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gilrain
5mo ago
> It wouldn't surprise me if AMD is scaling back their free offerings due to the impact on support. They’re welcome to hamstring themselves in the market; it’s just not a smart move.
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gilrain
5mo ago
News to me… share a link?
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gilrain
5mo ago
And also the sky is red rather than blue.
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5mo ago
> in case of Vivaldi you are in fact not the product I’m really curious what gave you this impression. Vivaldi doesn’t hide its business model, yet you were so confident!
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5mo ago
> Unlike Firefox, the Linux versions of Vivaldi/Chromium/Chrome do not appear to have any deficiencies
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5mo ago
SELinux is a bear when you’re reacting to it, but ever since I took a day to proactively read about it, it’s become much easier to reason about. It’s not actually all that complex. I still need to troubleshoot from time to time, but I never
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5mo ago
But earlier: > The question is why are you so eager to give critique on unrelated work, appearing in a demo screencap, to someone who didn't produce it? I guess the question was actually , why were you so eager to critique a critiq
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5mo ago
And as we know, GitHub Stars are the same as truth. Very persuasive.
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5mo ago
> But I still stand by the quality of my code, including here. You and I don't need to agree. You aren’t having a disagreement with a person. You’re having a disagreement with reality.
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5mo ago
It isn’t fun when billionaires fight — an asshole always ends up winning.
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5mo ago
Actually, it’s possible other countries don’t have our counterproductively-murderous instincts. You’re looking in a mirror and you fear yourself.
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5mo ago
> cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits Why would you think that will happen? You seem aware of, for instance, the Industrial Revolution and what it has ultimately resulted in.
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5mo ago
Until convictions of rape are justly meted out, you’ll have to stomach accusations taking justice’s place. Justice won’t just sleep. Blame wealth for making the corruption of the courts too damn obvious. Now they’re not taken seriously.
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5mo ago
If they’re not a value add over the base AI, they aren’t worth hiring over just using the base AI.
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5mo ago
You imagine people wind up homeless because they can’t do useful things? What a just world!
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5mo ago
One whose protections can’t be disabled.
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gilrain
5mo ago
Automated vulnerability discovery via LLM.
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5mo ago
> Nit: a gourmand is the opposite of a gourmet > The original usage of Gourmand was Your original “well actually” is incorrect by your own admission. The correct statement is “a gourmand [was] [in some sense] the opposite of a gourmet
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gilrain
5mo ago
Starting a sentence with “How” is standard English, too.
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gilrain
5mo ago
Eager to make bank off the back of civilisation, too? My IT colleagues continue to impress!
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5mo ago
> His response makes me believe … I’d pay more attention to his behavior.
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5mo ago
The country is descending into fascism. If you’ve previous endulged in the politics of “I don’t care about politics”, it’s time to stop and look around you.
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6mo ago
The problem is that you decided the correct place for your “version of his post” was in the comments to his version of his post. This rhetorically implies you’re offering your version as an alternative to his, and it explicitly sets up
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6mo ago
This doesn’t explain the cover (seemingly not used in the final collection) with a hallucinated map on it. Maybe they only used generative art for mockups, but they did use it on a cover design.
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6mo ago
…while not changing anything about our behavior, you mean. Because we were never ignorant of how to do better; we just couldn’t accept even any inconvenience, any obstacle to our “growth”.
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6mo ago
Not at the pace of change we’ve chosen to accept, no.
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6mo ago
“In fairness, this pot of water was already uncomfortably hot before [latest development] raised the temperature another few degrees closer to boiling.” …says a happy frog who will be as cooked as everyone else.
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6mo ago
Your argument seems to be that a statistically-improbable number of people all experienced ultimately- randomly-poor outputs, leading to only a misperception of model degradation… but this is not supported by reality, in which a different c
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6mo ago
Hi Boris, random observer here. Would you consider apologizing to the community for mistakenly closing tickets related to this and then wrongly keeping them closed when, internally, you realized they were legitimate? I think an apology for
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6mo ago
> My hypothesis is that some of this a perceived quality drop due to "luck of the draw" where it comes to the non-deterministic nature of [LLM] output. I think you must have learned that they’re more nondeterministic than you h
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