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by jampekka 2y ago
HTTPS isn't very critical for a static site. Only the Sith, and security zealots, deal in absolutes.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Most consumer passkey implementations are lock-in. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-...
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by jampekka 2y ago
I was quite surprised on a Florida trip that there were a lot of old (clearly past retirement age) people doing service work in e.g. fast food restaurants and grocery stores. It's rare to see even middle aged people in those where I&#x
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by jampekka 2y ago
The calculated daylight even downplays the actual light at the high (or low) latitudes quite a bit. E.g. at latitude 60 there's a "nominal" midsummer night of about four hours, but it doesn't really get dark, as the ligh
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by jampekka 2y ago
> For some products, like free-range eggs, there is the possibility of choosing more ethical options. There sure are, e.g. anything plant-based! ;) > Additionally, it would be wonderful if every animal-derived product had a recent pho
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by jampekka 2y ago
Paying more of course doesn't improve animals' conditions automatically. Improved conditions would most likely increase the price. But even with quite hefty price increse, the conditions will still be a living hell. And for an ind
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by jampekka 2y ago
The reading pedestal also often ignores that reading, and even writing, is not enough. In the posted piece the steps of "research" are, apart from haphazardly watching birds and architecture, all reading or writing. I see problems
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by jampekka 2y ago
Wired seems to have a few free stories before the paywall rises, i.e. a "soft paywall".
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by jampekka 2y ago
Most major subscription newspapers in Finland have a model where "important" news articles are free but for feature stories and such a subscription is needed. Having specific articles free would be something similar. The free news
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by jampekka 2y ago
In Finland I pay 20€/mo for unlimited data (bandwidth capped at 200 Mbps). With some shopping around it can be cheaper/have more bandwidth. The pricing has been similar at least since 3g. And I recall having a similar deal in the
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by jampekka 2y ago
Some comparisons: Singapore is a de-facto single party state with widespread government censorship, heavily limited civil rights, government/ruling party controlled media and heavy ethnic discrimination. Switzerland OTOH is almost a mo
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by jampekka 2y ago
> 4G just couldn't handle heavy loads well, so data caps were needed to constrain demand. In many parts of the world uncapped data has been the norm since around GPRS.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Notebooks can be convenient and have a consistent state at the same time, as done in e.g. Marimo.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Jupyter-style notebooks are a good example of a deep architectural mistake that needs hacks on hacks on hacks to remain barely serviceable. Luckily there are new approaches, e.g. Marimo and Pluto, that don't have the same root issue.
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by jampekka 2y ago
> a) eliminating a potential competing power to the CCCP Eliminating businesses competing with state power sounds like something that we too should have done when we still could.
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by jampekka 2y ago
The current western lifestyle of dirt cheap foreign goods exists only in a world of relative poverty and underdevelopment.
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by jampekka 2y ago
It will be (arguably already is) societally rough though. The west has been riding the asian cheap labor for decades (and the cheap colonial labor before that). People are not gonna be happy falling down the "value chain".
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by jampekka 2y ago
A lot of consumer tech with very competitive UX is coming out of China. They are also getting very strongly into e.g. web frontend tech. I see no reason why the west would have any special advantage in this.
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by jampekka 2y ago
I wonder what's the excuse for keeping the OpenAI models closed "for the benefit of all humanity" now that models as powerful are widely available as open weights.
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by jampekka 2y ago
And open weights promised for June. China is really taking over in the ML game. https://x.com/Baidu_Inc/status/1890292032318652719
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by jampekka 2y ago
> People who can barely deal with the tyranny of daily standups probably would struggle a lot in a world where you need to write grant proposals continuously to justify your existence. I'm continuously writing grant proposals to jus
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by jampekka 2y ago
The models aren't executable binaries. They are sets of network weights that can be run using various (typically open source) third party implementations.
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by jampekka 2y ago
A major problem in EU is that it is at least in practice very opaque. EU politics are not followed by the media or the citizens, and it is surrounded by a gigantic lobbying machine, and run by democratically unaccountable officials. E.g. US
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by jampekka 2y ago
China doesn't give a damn if I criticize them from the EU. Even our politicians are free to criticize them, in contrast to US leaders/oligarchs especially nowadays.
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by jampekka 2y ago
I'm more comfortable with Chinese than US masters.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Bribery becomes lobbying when bribery is legalized. Also especially enforcement depends on who does the favors for the reps and officials.
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by jampekka 2y ago
One field in a database is of course a bit of a caricature, but it does seem like a good example of how dysfunctional the medical software system field is. A single installation of these things can cost literally a billion dollars, yet such
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by jampekka 2y ago
DeepL is a lot better in spelling and grammar, but I didn't mean for translation but to interact directly in Finnish. Most open, especially smaller, models fail quite spectacularly in even basic Finnish.
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by jampekka 2y ago
> The big problem is that implementation requires significant up front capital investment and operational changes; for nebulous / speculative ROI in terms of dollars. This sounds like something like one field in a database?
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by jampekka 2y ago
Animals are quite easy to get to do all sorts of experiments, and per very similar anatomy it seems very likely that the basic fundamental operating principles are same across species. If we can't figure out how a fruit fly's nerv

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