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by gigel82 2y ago
Can't wait to play with this in llama.cpp; the 8B results look impressive.
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by gigel82 3y ago
I like there's a trend of this flag being raised from more and more places; but I wonder if there's also a solution somewhere in sight or what form that would take; more regulation after assholes reach monopoly status, sure... but
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The Internet is starting to Break – Here's Why [video](youtube.com)
3 points by gigel82 3y ago|3 comments
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by gigel82 3y ago
If Apple hadn't stopped investing (for real) in Safari 10 years ago, maybe people would choose it based on the merits. It would be stupid to keep "protecting" Safari when it's clear to anyone the reason why so many web f
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by gigel82 3y ago
Am I the only one who read it as the ancient world before computers existed had stacks or heaps? English is so weird sometimes...
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by gigel82 3y ago
That's so ironically sad coming from Jobs seeing where Apple got now (partly due to the direction he set).
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by gigel82 3y ago
This is cool, but how will they enforce it against someone like Apple? If I buy my next iPhone in Oregon, I'll have the right to repair it / buy non-VIN-locked parts?
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by gigel82 3y ago
You mean members of the Apple cult / church? https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-a-religion-neurosci...
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by gigel82 3y ago
> Apple should be another Boeing, a company that exists to embody its regulation That is pretty funny because you're right, Apple is becoming another Boeing - a profit-above-all-else corporate asshole and just like Boeing what we ne
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by gigel82 3y ago
The standards Apple set are for others, not for itself; Apple is all too happy to extract as much data as possible from its customers to build its own ad empire while limiting others'. I'd prefer a level playing field where I can
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by gigel82 3y ago
Apple Fanboyism Is A Religion: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-a-religion-neurosci...
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by gigel82 3y ago
This is not enough. It's good, but definitely not enough.
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by gigel82 3y ago
Good news for consumers, I hope they go at them hard!
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DOJ reportedly will file antitrust lawsuit vs. Apple as soon as Thursday(marketwatch.com)
8 points by gigel82 3y ago|1 comments
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by gigel82 3y ago
You're thinking of Midjourney. Stable Diffusion is awesome, you can run it locally on consumer GPUs.
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by gigel82 3y ago
Mikhail reported to Rajesh Jha and I guess now he'll report to Mustafa. Mikhail's official title is CEO of Advertising and the entire Windows Engineering org reports to him. I just asked some MS friends who confirmed.
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Microsoft's testing an idea to promote Bing in Windows 11(techradar.com)
4 points by gigel82 3y ago|2 comments
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by gigel82 3y ago
Interesting, Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Advertising, where Windows is reporting these days is also moving under the new org. I wonder what Microsoft's plans are for Windows now that the whole thing reports to Copilot and Ads.
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by gigel82 3y ago
There are millions of pieces of software in C or C++ with more than a couple thousand commits, whereas with rust there are maybe a handful (the rust compiler itself, Servo, Deno, and... ?), and I bet they all had to fix memory safety bugs (
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by gigel82 3y ago
No, I mean humans in general, not software developers. Seriously, show a non-developer a printout of some average modern C++ code and some average rust code and see which one they think is easier to read and more visually pleasing.
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by gigel82 3y ago
I didn't say people are too stupid. On the contrary, we onboard fresh grads onto our large C++ code base every once in a while and they all seem to grasp the concepts just fine. I'm wondering if most folks throwing shade at C++ ha
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by gigel82 3y ago
Scratch is simpler than Rust and a lot safer. That's absurd, but maybe that's where we're headed?
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by gigel82 3y ago
I agree; you can write perfectly safe and noncompromisingly performant code in C++ much better than any language today. It's genuinely difficult to understand why Rust gets rammed down everyone's throats lately; do they really thi
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by gigel82 3y ago
I still think that's a test of how much we're willing to tolerate. Since there is no uproar (outside of niche communities like amateur astronomy) I imagine they'll keep pushing the envelope. Don't be surprised when in a
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by gigel82 3y ago
I wish car manufacturers would start making tiny (maybe RFID) remotes I could stick in my (minimalist) wallet. Alternatively, looking forward to a tiny Flipper-like (credit-card sized) that can achieve the same result. Seriously, the car fo
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by gigel82 3y ago
Presumably a government could also requisition the private key of several root authority certificates (whether or not they "proudly announce" that is another matter).
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by gigel82 3y ago
So I guess regulation is good after all... perhaps we can get some traction with that in US?
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by gigel82 3y ago
Epic isn't Apple's customer. Apple is just the local (techno)feudal lord / rentier wanting to tax all merchants trying to sell goods to Apple's serfs.
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by gigel82 3y ago
That's good, but we should look at all cars, not just cars made in China. Opting out of data collection should be a right across the board.
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by gigel82 3y ago
No, this happened over the past 2 months. I've received messages from accounts with female first names without any phone number (and obviously not in my address book). I suspect they were testing the username feature pre-release and ba

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