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811.
by nicce 1y ago
CEO is typically needed for-profit purposes on a scale. Donating for devs to build browser without that purpose does not need CEO. Just a lead engineer and accountants.
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by nicce 1y ago
Not actually that big of coincidence. We tend to forgot the scale of these things. I remember reading that dinosaurs were already in decline for 2-3 million years. So if asteroids like that hit once per 100 million years, odds are not that
813.
by nicce 1y ago
More surprising is that people think this is the first time - be default your WhatsApp backups are unencrypted by default so they have had the access for long time for large part of the userbase. Also primary reason why WhatsApp hasn’t been
814.
by nicce 1y ago
I believe the main question here is that whether they were doomed without asteroid regardless, and in that sense we can’t blame asteroid alone or primarily.
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by nicce 1y ago
I thought that it still isn’t really known? Is is one common theory, but we have just probabilities to play with.
816.
by nicce 1y ago
All of those advantages are also reason why businesses don’t adapt it…
817.
by nicce 1y ago
Yes, if they wanted. They have had years to make that decision. They have enough knowledge. Their profits are measured in billions. But in order to maximize profits, that is not good because it is better to throttle supply.
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by nicce 1y ago
They could rapidly build new own factories but they don’t.
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by nicce 1y ago
> I'm still running a 5700XT in my desktop. I have absolutely zero desire to upgrade. Same boat. I have 5700XT as well and since 2023, used mostly my Mac for gaming.
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by nicce 1y ago
> It's not that we are simply waiting for the backport of Rust to magically appear for them, it's quite a certainty that it will basically never appear. Abstraction happens on the level where tmux requirement is irrelevant. Whe
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by nicce 1y ago
Most of the time ROI is still bigger. You would think that some ”evil”companies would be dead but stock price just keeps increasing. Imagine what Facebook would be if they had good morals?
822.
by nicce 1y ago
> It is also less fun Statistically it is the most fun language there is, based on Stackoverflow. Portability is just a matter of time like with any language.
823.
by nicce 1y ago
Both can be true at the same time in that sentence
824.
by nicce 1y ago
I don’t know anything about shaders and this is not personal against Evan, but if someone wrotes code that nobody understands, isn’t it bad thing and not good thing? I thought similarly (admired) many years ago, that those people are wizard
825.
by nicce 1y ago
They produce convincing text but the grammar is not actually that good. A lot of missing commas, for example.
826.
by nicce 1y ago
That is completely different discussion. Otherwise, even Gemini 2.5 Pro would be open-source with this logic since clients are open-source for interacting with the cloud APIs.
827.
by nicce 1y ago
I am not sure if this adds even more confusion. Linked library is about fine-tuning which is completely different process. Their publications about producing Gemma is not accurate enough that even with data you would get the same results.
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by nicce 1y ago
> Gemma is open source and apache 2.0 licensed Closed source but open weight. Let’s not ruin the definition of the term in advantage of big companies.
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by nicce 1y ago
> Not necessarily. 500 might indicate the process died, which might take more resources to startup, have cold cache, whatever. If you spam that repeatedly it could easily take down the site That is true, but the status code 500 alone doe
830.
by nicce 1y ago
The point was about the importance of availability. > Does a gas pedal use a markdown or XML parser? No. Cars in general use, extensively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOSAR
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by nicce 1y ago
I believe you know well that bankrupt is the worst case. Many business functions can be so critical that 24h disturbance is enough to cause high financial damages or even loss of life. A bug in the car's brakes that prevents their usa
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by nicce 1y ago
> Many of these issues are not the type of issues that will bring down an entire platform; most are of the "if I send wrong data, the server will return with a 500 for that request" or "my browser runs out of memory if I u
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by nicce 1y ago
This depends on the context to be fair. Front-end DoS can suddenly expand into botnet DDoS if you can trigger it by just serving a specific kind of URL. E.g. search goes into endless loop that makes requests into the backend.
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by nicce 1y ago
I think you are only considering the users - for the business provider the availability has larger meaning because the lack of it can bankrupt your business. It is about securing operations.
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by nicce 1y ago
> A lot of these "security bugs" are not really "security bugs" in the first place. Denial of service is not resulting in people's bank accounts being emptied or nude selfies being spread all over the internet. T
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by nicce 1y ago
It may be sufficient for generating serialized data and for some level of autocomplete but not for any serious agentic coding where you won't end up wasting time. Maybe some junior level programmers may find it still fascinating but se
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by nicce 1y ago
That is just Gemma model. Most people seek capabilities equivalent for Gemini 2.5 Pro if they want to do any kind of coding.
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by nicce 1y ago
There was a joke in there which might have gone unnoticed.
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by nicce 1y ago
Also Government: uses Israel-backdoored custom Signal
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by nicce 1y ago
> There's no such thing as international law. There's just self-interested nations who have always only done what is in their best interest. If you think about that a little bit more, you may see that internal laws can change t

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