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by rob74 5d ago
...except if it's certified organic open source?
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by rob74 5d ago
Are you alluding to this t-shirt: https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.WxWdam38N7Uxmwqa5dFTRQHaJ... ? ...which refers to the song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Plans_for_Nigel ; the most
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by rob74 5d ago
I'm surprised this hasn't gained more traction! Anyway, it's interesting how the narratives align with the incentives here: The "incumbents" (Anthropic, OpenAI et al) want regulation that protects them from competi
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by rob74 8d ago
Yeah, JetBrains IDEs are Java-based, so rather heavyweight. Then again, VS Code (and Cursor) have a browser engine running in the background, so not really better in my book. Sublime and Zed are more efficient of course. OTOH, JetBrains IDE
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by rob74 9d ago
Maybe my post sounded harsher than I intended, and yeah, it's probably on me that I'm not familiar with GLM. Actually the other major Chinese LLM Kimi does ring a bell, maybe it's because three-letter acronyms are a dime a do
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by rob74 9d ago
This article left me with one immediate question: "WTF is GLM?". Honestly, I have no idea what z.ai is either (I'm aware of an AI-enabled editor called Zed, but that's under zed.dev), so it's a bit presumptuous from
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by rob74 9d ago
If you had bothered to at least skim TFA, this is addressed in the third paragraph: > The idea is not to turn modern cargo ships back into sailing vessels. Instead, these systems are designed to work alongside conventional engines, usin
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by rob74 9d ago
You just have to take a look at the Rube Goldberg-esque abomination that is the AWS web interface for a few minutes to realize that it's not that simple. Granted, most executives won't do that...
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by rob74 9d ago
Especially with Amazon, who are well known for squeezing every last bit of profit from their employees, contractors etc., it doesn't really sound surprising. "Offsite backups?! Sure, you could have had that if you had found the
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by rob74 10d ago
I think that's overly negative. Roundabouts have their place, mostly for low traffic intersections, but I agree that they tend to be overused, also here in Europe. Two examples where roundabouts are not the right solution: - when there
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by rob74 10d ago
Well, it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive, does it? An old building doesn't have to be run down, and a new one can be both expensive and shoddily built.
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by rob74 10d ago
If you think this book is too big, I'd like to remind you that there are one-volume paperback editions of The Lord Of The Rings (I have this one: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/r-tolkien-lord-rings-... )
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by rob74 11d ago
One contributing factor might be that AI companies are raising money via (amongst other methods) also issuing bonds, which might compete with government bonds.
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by rob74 11d ago
Civilian targets heavily involved in handling "dual-use" items that the Russian army isn't providing to its soldiers, so they have to buy it by themselves ( https://factually.co/fact-checks/business/w
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by rob74 11d ago
Actually you can write "Xitter" ("x" is pronounced "sh" in the standard transliteration of Chinese and many other languages, although most of them are not really widespread, like Basque https://en.wi
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by rob74 12d ago
So they can try to nag you into signing up and installing the app? Which doesn't work in 99.9% of cases, but try telling that to your boss if his name is Elon Musk...
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by rob74 12d ago
Maybe instead of trying to get rid of services that provide a more convenient access to X to non-logged-in users, they should realize that there is a real market behind these services - users that will likely never sign up to X, but who wan
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by rob74 12d ago
The explanation for that (according to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitteldeutscher_Rundfunk#Histo... ) is tradition: there was a Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from 1924 to 1934, when the geographic designation w
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by rob74 12d ago
The funniest thing about the GDR was that its railways were still called "Deutsche Reichsbahn" ("German Imperial Railways" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Reichsbahn_(East_Germ... ). Apparen
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by rob74 15d ago
Lockheed would still agree that it's good for them - replacing all those $4 million Patriot rockets expended in the Middle East to shoot down Shahed drones that are one or two orders of magnitude cheaper is going to fill their order bo
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by rob74 15d ago
Supply and demand? Over here in Germany, Diesel was cheaper than (any kind of) gasoline for a long time, but that has also changed recently (Gemini says since Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, so another thing to blame Putin for), now it&#x2
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by rob74 15d ago
Thanks, that's more like it! Even includes an Art Deco mirror...
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by rob74 15d ago
In the case of the movie poster, it probably doesn't help that the image was apparently stored in a lossy format. So after a few iterations the LLM can't tell the JPEG artifacts from the relevant image details and starts adding wr
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by rob74 15d ago
Those are both very 2020s versions of Mrs. Regan, I would be more interested in the 1930s version...
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by rob74 15d ago
I don't think there's a law mandating it, but CRM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management ) has been used and trained by all major airlines since the 1980s. The reason is simple: it doesn'
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by rob74 15d ago
One more thing worth noting is that they flew through bad weather on the approach, which led to the deviation from the glideslope. But the actual issue IMHO is not going around when they noticed that the approach was wildly unstable, or at
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by rob74 15d ago
If any of the two pilots feel uncomfortable about the approach, they are actually drilled to just order a go-around, not politely ask and hint that they would prefer to do it like this FO did (wastes time). Ideally the pilot flying should t
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by rob74 15d ago
You'd be surprised how many European power plants (not only with Russian/Soviet designs) relied and still rely on fuel from Russia ( https://www.voiceofemirates.com/en/politics/reports-and-inve... ).
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by rob74 15d ago
The plant mentioned in the article is by no means new, its two reactors began operation in 1977 and 1981, respectively ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loviisa_Nuclear_Power_Plant ). Nuclear power plants are notorious for
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by rob74 15d ago
3a. AI companies make hyperbolic projections on the future use of AI and plan building and powering data centers according to that. 5. when the AI bubble bursts, we'll be left with huge amounts of unused/half-built data center cap

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