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by saurik 3y ago
FWIW, in a world with very few major game engines and very few major game platforms, I'm elated that the latter might not be allowed to purchase the former, as it is trivial to predict how Meta would decide--whether explicitly as the r
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by saurik 3y ago
I remember (but very poorly, as this was over a quarter century ago and wasn't that important to me) back when there was a TV show (I remember this being in Japan, but that is quite likely my brain filling in gaps) where they locked so
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by saurik 3y ago
The premise here is specifically not to train it on generated output of the bigger model but to merely use the bigger model to better curate non-generated (and thereby untainted) inputs for the training set of the smaller model.
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by saurik 3y ago
I don't know if it is still like this, but the code for dpkg used to be like this, and it was amazing : if you ever needed to know in exactly what order various side effects of installing a package happened in, you could just scroll t
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by saurik 3y ago
There is something interesting though that while the audience of superhero movies is super large and while there are a lot of overly toxic complaints and clearly a number of people who are super angry about various things, I haven't se
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by saurik 3y ago
I mean, have you talked to Akamai?
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by saurik 3y ago
Have you looked at the WAF from AWS? I am using it on one of my sites to add a rate limit and it was reasonably easy to implement.
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by saurik 3y ago
When you say "produced locally", do you mean on the client? If so, does this mean you require me to use some alternate PostgreSQL driver locally, parsing the SQL to add your one feature? (If it is, this really feels like it should
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by saurik 3y ago
Do you feel like the changes Apple is making to the camera are improving the camera along the axes you care about?
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by saurik 3y ago
I use special printers that have weird features that require the ability to translate the data on the way to the printer, such as CYMW (W = White) printers (for printing on black or doing t-shirt transfers) or controlling the margins while
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by saurik 3y ago
Google Books is transformative in its use and for what it is, sure; and yet, if you do a query on Google Books and try to take the output and paste it into your book, that might not be fair use (and I only say "might not" instead
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by saurik 3y ago
Google Books itself being some kind of fair use transformative work is unrelated to whether you could use the output of a Google Books query as part of a book you yourself have written (and like, clearly you can't).
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by saurik 3y ago
FWIW, my mileage definitely varied: autotools--which is quite easy if you bother to learn how it works and is then almost infinitely flexible--has pretty much never failed me (I think there was one incident for a while related to building s
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by saurik 3y ago
The problem here is that the thing I am probing is something I own: the device in my house that I ostensibly purchased and am allowed to smash with a hammer or put in a blender for all anyone should care; the context is that the DMCA is oft
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by saurik 3y ago
FWIW, I want to claim that I personally care deeply about a lot of this stuff; but, if I go to Home Depot and buy a piece of dumb equipment (such as a run of the mill light bulb or an outlet), it never occurred to me that I might have to ch
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by saurik 3y ago
> The current maintainer continues to apply pull requests and makes regular releases, but unfortunately has no capacity to do any development beyond addressing high-impact issues. Assuming this is true--and I think it is fair to trust th
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by saurik 3y ago
A property tax isn't a flat tax, as the people who own the highest value assets--and are thereby able to use them to extract the highest rents from other people--are paying higher taxes for that continuing privilege. The reality is tha
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by saurik 3y ago
Why is the 21st century all about software moving in the direction of becoming a monolithic brick with centralized bottlenecks on adding functionality?
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by saurik 3y ago
Sure: I am not defending that they added the watermark, and agree that that sucks (and would even accept "despicable" as a good adjective to describe it)... I am merely defending that, if the only copy I have access to has a water
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by saurik 3y ago
And are they going to upload it somewhere we can find it easily later? I dunno: I ended up hand selecting just over 200 of these videos that I'd be sad to not have access to later, and am downloading them (almost half of those are go
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by saurik 3y ago
Oh come on... I read these comments and was thinking I'd see something ridiculously large--maybe even taking up a third of the video--not something that's only like a tenth the vertical space. Yes: it would be better to not have i
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by saurik 3y ago
This also massively changes the incentive structures as it becomes yet another "you are the product" service :(. https://scroll.in/article/1045536/are-your-upi-payments-farm... (note: these paragraphs ar
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by saurik 3y ago
The irony of this, for me, is that when the iPhone came out, I was annoyed that people kept building "mobile-optimized" web UIs that had some trivial sliver of the functionality that their desktop website had... even though the iP
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by saurik 3y ago
No, as I didn't even know which country it was from for sure, right? ;P But I went ahead and typed "UK encryption" into the Hacker News search and it all popped up from the last few months; the first hit, from a month ago, wa
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by saurik 3y ago
I want to be clear that I agree with you and I am not providing this explanation as an excuse for Apple, but merely as an explanation for what might have happened with the timeline: first they announced they were doing this, a bunch of us s
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by saurik 3y ago
Just a few months ago, I was still able to get Lyft rides using a desktop browser; but, despite the web page still being very functional -- letting me select the endpoints, see nearby cars, and get pricing-timing information for the various
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by saurik 3y ago
FWIW, I'd be more OK with this if liability for later use were then fairly distributed: if you sell me a hammer (or a phone or let me make phone calls), and I can do anything I want with it, and what I want to do is evil , the hammer
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by saurik 3y ago
EC2-Classic was magical. It felt like we were finally living in the future: a world where software was in charge of networking, and all of the legacy cruft that came from having to build networks out of cable could be forgotten. Rather than
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by saurik 3y ago
I liked this video I recent watched, which covered the history of this, centered on Seinfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLVO46FQX0
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by saurik 3y ago
> Ultimately, if NotebookLM sticks around... It's amazing how little faith we now all have in Google to bother even pretending to maintain their products; and yet, Google just keeps pushing stuff... presumably so they can get their

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