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by sgu999 3y ago
From the link the the person you're reply to posted: > The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. The compute graph with trained weight is very much a compiled form of
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by sgu999 3y ago
> cars as an extension of the rest of their lives, not just a utility I don't even understand what that means. That could be a marketing slogan. Cars have been at the center of our lives for decades in most developed countries, we d
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by sgu999 3y ago
Overall clothes made in Portugal are very good quality, and they aren't all that expensive for what they are. [0][1] A good heuristic is to go for boring looks. I recently got into sewing, turns out it's a very good way to learn h
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by sgu999 3y ago
> According to the taxman's website [0] you need to be a "liberal enterprise". Not sure what exactly that means, but I'd be surprised there's no form of bureaucracy involved. I think you need to have at least a &
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by sgu999 3y ago
I'm not deciding what the company can spend on, that's the point. That person isn't doing me a favour, they are doing a favour to a company.
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by sgu999 3y ago
IANAL but that's not entirely true. As long as it's exceptional, it's legal to earn money without having a company in France. It's the "revenu commerciaux non professionnels" box on your tax form. As for being
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by sgu999 3y ago
Yes I understand that but if you can accept donations, you can surely hack together a quote and state that the payment will go through your donation platform. In most country I believe you don't have anything to do at all bellow a cert
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by sgu999 3y ago
> I even went so far that when a founder of a major transactional email service sent me an email regarding Nodemailer and offered to make a donation to promote my efforts, I rejected it. To all of you around here who do FOSS, please reco
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by sgu999 3y ago
> he can now ask ChatGPT to draft up a basic website. I'm pretty sure he could have done that with one of the thousands tools like Wix, many years before ChatGPT.
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by sgu999 3y ago
> They are both performing actions that profit maximize given their situation. That really rings like moral relativism. Even 15 years ago when we were still talking about "GPGPU" and OpenCL seemed like a serious competitor to C
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Taiwan has stronger social and cultural ties to America than Japan since there are probably more Taiwanese Americans than Taiwanese Japanese That's really not how it feels when you visit or live there. Geographical proximity and t
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by sgu999 3y ago
The core problem is even worse, it's our inability to live in a closed system.
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> He would have to surrender a sum of taxpayer dollars that equaled five times the budget for education and 10 times the budget for public health. I can't imagine for a second the state of mind of someone who thinks that's OK a
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by sgu999 3y ago
Mind sharing a few?
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by sgu999 3y ago
These people are the same, they are after power and they achieve it in the same way: by being lucky first, and pernicious second. At least in our neoliberal system all these assholes are counter-powers to each other. Too bad for the environ
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by sgu999 3y ago
> on my TRS-80. Please tell us more!
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by sgu999 3y ago
Governments which are still closer to being democratically elected than the C-suite of these "successful companies". I'll take the lesser of the two evils, thanks.
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by sgu999 3y ago
I wonder what kind of shape it could take with the current mindset of putting weak signals to steer the market (ie. carbon tax, etc.). Mining bitcoin is far from being the only example of resources waste for pure profit... I can only imagin
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by sgu999 3y ago
That's a widely different experience I'm getting from it, discovery is really bad in my opinion. "hearing a new song I like" is usually in a completely different place than Apple Music... I don't know if I'm an
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> When was the last time the intersection with the humanities was mentioned, versus how sleek and desirable the technology is? Probably around a decade ago, at least. The low hanging fruits of digitalisation have been gone for a while no
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by sgu999 3y ago
You sound like I offended you. Are you a narcissist? Nothing like a good ad hominem to try to make a point, eh?
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by sgu999 3y ago
Does everything need to be a celebration? Birthdays, weddings, baby showers, wedding-birthdays, stag do,... That's already plenty of opportunities for a narcissist to hear compliments from their friends in public.
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by sgu999 3y ago
> within today's "I Am The Main Character" vibe. That's a very western phenomenon, though. Maybe even very American...
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Everyone is about to die, nothing special about it
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by sgu999 3y ago
I keep on reading how bad Gemini performs compared to GPT-4, which makes me hopefully that a GPT-X that can replace us all is not around the corner. Is Google incompetent or massively nerfing their model before release with too much alignme
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by sgu999 3y ago
I feel like with this kind of reasoning, everyone is always a victim regardless of their actions. This man intentionally played a game that is known to be rigged and lost... > “what was coming” isn’t necessarily deserved For sure, and I
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by sgu999 3y ago
I find it absurd as well, however: > and you realize you've become a perpetual debt slave to the corporation that inflicted this upon you By the look of it, he's an adult who made a conscious decision. I'd like it to chang
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by sgu999 3y ago
> I'm neck deep in this ChatGPT stuff right now and build 1-2 apps a week, so a bit biased. As someone who never worked on a project that wasn't at least a couple months long, I'm curious about the kind of apps that can be
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And tow them outside the environment
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by sgu999 3y ago
> because it's so wrong and US-centric I'm reading these threads from my walkable town in western Europe for the same reason ;D

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