of doing things Greasemonkey still works great, no?
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by bambax 11mo ago
I too was expecting a small iPhone. But this giant sock is hilarious. What are they thinking.
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by bambax 11mo ago
This month I wrote a small Windows utility to keep a PC "always awake": prevents the PC from going to sleep (using a Windows API that exists just for that) and simulates invisible mouse movements every 60 seconds to keep apps like
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by bambax 1y ago
> Don’t Die! Why the f* not. My in-laws are over 95. They refuse to go to an elderly home and as a result make everyone miserable, starting with themselves and inflicting infinite suffering on their children who each have a family of t
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by bambax 1y ago
Could be wrong, but the photo of Steve Jobs at the top of the article looks AI. Disturbing suspicion.

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