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by jrm4 3mo ago
For what it's worth, I bet this opinion literally doesn't matter anymore. Write your thing in whatever you want, AI it into another language, done.
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by jrm4 3mo ago
Bash gets way more hate than it deserves, in ways that are like "this kitchen knife is terrible for cutting down trees!" Like, yeah, why are you mad? And also, if a dude wants to cut down a tree with a kitchen knife that's ac
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by jrm4 3mo ago
Eh, he's either praising or being condescending, seems like?
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by jrm4 3mo ago
I think you're doing the thing I'm literally railing against; I believe the tendency to turn a relatively simple concept like "we should have a society that has peace and also favorable trades" into IDEOLOGY is precisely
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by jrm4 3mo ago
I hope people get the right message from this, which is: The way people talk about "Capitalism" is most often silly and counterproductive because most of the time -- the person that hates capitalism and the person that loves cap
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by jrm4 3mo ago
I would emphatically not do this, because you're confusing legal ownership with physical ownership and only one can be guaranteed with reasonable certainty. Honestly, I'm continually surprised at how badly people miss this even as
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by jrm4 3mo ago
Does it really, though? I haven't used Windows as a daily driver in forever, but I'd have trouble believing that my Linux Mint desktop isn't less hassle than Windows (e.g. the ads, windows updates etc you mention)
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by jrm4 3mo ago
Any reason for stopping? I have a physical steam link and a Raspberry Pi 4, and house rearranging is making me look into all of this.
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by jrm4 3mo ago
Given my experience with Steam Deck, I strongly doubt this? My guess is that the extra $200 (over a custom built pc) will precisely be "everything mostly just working."
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by jrm4 3mo ago
This is such a baffling claim? I've had very close to zero issues with couch gaming with my steam deck + wireless xbox controllers. They overwhelmingly just work. Including Overcooked?
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by jrm4 3mo ago
So, I just discovered MoCa Coax in the house, and it's the kind of thing that makes me feel silly, especially since we don't have cable tv. I suppose it's because of the ubiquitousness of "wireless." Anyway, will
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by jrm4 3mo ago
Generally, I'm glad that "the people" appear to be pointed in the IMHO correct direction, even if for imprecise, or maybe even wrong, reasons. Regardless of what they are used for, we do not need more "data centers.&quot
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by jrm4 3mo ago
If it involves Amazon today, it is overwhelmingly unlikely to be the best thing that has ever happened for anyone.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
"Confidentiality" Yeah, nah, I'm good. That's not "open-source." Or maybe it is, but it's not "Free Software," the better thing.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Nothing personal, but there genuinely ought to be consequences for using "open source" in the context of something like this tied to proprietary AI services. Local models should be the first choice in that framing.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Lol. Again. Private company third party password managers are bad. Across the board. They're a bad idea. Deeply localized actual best practices can help solve this. Private companies can also help, but only if it isn't in the fo
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Technically correct, the worst kind of correct :)
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Yes, or and hear me out, go ahead and shell out the extra $200 or so as a "hassle fee," if you get the Steam Machine you're much more guaranteed that everything else will just work. I absolutely agree on your notion of "
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Person has a Steam Deck that they don't use? The only thing that keeps me from being genuinely baffled by this person taking the time to write this is the fact that I'm seeing similar takes elsewhere, which also baffle me to no en
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by jrm4 4mo ago
I feel like there's a midrange of "not particularly techy" gamers who will strongly appreciate - "I don't care about putting anything together, I just want to place PC games like a console."
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by jrm4 4mo ago
BRO THANK YOU. This was something I knew to be true in my much more limited circle, but I very much appreciate the real life bigger example.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
I don't know why people keep making this point as if it matters; it sounds like you might be trying to absolve the creators or something. But again, the people who gave the name to the project deliberately chose it because they found
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by jrm4 4mo ago
I've been up and down this debate a million times, a lot of it here, suffice it to say -- the fact that you and others don't recognize this does not at all detract from my point. To summarize, it's not e.g. about me being p
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Preach. And it's a disease . Signed, the guy who will forever believe GIMP could have been a contender with a name change decades ago.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
At current "proprietary inference company behavior," investing in local inference sounds like the exceedingly far more rational option. Long term predictability ought to far outweigh a few more cycles of performance.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
"Seems to have worked OK for email" THANK YOU. It seems like far too few in this space really understand the benefits of actual decentralization. ATProto feels like "centralized, except also we get other people to do the ha
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Yes, and this is exactly why ATProto is worse and more dangerous. Instances are safer. precisely because they are more genuinely decentralized. The ability to forever tie your stuff to a person, strongly, is exactly what the surveillance
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Ha, not a problem. Look, for coding and a lot of other things, AI is awesome. But the here's the killer. I have a dinky 16gb VRAM card, and that's kind of the sweet spot for the level of AI I actually want. I don't want it do
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Yup, this kind of criticism happens all the time. It's good to point out -- but a lot of people treat it like a deal-killer, which is the height of naivete.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
It should be readily apparent to anyone paying a little bit of attention that large corporations do not pay their fair share.

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