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by jrm4 4mo ago
That was the point of the "e.g."
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by jrm4 4mo ago
"Backed by tech companies" Yup, huge red flag. Non-profit is the long-term way to go.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
The complexity here is definitely a point against Brave.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
This is an unadvisable forest-v-trees calculation. At any given time, Firefox is rarely the "best" at any snapshot metric. It's nonetheless the thing you can overwhelmingly trust the most in the long run.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Brave seems silly theoretically for two reasons: 1) I think it's well established (or perhaps not well established enough) that "non-profit" is the only way to go for base level computing things like this. Profit motive (as d
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Oh, so you are either deliberately, or ignorantly, spreading utter falsehoods. I think we're done here.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
? I was speaking historically, not now
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Having, e.g. seen Microsoft maintain a monopoly for well over a decade, there's nothing in my experience that suggests that "quality always beats hype" is remotely true. It's entirely possible Claude is just winning t
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by jrm4 4mo ago
But you're pretty much measuring opportunity cost in tokens per second, no? I think it strongly remains to be seen whether e.g. tokens per second (multiplied or whatever by percieved quality of private model) actually means "bette
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Not surprising. The point of my first sentence is; private individuals and small businesses generally pay their fair share. Larger corporations emphatically do not.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Yes, when they do so proportional to what they take, especially as compared to individuals and their tax liabilities. You'll have to let me know when that finally happens, because that ain't now.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
What part of that said "defense?" They can both be bad.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
“Well, Steve (Jobs), I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox, and I broke into his house to steal the TV set, but I found out that you had already stolen it.” -- Bill Gates
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Unlike the big companies who do this, which often are merely impure scams on tax payer money a little more downstream.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Percievable goods and services, then.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
But he seems wildly oblivious to the fact that there even is an argument to be had here, which there emphatically is. Reasonable people can disagree as to the nature/extent -- or even the existence of -- exploitation, but this guy abso
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by jrm4 4mo ago
This is a ridiculously oversimplified application of first year economic theory. No, we do not live in the textbook fantasy of "everyone is always free to make favorable trades and therefore no one is exploited."
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Please don't bury the lede here of how the author completely and epically misses the point of the statement. It's not about the math of the thing, it's about the arguably necessary exploitation that must occur to hit those
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Funny how perhaps "localized" this might be? Grew up an only child but now I have 2 kids, and "couch multiplayer" is now perhaps the majority of my game time. This is where Steam shines;e.g. Speedrunners, Boomerang Fu, a
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by jrm4 4mo ago
This silly pretentiousness goes a long way to explain why it took so long for Wayland to even be usable . I get that this is the way of the world, but I still think we'd have been be better off with, you know, real attention paid to c
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Yes. LITERALLY THIS. I do this! Not hypothetical. I'll write a detailed prompt for a function, hand it off to 5 or so models (all of which are on my local machine), wait about 5 min and then compare.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
I mean, this is what I'm doing. I'm guessing my process is very different because I'm holding the hand of the project way more along the way, but even that to me probably makes for a more enjoyable. Which is to say, I might
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by jrm4 4mo ago
With you here. I'm using my cheapo 16gig vram card I picked up a year or so ago, and I'm like -- yes, I percieve that you can pay for way more tokens per second that I can do at home. But that feels like measuring productivity in
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by jrm4 4mo ago
I'm in Florida and am already using AC, so if not "free", definitely "negligible."
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Is spending (metered money) even worth it? Perhaps for most I mean "beyond like a 30 bucks a month," but for me I'm literally not spending more money beyond my very cheapo 16gb video card. No clue what y'all are doing,
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Not convinced this is clear at all? I'm typing a document in, lets say -- word. I want it to say "Come to my awesome awesome awesome party." If I type it out, it's not programming, but if I ctrl-c + then ctrl-v twice, it
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by jrm4 4mo ago
This is so good, I wonder if op did it on purpose. Orders of magnitude more people can now make an absolutely "Hollywood quality" movie, precisely due to their nice modern iPhone cameras. The only question now is, how do we make i
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by jrm4 4mo ago
I do a bit in my IT classes where I show a "spectrum" of computer activities, from "changing a screensaver" to "Assembly" and then challenge people to find the line where "using a computer" stops and
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by jrm4 4mo ago
No. I don't know about the organization, but somewhere in this chain there is a flesh-and-blood human who deserves ridicule and or consequences, and furthermore -- discovering these people in situations like this is deeply important
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by jrm4 4mo ago
And the majority of people I work with DON'T.

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