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by overfeed 5mo ago
> Laws should make it a double-edged sword, make distillation explicitly legal. Knowledge-distillation is already legal. Current case law says none of outputs of any model are protected by copyright, so one could use model outputs for wh
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by overfeed 5mo ago
I have zero interest in continuing this conversation if you think government spending is not "politics"
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by overfeed 5mo ago
The framing was BS. "I protest being groped without consent by this one guy". "Oh, which other goateed, gold-chain wearing pervert would you rather do it?" "None" is a full, and adequate answer.
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> What other company would you rather see funding go to? I'd rather not give any welfare-queen company another taxpayer dime.
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> LLMs have other ways of accessing the content, they don’t need the Web Archive. What's the conclusion from this train if thought? Just because some burglars can pick locks doesn't mean you should leave your front door unlocke
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by overfeed 5mo ago
Not for $300, you don't. I take more risks with my Chromebooks than I do with a MacBook, such as mountain-biking with it or leaning it in a car when visiting sketchy neighborhoods. Chromebooks offer a good-enough on-the-go, full-Unix e
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> or even just someone buying a Stadia Controller Getting the Stadia controller goes a long way, methinks. If you have one laying around, you can install the de-clouding firmware Google provided that converts it into a Bluetooth controll
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by overfeed 5mo ago
People who badmouth Stadia's shutdown expose themselves qw non-buyers. I'm yet to hear of a better product wind-down than Stadia: every single buyer got full refunds for games and hardware (i.e Chromecast). The firmware to convert
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> why choose Go over say... Swift? Language religious wars are silly: you should choose a language based on your constraints and personal tastes. If there's no clear advantage of one language over another for a given task - then all
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by overfeed 5mo ago
Costco[1] is doing just fine. 1. https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/costco-defies-trump-on-dei-bu...
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> We need local AI ASAP. That is an excellent idea, once we, the GPU-poor mice, figure out who is going to bell the SoTA training cat. Chinese models being banned is well within the realms of lobbied possibilities.
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> If you take the things for AI, but do then for humans instead, that human will easily 2x or more, and someone will actually understand the code that gets written This only works on high-trust teams and organizations. A lot of AI produc
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> Forks need to be normalized again No one's going to be trusting forks or new projects for a while. The bar for merely generating new code is now too low to give a meaningful signal. Reputation and longevity will likely be useful m
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by overfeed 5mo ago
It's the sad thing about field experts who become YouTubers: to keep up the viewership, they undergo self-Flanderization. I was sad to watch Sabine Hossenfelder devolve from a level-headed critic of how research is done, into a loony c
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> the goal was, and still is, to build a world where anyone can communicate with anyone else without exposing their physical identity and location Whose goal is it? The article notes that the goal is immediately dropped whenever it&#x2
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by overfeed 5mo ago
Investment dollars.
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> 95% of rust is safe rust. Based on the raw number of assorted crates, which has no bearing on kernel code. The more relevant question is, can a performant, cross-architecture, kernel ring-buffer be written in safe Rust?
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by overfeed 5mo ago
If you charitable (like you should be), then a reasonable assumption is that they probably know what happens on a dairy farm, and that's actually their point.
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by overfeed 5mo ago
You should have read the rest of the article - that imcident was mentioned too.
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by overfeed 5mo ago
There's a lot of bullshit that can happen between the status quo and everything going tits up. Having FU money means you can say -all things being equal - "Fuck You" when it's appropriate, instead of worrying about beco
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> If you don't care to go into detail, that's fine, but your answer is vague No lairs necessary. You can read up on people who do FIRE.
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> What if the outcome is the competition burns their money on LLM usage for little to no gain? The company does better than the money-burning competition, but the executives personally gain nothing; there are no bonuses just because the
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> In 2.5 years we'll have a different admin This administration is attempting - and mostly succeeding - in "Dismantling the administrative state". They even provided a handy checklist (project 2025). That shit won't b
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> The US, via a wide reaching, decades long government policy stole technology from other countries, passed that along to chosen domestic companies... market with the stolen/cheaper goods by supporting the companies doing so to prod
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by overfeed 5mo ago
It's not a goal, but a secondary effect. Companies that build long-lasting products for sale to customers will have lower profits than those that rent-out cheaply made goods. Over a multi-decade window, with some bankruptcies, consolid
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> This is the earworm the leaders of these companies have allowed into their minds. Like Agent Mulder, they Want To Believe in this so badly... If you assume they are not idiots and analyze the FOMO incentives via a little game-theory, i
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> If this stuff stays this expensive/profitable, industry will grow capacity to boost earnings until they overshoot, there's not some grand conspiracy to make you rent everything Production cartels exist to prevent individual g
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by overfeed 5mo ago
You find populism in the US inexplicable in 2026? Where have you been for the past 18 years? You get instant political capital by framing anything as elites vs the common man, and the tech company billionaires cannot escape that "coast
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by overfeed 5mo ago
Are the NIMBYs in South Korea blocking Samsung too? If not, then the root cause can't be that.
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by overfeed 5mo ago
> What kind of products/services are you building where you aren't able to tie your eval suite to business value? There are no evals in my org that can quantify the value of a proposed feature, rank it against ongoing support i

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