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by kbelder 6mo ago
It might settle into a situation where cutting edge LLMs are a service, while older and smaller LLMs are self-hosted. So you are not at risk of being cut off, but of being degraded.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
It reminds me a bit of the ACLU. If nothing else, they were always respectable in their vociferous defense of the 1st amendment and free speech. But they got caught up in other ideological battles, and transitioned to a more partisan orga
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by kbelder 6mo ago
They could be valuable in the sense that the owner can destroy bitcoin at will. Just having that leverage could be useful.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Take a moment and apply some common sense to your math. Do you really think there are 5 psychiatrists in the country named Scott? That's off by multiple orders of magnitude.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
HE'S THE ONE WHO TRAPPED ME HERE. MOVE FAST OR YOU'LL BE NEXT.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Why "Western" corporations that promote censorship? Non-western censorship is allowed?
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by kbelder 6mo ago
>Just good enough for grandma to check her email and watch youtube. Which is 90% of the use of a computer. And Steam is taking care of the other 10%.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
And if it's a better fork... it's still open source, so you can switch to it or fork it back. Open source licenses shouldn't be viewed as a marketing strategy; it's a gift.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Yeah, I've had to manually edit hosts for every work and personal windows machine I've had in the last 20 years, I think. At least desktops.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
I don't like most AI music I've heard, but you shouldn't be voted down for expressing a preference. I do sometimes turn on ambient noise, some of it is randomized and musical (like '88 keys' at mynoise.net). Not AI
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by kbelder 7mo ago
That might slow them down. Could any of the IT professionals, here, think of a way around it? Then likely the kids could.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
They'll definitely be required to either add the attribution or stop using the code. There can be punitive fines for copyright violation, moreso if the copyright is registered. I think there's some leeway there for the court. The
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by kbelder 7mo ago
But there's no method or structure in place to pay a website a fraction of a cent. Ads are the only way we've found that actually implements a form of microtransactions... paying a tenth of a penny for a sliver of attention. I do
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by kbelder 7mo ago
Yeah, the astronauts aren't nearly as rational and clear-thinking as HN posters.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
How would people feel about CUDA programming in a simplified Fortran? That's just a step away from BASIC.
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Microsoft plans to build 100% native apps for Windows(windowslatest.com)
4 points by kbelder 7mo ago|3 comments
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by kbelder 7mo ago
It's like talking to an intern.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
look at the c key so faded and worn out from wear always getting used
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by kbelder 7mo ago
Damnit, now I want a doughnut.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
I remember my Dad yelling at me to "put the dynamite back in the truck" when I was a kid.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
I voted you up because you're correct, in that the only solution is construction and there are people that are doing everything in their power to avoid that truism. But I don't think it is a left/right issue. In certain regi
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by kbelder 7mo ago
Well, omitting the Oxford comma is the traditionally correct thing to do. I use the Oxford comma, it makes sense, but it is new. A hundred years ago it would have been considered an error by nearly every editor.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
Isn't "Less than Two Years" just "One Year"?
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by kbelder 7mo ago
>Mobile browsers are stuck with their OS's core browser engine regardless of what you "download". iOS is, but Android allows you to use your custom browser engine. There aren't many besides Firefox and that one ain&#
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by kbelder 7mo ago
>I wouldn't hire or work with 'Sam Bent' Saying something like that is far grosser and more inappropriate than a using a metaphor.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
https://teatrade.co.uk/learning/physics-of-teh-tarik-foam.ht... Apparently the act of pouring has a huge effect on temperature because of the surface area :: volume ratio of the fluid as it streams (and turbulence afte
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by kbelder 7mo ago
Keep in mind that as people age out of the 16-18 bracket, their age will be established fairly precisely. And that this information is spread by data brokers, and may follow them forever.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
"A Feather Alert is a resource available to law enforcement agencies investigating the suspicious or unexplainable disappearance of an indigenous woman or indigenous person." That is so bizarre. How embarrassing.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
You may have fumbled the calculator at one point. 20Min per 3 hours is 88.8% uptime. 99.9% uptime is 11 seconds down.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
And Illinois and New York.

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