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by petcat 1mo ago
How are we explaining Ronaldo not being required to serve his remaining 2-match suspensions at the start of the games?
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by petcat 1mo ago
India suffers from massive tech brain-drain to USA. Also the country is severely GPU compute-constained. It's really just the same story as EU.
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by petcat 1mo ago
I thought Siri was just Google Gemini
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by petcat 1mo ago
that made sense when people painstakingly typed out code by hand. Nowadays the code doesn't really matter and can be trivially thrown away and regenerated as needed.
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by petcat 1mo ago
> Does anyone know a good alternate now that the P is gone? My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming
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by petcat 1mo ago
> EU may take 5 years just to approve plans for a new factory. Who is going to build a memory chip fab in Europe? Qimonda collapsed into insolvency 20+ years ago and Infineon has long since abandoned the market.
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by petcat 1mo ago
> It’s crystal clear that AI can be a complexity factory. > keeping software understandable to humans a first-class design goal in the age of AI. I'm not sure this is going to be a worthwhile goal for much longer. Rarely is anyo
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by petcat 1mo ago
> AI does not enjoy copyright protection. Pretending you created something written by AI is copyfraud. Which court has made a ruling on this? The only decision I'm aware of was that some Gen-AI artwork couldn't be copyrightabl
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by petcat 1mo ago
> Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens. There are no open source models, at least
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by petcat 1mo ago
JSON is just a textual representation of the internal data structures.
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by petcat 1mo ago
Even the EU's own government websites are polluted with the same cookie banners. Are they "maliciously compliant" with their own regulations? Are they trying to "undermine the regulation itself"? https:/&#x2
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by petcat 1mo ago
The crows around my house are generally cool unless I do something they don't like and then they'll remember my face for all of eternity and mob me whenever I am outside.
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by petcat 1mo ago
> the vast majority of laptops are only sold with a specific proprietary operating system: Microsoft Windows. The vendors do not remove the Windows license, and you must pay the entire price, even if you do not want to use this system.
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by petcat 1mo ago
> In March 2025, the US Department of Energy (DoE) announced US $900 million in grants to support the deployment of SMRs. One year later, the European Commission said it would invest up to €200 million (US $228 million) in the constructi
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by petcat 1mo ago
I heard a radio spot recently and I wondered if the voice was a real person or AI. It makes we wonder how such industries are dealing with this gen-AI revolution. We spend a lot of time here thinking about how it affects software develope
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by petcat 1mo ago
I put everything in CONTRIBUTING.md, and then put "See: CONTRIBUTING.md" in those vendor-specific files.
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by petcat 2mo ago
> I think its far easier to automate leadership jobs I have the opposite opinion. I've never been a CEO, and have intentionally avoided any sort of manager/C-level opportunities at all the various companies I've worked sp
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by petcat 2mo ago
well that's nonsense. IBM does incredibly cool stuff. https://research.ibm.com/blog
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by petcat 2mo ago
Is NAT traversal actually that big of a feature? The category of people that would use a tool like this already knows many ways to do it without NAT getting in the way.
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by petcat 2mo ago
I did the homemade version of this for years just with SSH forwarding and nginx reverse proxy
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by petcat 2mo ago
Bidets need to become the norm. Canada's massive logging and mineral extraction industries have lead to significantly reduced tree-cover and (in some places) long term deforestation.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Such a thing would require mandatory age verification of every user of the platform, which is obviously a significant privacy complication.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Building a custom-designed ASIC is much easier than producing state of the art memory chips. There's a reason why Micron and Nvidia are the crown jewels of American technology right now and for the foreseeable future.
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by petcat 2mo ago
The open weight model providers don't provide the training data or the build tooling. You cannot reproduce the model yourself, or even really know what the model contains. They don't even provide high-level catalogues/descr
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by petcat 2mo ago
> the diminishing understanding of assembly language and machine instruction sets This is true and nobody complains that GCC or LLVM is making programmers dumber. They are code-generation tools from higher-level source code. Much like
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by petcat 2mo ago
> long live open source models There are no open source models, at least not useful ones (yet) [0]. Open weight is not the same as open source. The current "open weight" models are just opaque binary blobs you can run on your
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by petcat 2mo ago
> use the us as a test-mouse for new ideas and innovations, then when proven safe introduce them and ride those coat-tails to infinity What actually happened, and continues to happen, is that Europe and the EU became entirely dependent o
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by petcat 2mo ago
What does "serious" mean in this context?
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by petcat 2mo ago
Yeah, that's my experience. It's a big "wow" factor to get a non-trivial LLM running on my Mac, but it's actually not that useful. Like trying to use Photoshop at 8 FPS.
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by petcat 2mo ago
I think of "humanoid" as a machine capable of operating in the same complex physical environment as humans do. For instance, it is generally more comfortable for a healthy adult human to use a steep staircase than a steep ramp.

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