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by nikanj 1mo ago
From OpenAIs perspective, resources on your computer are free and wasting them is inconsequential
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by nikanj 1mo ago
I swear the models are named by the beatbox aliens from the post office in MiB
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by nikanj 1mo ago
Hypothetically, when the user is asking how to remove fungus from their tomatoes they’re actually growing controlled narcotics. You have been demoted to Jimmy 0.7 model, running at 0.1 tokens per second on an old C64
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by nikanj 1mo ago
” On June 15, we were again contacted by MITRE asking for the reasoning behind our decision to not give a CVE for this issue. We replied with similar wording again. Linking to the same issue, again. This seems like a great system.” Looks li
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by nikanj 2mo ago
Say whatever you want, just don't say it on social media or border control might not let you enter the country the next time
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by nikanj 2mo ago
You can request anything from anyone, but compelling a company to follow their GPL obligations requires cooperation from the copyright holders + infinite funds for legal fees
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by nikanj 2mo ago
Money. They have AI on the pitch deck and therefore make obscure amounts of money.
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by nikanj 2mo ago
Insisting that code is the hard part is like insisting that spelling & grammar are the hard part of being a writer
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by nikanj 2mo ago
Fortunately all you need is one clanker to maintain the patches. What used to be immensely expensive human work (and tedious!), is now just ”claude please re-enable manifest v2 and rebuild an installer”
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by nikanj 2mo ago
Extremely competent military expert: "Sir, we should hold back up strikes to preserve the stockpile of valuable high-precision missiles" Someone higher up the chain of command: "Fire the missiles, or I'll replace you wit
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by nikanj 2mo ago
It was picked as the KPI for someone responsible for community / communications?
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C64 Demo Effects Explained: Rodents in the Attic [video](youtube.com)
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by nikanj 2mo ago
Movies like Forrest Gump, Return of the Jedi, Men in Black or Harry Potter 5 all managed to lose money, according to "GAAP". If that's not creative accounting, I don't know what is.
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by nikanj 3mo ago
1) Slap AI on the pitch deck 2) Acquihired by one of the AI companies, probably after a bidding war because everyone has infinite money and wants to block competitors from getting talent
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by nikanj 3mo ago
Exhibit A: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420 Decades of people desperate for a fix, utter stonewall from Google Some PM somewhere decided that autocomplete belongs on all your fields, and who are you, the poo
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by nikanj 3mo ago
The trackpad is not "locked", it's moving just as much as it used to, but the driver running the haptic fake click feedback is dead. Apple's haptic technology is some deep black magic
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by nikanj 3mo ago
The only way for commoners to reach the actual devs is HN or similar, bug trackers are as useful as a wishing well. The odds of Safari devs reading the comments on a Safari-related HN piece is quite high, and reporting long-standing bugs he
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by nikanj 3mo ago
It’s impressive that pinch-zooming reddit.com in-out-in-out has reliably crashed ios safari for at least a few years already. One would assume Apple gets telemetry from iphone default browser crashes, and reddit seems important enough to wa
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by nikanj 3mo ago
Essentially nothing, fractions of a penny on a dollar, because players who could afford paying real money won't risk the crusty old hardware - so you're limited to buyers who still need a massive cluster but don't have AI inf
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by nikanj 3mo ago
It doesn't do anything? Au contraire! Now the creations of the LLMs stand on legal ground. This was an excellent deal for Anthropic
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by nikanj 3mo ago
To be clear, bot spam and social media manipulation are legitimate business needs for the business selling said services.
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by nikanj 3mo ago
They've seen the ruckus that follows from controlling / curating the app store experience. For example, see the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
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by nikanj 3mo ago
It's so weird to look at the patents list for H.264 and see multiple patents granted after the H.264 specification was released. Was the situation similar for MPEG-4?
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by nikanj 3mo ago
The same problem also exists in countries that use English as their first language. If you don't speak passable english, you will have a hard time integrating or finding an engineering job.
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by nikanj 3mo ago
How is your English compared to her German?
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by nikanj 3mo ago
Fibre to the house and calling over wifi is the most typical way. Hasn’t the US moved to wifi calling? It’s such a simple win, as screaming packets to a distant 5g tower eats much more battery than talking to nearby wifi
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by nikanj 3mo ago
But what were the huge, established companies that had refused to deliver a better product before Google came along?
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by nikanj 3mo ago
Dropbox is an AI-company, according to to Dropbox https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/introducing-AI-power... The challenge in 2026 is finding the company that's not AI-powered (according to themself)
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by nikanj 3mo ago
They sleep very well, in a fully-paid off house, on a mattress filled with benjamins
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by nikanj 3mo ago
It's some variant of chesterton's fence, where you believe all of these huge, established companies in a space are just stupid and refuse to release a product thats 10x better

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