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by logifail 2y ago
Q: Is there a thread about DeepSeek's (apparent) progress with lots of points and lots of quality comments? (Bonus Q: If not, why not?)
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by logifail 2y ago
No-one would possibly think of using GIMP instead... https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/ah9s8n/trie...
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by logifail 2y ago
> Hunter Thompson copying every word of every Hemingway novel isn't copyright infringement I make a high-res photo of a banknote. I can print that out at home. The bad stuff starts at the step after that...
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by logifail 2y ago
> You should've seen the size of it. More of a USB baton really. <glances at shelf with many, many external USB drives hooked up to a Pi 400> Oh, really? :)
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> I've always believed that the entire concept of "intellectual property" does overall more harm than good It's fairly broken, but on balance it seems the creators are the ones getting screwed. I did years of research
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by logifail 2y ago
Nope, I have no need for any <whisper>further</whisper> copies. I'm more interested in how a for-profit corp decides to obtain a copy for development of a commercial product, and how they execute that ... whether they
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by logifail 2y ago
Perhaps the more interesting question would be exactly how did they obtain their copy/copies of Libgen?
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by logifail 2y ago
> It’s trained on 15T tokens. So how many did you provide that were genuinely novel? Are we suggesting that we should ditch creators' rights and instead value intellectual property along the lines of "I should be able to copy a
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by logifail 2y ago
> The diversity is astounding Over the years I've come to the conclusion that there are people who say they are in favour of diversity but underneath only want their kind of diversity, not genuine diversity. Diversity of opinion wou
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by logifail 2y ago
> When a mainstream media outlet takes a position, most people are able to distinguish between that outlet's position and a large social movement in favor of a particular political position I hesitate to reference politics here, but
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by logifail 2y ago
> They're places where people buy a voice and the illusion of support by astroturfing the platform and/or manipulating the algorithm (either through paid advertisements or by owning a platform and controlling the algorithm outr
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by logifail 2y ago
I set up a server last year which is at a remote site which is completely air-gapped from the Internet, it's allowed to see one local LAN and that's all. For any kind of admin task someone has to drive to site. There is precisely
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by logifail 2y ago
> so by the time it slows enough to get that low (10km) it's hundreds or thousands of miles East from where the explosion was seen Appreciate that, the question would be, do we know that there won't be any aircraft at the right
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by logifail 2y ago
> the debris was likely closer to around ~100km in altitude. Commercial airliners fly around ~10km in altitude (Not wishing to ask the obvious, and depending on the size of the pieces) debris at 100km altitude pretty much always ends up
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by logifail 2y ago
> I don't understand why anyone would use passwordless disk encryption You want to install and operate a device at a remote site with restricted (or no) VPN access and where you don't trust the local staff?
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by logifail 2y ago
> They are much better for end users because someone over there cared. Whomever designed the ones in the article clearly does not This is kind of my point, at a very general level the statement "$thing follows design standards"
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by logifail 2y ago
There is an older (2015) discussion on this at https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37390.0
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by logifail 2y ago
> There are enormous design standards [..] I would suggest that "design standards" do not always make things uniformly better, certainly not for end users.
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by logifail 2y ago
> I'm not buying a toy that gets used for 5 minutes only Round here loads of kindergarten-age kids use their balance bike for transportation every single day. I saw one zooming along behind her/his parent (who was pushing ano
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by logifail 2y ago
Based on the experiences we had we our three kids, I would suggest a balance bike is by far the best way to start. Gets the balancing/steering stuff out of the way and you have all the control of speed you need (as long as it's no
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by logifail 2y ago
I don't wish to throw any fuel onto the fire, but people appear to have very different experiences of DEI.
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by logifail 2y ago
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620278
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by logifail 2y ago
> The idea of someone introducing you to someone else at a party is them helping Umm ... along the lines of "helping" someone to learn to swim by pushing them into the deep end of a swimming pool?
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by logifail 2y ago
> Just like I buy SLV (paper silver) or the ZKB silver ETF (physical replication, in vaults in Switzerland) I'd suggest that holding precious metals without actually having physical metal under your exclusive control is essentially
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by logifail 2y ago
> We need to provide spaces for kids to be kids, and safe. That sounds as though you believe spaces such as these no longer exist? (Full disclosure: have three kids, don't track their location, don't believe they are "unsa
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by logifail 2y ago
> The phone itself is just a computer. Using the phone to write, help with homework, or communicate doesn't seem to be the problem. If you want children to learn to be able to write, you have to get them to do it themselves. Not w
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by logifail 2y ago
> > I’m pretty sure take one lead molecule per day would not cause any detectable harm [..] even 1 additional nanogram likely too > "You're pretty sure" isn't unfortunately scientifically admissible evidence Fro
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> That's what they did, and that's what was rejected here, right? Except they weren't the highest bidder?
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> If the bids were open, the competing parties could simply go $1 above the highest offer [..] Isn't that what you want to happen? All the auctions I've ever participated have repeated this very process until none of the buyers
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by logifail 2y ago
> Unfortunately people seems to really care about edge cases (What if I have to unexpectedly drive 400 miles on a frozen January evening?) There are plenty of people who live in places where it's frozen every evening for getting on

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