necovek

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by necovek 1y ago
Sounds quite a bit like pyramid scheme "business model": how is it different? If a company stops training new models until they can fund it out of previous profits, do we only slow down or halt altogether? If they all do?
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by necovek 1y ago
I am reading it as OpenAI selling them for 20% of the cost to serve them (serving at the equivalent token/s with cloud pay-per-use GPUs).
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by necovek 1y ago
Most smart people I know already do not link "success" to "happiness": relationships, experiences, family and health is usually the driver of their happiness or lack thereof. The only change is that the baseline for unh
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by necovek 1y ago
I believe you are conflating a few things under wrong categories: something that only has a single "stream" of releases (for instance a web application, but it could be anything, an API or a desktop/phone application) needs t
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by necovek 1y ago
But very similar versioning schemes have been used by different software for a long time before SemVer was formalized as such: again, if you accept any user interface as the interface, vs API interface (or interfaces for developers) as you
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by necovek 1y ago
FWIW, torrents with a large number of seeders are the ultimate test of your network connection speed (both up- and down-link speeds too, unless you are "leeching").
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by necovek 1y ago
If you are talking 2 weeks monthly, and you are considering 2 people for the two split roles, you might end up travelling the whole time (or "just" 4 weeks a month :)). Not sure if you ever travelled for a week or more monthly, bu
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by necovek 1y ago
In the first example, they didn't and recruited a CTO who made a tool choice that arguably killed the business (maybe it still ends the same with PHP, minus the experience of building a nicely architected system in Perl: what-ifs all a
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by necovek 1y ago
I've used PHP early in my career (around the time PHP 5 came about), and I was never a fan, but to claim that you can't built successful products with it is simply crazy: look at Facebook, Wordpress just to name the two! And simil
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by necovek 1y ago
If you are called in to rewrite the project, I would say this signals a successful project: it was built in whatever tech stack a midling engineering team had competency in, it originally worked well but started struggling with more scale&#
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by necovek 1y ago
I can see how you are using the multiple versioning schemes to achieve certain goals, but that does not make your approach "one true way". "Semantic" really means "has some background meaning", and SemVer meani
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by necovek 1y ago
Developers are "users" (of a library, API, tool...), and "API functionality" is a subset of "functionality": what purpose would such distinction serve? For example, in end user desktop software (say a text edit
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by necovek 1y ago
Versioning is a tool to communicate changes and backwards compatibility to the users. SemVer makes sense in a lot of cases, but it neither covers everything (eg. compare with Debian/Ubuntu packaging versions), nor is it always needed (
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by necovek 1y ago
You are right: GraalPy ( https://www.graalvm.org/python/ ) is where it's at these days.
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by necovek 1y ago
You can do symbolic calculations carrying precisely defined numbers (eg. PI, 3/7...), you can use tools which allow arbitrary precision (it's only slower by several orders of magnitude so not too bad if you don't need million
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by necovek 1y ago
There have for a long time been IronPython (CLR) and and Jython (JVM). But, they don't have the full compatibility with CPython, so nobody really picks them up.
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by necovek 1y ago
Yes, I remember that discussion at Ubuntu/Debian, where they had to accept those terms in order to keep the name "Firefox" in (remember things like Iceweasel?)
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by necovek 1y ago
I wonder if this applies to "regular media" as well? Does a News report or any comment from a guest on a TV show need be shared only by a trustworthy expert? Eg. even for a weather report, it needs to be a qualified meteorologist
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by necovek 1y ago
You are right, which is why I stress the time component and e-waste concerns. If combined they end up meaning that a vendor ships you a device and they need to take it back for recycling in 2-7 years when they stop providing security update
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by necovek 1y ago
> too much oxygen in the blood can lead to problems with the cornea or something You are likely thinking of ROP (retinopathy of prematurity, where retina starts detaching due to prolonged stay in the incubator).
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by necovek 1y ago
To counter your claim, I've tried to explain what that intrinsic difference is in my previous comment. I am not sure if you are disagreeing with me or ignoring my point :)
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by necovek 1y ago
Yes, but app stores like F-Droid, if you trust them, provide an even stronger security statement: they guarantee that you can check out the full source code of the app you are running. This is what has made Linux distributions the go to for
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by necovek 1y ago
Security bugfixes are tied to feature upgrades, unfortunately.
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by necovek 1y ago
Unfortunately, even for desktop software, this has shifted today: you can hardly get a security update without a feature upgrade too. Except in cases like Debian (or Ubuntu LTS main collection, Redhat distribution...) which assumes the burd
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by necovek 1y ago
I said it elsewhere in the thread, but the current model is already falling apart: it has led to random IoT devices becoming parts of widespread botnets, affecting Internet functioning, and putting unwitting consumers at risk. Fixing that p
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by necovek 1y ago
You've asked for an intrinsic difference between a class of devices: no, you are unlikely to want to run general purpose apps on your washing machine. Yes, you are likely to do so on your smart phone. Probable on your modern "smar
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by necovek 1y ago
This is why this specific definition is problematic: both "sideloading" and "install from Play store" are subsets of "installing". If one limited the ability to "install from Play store", while keep
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by necovek 1y ago
There is already a widespread notion of "general computing" device. For all intents and purposes, a laptop computer and a smart phone are one. This is, for example, evidenced by the fact we run general purpose "applications&q
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by necovek 1y ago
This mostly focuses on the licensing part, but really, FOSS devs will also be able to produce more FOSS and license it differently, perhaps under no-AI-copyleft licenses. Anyway, the whole idea behind FOSS is freedom and effectiveness (by
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by necovek 1y ago
> Conversations happening with external assistants, > on the other hand, are interactions > that Meta can’t analyze or monetize. This would only be true if Business API allowed an external assistant to connect peer-to-

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