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by fmajid 7mo ago
Yep, I had never heard of Derrida until I read a mention of him in an American Physics journal of all places.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
It's more profitable to manufacture than using expensive natural materials like silk, wool or leather.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
I'd rather pray for Roald Amundsen's leadership if I wanted to actually survive.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
No, the iPhone has over 50% market share in the US, macOS is nowhere near that.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Tim Apple wants you to pay thrice, once for a phone, once again for a tablet and finally one last time for a laptop.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Android now has a desktop mode (as Samsung has supported for years with Dex), and it also works on degoogled variants like GrapheneOS.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
It happened in Australia in 1975, and Chuck was directly involved in it.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Sure, they are parasites descended from thugs as opposed to thugs descended from thugs. But you don't see them renouncing their unearned wealth built on rapine, slavery and colonial exploitation, which is to this day largely exempted f
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Including rapists like the Bishop of Lincoln.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
But they still haven't kicked out the Church of England bishops, including the rapist bishop of Lincoln.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
I like to describe this as being "the person who know what good is". Sounds supiciously like the return of the SDET role...
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by fmajid 8mo ago
If they do not also increase the senior devs’ allotted time for code reviews to make up for the increased volume of changes due to increased productivity of the junior to mid level devs, or hire more seniors, this will just lead to burnout
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Meta is the smallest but also the most profitable of the FAANGs in terms of percentage profit margin at 30%, vs 25% for Apple and Google and much less for Amazon and Netflix. Their position in social networks is a license to print money and
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Not all. Renault is doing pretty well.Stellantis is now scapegoating EVs for its massive losses, when the real reason is that their products are garbage and in a fit of hubris they actually raised the prices in the US.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
They wouldn't trust a non-family member with weapons that could decapitate the country's kleptocratic monarchy.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Probably as much as MAGA is in the US.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Nowhere near as amazing a story as that of Witold Pileski, who broke into Auschwitz and back out, to reveal to the world the horrors that went on there. And ended up murdered by the Communist regime after the end of the war. https:/&#
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by fmajid 8mo ago
His clear concern is to stay able to poach OpenAI employees (although it's really Google employees he should be after). He didn't give MAGA $25M like Greg Brockman did, and the Trump administration is pay-to-play, so the DoD contr
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Altman was fired by his own board for lying to them. Just because Microsoft blackmailed them into reversing this decision by threatening financial ruin does not change that. You don't give habitual liars the benefit of doubt.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
If you look at his comments about Palantir and their proposed safeguards, it's clear it's a case of "if you are dining with the Devil, you'd better bring a very long spoon"
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Or, as is likely, OpenAI models have no guardrails, Anthropic's did and the DoD was bumping into them.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Thanks for the writeup, Ivan, I am a great fan of your work! Now we need to get Qualys to cap SSL Labs ratings at B for servers that don't support ECH. Also those that don't have HSTS and HSTS Preload while we're at it.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
I am coming to GrapheneOS from iOS, as recounted in https://blog.majid.info/quit-apple/ My experience with seedvault is not as positive as the OP, it fails for about half my apps. I guess I have another year to fix thi
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by fmajid 8mo ago
What other services does Apple have that people would be paying for? The ones they have today are either iCloud storage, which does not need much compute, or merely an alibi so they can claim with an almost straight face that Apple's &
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Did you read the article? Apple's servers are M2 Ultra class and not able to run modern models.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Using something like Taalas' hardcoded model as opposed to running one on general purpose GPUs, flexible but power-hungry. https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/22/taalas-hc1-hardwired...
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by fmajid 8mo ago
And Weasyprint does not have browser dependencies either, which is great. Fun fact: I had to write a routine administrative letter for my parents in another country, I asked Claude to do so in PDF form so I could email it to them they would
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Overly enthusiastic Rust evangelists can be annoying, but nowhere as much as C++ or C advocates defensively claiming memory safety isn't a big deal, and they are going to have it in the next version of the language anyway. I find my ex
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by fmajid 8mo ago
That's Jared Kushner's dad. The one who went to prison for setting his brother-in-law up with a prostitute to break up his sister's marriage. I am sure he will approach this new mission with the same finesse he demonstrated
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by fmajid 8mo ago
The AI ate my email is the new, plausible deniality version of "my dog ate my homework"

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