hootz

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by hootz 5mo ago
With the current state of the AI companies and models, one should stay as far away as possible from vendor lock in. Use open and agnostic harnesses and processes.
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by hootz 5mo ago
Well yeah, they need that to do maintenance work. They can see my company's private repos from our enterprise contract, so they can absolutely see your personal ones.
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by hootz 5mo ago
But the results are still 1000x better than Google's. Something is being done there.
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by hootz 5mo ago
Anyone taking bets on whether that bet will be available in prediction markets by the end of the week?
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by hootz 5mo ago
It's amazing how clear the manipulation and enshittification of Google's results are when you search the same thing with Kagi or even just another random search engine. Ecosia seems cool too, will keep an eye on it in case anythin
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by hootz 5mo ago
I believe it is a thing. Saw it somewhere, like a peer to peer search engine.
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by hootz 5mo ago
That's why Kagi is the only subscription I don't actively think about cancelling. For the love of god, keep me away from Google and all of THAT. If Kagi goes down the same path, I'll selfhost something or just return to monke
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by hootz 5mo ago
Yeah. Actually, that's a cool thing to think about. Will it be possible in the future for an LLM to be deterministic enough to the point of becoming essentially a text to code compiler? Like, an entire class of LLMs that are meant to b
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by hootz 5mo ago
It is a selling point for me. Photopea can be closed tomorrow, and it will disappear from the face of the Earth. GIMP will never disappear, as it can be downloaded and forked, has no DRM like Photoshop, no ads, runs anywhere. And Photopea d
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by hootz 5mo ago
And the modern web being usable is basically thanks to the people who understand lower level optimization.
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by hootz 5mo ago
And they did atrophy! I only know assembly because I deliberately studied it and practiced it for reverse engineering. But in my view, no longer being able to understand high level code is a much, much bigger problem than not understanding
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by hootz 5mo ago
Where does my trapezoid-shaped highly compressed and ambiguous natural language go? Well, of course, it goes in the square hole!
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by hootz 5mo ago
But the question is, will this atrophy our ability to write and understand code? Is reviewing enough? Won't we inevitably get lazy and stop reading enough code? Reading always was a worse way to learn than doing. When we stop doing, we
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by hootz 5mo ago
But how good is Krita with photo manipulation and composites? I don't want to paint, I want to edit images.
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by hootz 5mo ago
There's no reason to use GIMP when a closed-source ad ridden web app with premium AI features exists?
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by hootz 5mo ago
Digital artists use Photoshop for painting/drawing? I thought Photoshop was made for photo composites.
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by hootz 5mo ago
I swear to god that DeepSeek V4-Flash is the most useful model available right now. It's SO FAST and is good enough for so many tasks that I run it most of the time for almost everything. Even when it messes up, it's so cheap to i
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by hootz 5mo ago
Meh, they just merged existing software.
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by hootz 5mo ago
Baby don't hurt me.
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by hootz 5mo ago
Finally we can beat the usage metrics goal!
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by hootz 5mo ago
Can't that be countered by the fact that you can pay a reasonable price (something like 20 or 30 bucks) for small businesses independent flat-rate inference subscriptions of models like GLM-5.1? They aren't being subsidized, they
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by hootz 5mo ago
But why doesn't it work?
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by hootz 5mo ago
Why is Anthropic fumbling so hard their boost they got from OpenAI fumbling hard? These companies suck... I'll stay with the open-weight models.
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by hootz 5mo ago
I still don't understand why we aren't using server-side gameplay analysis for cheat detection. You can have some obvious inhuman-level gameplay heuristics for real time kicks/timeouts during matches and post-game analysis by
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by hootz 5mo ago
Yep, they refuse to lower prices to try to maintain value over time. That's why most second hand physical first party games cost the same, people know the digital or first-hand physical game prices won't ever go down.
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by hootz 5mo ago
And they charge a lot for them, too. The Luigi's Mansion 2 remake is too expensive for a graphical upgrade of a 3DS game.
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by hootz 5mo ago
The idea behind blocking ransom payments is to disincentivize asking for ransom. If you know it's almost impossible to pay ransom, the risk of not getting paid for your attack is much higher.
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by hootz 5mo ago
But why is it successful? Where did their money come from? How sustainable is it? The core issues from capitalism still exist there, but they have more money with a smaller population.
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by hootz 5mo ago
We are currently killing millions of our own people. Communism is not stuck in time with the USSR.
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by hootz 5mo ago
Once you see the goomba, you can't unsee it...

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