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by creesch 2y ago
That little snippet doesn't quite provide enough historical context for me to agree or disagree with it.
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by creesch 2y ago
You aren't even trying, are you? It is not that meaningfull within the overall annual budget of the EU. If your take that they are just doing it for the extra cash was even remotely true they'd need to fine a whole lot more compa
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by creesch 2y ago
> Here you are on the internet which America invented Oef, another poorly researched, oversimplified take on things. I'll throw you a bit of a bone, the prototype internet or the precursor to it is indeed mostly a US invention. Th
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by creesch 2y ago
Oh really? You are saying that American companies are fined to the sum of roughly €160 billion to €180 billion each year? Because that's what the EU budget is (roughly 1% of the EU GDP). The biggest ever fine was against Google and 4.
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by creesch 2y ago
Sorry, you are not really making a better case for your argument. The budget of the EU largely comes from other places. Fines like these don't even register on there meaningfully. That alone should tell you enough.
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by creesch 2y ago
That certainly is.... a take. Still a silly one if you ask me. If that were true they wouldn't fine EU companies either. Yet, that is also happening.
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by creesch 2y ago
Silly question, the EU simply has stricter privacy and data protection laws. As these came into effect relatively recently, a lot of these companies are trying to see what they can get away with. Or at the very least taking a calculated ris
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by creesch 2y ago
Not sure if you are actually dutch, but it is explained in more detail here: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/225768/uber-krijgt-van-ap-avg-bo... > Although the fine comes from the Dutch regulator, the investigatio
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by creesch 2y ago
The majority of work on Chromium is done by engineers on Google's payroll. There certainly are OSS projects out there where the majority of work is done by volunteers and where companies profit from their labor. This isn't really
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by creesch 2y ago
> with this amount of money it's hard to say it's not political. If by political you mean "aimed to be effective", then yes it is political. If the fine is too low and these companies make a healthy profit through the
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by creesch 2y ago
Consider this, the thing they fixed is something they depend on for their daily programming needs relatively often. By fixing it themselves instead of waiting for who knows how long, they are saving a lot of future time and frustration. The
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by creesch 2y ago
Sure. I should point out though that I also had many positive individual experiences with people from Mozilla. Interesting conversations and insights in various things. It is just that overall I had a few too many interactions, which would
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by creesch 2y ago
> It kinda throws the how open source and "everyone can contribute" model out the window, if you can't afford a pretty insane workstation then you're going to have a bad time. That, it also means you are going to spen
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by creesch 2y ago
Interesting to read all of this. Bugs in more obscure areas being open for years is something I am pretty familiar with, although then on the Firefox side of things. I personally never have been able to muster up the courage or energy to tr
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by creesch 2y ago
It seems that they are doing it everywhere on their website, also in most of their recently started projects. Ironically, while looking into it, I found that one of their projects seems to use generative AI to make it work. It might be beca
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by creesch 2y ago
I am not expecting novel solutions from LLMs. I purely use them as a tool in my tool belt. Some examples: Deciphering spaghetti code : LLMs generally are pretty good at picking apart code blocks and generally explaining the functional part
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by creesch 2y ago
I really don't get what people think they are getting out of it though. Other than aesthetic "vibes".
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by creesch 2y ago
Both of them are black boxes though by the author's own definition.
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by creesch 2y ago
Below you'll find the fixed version an LLM provided. I simply asked it to add uppercase letters where appropiate and split up sentences where needed. You are welcome: --- As LLMs get better and better at writing code, more and more peo
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by creesch 2y ago
What is up with these blogs that are apparently not made with the purpose of being read? Having sentences not start with uppercase letters really makes it one big mesh of letters. Certainly when they are run-on sentences only separated by c
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by creesch 2y ago
> This is borne out both by science - there is strong consensus that intelligence is highly heritable That is again a simplification of reality, leaving out a lot of context and nuance. 1. You are right that research seems to indicate th
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by creesch 2y ago
Oh boy, I don't even know where to start here. It isn't a cope, it is a more nuanced take. Your take is so black and white that it only holds up if you almost willfully ignore all other context. Obvious things like different kids
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by creesch 2y ago
Related to this, it is why when writing documentation for something, it can be extremely useful to also list the prerequisites someone needs to pick up the information in the document before them. Possibly with also linking to resources abo
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by creesch 2y ago
Very well put. Many people are very blind for this, they forget that everything they can do they at some time had to learn as well. And not everyone learns everything at the same time. Anecdotally, something I can actually confirm from pers
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by creesch 2y ago
Because at 7 you obviously also already have 7 years of experience behind you. Sure, it is not as much as an adult, but it still matters a lot. Different environments and stimuli make it so that also for 7-year-olds, they can have vastly di
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by creesch 2y ago
Not entirely, depending on what you want from those endpoints. A lot of the information and features of new reddit are not accessible through those json endpoints as they never have been updated. They also have a much lower ratelimit restri
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by creesch 2y ago
I am also wondering how resilient these organisms are in the food matter we are heating up once it is heated up to certain temperatures. I guess that also means I am wondering how much of these organisms are airborne or are just living on
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by creesch 2y ago
While I believe you are entirely right from a developer perspective. I do wonder if the same is true from a UX and more specifically accessibility perspective as the author in the article describes. If you are unsure what I mean, from the a
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by creesch 2y ago
Because for the past few years they have never been interested in actually being profitable in a sustainable way. They only worked towards “potential” profitability based on their huge user base as a signal towards potential investors. Befo
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by creesch 2y ago
That's what you get when a company spends years neglecting and sometimes actively working against the users and content that give unique value to the platform. The final straw being the API debacle of course. But even before, you could

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