benrutter

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by benrutter 9d ago
> Also, I gotta say I do not think Bitcoin is a bubble or whatever (IMO a real value there) It's worth saying something with real value can still have a bubble - both bicycles and the internet were huge market bubbles at one time, b
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by benrutter 11d ago
Yeah, that's a really good point that I hadn't really considered. Although, maybe the same argument stands? If X's lockdown leads to less users, then doesn't that translate to less control over the information landscape
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by benrutter 11d ago
> How do I opt out? Linux I guess? Seriously though, I'm in the same boat. I think the curse of big products is you wind up paying for 100% of the features when you only want 10% of them.
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by benrutter 11d ago
I agree, but also, it gets kinda messy here because Musk's "free speech" purchase if twitter was based on his understanding that Twitter not publishing content they deemed inflammatory or misinform was a violation of free spe
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by benrutter 11d ago
> My point is: companies stop making your product suck, and people won't have a reason to try and fix it for you. Boy this would be nice! X have obviously decided that using the law to take down people fixing its issues is more prof
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by benrutter 11d ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but it's worth pointing out that most businesses outside of tech don't operate a "build a monopoly then bleed it dry" model, and are a lot nicer for it, while stil
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by benrutter 16d ago
A lot of stuff showing its folding allowing you to "use it as a bedtime clock" - have apple done any kind if battery use trickery to make this a non-battery-draining thing to do? Or maybe I'm overestimating how much battery a
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by benrutter 19d ago
> I'm not sure how to translate this to the smartphone market though. Fairphone and LaJolla seem to do well in this regard though so back to brand reputation for a lot of this. I'm not here with a silver bullet or anything, but
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by benrutter 23d ago
> There's no way SQL is more unreadable than polars. IMO it's the other way around. I think on basic queries, SQL is really nice, but when stuff gets more complex, with a bunch of CTEs, let alone functions requiring loops, it b
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by benrutter 23d ago
> We don’t aim to make a big feature release of Polars 2.0. In fact we hope it to be a boring experience for you. The reason we bump this major version is that we can get rid of design decisions made in the past that currently block us a
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by benrutter 25d ago
I don't stream and buy all my music (aside from radio etc), I get music from: - Bandcamp (for new music) - Second hand CDs for charity shops and discogs (for older music) - Quoboz / Amazon (for new music not on bandcamp or somethi
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by benrutter 25d ago
> Borrowing Disesdi's logic in their arithmetic (which is hard to argue against), after four years of open source LLMs, we should have three AirBnBs,1 two Stripes,2 and three Dropboxes3 thanks to the power of AI. > > So. Where
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by benrutter 29d ago
> There's evidence of global warming. There's no evidence of a climate catastrophe. This is a ridiculous requirement to suggest. CO2 lasts around 100 years, waiting until your satisfied of "evidence of catastrophe" is
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by benrutter 1mo ago
> Yet at least in my social circle, I don't really hear anyone pining for an 'artisan internet'. It definitely is a thing at least, to pine for the "small web" [0]. I think as well, dissatisfaction with major soc
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by benrutter 1mo ago
I don't really seem to be sent very much unfiltered AI output - do other people? I'd love to hear horror stories.
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by benrutter 1mo ago
Да, тоа изгледа како среќна средина.
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by benrutter 1mo ago
Wearing a Casio as I type this. The "24hr" button switches 12/24 modes on the "watch" mode, when using stopwatch it starts the watch, and when using alarms it turns the alarm on/off. It has pretty critical func
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by benrutter 1mo ago
It's worth stating plainly: It's not just a common occurrence, it's a load bearing feature of modern tech writing. Full stop.
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by benrutter 1mo ago
> The one kind of physical shop I really miss is the kind of place where you can buy one screw, nail or picture hook etc. So much agreement! I have a bunch of obscure parts like 99 wooden dowels from when I needed one and had to buy 100.
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by benrutter 1mo ago
> I'd rather read some well written LLM text over some poorly written human effort I think it depends a bit what's meant by "poorly" but I don't think I share that preference at all. I would 100% rather read a de
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by benrutter 1mo ago
I'm really curious how other codeforges are faring. I only use codeberg and github - codeberg seems to have less outages, especially for a much smaller organisation, but they've recently removed support for LLM projects which coul
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by benrutter 1mo ago
> The article rests on the claim that water usage of data centers on continent X threaten water availability for humans on continent Y. I don't want to start too much of an off-topic thread within an already off-topic thread, but th
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by benrutter 1mo ago
It gets a little weird when you start thinking of AI like that, because AI is very corporately based in the US and China, but not as heavily that when from a talent position. Demis Hassabis and Google's Deep Mind are all British in ter
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by benrutter 1mo ago
This is a great article, I feel like I think of this a lot when I build something new. The tricky bit I think though, is deciding what actually is boring, since really we should factor complexity in too. I work a lot with data in python,
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by benrutter 1mo ago
I'm really interested by what notifications people have toggled. I only ever have text messages and whatsapp (urgh, I know!) enabled and don't get a huge amount of notifications during the day to distract me. Do other people have
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by benrutter 1mo ago
That sounds like a cool project! Did you write it up anywhere at all? (or have any plans to?)
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by benrutter 1mo ago
Yeah, I agree - I think smart watches haven't yet evolved out of just being a fun tech gadget. If you just want a timer, I'd recommend just getting a cheap digital watch - you can get a casio for like 20 euros/dollars/po
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by benrutter 2mo ago
To give him credit, it's amazing that Mark Zuckerberg managed to take an easily defensible position like "we shouldn't allow AI to be owned by a couple of tech monopolies" and still manage to find so many individual po
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by benrutter 2mo ago
I like that theory, if I was going to counter it though, I'd say that I'm not sure those features match what language users talk about. For instance: - C: Users often praise the simplicity of the language - C++: Users often praise
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by benrutter 2mo ago
> In general, I don't think you can argue definitively on the uselessness of a piece of knowledge from a standpoint of ignorance of that knowledge. I agree, I think those things are definitely worthwhile learning. But I don't

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