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by bigyabai 2mo ago
I'm not super worried about "safety" nerfs. Most refusals can be finetuned out, it's usually not a dealbreaker for open-weight models.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
> I use iMessage because it’s quantum encrypted Woe is us, where is convincing security theater when we need it most?
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
You're reinventing the CISC wheel that Apple, Google and Nvidia all abandoned. x86 already has AVX accelerators that are a huge help for LLM inference speed and efficiency. It's just not enough, only the absolute weakest iGPUs are
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
Correct, you have just successfully identified the reason why Windows exists. Well done!
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
I don't think they're wrong. Apple is very open about their desire to depreciate legacy tech like OpenGL and HFS to promote proprietary alternatives. There's a perennial churn of "Apple depreciated my favorite feature!&q
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
> It’s not super current and not all apps work That's an enormous concession, relative to Windows or Linux.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
It depends, how much coal are you comfortable burning?
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
Boycotts can absolutely mean looking for an equivalent alternative somewhere else. If you think the mainstream is unsustainable, there's nothing wrong with supporting an alternative business model. OpenAI and Anthropic have billions
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
Concerning AI "art", the future is already here. We have AI-generated video, music and portraits, and none of them are considered a real artistic discipline. It's almost like art has inherent social qualities that get watered
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
> How it will actually play out is unknown and unknowable. I don't think that's a fair claim to make, either. AI music, AI art and even AI television is all fairly proliferate right now: https://www.polygon.com/
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
> it will use one of the many alternatives, maybe even one that's interoperable or open If the collapse of Twitter is any indication, it might just drive people to even worse and more exploitative platforms instead.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
> Basically every sentence just reeks of disgust for someone having a different opinion. I don't really get that impression. A lot of DHH's blogposts are simply delusion, and have no bearing on reality whatsoever. Posts like hi
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
It works a lot better than empty ad-hominem like calling someone a "pedo-Marxist" or "antisemite" without citation.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
> If somebody automated Devil Daggers, I would stab them in the hands with a barbeque fork. If you stab them in the hands with a fork, then they need to automate Devil Daggers to play it. Not an easy game to enjoy missing half a hand,
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
Yeah, I was going to say. I only installed KOReader because my Kindle Touch has lackluster ereader functionality.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
Intel Macs have first party Linux drivers. They're much easier to support since they just behave like any normal x86 laptop would.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
All I'm gathering from this comment is that you aren't a customer. I used it from 2021 to early 2025; service got worse over-time as more subscribers were onboarded. If you lived in a higher or lower latitude like I did, you usu
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
Hacker News is? I worked on an internal tooling team at the beginning of the Apple Silicon transition; we spent months fixing ARM runtime issues that none of our customers encountered. That company probably spent millions of dollars fixin
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
There's no conspiracy, I think people just disagree with what "funding" can mean. A bulk sale in the realm of ~20,000 units is equivalent to stakeholder funding when you're at NeXT's scale. It doesn't inherentl
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
Having used it, Starlink's entire business model seems to be rooted in handwavium. You'll almost never hit advertised speeds or latency, and there are regular outages where you get no service at all. The cost of the service fluctu
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
I think the IAEA and EAA would both agree with everything I've written. Can you link specifically to statements that you think refute me?
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
> If we want a society that values scientific progress, scientific progress must be shared. I demand a Blood Boy for all. The US healthcare system can deny you basic life-saving treatment for longer than you can demand a dignified baseli
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
The earliest incarnations of ECHELON, to my knowledge, were relatively siloed and not comparable to Israel's intelligence status at the time. FIVE EYES did not include de-facto nuclear coverups, satellite downlink control or a physical
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
America was first to torture, take hostage and kill thousands of Iranian civilians through the CIA and SAVAK. I understand completely why Iranians despise Israel and America. Why do you expect me to get angry at Iranians for using American
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
Before the M5, there was no dedicated matrix multiplication hardware on the Apple Silicon GPU. Their solution was generally using the NPU and AMX coprocessors for tensor and matrix workloads.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
The unstoppable "rewrite it in Swift!" vs the insurmountable "where's the Windows version?"
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We don't know. The CIA destroyed the documentation.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
At least 34, by the IDF's own admission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
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Of course, that's why the US wanted to buy it.
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by bigyabai 2mo ago
> Iran is a sworn enemy that has killed thousands of Americans since the 1979 revolution Do you want to include SAVAK's pre-1979 death/disappearance/torture count to help contextualize your point? Or would that undermine i

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