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by curt15 2mo ago
> Doesn't that mean agencies like this are not free to set their own rules when a law is ambiguous? Agencies can say whatever they want but courts are not required to defer to them when this inevitably goes to a lawsuit.
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by curt15 2mo ago
Do you target macos or windows, which have always given users full control of software management?
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by curt15 2mo ago
So EU "digital sovereignty" still means hitching most critical functionality to Google?
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by curt15 2mo ago
The quotes are appropriate because only Congress, not executive action, can change the official name.
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by curt15 2mo ago
Another interesting question is why the frontier labs are piling on pure maths, which has little direct economic value compared to something like law or improving the efficiency of their own models? How much OpenAI and Anthropic are paying
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by curt15 2mo ago
What about AI research itself? Is OpenAI close to automating its human staff out of a job?
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by curt15 2mo ago
Were you a Caucasian in China? Foreigners, particularly those from powerful Western countries, tend to get much more deferential treatment than locals.
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by curt15 2mo ago
Any independent reasons for your claim besides appeal to authority?
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by curt15 3mo ago
A lot of "native" apps rely on the Internet for essential functionality. Your Starbucks app would be deadweight if it couldn't pull your account info and store catalogs from starbucks.com.
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by curt15 3mo ago
Or just buy a MI300A server like https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-g383-r80-aap1-amd-inst...
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by curt15 3mo ago
It's interesting that Linux users have been conditioned to expect this level of coupling when any other user would find that absurd. Do Windows 10 users expect to be stuck on software from 2015? Should one have to switch to Windows Ins
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by curt15 3mo ago
The outbox is basically a local queue in front of the remote queue.
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by curt15 3mo ago
What happens if Google says "nope" to a developer who applied for ADV? Does the developer retain the ability to distribute their software to end users through whatever non-Google-approved channels they use today?
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by curt15 3mo ago
From day one, Google sought to attract customers to Android by marketing it as an "open" alternative to Apple's locked-down appliance model. Android couldn't quite compete with Apple's UI polish or battery life, but
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by curt15 3mo ago
Isn't Docker is basically a front end to containerd, the most common k8s container runtime? One could just as well ask why use a completely separate container stack just for local development when docker shares the same business end as
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by curt15 4mo ago
Would they be able to hire top ML talent with US government salaries?
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by curt15 4mo ago
All the Jetbrains tooling as well.
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by curt15 4mo ago
> It’s a perfect example of research that does nothing except making people feel virtuous for doing the research. You could say the same for basically any of the fundamental sciences since none of them translate to any appreciable short
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by curt15 4mo ago
>This is a completely derivative conclusion from something I learned in molecular biology as an undergrad. The only "new" thing here is saying that poor people live in environments, since we've known for literally decades
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by curt15 4mo ago
"illicitly" implies a law that is being violated. What law?
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by curt15 4mo ago
See Sarah Wynn-Williams' book and congressional testimony for more.
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by curt15 4mo ago
In what world is more spending for less data a good deal?
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by curt15 4mo ago
How about "nerfed adblockers"? Do any of the MV3 versions replicate the full power of ublock origin on Firefox? ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... )
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by curt15 4mo ago
Devs shouldn't need root access to install tooling or dependencies for a project. Mixing user and system software is like having Photoshop and all of your games install their files directly into the Windows directory.
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by curt15 4mo ago
Most desktop users aren't keyboard wizards.
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by curt15 4mo ago
> As they pursue the topic they start to get down into the details, although probably never learn to do it fully independently. It's hard to claim one has mastered a subject without independent command of its fundamentals. A less ch
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by curt15 4mo ago
It's worth remembering Thurston's essay on mathoverflow ( https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematici... ): "The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by
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by curt15 4mo ago
> Yes, it is worse because using your package manager trusts your distribution (and the packages packager), doing curl bash trusts a random website. Is installing docker from docker own APT repo actually safer than curling a binary from
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by curt15 4mo ago
The systemd suite of container tools treat containers like mini VMs and expect a full init system. They are not designed for ephemeral single-process app containers like docker containers.
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by curt15 4mo ago
See her testimony last year before the senate judiciary committee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DAnORfgB8

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