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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
I’ve been working in digital rights and advocacy for years. High rhetoric isn’t how you change things, it’s long-term commitment to meaningful action that must be sustained or it will falter. My annoyance is that I’ve had this discussion a
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
In the age of SaaS I’ll take it. It’s not like I have a few million dollars to pay for training even if I had all the code and data.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Same, and it’s pretty good. Not sure what the complaints are as I only use the text only version.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Never underestimate the willingness of people to have others suffer for their ideals.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Because I’m in the same market now and they are my competitors so I can’t monetize my work at cost if somebody else is taking my labor for free and undercutting me on price. These aren’t hard concepts.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Yes.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Also, that code tends to be proof of concept, full of bugs, and never audited or used in production. Academic peer review doesn’t include code review.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Cool, I’ll send you my land lords banking info so you can pay my rent, the info for my kids childcare, and where to contribute to my retirement account. Also, for what it’s worth, I’ve forgone millions of dollars in compensation over the ye
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
There’s no greater certainty than rolling your own and building your own stack. If you want perfect reliability, use the standard library of a language and nothing else. It’s actually possible. Ironically, the best open source projects are
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Deserve? They are asking $700 up front and then $24/mo just to keep it working. MKBHD job is not to do PR for tech companies, it’s to tell his viewers if they should spend their hard earned cash in a product. Humane shipped dog shit a
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Pay up or roll your own. Nobody owes you free labor.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
As somebody who pulled down an open source project I find this trope of FOSS losing its way for greed utterly disingenuous. People need to put food on the table, period. I’ve had people take my work and make more money from it than I have,
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
I was using it for translation with somewhat wobbly results. Would love to see a translation fine tune.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
My nearly new 48GB A6000 is basically an ancient artifact relative to the exploding size of MoE requirements.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
100% agree, just saying there’s more art and other amenities than people realize. Also, one of the genuinely friendliest places I’ve ever lived. The weather is bad enough that I consider it basically uninhabitable if you have seasonal dep
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
I didn’t say there are any. If you want to clear $1M/year enshittifying the last remains of the internet this is Mecca. There’s truly no other place you can have a pick of such a wide variety of social parasites to work for.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
DC is pretty upright in general, whereas I believe Philly is a very loose place. Philly definitely has more of a creative class than DC, but there’s still things happening in DC.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
And where, exactly, do all these bay area artists live? The other cities all have some sort of semi livable areas for artists, SF has nothing to offer in that regards. Likewise, people in South Bay lack the sophistication to appreciate anyt
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
If you want to work for a big aimless Megacorp, or one of their pets (Anthropic, OpenAi, etc), sure come to Silicon Valley. Make damn sure you get a nice cut of equity on top of the salary. Otherwise, the cost of living is ample reason to
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Exactly, Pittsburgh PA checks all those boxes with a fraction of cost of living and crime. Also, way way way more artists - because they can afford to live there. The art scene in the bay is actually really bad.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Yes, and everything is super context dependent. The optimizations one would apply to say, a search engine, versus a web mail interface, are quite distinct.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Yup, the biggest class of assets in SV are boring single family homes owned by multimillionaires. Once you take the proximity to offices out of the picture the SV property bubble pops. Make the drones come in a few days a week and the asse
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Scale.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
I’m not alleging anything, this is internal stuff that came out. It’s impossible to roll your own for a very long list of reasons that go back to the late 90s.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Yes and GNI was always an attempt by the wolf to curry favor with the sheep, they act like it’s some sort of grant but it’s always been about controlling narrative. Journalists aren’t dumb either, talk to anybody who directly got one or was
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Google has thoroughly rigged the space, including manipulating bid stream data to underpay publishers while overcharging the advertiser. It’s called Project Bernake which is public now. I have it on reliable sources there is a lot more beyo
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
The link tax is a red herring and a poor understanding on the part of legislators. The real issue is pre-adtech publishers kept 100% of ad revenue and double click now takes a massive cut (which they briefly touch on). All that cash flowing
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
my guess is mistral is so good for its size because they are doing some real precise pre ingestion selection and sorting. You need FTS to do that work.
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
If you’re doing web application development the absolute first stop on performance tuning is caching static content, pre-rendering every view possible, and handling everything else with thoughtful db indexing. That’s always going to be the
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by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Fucking hell, my A6000 is shy of that and I can’t reasonably justify picking up a second.

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