liquid_thyme

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by liquid_thyme 6mo ago
Sure, If ranking is done purely based on clicks and not quality. I'm just thinking of it as a meta "loss" function in the AI context. So I'd say its the passionate enthusiasts who care enough to provide feedback on such
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by liquid_thyme 6mo ago
Dystopian future where AI pumps out slop and uses human feedback and comments to correct the output.
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by liquid_thyme 7mo ago
>The thing is, LLM's produce better quality one-shots than any of the products that get returned from overseas ultra-budget contractors in India or SEA. Source?
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by liquid_thyme 7mo ago
They use data from the poor student tier, but arguably, large corporates and businesses hiring talented devs are going to create higher quality training data. Just looking at it logically, not that I like any of this...
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by liquid_thyme 7mo ago
Since this exodus (year of the linux desktop has been promised every year since 1998) has not yet happened, there is likely an actual reason (or several) that people choose to stay on Windows. I use both, but prefer linux to stay behind the
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by liquid_thyme 7mo ago
As per https://endoflife.date/macos only 3 MacOS versions are under active support. Also I would wager that most people upgrade the OS anyway due to the piss-poor backwards compatibility for software - Xcode being a prime e
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by liquid_thyme 7mo ago
There is no excuse for poor software when you only have to support a tiny number of hardware variations.
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by liquid_thyme 7mo ago
Google takes money to bypass their spam filters. They call those ads.
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by liquid_thyme 11mo ago
Um, Capital sits at the bottom of the payment waterfall, labor, suppliers, lenders, creditors all have priority claims. Capital returns are vastly more volatile than labor compensation. Most startups burn and die, but employees still get pa
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by liquid_thyme 11mo ago
Cherry picking examples to paint broad brush/strokes doesn't work. There are game companies all over the world, and have varying levels of work/life balance. Your crude caricature is just that; crude.
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by liquid_thyme 11mo ago
A rational person would agree that unions, like anything else, have pros and cons. They can do good, but also can do harm. It's the commenters here seem to fly off on emotional rants that derail the conversations. The thinking is capit
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by liquid_thyme 11mo ago
Apple and Microsoft need to wake up and bake it into the OS. Hopefully that will take meta and google down a notch.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
They created the largest spying instrument in the world that creates hidden profiles (that can never be deleted) documenting web activity, psychological state, medications, etc, etc for billions of people - and have been caught multiple tim
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
I really don't know how they got nerds to think scummy advertising is cool. If you think about it, the thing they make money on - no user actually wants ads or wants to see them, ever. Somehow Google has some sort of nerd cult that peo
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
>You might not think it is, but internet is filled utterly dangerous, scammy, phisy, malwary websites Google is happy to take their money and show scammy ads. Google ads are the most common vector for fake software support scams. Most pe
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
Its everywhere. You get nagged constantly for Apple music on your iphone too. My dystopian prediction is that in the near future, corporations will just garnish your wages so they don't have to do this.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
That may be, and we certainly don't need anyone explaining Google's position - we already know what that is. Nobody here actually cares what Google wants, we're expressing what we want. Nerds have helped Google enough with
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
Many phishing attacks originate from Google's owns domains. Gmail users phishing others, scammy youtube videos, scammy comments with links to scams, scammy ads to fake banking pages, etc, etc. But Google would never be hypocritical, ne
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
You really think talking to a human and a bot is the same?
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
If lockin allows you to ship quality software and tight integration across your product line, there is probably a rationale there. People defend Apple - presumably because of this.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
Lock-in actually helps internal development. If you're targeting fixed hardware, writing software gets a lot easier. Your "guess" is not logical.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
My prediction is that they're going to slowly ban them from their properties, and also from websites where their ads are hosted. They will slowly pressurize Mozilla and anyone else they're funding.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
Not anymore.. https://imgur.com/a/CARfuHZ
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
A browser spying on users for marketing purposes is a disqualifier for me.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
Even if you had 1000 developers who worked for free, you can't get a billion people to care about software quality beyond a certain point.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
Yes, but also paying for distribution and paying for it to be the default browser.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
I meant paying for distribution via the usual channels (toolbar vector, s/w bundling, etc) and paying for their browser as a default with system integrators. They also had a good browser (before it became spyware), but there is no conc
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
I wish them well, but browsers are very much pay-to-play. Google had to pay their way to their current dominant position.
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
Pricing in healthcare is very tightly regulated and there isn't a simple one line answer for why certain prices are they way they are. Its easy to scapegoat bigpharma for being greedy, but they're just as greedy as any other US co
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by liquid_thyme 1y ago
YouTube Premium is also cheaper in Bangladesh.

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