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by fsloth 7mo ago
I didn't say backcompat isn't important. There are lots of other ways to run old binaries than at your main OS level. There are tons of other platforms that precede the current ones. I would not like the requirements from those pl
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by fsloth 7mo ago
I think brands that build trust will be the key to sustain income. People want to outsource some things. Thats what markets are for. The internet will become even more scammy and noisy. Hence trusted vendors will be like beacons, and not dr
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Agree - there are variations to how much tweaking Windows needs. Enterprise Windows config that comes eg in Thinkpads is more ready out of the box than the consumer OEM configss.
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by fsloth 7mo ago
IMHO - disagree but it depends on point of view so this is not ”you are wrong” but ”in my view it’s not like that”. I think it’s the role of the software vendor to offer a package for a modern platform. Not the role of OS vendor to support
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Exactly. I want to have a computer with stable vendor supported OS so _I can do my stuff_ not tweak some os level configs. I _don’t_ want to spend my time playing an os systems programmer. OS is a _component_. Like the wifi driver. I think
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Ok. Look. I guess we all care about software business here. And computer? It’s what consumers buy from store. Preferably in cybermonday or similar sale. To run the software they ran on their previous computer. They hope slightly faster. But
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Don’t undersell it, it’s perfect actually.
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Open source is a supply chain specific issue and consumers don’t care about supply chain. Anyone with any illusions about this name quickly the top vendor for the third item in the materials itinerary of the first thing with a materials iti
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by fsloth 7mo ago
FWIW Sony's wh-1000xm3 and later are suberb. Windows and bluetooth is a really difficult combination. The problem is that for some reason if Windows detects a microphone on the Bluetooth headphone, it switches to a transport mode that
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Well, if you buy only one pair it does work really nicely with all Apple kit. So you get really nice cinematic sound from Apple TV (for my non-prosumer ears), and effortlessly can switch between phone, laptop etc. The sound is really good f
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by fsloth 7mo ago
I’m also in the camp ”I respect the authors but here am not impressed” Regarding wider adoption ”One Battle Another” is incomprehensible mess unless you are familiar with US. I understand the white supremacist conspiracy but nothing else ma
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by fsloth 7mo ago
They don't have understanding but if you follow the research literature they obviously have a tendency to produce a token stream, the result of which humans could fairly call "entity with nefarious agency". Why? Nobody knows.
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Linear is pretty nice IMO otoh have not experienced it at megacorp scale.
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by fsloth 7mo ago
I would have expected MS has charged some fee for Windows but honestly no clue. I'm sure there are readers with actual insight here :)
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by fsloth 7mo ago
As OS matters less that’s probably not going to entrench Microsoft less. Their relationship with OEM:s is not market based but a two way relationship. At this point I would not be surprised if MS started to subvent the PC manufacturers to f
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by fsloth 7mo ago
No, that’s not how LLM:s work. Single prompt does not make it any better. Please focus on interesting humans comments. If you feel like it sure chat with claude to build your insight. Then write what you think _yourself_. If you want to int
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by fsloth 7mo ago
"It's not that different from pasting a quote from Wikipedia" Claude's output it _totally different_ from pasting a quote from Wikipedia. The latter has the potential to be edited and reviewed by global subject experts.
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by fsloth 7mo ago
This. Ofc a huge chunk of that is in companies but I'm fairly sure there are at least two windows 11 machines per one mac in consumer segment as well.
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by fsloth 7mo ago
I use a git gui :) So the only time I need terminal, it’s for something non-obvious. ”There are tons of resources” This is not a standard curriculum as such though. I’ve tried to come to terms with posix for 25 years and am so happy I don’t
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by fsloth 7mo ago
You do realize it does not help _me_ at all if _you_ have found your perfect custom setup. Because it’s custom there is no standard curriculum you could point me to etc. So it’s great you’ve found a setup that works for you but I hope you r
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by fsloth 7mo ago
TBH I’ve been here a while, never felt what the point with the above is but do feel LLM:s are a new valuable affordance in computer use. I mean I don’t have to remember the horrible git command line anymore which already improves my exprien
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by fsloth 7mo ago
Operation Entebbe comes to mind of an insane sounding stunt that worked unreasonably well.
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by fsloth 7mo ago
No need to be sorry - you raise an excellent point! Note my critique was labeling all of us LLM enthusiasts by association ”incompetents” which I believe is an incorrect assumption. The point raised that more people can now code I think was
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by fsloth 7mo ago
I am sorry you feel that way but I feel professionally strongly insulted by your statement. Specifically the implication high LLM affinity implies low professional competence. "My experience is that people who weren't very good at
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by fsloth 7mo ago
"Interesting, this is a trap that I've seen multiple senior hires fall into." Definetly it's a trap. If you are a purist it's nigh impossible. But if you ruthlessly 80/20 it most stakeholders will be pleasantly
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by fsloth 7mo ago
FWIW this is the best kind of job ever for me as well: "when you started you didn't even know if there was a solution." Regardless what the problem is - as long as I know _nobody knows if there is a solution_ it's an ins
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by fsloth 8mo ago
> if claws had existed beforehand. That's literally not possible would be my take. But of course just intuition. The dataset used to train LLM:s was scraped from an internet. The data was there mainly due to the user expansion due t
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Ah - I stand corrected - thanks!
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Fun fact: Erwise[0] was the first _graphical_ browser developed by a group of students in Helsinki University of Technology with Sir Berners Lee. Sadly there was no funding in Finland available at the time and they had to abandon the projec
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by fsloth 8mo ago
"Why isn't there a successful company building and maintaining a suite of common alternative desktop applications?" Sure there are but in other domains than "office". For example CAD has few incumbent companies with

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