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by fauigerzigerk 3mo ago
Also, parliament has a rule against wearing costumes like this. But Count Binface called that rule "binist" and claimed there was some wiggle room in the way the rule was worded :) I think leaving the seat empty if he wins is the
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by fauigerzigerk 3mo ago
That doesn't do justice to some of the arguments that SQLite authors are making. In Postgres, if you insert a real number into an int column, the data gets rounded and stored as int. In SQLite, the data is inserted as real. Neither app
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by fauigerzigerk 3mo ago
>It's a PITA to work with. If I could design it from scratch, it'd be a single table with JSON payload. Isn't plain JSON even worse? At least the design you're criticising has a dynamic schema definition separate fr
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by fauigerzigerk 3mo ago
No, that's not the same at all, because it is possible to be not corrupt while it is impossible to be unbiased. I think there are important differences between bias and dishonesty/propaganda though, and that's where your argu
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
But the price of some unit of a commodity may well be expressed in smaller fractions to allow for small price changes. You could argue that a price is not really an amount that anyone can actually pay and that's true. But it seems comp
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>"Monetary value must be stored in integers" is the much stronger statement that the article doesn't make. Obviously there are exceptions, but you're going to need a much longer side discussion in order to justify wh
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
What's your preferred solution to dealing with FX conversions? My issue with using integers everywhere is that FX conversions (or other rates) always come into play, and at that point I'm forced to use something else anyway (e.g.
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
The US has successfully stopped them from acquiring the machines. That's not the same as stopping them from acquiring the capability to make them. On the contrary.
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>EU didn't fail because it never even tried. Of course the EU tries to compete with the US and in some industries it has done so successfully (e.g pharma or aviation). EU companies have also tried to compete in information technol
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>As a European, the way I see it, Europe declared fealty to the US and relinquished its sovereignty a long time ago, sadly. No such declaration was ever made. Europe has just failed to compete.
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
I agree. But Micron says it wants to end the boom-bust cyles in the memory chip business for good. It won't work. A higher price floor for longer creates an incentive for competitors to bring more capacity online. The eventual supply g
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Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years(theregister.com)
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>Are you referring to ActivityPub traffic (Mastodon, etc.)? No, I wasn't even aware that they use anything RDF related.
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
I agree that something like it will re-emerge. But I also think the semantic web has always been misunderstood and misapplied even by its proponents. In my view, semantic web technologies should have been used to make databases interoperabl
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
100% of users have legitimate reasons to block internet access for some apps. If internet access wasn't granted by default, a lot more apps would function without it. Many other apps wouldn't exist at all, because their only reaso
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
I don't think component prices will kill personal computing. Prices used to be far higher in the heyday of personal computing. Millions of people buy phones every two years that cost twice as much as a perfectly capable PC. Personal co
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
No, this is meaningless. Of course AIs, just like humans, will go rogue and probably already do. "Rogue" is a pattern that appears in human communication and behaviour and AIs can emulate it. But that doesn't make any particu
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>If you believe the labs' implied/stated objectives, the end goal is eating all human-driven GDP, and the US is still the largest single-market economy in the world, last I checked. The US is about a quarter of the global eco
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
> With due respect, this take is very deluded. US voters have very little to lose if the tech is not available to the rest of the world. Really? You think the economics of the AI buildout remain viable if US companies cannot export thei
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>Anthropic would have been able to talk to someone and explain how it wasn't possible to ban just "foreign nationals", and would have pointed out how nonsensical such a request was. It's not nonsensical if the inten
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>In basically all of the western world minors can enter into debt contracts, but are generally not seen as particularly creditworthy. Minors can't get a credit card in the UK. In fact, it's one of the government approved age
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
I completely agree with you that this particular ruling does not make Gemini illegal in Germany. I'm just wondering whether the logic of the ruling is tied to the specific context (search results) or applied more generally to LLM gener
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
I'm not sure. Is it really just the misleading part that the court takes issue with, i.e portraying Gemini output as a search result? In my view, the ruling could mean that Gemini's output is legally seen as first-person speech by
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
They ultimately don't have that power. All they can do is block the sale of products. Arguably, that power gives them leverage to negotiate the availability of some products or features. But as this Apple case shows, this negotiating l
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
It makes no sense at all. Google offers free but limited Gemini in exchange for being able to train their models on user data. They are also gradually introducing advertising to Gemini and they can upsell and cross sell their paid plans (Ge
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>(Part of their software are models derived from Google Gemini, but that’s orthogonal to this) You're right that it is orthogonal to the privacy promises Apple makes to its own users. The moralistic and righteous undertone in thei
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
You're talking about two very different situations but your wording doesn't make that clear: a) Engineers don't know and cannot be expected to know whether what they are being asked to implement complies with all regulations.
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
>I am skeptical that developers who implement a non-compliant solution that gets a company in trouble get off scot-free. I don't see why developers should be in trouble. Developers don't make unilateral decisions on non-trivi
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
I have no love or hate for Elon Musk. I wish him luck with his space endeavours. What's desperate is announcing a temporary (allegedly) doubling of revenues days before an IPO that has been criticised for being overpriced at 93 times s
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by fauigerzigerk 4mo ago
Either that or SpaceX is permanently turning xAI's assets into a neocloud because xAI itself has no traction. The whole thing looks rather desperate. I wonder what SpaceX's margins are on these contracts.

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