eloisant

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by eloisant 4mo ago
"You can make money without doing evil [but that's not what we do]"
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by eloisant 5mo ago
Is there any evidence this was broken by AI? I feel like these day any time users find an issue in software they blame it on "vibe coding". But software had bugs before AI.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
You're doing a bit of a "true Scotsman fallacy" here.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
The world was not "just watching doing nothing", there was a Iran nuclear deal that made sure they didn't get nuclear weapons.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
They didn't even lose any money, because by closing the store the damages were never paid. It's really depressing to see to be honest.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
It's just as depressing as the other one, it shows that BAM knows exactly how to abuse the law to get away with stealing.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
It's easy to say after the fact, how are people supposed to know that before doing business with a nationwide franchise?
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by eloisant 5mo ago
I know you had commercial arguments when working at Zendesk. Still: when you code your own solution, you don't need to build an integration with every single platform you can think of. Just those you use. And sometimes, especially now
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by eloisant 5mo ago
> About 80% of your first mortgage payment is interest. Is it common in US?? In France the current rates are about 3,5% fixed rate, meaning in your first payment on a 25 years loan you pay about 55% interests. Which I think is pretty hig
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by eloisant 5mo ago
The problem isn't that the city is full. It's that suburbs are made for cars. You could have suburbs designed as walkable neighbourhoods with shops. Look at Japan, each area around a station is like a small village. Even if you co
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by eloisant 5mo ago
When the abstract is limited, you don't add useless qualifiers like "the largest prediction market"
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by eloisant 5mo ago
The important thing to remember is: - With the SP500 you're not that diversified because you're very exposed to the tech sector - With a world ETF like MSCI World you're still extremely exposed to US stocks (about 70%) and of
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by eloisant 5mo ago
I agree, but the same goes for the US. Remember Echelon.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
The thing that everyone seems to be missing is that the US AI companies are focused on the frontier models, that are very expensive for diminishing returns. If suddenly the money craze stops, meaning (1) AI companies investors want them to
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by eloisant 5mo ago
Didn't they pretty much start from scratch after open sourcing? Not sure what was left of the older (pre-open source) Netscape code in Firefox 1.0.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
Counter-point, real incriminating videos will be easy to dismiss. "No that's not me, that's AI"
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by eloisant 5mo ago
About Pelicans on bicycles: > there’s zero chance any AI lab would train a model for such a ridiculous task Well, I think this guy's tests have got enough visibility that I wouldn't be surprised if some AI models are trained on
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by eloisant 5mo ago
That's the thing, it was the most novel OS of the time. Even the OS we use today are all based on some kind of Unix, except for Windows that trace their legacy to VMS through Windows NT. BeOS on the other time was written from scratch
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by eloisant 5mo ago
Be was pretty close from being acquired by Apple instead of NeXT. It was also founded by an ex-Apple employee (Jean-Louis Gassée). MacOSX would be really different today if it were based on BeOS instead of NeXT...
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by eloisant 5mo ago
No, that's an Android desktop OS which ChromeOS is not
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by eloisant 5mo ago
Even before those, AfterStep, Enlightenment and many others were really nice.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
I don't think it's "ripping off" tourists to ask them to pay a price they can easily afford rather than the usual local price, ridiculously low for a tourist. I cringe when I hear Europeans proud that they haggled to dea
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by eloisant 5mo ago
Software written in Big tech companies is probably written at 90% with AI. Now you could claim that software from Google/Meta/Microsoft is useless, but billions of humans rely on it every day.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
It's a 10x in areas where I'm not very good/experimented at. Or perhaps even more. For example I'm mostly a backend developer, I used to be a full stack dev a long time ago so I know how to make front-end but my knowledg
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by eloisant 5mo ago
The ease of access, quantity and diversity of internet porn is in no common measure with magazines that existed in the 20th century.
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by eloisant 5mo ago
By your logic, my kids are going to find a way to smoke weed anyway so I might as well give them some, right?
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by eloisant 5mo ago
Governement should force companies to give parental controls tools. Gaming companies like Nintendo and Steam do that, I can create a kid account with parental controls. Social media companies (e.g. Meta, Snap) are the first that should prov
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by eloisant 6mo ago
Try going to Switzerland by car (from France for example), and you'll see what an actual border check is. Pretty different from having a chance to be stopped by a random check while crossing.
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by eloisant 6mo ago
Yes, this is an important aspect of the EU, and other countries like Spain and Ireland benefited in the same way. And it's a good thing, but I wish Eastern European countries would recognize this and become more of a team player instea
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by eloisant 6mo ago
They progressed very quickly in the past year. Not just models, but all the harness around them to code. When they start plateauing, then we can assume they're done progressing.

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