ekianjo

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1 points by ekianjo 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
They need a lot of money to pay their useless execs, so 700 million must be barely enough to keep things running
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
Yeah but more and more have self service cashiers as well with cashless payments
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
They will never lose the retail market because they enforce severe rules towards OEMs.
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The hype was entirely manufactured from day 1.
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
Ollama has had bad defaults forever (stuck on a default CTX of 2048 for like 2 years) and they typically are late to support the latest models vs llamacpp. Absolutely no reason to use it in 2026.
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
If you care about privacy making sure the closed source software does not call home is a concern...
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
This means nothing. There is so much up and down based on the active Chinese user base. PHoronox making headlines out of thin air again
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
The track record of NASA sending stuff to space is pretty bleak
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
> never something others bring to them Ever heard of the independence war?
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
> Remember, they killed 30K of their own to quell an uprising.[2] There is absolutely no way to know if it's true or not
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
Broken window fallacy much? The amount of money spent on space race could have been spent somewhere else and you have no idea how to evaluate of this was a valid set of outcomes.
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
> with a pretty great return in research, engineering and education to boot. If a company could spend 24B in research they would probably produce a lot more things than NASA
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> What makes you think that? Looking at actual users of LLMs
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Graphene allows APKs
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
> Linux has millions of man-hours went into it but we can use it for free on a $7 VPS. Bad analogy. I don't need an API to run Linux.
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
From the graphs it looks like ambulance drivers and taxi drivers died much younger than everyone else. Hence less death from Alzheimer (a disease famous for happening mostly with old age), so case closed?
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
> Of 8 972 221 people who had died with occupational information, 3.88% (348 328) had Alzheimer’s disease listed as a cause of death. A sample of a sample of a sample...
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
> Microsoft, over you, getting to decide what your computer is doing. Nothing new. Microsoft has been exactly like that since its inception. People are asleep at the wheel of they only realize it now.
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The LLM is the key element here, not the 7 dollars VPS... The model itself has cost billions of dollars to train and of the service shuts down or is interrupted for some reason your fancy setup breaks like nothing.
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
But relying on a Claude API so you don't really "own the stack" as claimed in the article...
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
Regulators are either sleeping on billions of lobby money or asleep at the wheel
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
> This is capitalism's biggest flaw: it's based on the assumption that there will be competition The fact that governments allow Microsoft to abuse its position to force OEMs to install Windows is the biggest problem. This woul
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
> Next, I’m thinking of moving away from Google Photos. I’m considering pCloud for that. Maybe try Immich?
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
I have one Foveon camera, any hope for Foveon X3Fs support outside of RawTherapee? DarkTable does not process them correctly either
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
You have a market that's locked by Microsoft working with OEMs and Microsoft spraying money around to ensure that nobody ever seriously consider switching. Add to that that Windows is used as a surveillance tool by the three letter age
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Such a huge invasion of privacy.
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
Bad analogies are bad analogies
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
Nuke means no return and MAD. Not a word you use lightly.
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by ekianjo 7mo ago
So explain yourself instead of using memes.

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