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lenkite
3mo ago
China successfully competed by insisting on a framework of "forced technology transfer" and joint venture requirements. To access the Chinese market, US firms were nearly always required to share proprietary technology and intelle
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3mo ago
AIPAC is also the unique lobbying group that effectively threatens US congressfolk on X. After Massie lost, they went ahead and boasted that "elected officials are free to disagree with us, but only briefly". They deleted that pos
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lenkite
3mo ago
AI slop PR's aren't really generated by people willing to do even this much effort.
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4mo ago
With over 1 billion monthly active users, reddit is not a minority and is a significant fraction of internet users. Btw, people complain about Windows bloat on Whatsapp too. Now, that IS a majority of internet users.
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lenkite
4mo ago
A researcher who discovered a "true solution" would be fired or assassinated or discredited via propaganda to utter irrelevance. Too many incoming billions at risk.
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4mo ago
Now, that is what I call taking the "Command Design Pattern" to heart!
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4mo ago
"AI slop" reporting also comes with a budget. You can only apply N "AI slop" labels to a user per week. Obviously ban is only for PRs against other repositories belonging to different users/organization. Not PRs tow
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4mo ago
Github needs a "Human Trust" score where "AI Slop" label applied to a PR reduces the score and denies all PR's for the next X hours, delay increasing exponentially for every PR labelled with "AI Slop". Rep
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4mo ago
Chinese models are dropping in price thanks to ridiculous levels of state subsidy where companies are forced into aggressive price wars to survive and grab market share. I am guessing this will also blow up sometime next year or in 2029 a
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4mo ago
Does Mark Zuckerberg have his keystrokes tracked ?
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4mo ago
> Sadly, it feels like I am slowly loosing my skill to identify LLM speak. Just read a few fiction books written in 2026 in Amazon Kindle Unlimited. Your brain will be trained to recognize AI-Slop Speak in No Time.
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lenkite
4mo ago
We have semantic HTML, but for some weird reason we need to yet again re-express the semantic meaning of our website in bespoke weird JSON in a script tag that the browser won't process.
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4mo ago
> Yet in the short term they've lost iconic and experienced leaders, their navy, and plenty of other military assets. They lost old hardware and aging leaders (some were already dying). Now, replaced with fresh and energetic leaders
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4mo ago
I don't want to write Javascript for what should be a core feature of Basic HTML forms.
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lenkite
4mo ago
Delegate all `nil` and bad input checks to a validation framework and use it in all your constructor functions.
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4mo ago
I wish Emacs LISP gained ergonomic static typing. I always find working in un-typed languages very hard.
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4mo ago
Can someone explain to me how is that Java/Kotlin ecosystem has managed to use maven repositories for 3 decades now with very few of these issues ?
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4mo ago
You mean like the KPMG's AI-written report praising AI that was withdrawn after hallucinated cases studies ? AI Slop Targeting already caused significant civilian casualties in the Hormuz War.
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4mo ago
Someone really needs to build an "Evil Companies" list with flowcharts showing the date/time of demonic possession.
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lenkite
4mo ago
The conspiracy uncle was right after all. "You will own nothing and be happy" - WEF Prime Objective.
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4mo ago
Uber kept fares artificially low while simultaneously paying high bonuses to drivers to build a massive network. After burning through roughly $30+ billion over its first decade, Uber then pivoted its business model by raising rider fares,
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4mo ago
I believe Firefox without ads is faster & safer than Chrome with Ads.
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4mo ago
Well, some Chinese AI companies like Zhipu AI are actually increasing price. Let us see the trend in 2027 when the money runs out there too.
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4mo ago
> A slower, untested, incomplete git implementation, all for the low low price of $10-$15,000. That $15k is indeed a very low low subsidized AI price. It will be $150k next year.
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4mo ago
Why was the component model not expressed in LISP syntax like the way WAT is ? Why have yet another custom IDL language with bespoke parsing rules ?
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4mo ago
> Tell me, why is it legal for Iran to bomb oil tankers of other countries? Why is it "legal" for the US to shoot oil tankers of other nations ? And murder sailors of neutral nations in PROPER international waters such as the I
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4mo ago
> I wonder why there isn't a mobile OS that simply lets you build apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and gives you reliable storage without all this effort. There WAS. Firefox OS phone! HTML+CS+JS apps! But Mozilla kicked it to the
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4mo ago
Aren't these Chinese models also heavily subsidized at the moment ? They are running off govt money which also has a cut-off date by 2028-30.
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4mo ago
Anthropic says that LLM code "structurally exceeds human standards".
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4mo ago
That's because American BigTech Bros are afraid of the below and will take every opportunity to diss on it. "Support uptake of open source alternatives to proprietary solutions together with Member States and the Digital Commons E
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