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oblio
2mo ago
> Then you hear about Canada which has tariffs between its own provinces, but not to the US. Canada doesn't have, and should not have, the level of ambitions the EU should have. We're talking about EU 450 million people (500+ m
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2mo ago
> Carrefour has stores in Italy and Spain. And Auchan has stores in Spain (Alcampo). I'm not saying that the boundary is a 20km high wall of fire nothing can go through. I'm saying that: 1. the direction is mostly big countries
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2mo ago
> I feel for you, but the points you're making seem to be contradictory. No, that is actually one of the points, I'm glad someone noticed it. I, too, want to have my cake and eat it, too. This is a contradiction that can't
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2mo ago
Basically, yes. The EU needs a lot more power to force through an actual single market. Especially a single digital market. That's why the US is crushing EU tech companies. Licensing (especially content), patents, totally different tax
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2mo ago
This is a direct result of national politics. EU member states want all the benefits of integration without giving anything up, especially things that they consider aspects of national sovereignty. * * * I'll give you an example. I
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2mo ago
What's the disadvantage? MCP doesn't strike me as a high performance protocol.
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2mo ago
> Or you can realize that SpaceX is a massive (public) company with thousands of employees, and millions of shareholders, all of whom have their own opinions and goals, just like any other corporation. Do you have ANY idea about the Spac
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2mo ago
How do you use the cache efficiently?
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2mo ago
Hopefully at some point gravity pulls them back down and they reach the maturity and humility to realize that LLMs are just tools and even though they're good for many things, you can't do absolutely everything with them. I think
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2mo ago
> But cheating isn't new. People have been cheating in school for centuries. It's easier now, but the consequences were always the same. At some point the chickens come home to roost and you pay the piper. My concern is that wi
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2mo ago
I'm way beyond homework, but I do appreciate the compliment on seeming young! I meant: what's going to stop the average lazy student from ignoring whatever harness the university recommends and instead use an unrestricted LLM, thu
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2mo ago
> This requires the AI be restrained by some harness How would this magic harness look like and why would anyone use it?
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2mo ago
What's AGI, at the end of the day? Equivalence to the average human?
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2mo ago
Umm... How exactly did SpaceX get off the ground - literally - before SpaceX became profitable? "Don't ask me how I made my first million." is as relevant as ever.
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2mo ago
Legal systems are fuzzy. The limit will be what courtrooms decide. There will never be a ">75% of content" law, everything will be left to interpretation, laws are not source code.
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2mo ago
> A tiny store on SQLite/D1 with no admin UI is boring and it stays up. D1?
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2mo ago
PostgreSQL didn't have real Windows support until... 2010? And even for LAMP, a lot of devs at the time were on Windows, they just deployed to prod on Linux.
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2mo ago
The PHP of the RDBMS world.
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2mo ago
VR headsets are a totally different ballgame. They look weird. They make some people sick. They're distancing people since the experience is single person. They can't be used much outdoors. Etc, etc. A different smartphone format
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2mo ago
> Global foldable smartphone shipments have grown from roughly 2.8 million units in 2020 to an anticipated 20–25 million units in 2026. Foldables will slowly become the standard phones, probably over a decade or so.
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2mo ago
You've just been given examples of safer technologies. Especially with LLMs being all knowing code churning machines, you'd expect safer systems to be cheap to build.
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2mo ago
> People thought the internet and email were just a fad that would never catch on. People thought that the idea of home computing was absurd. We're far removed from "we've sold all the computers the world can buy" (ba
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2mo ago
> I'm always surprised at how many people in the tech sector assume overcoming fundamental LLM weaknesses is always “just a matter of time,” and that time will arrive quickly enough to be relevant. Lots of techies are tech-optimists
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2mo ago
LLMs are inherently unreliable. We do already work with unreliable technologies for many things but there's this engineering principle called "use the right tool for the job". And it's a lot more likely that LLMs can
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2mo ago
Good luck with that. There are probably people in this world still complaining about imagemap websites.
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2mo ago
> AI is empowering us to replace crappy vendor software with something better. Speaking of, this probably can't be against any ToS, right? Since the devs using the LLMs don't look at any proprietary code, specs, docs, whatever.
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2mo ago
For a few more years.
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> It's not necessarily addictive though because you can stop talking with the chatbot at any time. You can also stop taking drugs at any time. Or stop drinking. Or stop smoking. Or stop doomscrolling.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-antitrust-training-wa... > There is no rent seeking or monopolistic or technofeudal or enshittifying aspect of Amazon at all. How so? Amazon search is almost probably worse than 10
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2mo ago
Do yourself a favor and get a real domain name if you're going to promote it :-)
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