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by imiric 1y ago
The fairness doctrine was a good thing, but it existed in a different time. Bringing it back today wouldn't address the main issue which is the internet. When everyone is given a loudspeaker, and the power to create an audience of mill
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by imiric 1y ago
Agreed. YAML is not a great format to begin with, but using it for anything slightly more sophisticated (looking at you Ansible, k8s, etc.) is an exercise in frustration. I really enjoyed working with the Earthfile format[1] used for Earthl
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by imiric 1y ago
More sophisticated client identification can be used to avoid that edge case, e.g. TLS fingerprints. They can be spoofed as well, but if the client is going through that much trouble, then they should be treated as hostile. In reality it&#x
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by imiric 1y ago
It could be slightly more sophisticated than that. Instead of outright blocking an entire IP range, set quotas for individual clients and throttle downloads exponentially. Add latency, cap the bandwidth, etc. Whoever is downloading 10,000 c
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by imiric 1y ago
Isn't that obvious? When corporations can lobby to influence legislation, pay to get a candidate elected, and CEOs hold positions of power, including the presidency itself , any semblance of democracy is an illusion.
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by imiric 1y ago
"AI" tools accomplish one thing: output code given natural language input. That's it. Whether the generated code meets specific quality or security standards, or whether it accomplishes what the user wanted to begin with, dep
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by imiric 1y ago
As much as I'm interested in running Linux on my next mobile device, I'm not inclined to trust a single company to provide both the device and the OS. I have no reason to distrust Furi Labs, but trust is earned, not granted. First
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by imiric 1y ago
As the web devolves further, the only viable long-term solution will be allow lists instead of block lists. There is too much hostility online—from websites that want to track you and monetize your data and attention, SEO scams and generate
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by imiric 1y ago
> you chase every new shiny thing and you write a product or service in that shiny thing That is a choice you make. Software development doesn't have to be that way. In fact, it's saner for your productivity, ease of maintenanc
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by imiric 1y ago
Everyone's life experiences and the way we process them are different, which builds our understanding of the world around us in very unique ways. It's not unimaginable for someone to have a worldview as GP's. Instead of label
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by imiric 1y ago
What place exactly? The software is a decentralized protocol that anyone can use. If you don't like nazis, don't go to nazi bars.
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by imiric 1y ago
At that point, why not just go full out with the fake demo, and play all responses from a soundboard? They could learn a thing or two from Elon.
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by imiric 1y ago
> If one has to specify that software is apolitical, it isn't. That conclusion doesn't track. In a time when a lot of software has become politically charged, it's perfectly reasonable to specify when that isn't the c
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by imiric 1y ago
> Your web, your control Typical corporate doublespeak. The web is neither "mine", nor am I ever in control. If anything, the web belongs to corporations like Google. By integrating their text prediction, summarization, and hal
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by imiric 1y ago
Software is inherently apolitical. Claiming otherwise would be like saying that a hammer or drill are political, which is absurd. Political views are placed on software depending on the author's beliefs, but it's perfectly valid t
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by imiric 1y ago
Ah, I was thinking of Core 2, but was off by a couple of years. Although "peak" consumer Intel was undeniably in the 90s. Like I said, Intel may not be market leader in some segments, but they certainly have very competitive produ
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by imiric 1y ago
The B580 was released in December 2024, and the 4060 in May 2023. So not quite a two year difference. While it doesn't quite compete at performance and power consumption, it does at price/performance and overall value. It is a $25
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by imiric 1y ago
> None of their products are competitive We must live in different universes, then. Intel's 140V competes with and often outperforms AMD's 890M, at around half the power consumption.[1] Intel's B580 competes with AMD'
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by imiric 1y ago
> It might damage intel, but given they're circling the drain already, it's hard to make matters worse. How was Intel "circling the drain"? They have a very competitive offering of CPUs, APUs, and GPUs, and the upcomi
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by imiric 1y ago
You can't be serious. Intel was well on its way to be a considerable threat to NVIDIA with their Arc line of GPUs, which are getting better and cheaper with each generation. Perhaps not in the enterprise and AI markets yet, but certain
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by imiric 1y ago
> A more ethical approach IMO (and ethics are both personal and subjective) is to pay for YT Premium if you'd prefer to suppress ads. Labeling people who use ad blockers as unethical is hypocritical, to say the least. The supremely
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by imiric 1y ago
Not being able to openly criticize the US or any other government on social media is hardly important. Free speech never existed on privately run platforms to begin with. It's delusional to think that it does or to demand it, when all
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by imiric 1y ago
I liked X-plore on Android, which also supports dual panes. It's not open source, unfortunately.
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by imiric 1y ago
Directory Opus is a brilliant piece of software. At least was when I last used it in the Windows XP days. It's a steal for $60. Just take a look at that feature set. All in 26.58MB. The average modern web site weighs more than that.
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by imiric 1y ago
> I wonder if the toxicity of the American culture wars can be contained this way. Huh? Are you not aware of US social media companies? Everything that's happening on TikTok is also happening on X, Facebook, Friendster, or whatever
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by imiric 1y ago
Congrats, you made LLMs perform slightly better at a contrived puzzle. This finally proves that we've cracked intelligence and are well on our way towards AGI.
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by imiric 1y ago
> "Rewrites should always be avoided" is not a core principle of software engineering. Why are you misrepresenting what I said? I never claimed that rewrites should always be avoided. But that in most cases they're not
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by imiric 1y ago
Developer motivation is important, but the choice of language shouldn't be a primary factor in that. Being passionate about the domain and solving a problem for users should be the primary motivators. Otherwise it signals that once the
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by imiric 1y ago
There's so many things wrong with your comment that I'm not sure where to start. First of all, nobody is on a vendetta or "dying" on any "hills" here... I'm just pointing out shoddy engineering as I see it
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by imiric 1y ago
The argument is that certain tools introduce complexity into a project by the mere act of using them. A power drill has many more knobs and features that the user must be aware of than, say, a screwdriver. Sometimes those features are requi

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