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by lolinder 1y ago
It's a win for the community over and against the corporations that are Redis and Elastic. They're not the good guys for giving in to the pressure. They tried to ride FOSS to prominence and then extract wealth on the backs of
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by lolinder 1y ago
Elastic announced they were switching back a few months ago, we should be able to measure the results by now.
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by lolinder 1y ago
Yeah, we just did this whole ride with Elastic [0]: company changes the license out from under the community, community revolts, company gives up and changes it back. Both companies even pulled the same "it worked" excuse ("w
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by lolinder 1y ago
The job market crash didn't correlate at all with WFH, it correlated with the end of WFH and (more importantly) exactly lined up with the end of ZIRP. Money was free, so a lot of people were paid out of thin air. When money stopped bei
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by lolinder 1y ago
Every one of these posts wants to blame AI because that's the vogue explanation, but every time we see a shift like this there are better explanations. The wave of tech layoffs a few years ago were blamed on AI but were so obviously
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by lolinder 1y ago
That's not at all what I asked.
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by lolinder 1y ago
Yeah, I'm honestly trying to figure out why this is getting so much attention. Applications setting themselves to start up at login in order to avoid doing a bunch of work when they're asked for later is one of the oldest patterns
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by lolinder 1y ago
12-year-old me installed Linux on an old desktop tower and I also broke things constantly. The difference is my parents were both humanities majors and I knew full well there was no point in asking them for help. Even at the time, the resou
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by lolinder 1y ago
I actually have hopes that this will work out for them in the long run. Their bet seems to be at this point including the AI stuff in with the subscription: staving off the existential threat to their business without charging more, while s
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by lolinder 1y ago
Yes, it's a terrible excuse, and it's concerning that they think it's a good one. I highly doubt that they make a habit of fielding requests from plugin authors to nuke outdated reviews: you simply can't scale the verifi
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by lolinder 1y ago
I agree with you that Firefox is better, but it's not for lack of conflict of interest. No browser that is funded by any means other than user payments or donations is going to be free of a conflict of interest, and in Firefox's c
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by lolinder 1y ago
Do you have an ad blocker? I've always seen blank boxes in the spots where ads would have gone.
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by lolinder 1y ago
I don't have premium and it's sticky for me but only on a single computer, I have to reset it if I switch computers or browsers. Same with dark mode. So maybe it's stored as a cookie and they wipe their cookies?
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by lolinder 1y ago
We do, they're called regular cellphones. They can be used to make phone calls and even to send text messages, but they can't be used to access social media hellscapes.
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by lolinder 1y ago
I'm not even sure what you're talking about. Is this a JavaScript complaint and they were meant to use a for..of? Are you an FP purist and think they were supposed to use map/filter? This sounds like you have some very specif
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by lolinder 1y ago
Which suggests that the child labor laws for 16-year-olds are there to keep 16-year-olds in school, rather than school being there as a place to put 16-year-olds who are banned from employment.
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by lolinder 1y ago
> every AI-generated image one sees represents an instance where someone who might have contracted for an image did not This is not at all true. Some percentage of AI generated images might have become a contract, but that percentage is
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by lolinder 1y ago
If I'd started in Rust I likely wouldn't have finished it at all. Java allowed me to start out just focused on the algorithm with very little regard for memory usage patterns and then refactor towards zero garbage collection. Rust
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by lolinder 1y ago
Exactly. Write it in Java, optimize what you need to, leave the rest alone.
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by lolinder 1y ago
I'd have said the same thing 10 years ago (or, I would have if I were comparing 10-year-old Java with modern Rust), but Java these days is actually pretty ergonomic. Rust's borrow checker balances out the ML-style niceties to brin
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by lolinder 1y ago
I have a personal-use app that has a hot loop that (after extensive optimization) runs for about a minute on a low-powered VPS to compute a result. I started in Java and then optimized the heck out of it with the JVM's (and IntelliJ&#x
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by lolinder 1y ago
This seems entirely subjective, most importantly hinging on this part here: "all they wanted is to just make a game". If you just want to make a game, yes, absolutely just go for Unity, for the same reason why if you just want to
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by lolinder 1y ago
This is partially true but not the whole picture. A small shift in popular vote across the seven swing states can result in a massive swing in electoral vote. Shifts in safe states don't register in the electoral college but do regis
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by lolinder 1y ago
Sure, I'm fine to focus on the individual human behavior, but that's a completely different argument than your original post made. To review that comment: > Amazons worst contribution to the world was leaving people with the ex
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by lolinder 1y ago
In most cases where I choose Amazon for shipping speed reasons the alternative I'm considering is making a special trip to a brick and mortar store by car. I don't know how to do the math to figure out which of those is worse for
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by lolinder 1y ago
I'd be very curious to know how many people here actually knew that Independent Bookstore Day was a thing before reading this headline. I just checked the two independent bookstores nearest me and neither one of them has any mention of
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by lolinder 1y ago
Perhaps Google Street View is in the training set? These companies have basically scraped everything they can, I don't see any reason to believe they'd draw the line at scraping each other, and GSV is a treasure trove of labeled d
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by lolinder 1y ago
They have been historically [0], it looks like they only changed their model last October [1], a few months after Marc Suidan switched to Backblaze. TFA even specifies this: > Instead they hired Marc Suidan who joined from Beachbody (N
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by lolinder 1y ago
Right, but ChatGPT doesn't always automatically use search. I don't know what mechanisms it uses to decide whether to turn that on (maybe free accounts vs paid makes a difference?) but I rarely see it automatically turn on search,
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by lolinder 1y ago
> asked it to look up their URLs and give me a list Something missing from this conversation is whether we're talking about the raw model or model+tool calls (search). This sounds like tool calls were enabled. And I do think this is

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