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by brookst 4mo ago
When you’ve eliminated all possible explanation, it’s time to pack it in.
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by brookst 4mo ago
If patents can’t be granted to an AI inventor, I don’t see how such AI “inventions” could be used as prior art.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Might want to google “pump and dump”. Serious non-sequitur here.
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s fine to use em-dashes — just be srre to add typos.
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by brookst 4mo ago
“Make Trump look good” and “control the strait using whatever means necessary” are not compatible. I agree they can’t make him look good. And I guess we’re agreeing the mission was not actually to control the strait in as a critical militar
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by brookst 4mo ago
So no purchasing a warranty or service contract?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Goods / services. You probably need a relationship to use a warranty. The tension is that digital goods are somewhere between. Especially when the delivery mechanism is streaming, and/or DRM keys that need to be renewed. Sure, ma
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by brookst 4mo ago
TIL I don’t own my thoughts :(
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by brookst 4mo ago
Look for tech laggards in general. The local supermarket chain that has a POS from 1987, the car dealership that hasn’t modernized, etc. There are plenty of small/medium businesses that are not tech-forward, and where even SOTA from 20
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by brookst 4mo ago
And ultimately the motivation for those contributions just doesn’t matter, except to those who like to anthropomorphize company and argue about their souls.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Do you really think the US military was given orders to control the strait, and couldn’t? It showed limits for sure. But the limits were bluster without the will to follow through (and accept the consequences). It’s a political and diplomat
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by brookst 4mo ago
Hard to see that as an indictment of military capability when it is so overwhelmingly a reflection of political incompetence.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Well if they are posting fraudulent benchmarks, that's a good sign to invest in their IPO. It's pure downside protection: IPO does well, profit. IPO does poorly, concrete evidence of pre-IPO fraud. I personally don't think it
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by brookst 4mo ago
The iPhone mini was reasonably successful; it shipped more units than Framework has in the life of the company (about 15m iPhone minis based on reports of if being ~4% of iPhone 12 and 13 sales, vs hard to find estimates of Framework but no
525.
by brookst 4mo ago
The EU is nothing but capricious and arbitrary. Much of the DMA and similar is pure vibes that you can't know if you violated until the regulators do their divinations months or years after you shipped.
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by brookst 4mo ago
The ideas are debatable but generally correct. The EU's problem is that regulation stops at the ideas, and it is intentionally designed so to be impossible to ensure compliance in advance. So the regulation is really after the fact and
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by brookst 4mo ago
It would only be ironic of you assume those same people who thing the EU over-regulates also support this US government regulation. It's N=1, but I believe both that the EU approach discourages investment and innovation in the EU,
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s going to be very interesting. Has Slate identified an under-served market? Will they see mainstream success? Or is this another iPhone Mini / Framework / sports wagon where a small, passionate minority ends up disappointed an
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s an amusing conspiracy theory, but I don’t get it. Are you thinking Apple is leaking that there will be a long wait for much more expensive chips in order to… what?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Where did you get 55% from? iPhone and Mac gross margins behave been 40% or so for years IIRC.
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by brookst 4mo ago
And/or if the debt was for something useful. There’s nothing wrong with running up massive low-interest debt if it’s invested in high-return projects. I’ll borrow every cent anyone will lend me at 2% if there’s a 4% savings account han
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by brookst 4mo ago
Their costs do not scale linearly with revenue. Inference is expensive, but it's a variable cost. Anthropic's overall costs include massive fixed costs in training, which are the same regardless of usage. It's easy to falsify
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by brookst 4mo ago
In addition to being the sole inventors of lightning (the connector), which directly informed the USB-C spec based on learnings from field use. Apple doesn't get solo credit for USB-C, but they were certainly essential to it. Just comp
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by brookst 4mo ago
C API was a shortcut. Extensive use of C was a sign of a lazy programmer who wouldn't send the time to write in assembly, which was much more efficient and performant.
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by brookst 4mo ago
I’m old and I don’t recall FOSS being about truly free, truly open, just not for some categories of use. In fact I seem to recall FOSS advocates denouncing licenses that put limits on who could use the software or for what purpose. This “it
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by brookst 4mo ago
You wouldn’t steal a car!
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s an intentionally misleading title, using “you” to imply that the reader is guilty of theft. An honest title would be “Corgi didn’t vibe code it, they stole Papermark’s AGPL code”. Sure, people should read links, but when a writer posts
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by brookst 4mo ago
Oh! Are you a 100% human programmer willing to write in your contracts that you accept full liability for all impacts of any bugs in your code? Do you buy professional insurance, or just write completely perfect code?
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by brookst 4mo ago
It sucks, but it comes from the learning that when you do provide specific explanations it’s really just coaching chronic abusers how to get around bans. The collateral damage of legit users who accidentally tripped the detection algorithm
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by brookst 4mo ago
It depends whether OP is making a grandiose and principled stand rejecting the entire AI industry, the billionaires who control our society, and the complete sham that capitalism has become… or just wants to build an app without worrying ab

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