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by berkes 3y ago
All my diabetes stuff is free, in my country. But it must be shipped to my house in Quarterly deliveries. Shipped in several boxes, each filled and wrapped. then the GCMs, strips, refills, pump connectors come in their own boxes. Some per t
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by berkes 3y ago
> calculated that, in the European Economic Area, around 1.5 million subscribers to the main music streaming apps—other than Apple Music—on iPhones and iPads ended up paying 2–3 euros per month more as of July 2023 and throughout the ent
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by berkes 3y ago
By changing those assumptions? Either not accepting that Apple takes a cut of competitors, or by not allowing them to compete in certain areas?
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by berkes 3y ago
> Seems very frustratingly fucking dumb? What have we done lately, on a global scale, that doesn't make us as a whole, as a species, not very frustratingly fucking dumb? We are literally strip-mining and destroying the world that is
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by berkes 3y ago
Yes. Entire IT industry is peanuts compared to what we do to produce food (meat), haul stuff around, make stuff, and haul humans around. It truly does not compare. Witch does not mean I think we can ignore any win. But GPUs that run AI (or
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by berkes 3y ago
Personally, I'd use meilisearch in your case (though, obv, I know next to nothing about all the requirements and details of your case). Stuffing everything in PG makes sense, because PG is Good Enough in most situations that one throws
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by berkes 3y ago
Depends on the goal. "Save the earth", then no; it's probably the only viable one even. But quite certainly easier than cutting carbon emissions in societies that don't want to change. "Save humans" then certai
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by berkes 3y ago
> they're a necessary inconvenience where there's no room for physical controls Hear, hear! and yet, SpaceX thought it was a good idea to make the controls in their space ships mostly touchscreens as well. Utterly insane, IMHO.
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by berkes 3y ago
TBH, if someone posted a job with the instructions "start with I am a bot", I -a human- would reply with that exact sentence. Obviously if I'm interested in the gig. They are a common "CAPTCHA" on Upwork. And it&#x2
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by berkes 3y ago
> improve to where I guess "improve on a vector we put it on". E.g. the dystopian idea of "Give AI with autonomy some power and tell it to improve itself until it can solve climate change". A nice vector. Except one w
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by berkes 3y ago
A nice way of looking at it. For one, because on that spectrum "AI is not powerful and it is unhelpful for our society" would mean we can ignore it.
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by berkes 3y ago
> is technology good or bad ... is just as unhelpful, because it suffers from the same issues that TA talks about. Is it "bad" or "good" for society, or "bad" or "good" at doing what it's supp
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by berkes 3y ago
You see an LLM as something that copies stuff. I don't. A judge will have to decide which it is. So far, they're leaning to "it's not a copy machine" Edit: and yes. I find it immoral when an author has a say in how
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by berkes 3y ago
Worse even. Because applying for a job costs credits. Which are scarce and cost actual money.
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by berkes 3y ago
But from this post, we cannot learn wether they bothered or were able to read them.
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by berkes 3y ago
I'm not saying that saying that critique on LLMS who are abusing copyleft licences is hypocritical. I'm saying that the arguments that define this "abuse" often are. What I specifically find hypocritical, we cannot sud
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by berkes 3y ago
> If I trained a LLM on leaked MS sources and built an OS or Office suite. Would MS be ok with that? Why not? If your implementation is serving back literal chunks of code, I'd presume not, and they can easily use copyright laws to
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by berkes 3y ago
I find It fascinating to see the same-ish group of people arguing that "Algorithms cannot be patented" or "information wants to be free" or "free software, free access" and such, now turning 180° and demanding
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by berkes 3y ago
Also, those laws say that remembering a song is fine. And playing it in your living room too. But that you'll have to get the licensing right if you play that song in front of an audience, in a pub or on street. At least in most countr
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by berkes 3y ago
> Pretty soon GPT-4 will not be the best in the field. The next generation will perform much better. What makes you believe that progress is linear, or at least a line forever going up? I keep seeing people predicting rapidly improving
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by berkes 3y ago
Some languages, like Afrikaans, won't loan words, and make their own up. Where in Dutch we use computer, computernetwerk or lift, in Afrikaans it is rekenaar, rekenaarstelsel and hijsbakkie. And in many languages, most famous in Dutch
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by berkes 3y ago
As per the article: this is a trust issue. Given the approximately same setup and use-case: Who do you trust more to keep encryption strong and unbroken? OFC trustless verification and such would be my ideal for a very impractical version o
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by berkes 3y ago
> Safari leads in several areas This is the first time I've ever heard someone say this. The overwelming sentiment is that safari is leagues behind, lacks features, lacks performance is has the worst standards support of all common
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by berkes 3y ago
> I try FF about every 3 months or so, but keep coming back to Chrome I don't know your specific reasons. But commonly this is just familiarity bias. That doesn't say that X is better than Y in general (it often isn't) jus
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by berkes 3y ago
It's a pity the name "Kafka" is used for a famous software already. Otherwise it would be a great name for a customer-service-chat-bot service or OSS.
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by berkes 3y ago
> to resolve issues as quickly That's only a target if it increases the bottom-line (or some column in some excel sheet). No investor-held company will ever (be able to) choose to decrease a bottom line.
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by berkes 3y ago
And when I finally get a phone number, I'm first required to listen to minutes of a recorded voice telling me that I can also find X or do Y on the website. Or that it's exceptionally busy now and I'd be better helped sending
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by berkes 3y ago
Who is complaining that software gets worse and that quality is dropping? And, more importantly, do they offer any data to back that up? Or do they, like I do, anecdotally complain that slack eats all my memory to do stuff that we could do
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by berkes 3y ago
It might be a bubble I've been pulled in long ago. But I get a lot more content in general on vim/nvim. I've tried a few times to move to emacs. Partly FOMO (I might be missing out, by sticking with vim/nvim). But found
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by berkes 3y ago
Why?

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