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by paxys 2mo ago
The "without any direction" part isn't correct. Sure they may not have been explicitly told to do it in this specific prompt, but dig through pre-training, post-training, reinforcement, alignment material, fine-tuning, system
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by paxys 2mo ago
Well yeah the copyright violation is pretty clear cut here.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Thinking of an algorithm in the abstract is one thing, implementing it at scale is another. Yes you could have invented PageRank, but could you also have invented MapReduce, BigFiles/Google File System (GFS), Google Web Server, Bigtabl
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by paxys 2mo ago
It’s ridiculous that so many issues affecting this country over the last two decades can be traced to the inability of Congress to pass laws.
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by paxys 2mo ago
For context Meta had $61.8 billion revenue and $15.85 billion net income in Q2 2026. So this entire “existential threat” of teenage safety amounts to one bad quarter for the company, and they will continue on unscathed.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Almond farming - ~1.5 trillion gal (1.1 gal per almond)
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by paxys 2mo ago
Or more simply – $25K (+ tax) put in a savings account will earn about enough interest to pay for a $100/month AI subscription indefinitely. And at the end of it you still have the $25K.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Probably worth it for Ollama but you can run Jellyfin off a raspberry pi.
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by paxys 2mo ago
More validated by the day that my $450 M4 Mac Mini (16GB) was the best deal in computing for a long, long time.
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by paxys 2mo ago
While they’re probably right from a consumer perspective, the article skips over the fact that accepting and handling cash is a significant cost for businesses, way more than the credit card fees. Delays in checkout, making change, counterf
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by paxys 2mo ago
In that case a credit card is actually significantly better than debit
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by paxys 2mo ago
Delivery apps don’t mandate that the price on their apps be the same as on the actual menu. If you walk in and order you’ll pretty much always get a lower price.
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by paxys 2mo ago
One isn’t more real than the other. They are both numbers in an online database. In one case your assets are going down, in the other your liabilities are going up. The net result is the same.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Can we audit American corporations?
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by paxys 2mo ago
No, the whole point is the e-ink screen. Kindle has had a web browser since the very first version, and people have managed to read books on it just fine without distractions.
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by paxys 2mo ago
It’s a pretty simple explanation. Bay Area does not have much industry outside of tech. New York City is a hub for banking, investing, insurance, government, healthcare, consulting, real estate, fashion, law and more. All of these are now i
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by paxys 2mo ago
Computing is a task. Printing is a task. It’s not wrong to call both a human and a machine a “computer”, because computing (applying an algorithm to an input and producing an output) is literally what they are doing. Same way you can have h
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by paxys 2mo ago
The person paying you doesn’t care about your enjoyment.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Before LLMs we had a pretty good idea of security boundaries in software. Applications didn’t trust user input. Operating systems didn’t trust applications. Services and processes didn’t trust each other. There were always tokens, scopes, d
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by paxys 2mo ago
I feel at this point all new AI announcements can be auto generated by AI. Next up - Slack releases a model router. Cloudflare builds an agents platform. OpenAI acquires a dev tools startup.
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by paxys 2mo ago
I used to be that person, and suddenly I haven’t opened an editor or written a line of code by hand in 6+ months.
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by paxys 2mo ago
“Paste this AI generated text to your coworkers telling them not to paste AI generated text to you.”
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by paxys 2mo ago
Not all slop content is AI generated. Remember the glory days of Buzzfeed? Stock images surrounded by puff pieces is quality pre-AI space filler.
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by paxys 2mo ago
AOSP is open source. The Android running on most manufacturer-branded phones isn’t.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Doesn’t Apple do the same?
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by paxys 2mo ago
Google uses libraries licensed under GPLv2 in Android (I’m not sure which specific part of Android the author is talking about), and so is required to make the full source code available for anyone to view. They previously used to publish r
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by paxys 2mo ago
And what do you do when you find them? Unless there are adequate consequences (and no, a paid vacation or getting “fired” and moving to the next town over don’t count) the abuses aren’t going to stop.
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by paxys 2mo ago
A simple website that conveys all the information in this one would have taken less than an hour to make. There’s no need for all the bells and whistles for a project like this.
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by paxys 2mo ago
> and indeed the acquisition price of a company is almost never exactly its “market valuation” The acquisition price is almost always significantly more than its market value. The reason is that if you start buying shares on the open mar
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by paxys 2mo ago
Items don’t have an inherent “worth”. If I have an apple and you agree to buy it for $1T, then the apple is indeed worth $1T at that moment. After the purchase is complete it is worth ~$0, or whatever the next person is willing to pay you f

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