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by devmor 1y ago
I had the same incredulity when BPA alarms started going off, thinking it was another Prop 65 warning type thing. Finding out that it is literally absorbed through the skin sent shivers down my spine. That stuff is scary.
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by devmor 1y ago
It’s a statistical database of corpuses, not a logic engine. Stop treating LLMs like they are capable of logic, reasoning or judgement. They are not, they never will be. The extent to which they can recall and remix human words to repli
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by devmor 1y ago
It is a meaningful change, or you wouldn’t be talking about it. Meaningful does not mean a solution.
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by devmor 1y ago
The US solution does not make users whole and does not meaningfully change anything. The EU solution meaningfully changes the offending company's behavior. I would rather have significantly less breaches of my information than a check
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by devmor 1y ago
The logic behind it is to make the internet more onerous and annoying for individuals to have control over. The more active responsibility you must have in taking part in the internet, the more of that responsibility you will relinquish to
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by devmor 1y ago
No, Google Play services are baked into Android by default. You have to install an alternative operating system to go without them. You cannot use Android in a way Google does not want you to without hacking on it.
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by devmor 1y ago
They sound like appropriate abbreviations to me. Something like: "With time to get to the location" and "Without time to get to the location"
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by devmor 1y ago
> I strongly disagree. The difference is "I control my phone vs. my phone is controlled by the vendor". How many Android phones can be used without Google services?
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by devmor 1y ago
Perhaps the ecosystem has changed now, but when I made the switch in 2017, having an Android phone felt like a hobby project. I was regularly dealing with flagship phones stuttering and lagging, apps crashing, media formats not displaying p
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by devmor 1y ago
>Apple's customers generally have more of a "save us from ourselves" mentality. FWIW, this could also be described as a "My phone is a tool and not a hobby project" mentality. That is half of what prompted me to
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by devmor 1y ago
The list of compatible devices was simply a list of all devices that supported DOCSIS 3.1 at the time. At no point was my firmware swapped out, or anything of that nature.
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by devmor 1y ago
"Friction" in the author's post refers to intellectual friction. The need to think about what you are doing before you do it; as opposed to being led to your next action by the UX of an app or instruction of another person.
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by devmor 1y ago
That sounds odd - I wonder if it was a relic of your local infrastructure. I used my own DOCSIS modem with its own firmware on Comcast around the same time. It was a generic Arris Surfboard.
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by devmor 1y ago
Yeah, I don’t like parsing XML, but I’d rather do that than deal with the Lovecraftian API design that comes with complex JSON representations.
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by devmor 1y ago
I honestly wonder if JSON is king. I used to think so until I started working in fintech. XML is unfortunately everywhere.
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by devmor 1y ago
Just because you’re processing 21GB/s of CSV doesn’t mean you need all of it. If your data is coming from a source you don’t own, it’s likely to include data you don’t need. Maybe there’s 30 columns and you only need 3 - or 200 columns
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by devmor 1y ago
Same here in the US. You can bring your own DOCSIS modem to any cable internet provider.
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by devmor 1y ago
This doesn’t happen as often for the same reason that startups would rather flare out than build a sustainable business: greed. Most people would rather get rich quickly by selling out, instead of putting in effort to get rewarded far in th
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by devmor 1y ago
I believe that's why the comment author put "AI" in quotation marks. There's a massive amount of fraud around "AI" right now, as there always is in the startup scene with a hot new technology.
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by devmor 1y ago
Your statement is proven wrong by the article you are replying to.
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by devmor 1y ago
I don't doubt that ChatGPT is better than Google for looking things up. I also don't think ChatGPT is very reliable for looking things up. I think Google has just been degraded so far as a product that it is near worthless for any
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by devmor 1y ago
See my other comment here. One AI training run does not exist in a vacuum. Do you think they built billions of dollars in datacenters full of computer power just to let it sit idle?
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by devmor 1y ago
One AI training run does not exist in a vacuum. https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/04/11/as-demand-for...
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by devmor 1y ago
Like every other "rebuttal" to this argument, this chooses to pretend that the complaint is about the power usage of making API calls, instead of the power usage of training models. It's like if I said I was concerned about f
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by devmor 1y ago
This is not research. This is a search engine.
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by devmor 1y ago
I regularly see it in Atlanta in the big tech business areas (Buckhead, Midtown, etc) but it is hilariously bad. Whenever I notice my cellular data has regressed to 3G speeds and reliability, I look up at the network status and see “5G UW”.
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by devmor 1y ago
Hell yes! This is where machine learning shines and I’m so happy to see another incredible breakthrough from using it in medical science. It’s a nice reprieve from “we’re using a chatbot as a therapist and it started telling people to kill
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by devmor 1y ago
Aside from some things that would put me on yet another government list for being asked - anything that requires the model to explicitly do logic on the question being asked of it usually works.
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by devmor 1y ago
This happens in metro areas quite frequently. I used to live in a suburb of Atlanta that had a valid address in "Atlanta, GA" and "Suburb, GA" - which was a common annoyance when using delivery apps or service area locat
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by devmor 1y ago
I think a lot of this discussion is moot - it all devolves into the same arguments rehashed between people who like using AI and people who do not. What we really need are more studies on the productivity and skill outcomes of using AI tool

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