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by deaton 2mo ago
The current project I am developing with AI is so bloated that I've spent more time and tokens cleaning up the repo (to the tune of tens of thousands of lines removed) than actually creating it in the first place. AI is very very happy
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by deaton 2mo ago
The law is not software. It would be very easy to argue that a streaming stick that automatically downloads malware is no different from one that came with malware.
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by deaton 2mo ago
Online it still seems like for the most part if you buy from something a bit more specialty (e.g. McMaster, Digikey, etc) you still get really good vetting and high quality stuff, but amazon is more than happy to be filled with absolute gar
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by deaton 2mo ago
Nope, it was actual 1.6.4 (and probably beyond that too). It wasn't amazing but consistent 30fps with some ATI card from the time. It had a Pentium D of some sort, can't remember exactly what.
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by deaton 2mo ago
I don't love that I need a Microsoft account to log into minecraft, but the alternative was losing it permanently.
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by deaton 2mo ago
I remember playing back in like the 1.6.4 era on a piece of garbage from 2005 with a monstrous 1GB of ram.
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by deaton 2mo ago
But "its specifically engineered to ensure that nobody reads it" is a real argument
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by deaton 3mo ago
The same reason gambling is. No, I'm serious. Theres a psychological phenomenon where things which are reliably positive are less enjoyable (or addictive) than something that is disappointing sometimes and positive other times. Writing
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by deaton 3mo ago
It is interesting how Linux and FOSS in general is just providing a better UX these days. I have to think its because without profit motives, people do things for passion and maybe that leads people to write code the right way instead of th
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by deaton 3mo ago
Sure but Orange Catholicism hasn't quite caught on yet.
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by deaton 3mo ago
I do wonder if their "fair use" argument preempts them from actually being able to claim copyright over the model weights, since it can be argued that the vast majority of what the model is is itself a remix of everything else. Ma
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by deaton 3mo ago
The only good arguments I see against open weight AI also apply to closed AI. And regardless, the box is open, nobody can stop it even if stopping it was a good thing.
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by deaton 3mo ago
You can totally mark up your books. No issue with that, if you like it. I don't personally, but I don't see why someone shouldn't do it. Now should you sell those books? Probably not.
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by deaton 3mo ago
Intel had something very close to a monopoly for a long time. ARM wasn't taken seriously for desktop or server applications, and AMD was unable to compete with Intel's top-end CPUs until Zen (and with it Ryzen and Epyc) came aroun
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by deaton 3mo ago
Who cares. Anthropic distilled the entire internet, and then a good bit more beyond that.
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by deaton 3mo ago
Go read a few fanfics and tell me you still think that theres added value.
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by deaton 3mo ago
Great, that way is called copyright. The author has the right to control who has the rights to distribute their work, and can require compensation in exchange for that right; what economists refer to as "selling".
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by deaton 3mo ago
Because by the time it goes out to clients it (should be) thoroughly tested and aligned for safety, but at the present moment it isn't.
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by deaton 3mo ago
People have been sounding that alarm for well over a year now, just not anyone who has the power to do anything about it.
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by deaton 3mo ago
Its a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy (that happens to be absurdly profitable for certain people). AGI is inevitable, so we need to gear our entire economy towards building it first, so we're doing that, so AGI is inevitable.
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by deaton 3mo ago
And nobody would post "I did it for free!" if they had done it themselves, but somehow spending $25 on tokens changes how we're supposed to look at it
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by deaton 3mo ago
Unfortunately, as long as Chromium has as much market share as it does, nobody will bother to make their websites compatible with anything else.
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by deaton 3mo ago
Its been a while since I've seen an ad on Youtube since I got premium, but I remember, at least for a while, every ad on there was a scam. At some point I think Google realized nobody would stop them, so they just started accepting any
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by deaton 3mo ago
A browser option that isn't a Chromium reskin and isn't Firefox... it does seem like a while since we've seen one of those. I've used Kagi a bit and I've been pretty impressed with how well they desloppify their res
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by deaton 3mo ago
Whoever lost money going long on it.
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by deaton 3mo ago
To me it feels like a way for Musk to justify directing AI money towards his first true love, which was space.
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by deaton 3mo ago
Why does this feel like an exec trying to justify token spend?
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by deaton 3mo ago
Apple lawyers have a reputation for doing their homework
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by deaton 3mo ago
> If you have a "I trust my competent team to write good enough tests and test coverage isn't my responsibility" attitude, that's what quality software you'll get back. As much as this sentiment is nice, it is co
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by deaton 3mo ago
I use AI every day, and I use it quite a bit, and I use Opus more than I maybe should, and even then I'm not even at $2000 in tokens this year. I don't understand how people are tokenmaxxing as much as they are.

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