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by overfeed 3mo ago
> Who gets to decide what is a good bot? Paying Cloudflare's tolls => good bot.
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by overfeed 3mo ago
YOLO can run on a potato. Running a multimodal LLM is overkill.
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> Daylight helps you just as much as your enemy. Not if you're persistently using it for multi-week sleep deprivation operation to "soften up" an area before attacking.
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> Does that make North Korea somehow an inherently more successful country than Germany? Your argument is all over the place. This thread is about if India could tackle LEO comsats, but perhaps you're seeing it through a lens of pre
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by overfeed 3mo ago
How many[1] others? Not many countries can claim that achievement, industrialized or not, which is telling. 1. The answer is 3.: USA, USSR, and the European Space Agency
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by overfeed 3mo ago
India was the first country to reach Mars on its first attempt. ISRO is a highly capable org, and cost effective. India also was #4 to land on the moon after the USSR, USA and China - beating Japan to the punch. SpaceX is yet to deliver a
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by overfeed 3mo ago
OpenAI also has infinite money, and the graph for money/lawyering gets clamped well below what OpenAI can afford. It's going to end most other corporate courtroom tangles: with an undisclosed settlement and a well-publicized partn
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> Up until the end of the DOS era I'm sorry to break it to you, but computers after the DOS era are vintage. I specifically mentioned Windows 95/98 and System 7.x in my comment.
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> it's computing in general. Unsurprising. Apple seriously thought the iPad would replace computers and usher in a "post-PC" word during their "What is a computer?" ad campaign era. Now they are sticking phone ch
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by overfeed 3mo ago
Informal devience is a social signifier "I want you to know I don't have to do that shit"
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by overfeed 3mo ago
The strait was open with no tolls before the Israel/US attacks. Everyone with a brain and a modicum of imagination (except Trump, apparently) knew for decades that Iran had the latent capability to close the strait, and hence preferr
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> I wonder if anyone is going to learn a lesson about overregulation. Regulation - or more generally - formalization comes with scaling up. A skunkworks project can innovate really fast, and has no integration and scale needs. When you w
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by overfeed 3mo ago
Consumer hardware costs are external. We are in the era of ignoring externalized costs, for example, Windows 11 hardware requirements, social media harm, and mainstreaming of gambling. Maybe the pendulum will swing back in the future, but t
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by overfeed 3mo ago
When was the last time you used a vintage computer? I couldn't believe how long people had to wait for the start-up (and shutdown) processes; and there was no hibernation! (Windows 9x/System 7.x). Modern instant-on functionality i
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by overfeed 3mo ago
GP sounds like someone complaining about gore/horror being written and filmed by people who never studied anatomy/physiology or sliced open cadavers. Accuracy is not the point of body horror, and fixating on it misses the point
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by overfeed 3mo ago
That world will never be. Humans will always be writing some code, at least for as long as I live and breathe.
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by overfeed 3mo ago
eons ago, I migrated a frontend to Typescript and caught a lot of type-related bugs[1]. It was a 5kLoC, fast-moving productized prototype written by a team of 5. I won't ever do dynamic-typed plain Javascript in a team ever again, t
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> Prohibiting a user of your software from modifying it and using it to run their business goes against both freedoms 0 and 1. It does not prohibit modifications - it just demands that those who exercise the freedoms share their modifi
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> if this stuff further exarcerbates the loneliness epidemic and atomization of society, will you be able to live with yourself you think? Looking at the 30,000-foot view of how society is set up: laws, economic system, employee incentiv
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> It seems weird to me that someone would even want to settle in a foreign country without a good understanding of the language and cultural basics These people typically call themselves "expatriates"
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by overfeed 3mo ago
Imagine the US buying rare earths critical for national security from China with no planned end date. The empirical evidence that your rejoinder is a false equivalence is that the US also expunged Huawei hardware from its telecoms infrast
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> Plus I highly doubt a provincial government contract in Canada will be a major influence on a Elon's dumb twitter politics. I don't think the decision was meant to influence, rather, it's self-defense against said "
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by overfeed 3mo ago
How do you know simple detection was the most Anthropic did and nothing more actively nefarious? The self-reposrted motivation was animus against "distillation attacks", which suggests active server-side countermeasures that could
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by overfeed 3mo ago
You and gp agree that characterizing non-paticipation as (voluntary) "early retirement" is unsupported.
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> Immigration on Hacker News is like the dumbest topic here "Dumbest" wouldn't be the word I'd use here, considering the views on immigration are sharply divided by education level. I reckon HN has an overrepresentati
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> You don't have to fully switch Having a heterogenous fleet can be annoying though, some Podman-only config values[1] stop Docker dead in its tracks because it hates unknown fields. 1. It was a while back, and I can't remember
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by overfeed 3mo ago
A lot of people - rightly - pilloried Stadia for requiring a subscription and forcing gamers to "buy" games. It turns out Stadia was 1.5 generations ahead of its time. Google - give us Stadia 2 in 2027, you cowards.
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> steam games don't have discs either Disc > Steam > Digital console Steam games exist on physical media that players have some control over: I can copy my Steam data directory across PCs/Steam Deck, I would not be able
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> They'll be forced to embed alternative stores in the PlayStation. Steam Summer sales on a PlayStation? I want that today. If this decision somehow ends up with Steam and Proton for PlayStation, it will be well worth it. Gaben, p
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by overfeed 3mo ago
> They want this even more than they want $100 games Killing the secondary market for games hasten how soon they can sell $100 games.

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