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by fastball 1y ago
Apple is a company, not a government. I haven't traded my liberty for anything. Again, you can buy a different phone – that is where liberty comes into this equation. If the USG decides to pass a law saying you can only buy iPhones,
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by fastball 1y ago
Much harder to make a secure device that is resistant to getting pwn'd if you can run any code you want. I personally prefer my iPhone to be more secure than to be more open. Buy a more open phone if you want one, but stop trying to us
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by fastball 1y ago
> $50m to build a modern OS from scratch heh.
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by fastball 1y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/privatebanking.asp
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by fastball 1y ago
It's also very easy to throw away actual commits, as long as you don't push them (and even then not so difficult if you're in a context where force-pushing is tolerable).
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by fastball 1y ago
The mountain of prior art being... one rocket that had very different requirements?
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by fastball 1y ago
Not sure I follow. Weapons don't protect the military-industrial complex in the same way. Guns do protect random individuals in the same way they protect military soldiers though.
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by fastball 1y ago
> I imagine huge amounts of racism is a turn off for people that aren't white. Please explain what you mean by this then?
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by fastball 1y ago
Are you implying that white people are the most racist group of people (when classifying by skin color)?
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by fastball 1y ago
Where did the source code go? I have all the code from dumb little games I made (and never released) from almost 20 years ago.
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by fastball 1y ago
Copyright protects random individuals in the same way it protects corporations.
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by fastball 1y ago
You believing all property is theft is very avant-garde of you, but at the same time it is not a stance the vast majority of the world agrees with (including Germany), so it hardly seems relevant to a constructive conversation centered arou
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by fastball 1y ago
> If you see some state/company secret that you weren't supposed to... Indeed, but that's not really what we are talking about with piracy, is it? State secrets and copyrighted material are clearly different things.
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by fastball 1y ago
Which of these definitions do you think supports your case? The most relevant Merriam Webster definition, which is actually under "censor (verb)", I reproduce here: > to examine in order to suppress (see suppress sense 2) or
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by fastball 1y ago
Is the removal of any content for any reason "censorship"? I don't think that fits conventional usage of the term, and broadening the scope of the word to that level removes much of its usefulness. If I steal an object, and t
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by fastball 1y ago
How do you mean? AFAICT computers can definitely do that. Sure, it won't be the size of an ant, but we definitely have models running on computers that have much more complexity than the life of an ant.
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by fastball 1y ago
Huh, that was not my understanding. Do you have a link where we can read more? Follow-up question then: why include text-davinci-001 in this page, rather than some version of GPT-3?
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by fastball 1y ago
Automatic crash reporting is very useful if you want stable software.
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by fastball 1y ago
What interests you about Zed that is not already covered by Sublime?
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by fastball 1y ago
What? The requirements for this are nothing like what is required for sterilization of a Mars rover. NASA's goal is to not have a single iota of foreign organic material on rovers, which is obviously not even close to what is required
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by fastball 1y ago
4.5 is good too, but I've used it less.
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by fastball 1y ago
GPT-3 goes significantly over the specified limit, which to me (and to a teacher grading homework) is an automatic fail. I've consistently found GPT-4.1 to be the best at creative writing. For reference, here is its attempt (exactly 50
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by fastball 1y ago
Why did they call GPT-3 "text-davicini-001" in this comparison? Like, I know that the latter is a specific checkpoint in the GPT-3 "family", but a layman doesn't and it hardly seems worth the confusion for the mar
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by fastball 1y ago
I felt the same but switched to Caddy for my reverse proxy last year and have had a great experience. Admittedly this was on the back of trying to use nginx-unit, which was an overall bad experience, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by fastball 1y ago
Two other major benefits besides speed were listed in the opening paragraph about why you might want to use PYX. Likewise with uv, speed is only one of the (many) improvements over pip.
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by fastball 1y ago
The UK has been a surveillance state for a long time. I've been the victim of property crime 4x in the UK, and 3 of those times the entire thing was caught on multiple CCTVs. But that didn't help me get my stuff back or prosecut
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by fastball 1y ago
Strange to reject something when you don't even understand what it is. PYX is a package registry , and therefore an alternative to PyPI (like how JSR is an alternative to NPM). The alternative to `pip` that Astral has built is called
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by fastball 1y ago
My reading is more that unit economics are starting to catch up with the frontier labs, rather than "scaling maximalism is dying". Maybe that is the same thing.
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by fastball 1y ago
In my experience, it is much better at tool-calling, which is huge when we're talking about agentic coding. It also seems to do a better job of keeping things cleaning and not going off on tangents for anything that isn't accompli
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by fastball 1y ago
That sounds nice and I have the same pain, but not sure AGENT.md is the right abstraction either. After all, these models are indeed different and will respond differently even given the same prompting. Not to mention that different wrapper

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