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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I'm purely guessing, but I can imagine quite vividly how some of these things might have happened. Probably, a consultant was asked to generate a plausible version of some of these elements and they were quite careful in doing so. They
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Why are you discounting Volvo?
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
If there us a 99% chance if faulure, the rational response is no unless the rewards are absolutely, insanely huge (at least about 200x the cost of every resource used) and the org can take the failure.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
A "just say yes" attitude leads to certain disaster then because the time to fix the product never comes. Demanding the time to clean up is equivalent to saying no. Whoever is in charge of development needs to have the power to do
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Especially basic scientific research is so far removed from actually useful applications that there is no direct cause and effect relationship between single items of research and any eventual effect on society.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I never absorbed that fact until now. Now, if it supported huge repositories with large files and binary files well, it could actually become a superstar.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I think that version control has reached a point where the next major evolutionary steps will be based on making history totally shared and immutable with history edits themselves being non-destructive versioned operations that can be brows
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
But in order to fit the phrase the business has to actively fight for user attention to get the space for ads. This is specifically the search engine and social media model. Vivaldi is not fighting this fight. At all.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
That's actually NOT what this phrase implies. It is really about targeted ads and the drive for more ads and more precise targeting based on user data. Look up attention economy. Vivaldi is not that. The only place where it shows any
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
"Being the product" refers to recording user behavior and processing it for gains. Displaying non-personalized ads (which are trivial to completely avoid in Vivaldi) is not that.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
But only if the user is not getting the app through an app store but from a "code repository"? I'm not sure if I interpret that correctly, but at first glance it seems confusing and ambiguous. Does that mean I need to downloa
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
But the authoritative root server set is maintained by ICANN, so they have ultimate control (for now) and can essentially dictate terms for all TLDs. I wonder whether we wventually see some other power establish their own root servers which
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
There is an initial cost to learning hg, but it is usually offset by the less destructive nature of hg's behaviors and defaults in the long term.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Branching in Mercurial is as good as or better than in git, but it takes a few minutes of additional reading until the full flexibility of Mercurial's model actually reveals itself. Revisions can be safely ignored in favor of commit ha
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Asking an LLM tp change programming language of an implementation is completely different from asking it to code from spec. It's orders of magnitude simpler in practice. I converted some 60kloc of Java to C++ and it works. There were s
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
You're still attempting to twist my words here. It's not exclusively one or the other. Don't make that claim. Don't pretend that I made it, either.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
It is welk known that agents can cheat or go off on tangents and not recover. Just recently deleted a bunch of code files that I didn't ask for. The code wasn't even used anywhere.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
That's what the new AI overlords want the world to believe, at least.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
You can trust them to flag some things during review that may or may not be relevant. But just like with human review and unit testing, you cannot guarantee the absence of bugs after an LLM code review. It's just another set of (virtua
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
What's new to me is the openness and agressiveness of those attempts. This isn't a quiet power struggle wrapped in diplomatic niceties anymore.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Do you think that I do? Nationalism existed at the edges of the political spectrum for a long time. I'm saying that outside propaganda tries to actively boost the popularity of those parties.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Ships also produce noise. At least marine mammals are affected by ship noises.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
The EU needs to be more vigilant than ever, though. Russia has been trying to export their nationalistic totalitarianism to the EU for decades and now the US has openly declared a goal of exporting their brand of blind ignorant nationalism
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Training data can't be the whole answer. LLMs are really good at translating to different programming languages. This makes sense, given that they are derived from text translation systems. I'm getting great results in languages w
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I really hate how German environmental activists resort to hyperbole and alarmist language by default when voicing concerns. This only makes it harder for me to take them seriously. And then there is this tried and true tradition of commiss
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I splurged a while ago and got a pre-assembled Core One. It worked great right out of the box and is has been worry-free so far. So far, I've treated it very much like an appliance with no tinkering on my part yet. The machine is still
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
There are a couple of things wrong here. First off, there is a historic climate record that goes back centuries and is fairly accurate. Second, the climate prediction models are tested against this historic record. They reproduce the histor
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
I believe that it technically belongs to Visual C++, not the operating system, but it needs to ship with the OS because the user space binaries are compiled with MSVC.
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
OK, so they might want to review AI models - for what exactly? Is it to make sure that they have been properly lobotomized to become incapable of software security work? Is it to make sure that they only give true and factually accurate inf
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by gmueckl 6mo ago
Industrial automation as a market is like that. Those products are expected to be long lived and supported for decades because the machinery they are attached to often has a similarly long lifespan. A company I worked at was still supportin

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