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by dofm 3mo ago
This is a bit of a year-of-linux-on-the-desktop question. Desktop 3D printers are tools; I know many people using them to support their making. And they've utterly changed manufacturing on another level (simply because of their ability
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by dofm 3mo ago
This hype cycle is much more like the NFT hype cycle — it's just that it has a more easily understood product. Impossible to see Beeple's Everydays as anything other than a harbinger, IMO.
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by dofm 3mo ago
The paradox of the cutbacks after the railway industry corrected is that more or less every track they got rid of would now be useful. The Beeching cut damage done to East Sussex, for example, is devastating and unfixable.
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by dofm 3mo ago
I want to frame my comment here carefully to talk about the narratives, specifically, and accept that we need to stipulate on face value that this is true (it certainly rings true from people I know in real life): This specific narrative re
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by dofm 3mo ago
A question: Are you still below any significant scale thresholds and are there any you dread crossing? I ask this because I tend to find things are simple until they are not. e.g. it's easy to write an e-commerce platform until you hav
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by dofm 3mo ago
I got into a bit of an argument a while back when I used the word "crass" to describe some of the code decisions I've seen Claude make (in someone else's project that I have to work with). But it is how I feel and it fee
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by dofm 3mo ago
I concur. I really want to see this from the "small stuff" upwards, which is probably why my own interest starts with local models and grows outwards, but all of these things are worth hearing.
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by dofm 3mo ago
My definition would be "users waiting for it who received it"; that's the one that fits the broadest real world definition of the word. Not everything is an organisation, not everyone is paying.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Oh I definitely don't expect them to help with CAD and nor would I want them to — I really enjoy knowing FreeCAD. It's more the microcontroller choice, broad components, all that. The main areas I find LLMs struggle with research,
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by dofm 3mo ago
Thank you for the details! These are precisely the kind of things I want to hear about because they are self-contained and I can judge against the kind of stuff I do. I am quite interested in experimenting with it for migrations, because
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by dofm 3mo ago
If you characterise questions as bad faith so you don’t have to answer, sure. Since this is my thread, and since I am an exasperated freelancer who has made most of his post-dot-com career from writing exactly the kind of quite small, simpl
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by dofm 3mo ago
It sometimes feels to me that cloud AI providers have convinced people that cloud AI is worth it because of all the ways people have been able to use cloud AI to write blog posts about using cloud AI to make cloud AI more efficient for some
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by dofm 3mo ago
Wow, thanks. I didn't see Unsloth had already done their version; I was just about to go back to the google version to test this change.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Maybe, maybe not. Qwen 3.6 27B is literally just three months old. Hard to predict. Maybe it just wasn't worth making a 3.7, and after all, the 27B release was after the Plus release.
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by dofm 3mo ago
The whole series had an upgrade a couple of days ago actually — they have addressed embedded tool calling (and hopefully the MTP formatting stuff though I gave up running the Gemma MTP because it's often slower than not-MTP) Not tried
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by dofm 3mo ago
Casino comp and drug dealer freebie tactics again. Shoddy business, IMO.
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by dofm 3mo ago
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406 This is the study you are referring to. I will leave it to others to judge your comment.
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by dofm 3mo ago
False advertising does not have first amendment protection, surely. And requiring potentially misleading AI images to be labelled surely doesn’t infringe.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Yeah. With CAD models, every single trick I have tried to make photo mock-ups with an AI image-to-image conversion, whether using a line art or canny edge detector or just a shaded source object, has seen the AI ultimately ignore the cues i
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by dofm 3mo ago
AI “virtual” staged images are reasonably common on UK property websites now but they have to be labelled, it seems: probably advertising standards rules.
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by dofm 3mo ago
They promised to find a reason. My best guess is that they picked a generic drug that is only a painkiller to blame in order to blunt any possible lawsuit. But it’s equally possible that RFK Hr, who is weird, fully evil and profoundly dange
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by dofm 3mo ago
Why would it need to? There is no medical controversy. There’s only a weak and now discounted statistical association that was seized upon by two disgraceful anti-science politicians to create a political controversy.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Many, many years ago I worked at a startup that employed a strange, solipsistic consultant who wrote in exactly this sort of strange, eccentric, conspiratorial note-form style, that hid his strange lack of understanding behind a dense wall
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by dofm 3mo ago
I don't think Jony Ive has this skillset either. They might make a very nice device (I'd expect it to be polarising).
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by dofm 3mo ago
Superfund-as-a-Service
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Perhaps mistral will save us all from sounding like Californians. Perhaps ;-)
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by dofm 3mo ago
> I suspect the difficulty here lies more with your reading of the quoted sentence. British grammar school education, for all the years it devotes to the enterprise, does not always succeed in teaching reading comprehension. Well aren&#x
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by dofm 3mo ago
I think it is clear that if Apple were going to deal with OpenAI on that level, they already would have. What they wanted for their AI products is a measure of control over their destiny that OpenAI clearly did not want to give them that ba
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by dofm 3mo ago
> The suggestion that violence may be necessary does not strengthen your argument, it exposes its weakness. I am not at all suggesting it is necessary ; you are projecting that onto me. I am merely observing that it might happen. Alread
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by dofm 3mo ago
> If you can train a system to detect these patterns, presumably you can train systems not to generate text which matches them? I don't know. I mean, it feels like the systems that would detect them are likely qualitatively differen

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