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by latexr 6mo ago
Sure. None of those organisations have power over you (unless you work for them, I guess). You’re free to use whatever name you like for whatever you want. Whichever organisation names venomous snakes has no power over you either, but if yo
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by latexr 6mo ago
I agree with you. But I do see one crucial difference between the Zig and Ghostty announcements, namely that Ghostty did it purely for service degradation reasons while Zig did also mention ideological reasons such as GitHub’s relationship
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by latexr 6mo ago
“Oh no! We opened ten LLMs, all of which have read decades’ worth of fiction on how an AI would be behave in this situation, then asked a leading question thirty times each, and on some of those runs they did the thing we were leading the
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EU Commission seeks feedback on measures to ensure interoperability with Android(digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
3 points by latexr 6mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 6mo ago
Depends on the reason for the exodus. This time it was solely the degradation of the service, but every other post I’ve seen about leaving GitHub had ideological reasons related to Microsoft’s behaviour. It seems unlikely CodeBerg will st
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by latexr 6mo ago
> There's no such thing as authority to name a whale https://www.aza.org/connect-stories/stories/scientists-unvei... Names are submitted and voted on. Those help with identifying individuals (which is what
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by latexr 6mo ago
> I'd google it and probably find the same result, and have no reason not to believe it. Have you truly looked at the website? https://6nimmt.com I’d say there’s obvious reason to not believe it, or at least check anothe
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by latexr 6mo ago
And your name is now Berningular Farshthruster III. I gave you that name. Which is, of course, silly. It is a name for you, just like Teresa T is a name for the whale, but it’s not your / their name, just like the RRS Sir David A
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by latexr 6mo ago
> When I asked some frontier models, many said that Teresa T is "widely referenced", which is evidence of your popularity and the ripple effects of your posts That is some serious Gell-Mann-type amnesia. You’re trusting LLM mod
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Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can't(osnews.com)
18 points by latexr 6mo ago|10 comments
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by latexr 6mo ago
Doesn’t that require you to host it and have it available on the open web, though? Is there a host that allows you to, for free, not only HTML/CSS/JS but also access to arbitrary tools and bespoke scripts on the backend?
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by latexr 6mo ago
https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2036866220449030168
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AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [video](youtube.com)
4 points by latexr 6mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 6mo ago
> Everyone should be aware that if you use OpenAI (or Anthropic), they can shut off your access at any time and you will not be able to access your data. It’s a bit surprising that that continues to be a surprise, but I’m glad more peopl
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by latexr 6mo ago
> they were still following the market trend anyway. They started the trend with Copilot. > If they weren't letting folks use it directly There is a chasm of difference between “letting you use it” and “forcing it down your thr
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by latexr 6mo ago
> The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply. GitHub instability has started way before that. I understand it’s too muc
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by latexr 6mo ago
> I don’t even use biometrics on apple devices Assuming Apple is truthful on this matter (so far it seems so), Apple devices store a mathematical representation of the data, not the data itself (i.e. not a picture of your finger) and kee
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by latexr 6mo ago
> I'm not convinced that it's a mistake for Meta to peruse not being beholden to other platforms. Devoid of other context, it’s hard to disagree. But your parent comment only asserted that the metaverse specifically as propos
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by latexr 6mo ago
> like it was some scientifically qualifiable thing OpenAI and Microsoft do (did?) have a quantifiable definition of AGI, it’s just a stupid one that is hard to take seriously and get behind scientifically. https://techcrunch.
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by latexr 6mo ago
> The lesson here is not to invite your whole friend list. Maybe the lesson is to curate your friend list and don’t keep as a “friend” anyone you wouldn’t want to hang out with in person.
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by latexr 6mo ago
> I don't know why you're trying to start a fight about this to be honest. Again with the assumptions. I don’t know you, I have no interest in fighting you. > I never said coders need to use vscode but yes they need to be co
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by latexr 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Edge
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by latexr 6mo ago
What are the sizes of the companies you’ve been working at? I much prefer and recommend small teams, those where you have interacted with every other person. And I do mean every person , not every developer.
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by latexr 6mo ago
> At the very least you can test for the sort of intelligence that is present in humans but absent from calculators and cleanly separate the two. But you can only do that now, in hindsight . Before calculators, one could argue being abl
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by latexr 6mo ago
> I think you haven't dealt with a lot of non-coders. And I think you should avoid making assumptions about people you know nothing about. That is so far from the truth it’s not even funny. > 90% of the world will not be able to
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by latexr 6mo ago
> The definition of "can/cannot do math" didn't change. That's not up for debate. That is not the argument. The point is that the way you phrased it is ambiguous . “Math” isn’t a single thing, and “cannot” can e
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by latexr 6mo ago
> For example, ~2 years ago, an expert in ML See, that’s a poor argument already. Anyone could counter that with other experts in ML publicly making remarks that AI would have replaced 80% of the work force or cured multiple diseases by
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by latexr 6mo ago
Those examples are nonsensical. None of those are necessary to get working code. The VSCode example is particularly baffling. Firstly, I’m sure you understand there are other editors people use for code; secondly, I know even people who do
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by latexr 6mo ago
> It's intelligent because it does intelligent things. Most people would consider someone who can calculate 56863*2446 instantly in their head to be intelligent. Does that mean pocket calculators are intelligent? The result is the s
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by latexr 6mo ago
That is a “gotcha” born of either ignorance (nothing wrong with that, we’re all ignorant of something) or bad faith. Definitions shift as we learn more. Darwin’s definition of life is not the same as Descartes’ or Plato’s or anyone in bet

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