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by briandear 1y ago
The normal Gemma models seem to work fine on Apple silicon with Metal. Am I missing something?
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by briandear 1y ago
This is awesome. I hope I can figure out how to do this for MotoGP
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by briandear 1y ago
Soulless cheap Muzak already exists and has for a long time. Any musician these days that thinks there is money in music by selling songs is delusional. Sad but true.
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by briandear 2y ago
Fairly biased article: “In 2018, he celebrated Lula’s imprisonment in Brazil on dubious corruption charges, and the following year exulted in the right-wing coup that deposed Evo Morales in Bolivia. Since then he has voiced his support for
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by briandear 2y ago
Then when they unionize, all the software jobs will head to cheaper locales. Unless of course you’re suggesting that the U.S. use tariffs on labor to prevent that?
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by briandear 2y ago
> We don't want a corporate, faceless box store coming in with no stake in our community. Who is “we?” If the community wants Washington General, then they’ll shop there. If they want the lowest possible prices, they’ll shop at Doll
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by briandear 2y ago
Building everything shouldn’t be the goal, however, having a strategic capability shouldn’t be overlooked either. There is also the question of supply chain resilience. Covid taught us that the whims of governments can choke up the entire s
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by briandear 2y ago
The EU should work on building things and not trying to regulate things to death.
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by briandear 2y ago
Aquarius is huge in Catalonia as well.
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by briandear 2y ago
For real. This is the best thing I’ve seen on HN in a long time. My kids are very into these card collections/games and I told them about it and they thought it was a great idea to put “normal” people on these cards. Super great story
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by briandear 2y ago
The average person doesn’t care about this. The ones complaining about “influence” are the ones in power who don’t want that power threatened. Our motorcycle racing group in Spain — they’re all on Insta and WhatsApp and perfectly fine about
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by briandear 2y ago
So that prevents censorship? Seems like anything critical of the government would not be allowed.
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by briandear 2y ago
So if Romania launches a wildly popular social media site, that’s good for Spanish sovereignty?
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by briandear 2y ago
What’s the law specifically say? Mickey Mouse and Pokemon are protected. A style or technique isn’t. As far as the U.S., have you been to China or Korea and evaluated their views on IP?
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by briandear 2y ago
For the downvotes: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf “Copyright does not protect • Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, or discoveries” Not sure why this is even controvers
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by briandear 2y ago
Ghibli isn’t a character, but a style. You can’t copyright it.
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by briandear 2y ago
Style can’t be copyrighted. It can’t be patented either. When Wes Anderson makes films that use techniques from the French New Wave that he didn’t invent is that wrong? When there is a DaVinci color profile that resembles what they did in S
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by briandear 2y ago
How many successful business founders have never failed?
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by briandear 2y ago
Is this a thought held by any serious person? The only major country to indefinitely postpone an election recently has been Ukraine. This idea that the midterms wouldn’t be held is tin foil nonsense.
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by briandear 2y ago
Apparently much of the rest of the world believes in them as well: almost every country has tariffs and had them long before Trump.
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by briandear 2y ago
The Q5 is made in Mexico.
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by briandear 2y ago
That’s may be true. But why does Vietnam have such high tariffs? They should be competitive based on their lower costs right? So it’s simple: Vietnam can eliminate tariffs on imports and the U.S. would eliminate tariffs as well.
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by briandear 2y ago
Coffee crop failures have been around as long as there have been coffee crops, this idea that current coffee could go extinct is silly. Ideal locations for growing coffee can change and evolve over time, but an extinction event? C’mon. If t
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by briandear 2y ago
It’s getting downvoted because the parent comment aligns with what Elon said about Wikipedia; so it’s a knee jerk reaction. Though the sentiment is factual. Previous discussion: (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32
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by briandear 2y ago
Why should we stop the bots? Wikipedia supposedly wants the world to have this free information, a bit is just another way of supporting that goal.
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by briandear 2y ago
This guy was an MS13 member: https://x.com/sonofhas/status/1906906503111676278?s=46
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by briandear 2y ago
More to the story: a judge in 2019 determined he was an MS13 member: https://x.com/sonofhas/status/1906906503111676278?s=46
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by briandear 2y ago
It’s “great” if you believe in their ideology.
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by briandear 2y ago
Shouldn’t a user be able to choose if they want to be tracked? Of everyone says no, I’m not sure that’s a problem — unless your business model is intrusive tracking.
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by briandear 2y ago
The advertising industry was who filed the complaint, it wasn’t a bunch of normal users. If the ad industry wasn’t so shitty, I might give them the benefit of the doubt.

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