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by petcat 2mo ago
> manually retyping LLM-generated code This is just a miserable career of "paint-by-number" because people can't be bothered to have a creative thought about their professional work or programming hobbies. Software develop
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by petcat 2mo ago
"Most analysts" actually expect the opposite: https://waag.org/en/article/european-digital-id-wallets-are-... Websites will do the easiest, lowest friction, and most user-familiar thing possible to compl
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by petcat 2mo ago
The reality of the matter is that it is virtually impossible for Europe to even begin to displace Apple or Google devices, and especially not operating systems and all the ecosystem that goes along with it. The EU politicians are just publi
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by petcat 2mo ago
I've always heard people say that the US debt doesn't matter when the debt itself is denominated in USD. It's the old saying, if you owe the bank $1,000 then you have a problem. But if you owe the bank a trillion dollars the
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by petcat 3mo ago
It's bizarre to me that countries in Europe can just compel their ISPs to block websites completely without any judicial review. That kind of thing would run afoul of all kinds of first amendment litigation in the US. The FBI will occa
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by petcat 3mo ago
I don't want to get into a whole thing about the founding fathers and American mythology. Yes, they had some pretty good ideas that have withstood the test of time. They also had some pretty f'ing bad ideas that we had to change.
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by petcat 3mo ago
The models are not open source. They are deeply proprietary since we have no access to the source materials and cannot reproduce the model independently. They are opaque binary blobs that the Chinese labs are just allowing other providers
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by petcat 3mo ago
https://allenai.org/ is what you're looking for
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by petcat 3mo ago
"open weight" models are not open source. They are still deeply proprietary. It is not possible to know what they do or what they are capable of without interrogating them since we have no access to their source materials. The o
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by petcat 3mo ago
DOGE got DOGE'd itself. It doesn't exist anymore.
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by petcat 3mo ago
> Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the RSGS payload is designed and developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The payload is integrated on the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) spacecraft, develop
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by petcat 3mo ago
your comment would be more interesting if you actually provided any details at all
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by petcat 3mo ago
Venezuela and Iran are strategic targets to control China's supply of crude oil. That's pretty much it. USA can produce all the oil/energy it needs for itself. Everything else is about controlling the energy supply to adver
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by petcat 3mo ago
Nvidia is subject to export restrictions on GPUs to China. So Chinese labs have responded by allowing American hosts to run their open-weight models in the US, where there are no restrictions. We see this in the EU too where Scaleway, and
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by petcat 3mo ago
Something like this would be basically impossible in the US, and it wouldn't even matter what kind of administration tried it. The US government doesn't even order ISPs to block websites because they run afoul of all kinds of 1st
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by petcat 3mo ago
> Varta lost its key customer in the spring: Apple plans to source the rechargeable "CoinPower" button cells for its AirPods headphones from China in the future. It's another tough loss for German and European industry.
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by petcat 3mo ago
OK so replace the Photoshop example with a compiled GIMP or shareware binary. It doesn't change the fact that it is not open source. The free software community complains all the time about binary blobs that are otherwise legal to fre
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by petcat 3mo ago
This is not "open source" AI. Photoshop source code + OSI license = open source Photoshop binary = open weight Photoshop SAAS web app = closed model like GPT, Opus/Fable etc. There is nothing "open source" about the
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by petcat 3mo ago
That's up to the new employer. Federal law only requires special enrollment within 90 days of hire. So technically there can be up to a 3 month gap. In practice, that is very rare. Usually new coverage becomes effective on the hire
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by petcat 3mo ago
> People who vibe code don't legally own the copyright to the output In the US at least, the PTO has not said this. They have said that artwork is not copyrightable if it was substantially "generated" with little human in
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by petcat 3mo ago
These fines go toward the EU's general budget as "other income" which reduces the amount that member states must contribute annually for the budget to balance. So the EU partially funds itself by leveraging fines like this o
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by petcat 3mo ago
I stopped listening to the no agenda show many years ago when I just decided that I didn't want to be worked up and angry about the world everyday of my life. Turn off social media, turn off the news. Even local news. It's never g
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by petcat 3mo ago
I'll always appreciate his love for Costco wines.
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by petcat 3mo ago
It's the same as Venezuela. These are strategic moves to control China's crude oil supply.
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by petcat 3mo ago
There is a lot of nuance missing in public discourse about the US threats of leaving NATO, stopping direct arms support of Ukraine (except for intelligence), and generally scaring NATO members and Europe into funding their own defense. Ever
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by petcat 3mo ago
> the secret magic of ASML and the Netherlands is just stealing US ingenuity is hilarious stuff. I never said anything about ASML stealing technology or ingenuity. The point is that EUV photolithography is an international effort. The ma
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by petcat 3mo ago
> A great achievement of European science and technology It's an amazing piece of technology but this is... wildly wrong. ASML is a multi-national company that licenses IP largely from USA and Japan, but also Taiwan and Germany. The
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by petcat 3mo ago
US regulators don't order ISPs to block websites. The FBI will occasionally seize a domain, but only after a court order.
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by petcat 3mo ago
I don't care about sports betting. I care about government blocking websites just because it exists on the internet. It was already illegal for Polymarket to accept bets from French people. FanDuel cannot operate in France but their
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by petcat 3mo ago
Somewhat related to this same debate on censorship: French regulators order block of Polymarket's website [0] > The French gambling regulator said the site's continued availability constituted advertising. A ban on financial tr

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