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by pxc 1y ago
It's been over 75 years. It could not be clearer that this attempt to punish the ordinary people who live in North Korea for having a government that the US finds disagreeable will not succeed in somehow fomenting revolution. What it
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by pxc 1y ago
Using Firefox is also ingroup signaling. I have been using Firefox since quite some time before they had even fully settled on the name Firefox— the days of "Firebird" and the "Firesomething" extension making fun of
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by pxc 1y ago
The host was Moonshot AI at Kimi dot com :)
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> Is this level of fear typical or reasonable? Just a month ago, an AI coding agent deleted all the files on someone's computer and there was a little discussion of it here on HN. Support's response was basically "yeah, th
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by pxc 1y ago
I think what GP means is that because the (hopefully) pending OpenAI release is also "too big to run at home", these two models may be close enough in size that they seem more directly comparable, meaning that it's even more
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by pxc 1y ago
So far, I like the answer quality and its voice (a bit less obsequious than either ChatGPT or DeepSeek, more direct), but it seems to badly mangle the format of its answers more often than I've seen with SOTA models (I'd include D
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by pxc 1y ago
Firecracker has some elements in common-- namely images that are to run on Firecracker have a non-standard init system so that they can boot more quickly than machines that are dealing with real hardware and a wider variety of use cases. Th
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by pxc 1y ago
System container tech like Incus powers efficient Linux virtualization environments for developers, so that you can have only one VM but many "machines". OrbStack machines on macOS work like this, and the way WSL works is similar
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by pxc 1y ago
This is a cool app! I'm happy to play with it. Some feedback: 1. The lack of a dark mode is an accessibility issue for me. I have a genetic condition that causes severe light sensitivity and special difficulty with contrast. The only w
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by pxc 1y ago
There are, but fascism's internal cultural fixtures are more aesthetic than intellectual. It doesn't really attract or foster intellectuals like some radical political movements do, and it shows very clearly in the composition of
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> Google needs to not be abusing its position as the source of the OS to give its software special privilege to reach inside of third-party apps. There are some extremely useful features that you can implement with AI, but currently onl
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It's true that intellectual property is a flawed and harmful mechanism for supporting creative work, and it needs to change, but I don't think ensuring a positive outcome is as simple as this. Whether or not such a power struggle
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> In many countries Software Engineering is a proper engineering degree, sharing many of the same lectures as other engineering degrees, including an engineering college and professional titles certification, not just something one calls
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by pxc 1y ago
If the actual installation process can be made simple, you can have users copy/paste the whole installation script rather than pulling it down with curl. See for instance... Setup instructions for Pkgsrc on macOS with the SmartOS peopl
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by pxc 1y ago
Computer science is a formal science with empirical elements, as much as I'd like to think of it as a branch of mathematics. I'm not sure what to make of "software engineering" or "software development", academ
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by pxc 1y ago
> Annoyingly, Microsoft also back in May decided to just remove us from Bing News and massively deranked us, following 1 single hour downtime due to a data centre problem and show no signs of putting us back in - which was a bit of a blo
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by pxc 1y ago
So the impressive thing is really the social coordination, the project management, which was doubtless challenging but is hardly unique. It's still kind of a wonderful, imo. And it's awesome to be able to see it on video like this
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by pxc 1y ago
But there have been sensible bindings for doing this forever, e.g.: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround There's no need to break normal editing behavior.
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> But it’s only more of the time: your source will still be invalid frequently, including when it gets things wrong and you have to relocate a delimiter. In practice, I don’t think it’s useful on that ground. Maybe it's like a pale
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by pxc 1y ago
It also doesn't matter if his tricks stop being effective if he can still sell them effectively. He doesn't care about integrity, clearly, so that wouldn't be a problem for him.
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Indeed, I am sympathetic to the author in this situation because I think open-source is important, but I don't approve of this software and don't want to affiliate with it by even starring it on GitHub. Not really sure what I can
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by pxc 1y ago
For now, this is perhaps a blessing in disguise: it tells you that a company is all aboard the hype train and that leadership is seriously lacking in critical thinking and judgment. That can certainly save you from wasting more time with th
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by pxc 1y ago
> unless you're very watchful by looking for academic responses to questions I've noticed that a lot of the supposed hallmarks of "AI slop writing" (em-dashes, certain multisyllabic words, frequent use of metaphor) ar
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by pxc 1y ago
That's not the kind of thing you can reasonably say "Gee, I didn't know!" about, either.
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by pxc 1y ago
This isn't just a license compliance issue! Even if it were compliant with the license, like if the license has been a permissive license with no attribution requirement, this is still sleazy and plagiaristic behavior. Sometimes (often
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I've seen this kind of thing happen even with very small projects, where there's no marketing department or business goal attached. I've seen attempts to erase the history of forks, projects repurposed from others in order to
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>I have a couple of disparate interests or "profiles" that i would like to have greater control over/support in generating, that are non overlapping sets of topics and types of content This sounds like a great feature! My
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by pxc 1y ago
I don't like this theme. I don't like pushing people to use settings like "reduce transparency" because they also make the UI much uglier, even before this increase in the use of transparency-- non-default settings like
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> This isn't some emotional or fashionable thing, they're tools, so you'd have to assume they derive $1000 of value. If someone spends a lot of money on something but they don't derive commensurate value from that pur
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As it is currently written, this is less useful the more niche your interests are. I think for such users, looking at their comment history or upvoted history might be useful instead of or in addition to just sampling recent, popular articl

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