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by oblio 9mo ago
Gtalk did not kill XMPP. Very few people were using XMPP before Gtalk, most people were using AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger and other proprietary protocols. Gtalk supported XMPP to gain traction as a more open messenger and possibly becaus
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by oblio 9mo ago
Just use the web version.
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by oblio 9mo ago
Maintenance, for one. I imagine contributions that are 100% AI generated are more likely to have a higher maintenance burden and lower follow-up participation from the author in case fixes are needed.
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by oblio 9mo ago
Interesting comparison, Uber. > Since its founding in 2009, Uber has incurred a cumulative net loss of approximately $10.9 billion. Now, Uber has become profitable, and will probably become a bit more profitable over time. But except for
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by oblio 9mo ago
> but that's because my proxy was leaking nginx headers. What do you mean with this?
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by oblio 9mo ago
That sounds benign but I'm guessing all of that was in a 24/7 loop and probably running in parallel a bunch of times. It's like the "unlimited Gmail storage" that's now stuck at 15GB since 2012, despite the cos
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by oblio 9mo ago
> Crun just stamp couples security profiles I don't understand any of this :-)
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by oblio 9mo ago
I've worked in build/release engineering/devops for a long time. I would be utterly shocked if corporate customers wouldn't want corporate Docker proxies/caches/mirrors. Entire companies have been built on lang
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by oblio 9mo ago
> Post-AGI economics seems to bring cost of production and distribution very close to zero, so this may soon come to pass. Culture might need a minute to catch up though! People on HN read too much SciFi.
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by oblio 9mo ago
Awesome, please post this from inside a forest fire and tell us your feelings then.
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by oblio 9mo ago
Speaking of skills: > girlfriends you can get in this society are even worse Skill issue. Also, unrealistic expectations. People are both afraid of doing the hard work to have meaningful relations and filtering out duds and also want the
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by oblio 9mo ago
The thing is, Twitter is stuck. It's not growing, most likely it's shrinking. We also have no idea if it's profitable or not. Twitter had a lot of engineers on its payroll to look for the next big thing. If you give that up a
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by oblio 9mo ago
What's the spending distribution for pharma ads? Hypothetically, if $35 million out of $40 goes to Google and Meta, OP is still right.
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by oblio 9mo ago
> glassware, and additional (forks, knives, small plates) Do you guys break all the plates like at traditional Greek weddings?
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by oblio 9mo ago
Can't or won't?
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by oblio 9mo ago
Come now, don't be evil!
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by oblio 9mo ago
Because: who would refuse more money?
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by oblio 10mo ago
My point was that's an indirect subsidy. NVIDIA is selling at a discount to prop up their clients.
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by oblio 10mo ago
What about when Nvidia sells GPUs to a client and then buys 10% of their shares?
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by oblio 10mo ago
And also provisions somehow handling hyper scalers. Hyper scalers are big enough that they can build everything from scratch and stop ripping off FOSS individual and small company contributors.
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by oblio 10mo ago
> Sure, we can copy software, so it's not like they are taking your house. But "they" may be taking your livelihood. With GenAI that's starting to happen with anyway.
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by oblio 10mo ago
> user freedom, not creators freedom Creators are not creators, they're also users. There's a very solid chance that a better world for everyone would be achieved if freedoms for all users would be bullet proof. Every user shou
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by oblio 10mo ago
The big engineering challenges right now are electrifying everything (which means convincing people that it's the right thing to do and that gas powered vehicles belong to the trashbin of history, amongst others) and banning production
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by oblio 10mo ago
The interpretation is simple and the complete opposite of "I have the freedom to kill you". The software creator (human or AI) must give the user of its software the same freedoms it has received. If it has received the freedom to
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by oblio 10mo ago
Nitpick: it's LGBT. I think in Arabic the P and B sounds are kind of the same thing so I understand where the confusion might be coming from.
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by oblio 10mo ago
RMS is probably greatly behind the technical news at this point. I mean, he's surfing the web via a email summary of some websites. Even if he doesn't condone of how the internet is evolving, he can't really keep up with tech
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by oblio 10mo ago
Which, if you think about it, is a mostly uplifting timeline. Back in 1770 there were basically 0 democracies on the planet. In 1790 there were 2. Now there are about 70 with about 35 more somewhere in between democracy and autocracy. So mo
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by oblio 10mo ago
ENOPELICANS
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by oblio 10mo ago
Git isn't good with big files. I wanted to comment more, but this new tool is Mac only for now, so there isn't much of a point.
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by oblio 10mo ago
> but I could have gone with Nvidia and had much less issues (for double the cost, dual Blackwell's vs quad Radeon W7900s for 192GB of VRAM). > If you spend twice what I did and go Nvidia you should have nearly no issues running

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