basilgohar

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by basilgohar 4mo ago
This will only result in the abuse of the populous by the powerful, not right or left. Right and left are illusions that are at best distractions from the powerful class asserting their interests to the detriment of the lower classes. That&
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by basilgohar 4mo ago
You're comparing apples to oranges. Claude is a frontend overall product name, GPT5.5 is a specific model. Which model within Claude's offerings are you referring to? Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, or something else?
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Based on what? They haven't even IPOed.
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Just curious, but what's the basis for this claim? I've heard it a lot. But I feel like this in itself is a political statement more than one rooted in sound facts.
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Bringing up the highest-crime city as an example is using a well-known outlier tp prove a point. Is that valid in this context? I think Flock cameras are being used not just in high-crime areas, but in many places. One would have to determi
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
It's a very specific use case. This model can generate 1 minute videos of what is essentially a streaming game scene.
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Sometimes the issues emerge later. The code doesn't scale well, it has subtle bugs that crop-up later, it doesn't handle edge cases well. Basically, it answers the immediate issue well, but it is poorly engineered and hence, why
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Tyranny comes and goes, and sometimes just changes shape and serves some more than others, and that gives the illusion to those it serves that it's gone. It's always been around in some form or another.
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Windows XP's desktop rendered as a web page is snappier.
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Jewish people live peacefully in Palestine for centuries before the Zionists came from Europe. What's absent from your comment entirely is the humanity and rights of the Palestinians whose presence the Israelis deny entirely. This is w
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Finding myself in the awkward position of defending Saudi Arabia here, but this is not at all a consensus of the political analysis community. Relying on statements by the Trump administration as proof of this makes it even more spurious. T
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
When your opponent in an argument is this disconnected from reality, that's when you realizing engaging rationally is fruitless. This is just hasbara propaganda and Zionist lies and it has no place in a civil discussion.
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by basilgohar 5mo ago
Archival is easy but copyright and IP law gets in the way. If we removed obstacles to making information accessible, it would lead to less concentration of power.
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
I've found it helps to tell how to push back. You get to know where the additional guidance is needed after using it for a while.
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
Thank you for this. I somehow never heard of this. I thoroughly enjoyed reading that and the loss of sanity it resulted in,
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
Thank you both for sharing your lived experience as well as concrete examples for understanding. I, like I am sure many others, live a richer life knowing what others are going through and how I can make tiny adjustments, even if it's
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
I think it's important for leadership to clearly define what right is in these cases, too, otherwise, you get as many ddefinitions of "right" as you have people, times, and places. Easy to say, but it's a real human cost
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
Why is the top comment criticising a geek for being a geek? He gave us a wealth of information including his exact methodology and queries on how he produced his results. This is an ideal approach. You want just results and "trust me,
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
He could have gotten it when it was still cheap.
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
We need more of this, not less. This is Hacker News. He gave us exactly what we need to know to exactly replicate his results.
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
Why are employers so incompetent to just believe and cargo cult any business trend to come along? Shouldn't they do research first before making wide, sweeping changes in work policy? I know I'm shouting into the void, but serious
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
You can dispute but you're still wrong. The majority of people under Islamic rule historically were non-Muslims but were afforded far greater rights than other societies, such as freedom or worship, protection, the right to their own l
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
There are no Islamic countries. All Muslim-majority countries remain power structures intended to maintain the power of the powerful and use Islam as part of their means to do so. To call them otherwise or label them Islamic is fruitless. W
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
It can be difficult, but many politicians are now running on explicitly anti-AIPAC and anti-Zionist campaigns. An example of this. Politicians are still politicians, and what a politician DOES is far more important than what one says. http
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
I'm willing to have my leader take some of the blame for this as well. I think the decisions of the leader of the what's still the largest economy of the world likely has an outsized impact on the rest of the world too. It's
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
This is really disturbing to hear as I've incorporated B2 into a lot of my flow for backups as well as a storage backend for Nextcloud and planned as the object store for some upcoming archival storage products I'm working on. I k
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by basilgohar 6mo ago
The job market under our Great Leader has taken away a lot of this agency. Software engineers have gone from having the pick of the market for themselves to becoming (perceived as) next to disposable.
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by basilgohar 7mo ago
And then the government gets official, explicit, intimate knowledge of everything we do online. With our express permission now.
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by basilgohar 7mo ago
Nothing good is going to be solved by expanding law enforcement's power, reach, or lightening any existing restrictions. We are not suffering from crimes due to lack of law enforcement's legal scope. It's quite the opposite.
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by basilgohar 7mo ago
I totally understand. But I think these artificial restrictions inspire that rebellious spirit in hackers to circumvent and see what's possible.

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