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by bloppe 10mo ago
Most source-available licenses that I've encountered have no paid license requirements for users . They only require a paid license if you want to sell the product commercially. Normally, you're still allowed to use the softwar
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by bloppe 10mo ago
"Open Source" can also become "Source Available" overnight. See Redis, Terraform, etc. In the same vein, "Open Source" can also become "Closed Source" overnight. In neither case does the change apply
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by bloppe 10mo ago
The BUSL license requires shifting to an open-source license no later than 4 years after publication. I'd be happy to contribute to a BUSL-licensed project knowing my contributions will shift to an MIT license within 4 years. And the o
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by bloppe 10mo ago
I don't think this needs to be banned, particularly because it wouldn't be very effective (people would just get rid of the "AI said" part), and also because anybody who actually writes a comment like that would probably
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by bloppe 10mo ago
Then maybe you've never worked in a competitive industry. I have. Margins were very small.
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by bloppe 10mo ago
Margins require a competitive edge. If productivity gains are spread throughout a competitive industry, margins will not get bigger; prices will go down.
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by bloppe 10mo ago
"Building software" is a bit too general, though. I believe "Building little web apps for my son's school" has gotten at least 10x easier. But the needle has not moved much on building something like Notion, or Supe
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by bloppe 10mo ago
Depends what you mean by stability. The post is complaining about the lack of lockfiles, and the problem you describe would also be an issue with lockfiles.
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by bloppe 10mo ago
Usually, yes. But the government can still tank the economy in all sorts of ways. It happens more frequently in some countries than others, but it can happen anywhere.
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by bloppe 10mo ago
Way less liquidity and way more administrative overhead, but sure
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by bloppe 10mo ago
While I hate defending GHA, the docs do include this: - Using the commit SHA of a released action version is the safest for stability and security. - If the action publishes major version tags, you should expect to receive critical fixes an
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by bloppe 10mo ago
Ya, I'm not a big fan of that use case, and I agree it's a problem. But I hold Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation. It tends to do better than gold, and is way easier to transact and store.
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by bloppe 10mo ago
To understand the initial arguments, look no further than the Genesis block, which includes this text: The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks In many rich countries, all signs point to nasty inflat
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by bloppe 10mo ago
It doesn't run the JVM. It's an ahead-of-time compiler that converts Java bytecode to wasm.
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by bloppe 10mo ago
If you have a pension, you're an investor in PE. If you live in a country with a sovereign wealth fund, you're a beneficiary of PE. If you're connected to a school with an endowment, a lot of that money ends up in PE funds, a
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by bloppe 10mo ago
You're right. But I'm also surprised any device manufacturer would think it's a better use of their time to ship a bespoke C compiler rather than an LLVM backend that would allow a lot more languages to be built against the
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by bloppe 10mo ago
But in your example, it sounds like representative democracy is a choice freely taken. If people actually want representatives to worry about the details of policy for them, then that is real democracy, because the alternative is a form of
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by bloppe 10mo ago
Rust compiles to LLVM IR. I'm pretty surprised that building this transpiler was considered a better use of time than writing an LLVM backend for whatever "weird embedded target" might need this.
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by bloppe 10mo ago
I agree about some criticisms of the framework. I think they could do away with the plug modules and just go all in on usb-c. I don't mind the occasional dongle for HDMI. I also would prefer a thinner screen bezel, even if that means i
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by bloppe 10mo ago
XPS 13 has snapdragon x elite and is very well built. Not sure how good Linux support is, tho. I run Linux on my Intel-based XPS 14 and it's pretty good, apart from the webcam being totally uncalibrated and looking kinda shite, but at
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I just had an edifying conversation with a recent Standford grad who was a TA, and she talked about how some huge percentage of the class has testing accommodations that allowed them to take all exams in a private room, with no supervision,
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by bloppe 11mo ago
It's not just theoretical purity. Wayland also plugs pretty big security holes in X, like the ability to implement global keyloggers.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I encourage anybody who gets the opportunity to ride the green line. It's cool that they managed to build it in a time before tunnel boring machines (by literally digging a huge, long pit, building the track, then covering it with a ro
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Would you mind sharing some of these projects? I've found Claude's usefulness is highly variable, though somewhat predictable. It can write `jq` filters flawlessly every time, whereas I would normally spend 30 minutes scanning doc
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by bloppe 11mo ago
The network effects aren't the same. All the viewers watch youtube because it has all the content, and all the creators post on youtube because it has all the viewers. How can a model achieve this kind of stickiness? By "knowing y
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by bloppe 11mo ago
The best way to drive inference cost down right now is to use TPUs. Either that or invest tons of additional money and manpower into silicon design like Google did, but they already have a 10 year lead there.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Per the post: > This can sound like nothing, but considering that Protobuf has to be converted from binary to JSON - JavaScript code uses JSON as its object literal format - it is amazing that Protobuf managed to be faster than its count
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by bloppe 11mo ago
To be fair, I would get a ton of value out of someone selling dollars for 20 cents apiece. But ya, OAI is clearly making a ton of revenue. That doesn't mean it's a good business, though. Giving them a 20 year horizon, shareholder
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I see. I guess JS is the only language with the coloring problem, then, which is strange because it's one of the few with a built-in event loop. This Io business is isomorphic to async/await in Rust or Python [1]. Go also has a bu
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by bloppe 11mo ago
In Rust, you can always create a new tokio runtime and use that to call an async function from a sync function. Ditto with Python: just create a new asyncio event loop and call `run`. That's actually exactly what an Io object in Zig is

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