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by groby_b 1y ago
> People that run an AD domain for their home lab, people that use apple configurator to create profiles for their own devices (can enable some settings/features that are otherwise gated behind using an MDM profile - like shared iPa
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by groby_b 1y ago
It is really amazing in how many ways C/C++ made the wrong default/implicit choices, in retrospect. Hindsight's 20/20, of course. But still.
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"Open Source" is a pretty clear case of lying by omission. You open sourced the frontend. Without a clear license. That's not an "open-source cloud drive"
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by groby_b 1y ago
Sigh. It was a great app. Switching to the freemium resource extraction model makes it utterly unattractive. (If I wanted to go with the whole "nice app you got, shame if something happened to it" model, Adobe's got that cove
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by groby_b 1y ago
> At 17 you should still be thinking about investing in education I mean, sure, in a perfect world you can postpone retirement savings. But if we're doing perfect world, you shouldn't have to think about "investing in educ
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Yup, but the IPO will still have happened in CA, and there's going to be a tax windfall from that. It's about a moment in time, not an "in perpetuity" agreement.
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by groby_b 1y ago
Yes. It is, in fact, possible to make jokes about abstract concepts and fictional entities. At least until the Torment Nexus outlaws it.
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> You end up needing to use `uv pip` so it's not even a full replacement for pip. No you don't. That's just a set of compatibility approaches for people who can't let go of pip/venv. Move to uv/PEP723, worl
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Except here it's made abundantly clear, up front, who has responsibility. There's no pretense that it's fully self driving. And the engineer has the power to modify every bit of that decision. Part of being a mature engineer
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"this entire argument from the left on crime is based upon a false reading of the stats" -> Not sure whom you're debating here. I'm aware of the stats, and don't think I've made points that disagree with you
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by groby_b 1y ago
As somebody avowedly on the left-hand side of the political spectrum - yep. I know the crime stats. I also have seen friends of mine get robbed 3 times in 4 years, once with them in the house. (LA, not Oakland. And in the nice suburbs.) And
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by groby_b 1y ago
The flipside is that QGIS and overpass are so complicated that only with LLM assistance they're truly usable. (Applies more to QGIS than to overpass, though both could stand to improve a lot in terms of usability)
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by groby_b 1y ago
Another 36% could've voted against him and chose not to. Even accounting for some amount literally unable to reach the poll booth, yeah, half of America.
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by groby_b 1y ago
Not participating in the trolley problem does not remove questions of moral responsibility. You had the choice to throw the lever, you said "either outcome is fine". That's your choice. "I don't participate at all&q
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by groby_b 1y ago
Or, you know, you could use a mechanism that actually guarantees them some revenue and doesn't just burn the publication to the ground because you feel entitled to free access.
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You don't. Internet or not.
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by groby_b 1y ago
You can usually do with less than the full history. "Here are five books where I liked the tone/setting/worldbuilding/topic, gimme more" has proven pretty successful. With gradual refinement - "I like #1 and #4
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by groby_b 1y ago
OK, but if you can't find out how to use new tools well, how good are you really as a craftsperson? "We've always done it this way" is the path of calcification, not of a vibrant craft. And there are certainly many ways
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by groby_b 1y ago
The major labs are hiring experts. They carefully build & curate synthetic data. The market for labelled non-synthetic data is currently ~$3B/year. The idea that LLMs are just trained on a pile of raw Internet is severely outdated.
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by groby_b 1y ago
My very first thought was that somebody needs to take the lead for the IPO circus... (Also, a revolving credit facility is not a loan, which this discussion misses)
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by groby_b 1y ago
Currently, all queries are returning "We're under load and processing too many requests. Please try again later." So that's how that is going ;)
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by groby_b 1y ago
Many good points in the article, but I'd caveat that if you judge performance only by ELO score, you are not applying the best criteria. SWEBench performance moved from 25% to 70% solved since beginning of 2025, and even with the narro
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by groby_b 1y ago
It's trivial in the sense that a lot of the work isn't high cognitive load. But... that's exactly the point of LLMs. It takes the noise away so you can focus on high-impact outcomes. Yes, the core of that pull requests is an
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by groby_b 1y ago
> it totally sours everyone's view of you. That's the part that doesn't matter at all. Your life isn't contingent on others having a specific view of you - the rest of the world can, for lack of better words, go fuck
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by groby_b 1y ago
Hold, citizen, you shall be arrested for your impure thought. By masked goons.
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by groby_b 1y ago
Wait, aren't stem cells supposed to reverse aging since at least the 2000s? ( https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09603 )
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by groby_b 1y ago
At this point in time, it is absolutely trivial to pre-record whatever you'd like, and it will look glorious, and it doesn't need any basis in reality. As a customer, when you show me a video, I default-assume you're lying.
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by groby_b 1y ago
I did enjoy the maps that came with it. Granted, I probably would've had an easier border crossing if I didn't have a flight map for Kuwaiti airspace, complete with markings for anti-air defenses in the backseat of my car that one
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by groby_b 1y ago
And you start with the mess that this website is... Seriously, a paginated interface for longtext? Hyperlinks not styled as hyperlinks? Text with random highlights? And most of the short blurbs really just more words without any additional
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I'm feeling obliged to rehash a quote from the early days of the Internet, when midi support was added: "If I wanted your web site to make sounds, I'd rub my finger on the screen" Behind that flippant response lies a cor

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