rglullis

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by rglullis 1y ago
> a worse is better mentality world. Seems like your preferred world is the totalitarian "choose any color you want as long as it is black" one, where everything is perfectly optimized and perfectly integrated into a single pla
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by rglullis 1y ago
> don't fragment themselves into endless distributions? My dear Lord! In what world are you living in? Take a look at all of the "mobile apps" you installed on your phone and tell me which of those would ever devote any re
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by rglullis 1y ago
> I have installed all them on the phone, so yes. Isn't your phone providing a sandbox, a distribution system, a set of common runtime services, etc to get these native apps functional? You don't have to squint your eyes to rea
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by rglullis 1y ago
A combination of: - humans are expensive. - If you want a custom part, you will need specialized equipment to build that part. - If you want a custom part, you will maybe need to transport that part all around the world, while the off-t
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by rglullis 1y ago
Environmentally, there is very little difference at the landfill if the PCB has an 8 bit microcontroller or a 64 bit ARM chip. The only environment-friendly solution is to forbid this product to exist in the first place .
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by rglullis 1y ago
Between (a) component that costs tens of cents to mass produce and can be bought off the shelf and is reusable vs (b) component that needs actual experienced electronics engineers working on a single-use design that can not be repurposed
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by rglullis 1y ago
> at least don't make up some weird fantasy where they're happy about it. Fine, as long as you don't make up a fantasy that the bees are sentient enough to be sad about their life in an environment with significant stresso
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by rglullis 1y ago
These are definitely not the same. How many people are actually paying full attention to a 3 hour podcast? The majority will be listening to it while on their commute, or at the gym, or doing chores around the house. My wife (a civil engine
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by rglullis 1y ago
If it was the general state of the economy, unemployment would be hitting all groups of developers. TFA I linked to is showing that the reduction in positions for recent grads has fallen down disproportionately compared to everyone else.
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by rglullis 1y ago
So, no. None of your examples are equivalent to OOXML. The implementations were first opened up and then standardized. OOXML was the other way around: Microsoft had a standard and tried to enshrine into a standard and force others to waste
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by rglullis 1y ago
Is there any example on your list where the standard came before the implementation?
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by rglullis 1y ago
Imagine you have a team of devs, some using macOS, some using Debian, some using NixOS, some on Windows + WSL. Go ahead and try to make sure that everyone's development environment by simply running "git pull" and "make
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by rglullis 1y ago
They are reducing jobs already. Recent grads are having serious trouble to get work right now: https://www.understandingai.org/p/new-evidence-strongly-sugg...
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by rglullis 1y ago
> If Northrop grows a conscience, Bofors earns a contract. That's a lame "I was just following orders" excuse. Doesn't matter who gets the contract, if you work for a weapons manufacturer or a large corporation that e
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by rglullis 1y ago
What you are saying does not contradict the point from your parent. Automation can create "more roles and specialties" while reducing the total number of people in aggregate for greater economic output and further concentration of
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by rglullis 1y ago
But the idea of tuning the model for this task is to make a model that is more efficient, cheaper to operate and not requiring $BILLIONS of infrastructure going to the hands of NVDA and AMZN.
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by rglullis 1y ago
I would be very interested in reading what you think it can't work. I am inclined to agree with the post on a sibling thread that mentions that the main problem with RDF is that it is been captured by academia.
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by rglullis 1y ago
Correct != Bug-free. My experience working with software developed by academics is that it is focused on getting the job done for a very small user base of people who are okay with getting their hands dirty. This means lots of workarounds,
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by rglullis 1y ago
Wrote this about one month ago here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839132 I'm completely out of time or energy for any side project at the moment, but if someone wants to steal my idea: please take an llm mo
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by rglullis 1y ago
How is "Extinguish" part going for them in regards to Linux? There is no "Extinguish" for open source applications, systems and protocols. The closest attempt at EEE that one could try to argue was Facebook/Google
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by rglullis 1y ago
Except that YouTube wouldn't have to hire a lawyer to do any of that. A single Jr account manager from Google should be able to have a dashboard that can reject/overrule bogus claims, and send an automatic response to the copyrigh
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by rglullis 1y ago
> Youtube has those policies in place in order to comply with copyright law A lot of it is just CYA and enforcement theater. YouTube could pretty much have one dedicated account manager for someone with the subscriber count of Beato who
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by rglullis 1y ago
The code is open source and FOSS. They could try a bait-and-switch and they would see a dozen forks 30 minutes after the announcement.
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by rglullis 1y ago
Who gets to "demonitize" the videos? YouTube. Who gets to process the copyright strike and tell creators they need to remove the content in order to not have consequences? YouTube. Who gets to close down the channel even before an
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by rglullis 1y ago
> with what money You can run a Peertube instance costs for less than $100/month, distribution included. And that's if you insist on running your own. > with what time. People publish to multiple platforms already. Adding an
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by rglullis 1y ago
GrayJay is just a client for the different platforms, like a regular web browser. They can't put themselves between and the consumer. > YouTube already was built on the "distributed" premise. What a load of BS.
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by rglullis 1y ago
I am not saying to completely drop YT. I am saying (a) to run both and keep promoting the alternative and (b) coordinate with other creators to do the same.
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by rglullis 1y ago
You are confusing "optimal" with "feasible" and you are ignoring the fact it can be more profitable to serve a niche (people with a minimum of ethical standards) than to be just yet-another participant in the commodity m
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by rglullis 1y ago
"Hey everyone, I'm Rick Beato. I am tired of dealing with YouTube constantly threatening my livelihood, so now I will be focused on my own channel. I will be posting here as well for whatever they let me, but to get full videos ju
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by rglullis 1y ago
https://grayjay.app/ solves this quite well.

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