benterix

34 ms·

721.
by benterix 2y ago
There was a time when Zucerkberg was popular? His platform once was, but not its founder. There even was a movie on how he cheated others.
722.
by benterix 2y ago
> designed around filling in the implementations for you. 20 years ago that would have been from a live online database This reminds me a bit of PowerBuilder (or was it PowerDesigner?) from early 1990s. They sold it to SAP later, I was t
723.
by benterix 2y ago
> the whole conflict is about NATO offering the possibility of membership to Ukraine This is what Putin says now. The actual reasons are clearly spelled out in the article published by TASS after Putin started the invasion: https:/
724.
by benterix 2y ago
I believe the part of the reason why Russians had the highest number of casualties in WWII was the fact that Stalin didn't care about the lives of his citizens and send men to fight in thousands, with another row shooting the ones who
725.
by benterix 2y ago
> NATO has continued to expand NATO is not a living organism that expands. It is composed of free countries who can join it if the rest agrees (the rest didn't agree on Georgia or Ukraine). Whenever a country like Finland or Sweden
726.
by benterix 2y ago
Before Putin decided to start the war with Ukraine in 2014, the citizens of both countries used to visit the other one very often. There were many Russian tourists in Crimea. The families definitely were not "torn apart" - not eve
727.
by benterix 2y ago
But Russia already tried monarchy and it didn't end too well, for similar reasons it ended in France - arrogant rulers not caring for their people.
728.
by benterix 2y ago
As all hypothetical questions about the past, it's hard to say. From the PoV of a common citizen, people were as poor before the revolution as after it. Also, the rise of Stalin and WWII add enormous noise to the equation. In any case,
729.
by benterix 2y ago
I'm sorry, what you say makes zero sense in the light of Russians killing Ukrainians, it's just plain old imperialism pure and simple.
730.
by benterix 2y ago
I wonder where all these Russian intellectuals sparking social changes are now? Their country needs them, the world needs them.
731.
by benterix 2y ago
> Solzhenitsyn There is an interesting quote by him (regarding the so-called "NATO's expansion"): "This was especially painful in the case of Ukraine, a country whose closeness to Russia is defined by literally millio
732.
by benterix 2y ago
> it's a brazen display of power. It's a brazen display of what they themselves consider power and the rest of the world consider stupidity.
733.
by benterix 2y ago
They have no choice at all. And that's one of many tragic aspects of the situation.
734.
by benterix 2y ago
Frankly, OpenAI efforts seem quite funny for me personally as for most tasks I do Claude is far superior and yet OpenAI behaves as if they were the only game in town. The so-called open source models are getting better and better and even i
735.
by benterix 2y ago
It is not a good analogy because services like Facebook, Amazon, Instagram depend on a critical mass of users (sellers, content sharers, creators, etc.). With SaaS this is not a crucial component as the service is generated by software, not
736.
by benterix 2y ago
Anyone using a hardware firewall with apple devices explicitly balcklisting Apple's IP address range? If so, any interesting issues to watch for?
737.
by benterix 2y ago
Really? I mean, I don't know a single person in real life who believes all this corporate bs. We know there must be a mission because this is the current business culture taught during MBA courses and everybody accepted it as a matter
738.
by benterix 2y ago
Come one, people are not that stupid.
739.
by benterix 2y ago
> After reading about o3's performance I heard that people still believing in OpenAI hype exist but I haven't met any IRL.
740.
by benterix 2y ago
> yet it's worse than Claude in practice For most tasks - but not all. I normally paste my prompt in both and while Claude is generally superior in most aspects, there are tasks at which o1 performed slightly better.
741.
by benterix 2y ago
> It's about countries that see Russia as a threat and countries that want normal relations with Russia. It's a bit too simplified. First, I believe everybody would like to have normal relations with Russia and not to deal wit
742.
by benterix 2y ago
The topic is interesting but the ChatGPT style of presenting information as bullet points is tiring.
743.
by benterix 2y ago
> the narrative that "Russians are just victims of the regime and can't do anything about it" is already fading away. It's not a narrative, something you want to present to others in order to convince them or somethin
744.
by benterix 2y ago
The difference is as subtle as between "I will not sell you my things because you bully my colleague" vs "I hate you so I will break your things".
745.
by benterix 2y ago
I see your point but my perspective on this shifted over the years. Whatever infra you set up, whether it's the public cloud or on prem, there is always the initial cost (starting with a simple account for small orgs, a landing zone fo
746.
by benterix 2y ago
Can you provide a link to a bug report? I've been using FF on macOS for years and haven't noticed that. Maybe it's just a bug on a random site?
747.
by benterix 2y ago
> As the fortunes of AWS et al rose and rose and rose, I kept looking at their pricing at features and kept wondering what I was missing. You are not the only one. There are several factors at play but I believe one of the strongest toda
748.
by benterix 2y ago
Wait, how would that work for scammers?
749.
by benterix 2y ago
> [5 complaints about autocomplete] Maybe it's just me, but why would you want too have autocomplete for CC forms enabled? Personally, on these very rare consciously chosen occasions where I decide to give my CC number to another en
750.
by benterix 2y ago
> I don’t understand why all these comments are about who buys or doesn’t buy at Amazon. The logical connection is as follows: Bezos decided to optimize everything to its limits, including human behavior, to the very limits of law. To li

More ›