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by skwirl 2y ago
This comment is a great example of the Stockholm Syndrome related to DPI scaling and desktop Linux. This is just slightly better than the "why does anyone need 4K monitors to begin with" takes. If anyone is really bored, go try wh
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by skwirl 2y ago
As a user of 27" 4k monitors, the terrible 150% DPI scaling has been a dealbreaker for Linux desktop for me for years. Every so often I will go out and search to see if it's any better, and I always find people insisting that it w
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by skwirl 2y ago
No, this paragraph was not hyperbole. This was in conclusion and the author’s serious opinion.
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by skwirl 2y ago
> If a software engineer tells you that this code needs to be 100% test covered, that AI won’t replace them, and that they need 3 months of development—then you better shut the fuck up and let them do their job. This is so naive that it
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by skwirl 2y ago
“Millennial internet hype” was absolutely warranted, though. The utility of the Internet has exceeded the expectations almost everyone had for it in the 90s. It’s one of the big things people pushing blockchain hype always cited for their f
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by skwirl 2y ago
It’s pretty interesting how widely divergent views of the current state and promise this technology is. The dominant view here on HN seems to be that generative models are overhyped toys that burn massive amounts of energy and investment ca
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by skwirl 2y ago
This is a terrible analogy that implies all instances of “doing two things at once” are somehow immoral. You would compare someone eating both steak and potatoes for dinner to an adulterer.
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by skwirl 2y ago
There certainly are many cases where microservices are used where they are not actually appropriate, but this entire post just betrays a lack of experience working in a large monolithic codebase with many engineers.
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by skwirl 2y ago
That doesn’t sound bossware-like at all. It seems completely reasonable to me.
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by skwirl 2y ago
It's cheap, runs on everything, has a decent user experience, has a large network effect, and has wide software and peripheral support. I don't see why it wouldn't stay afloat.
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by skwirl 3y ago
It wasn’t the manufacturer that was what convinced the FDA to approve this drug. It was people like you.
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by skwirl 3y ago
I was a CS undergrad from 2002-2006 and I think almost everyone I knew was there because they were very interested in technology. I wonder if the .com bubble bursting had reset that? I didn’t notice a significant number of people entering t
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by skwirl 3y ago
I don't think there were many better hopes out there for ALS. That's why they approved the drug despite weak data supporting it. This outcome is devastating for people with ALS and their families.
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by skwirl 3y ago
This article had nothing to do with AI (and that was the point). It’s largely a regurgitation of the same polemics you’ve read about “capitalism” a thousand times in the last decade with AI in the title just to get you to click.
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by skwirl 3y ago
This sounds like depression.
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by skwirl 3y ago
People said the same thing about garbage collectors.
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by skwirl 3y ago
I'd rather shoot for a world where clean energy is abundant than abandon the benefits of ever increasing computational power. Thankfully, this is the world we are trending towards, and not the world of 'humans are a virus' se
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by skwirl 3y ago
Not everybody wants to go through life as a tourist.
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by skwirl 3y ago
You don’t sound like the kind of user ollama was meant to serve. What you are describing is pretty typical of macOS applications. You were looking for more of a traditional Linux style command line process or a Python library. Looks like yo
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by skwirl 3y ago
> the main benefit is how cheap they are to run This is a pretty weak main benefit as ICE cars are already cheap to run. At 12k miles/year, 30 MPG, and $3.20/gallon you are only talking $1300/year in fuel. According to AAA
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by skwirl 3y ago
Do you really think the commenter meant to use moot to mean “purely academic?”
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by skwirl 3y ago
The issue here is that the case law is not settled at all and there is no clear consensus on whether OpenAI is violating any copyright laws. In novel cases like this where the courts essentially have to invent new legal doctrines, I think t
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by skwirl 3y ago
The word ‘moot’ does not mean what you think it means.
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by skwirl 3y ago
>I can't imagine a world where the USA shares everything with Spain, so I can't image why would Spain share everything with the USA. I'm sure it's not everything, but it's certainly asymmetric given that Spain (l
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by skwirl 3y ago
Sam and Greg are no longer on the board. They were removed with the support of Ilya. The board is now Ilya, the Quora CEO, and two other outsiders.
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by skwirl 3y ago
I think this is a poor reading of the situation that is aging badly. https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028 https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al...
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by skwirl 3y ago
It indeed did seem like something Ilya would post himself, or at least someone cosplaying as him. Based on what we’ve seen on Twitter from employees it looks like a significant chunk supports Sam.
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by skwirl 3y ago
It’s pretty clearly just a power play by four of the board members. Keep in mind Sam was part of the board and Greg Brockman was chairman of the board, so this was 4 board members ousting 2 other board members. OpenAI execs have already sai
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by skwirl 3y ago
Making no effort to obtain a grasp on the basic facts of the situation doesn’t seem to stop people here from posting embarrassing rants. Altman was on the board. He was not “just another employee.” Brockman was also on the board, and was re
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by skwirl 3y ago
The architect of the coup (Ilya) is strongly opposed to open-sourcing OpenAI's models due to safety concerns. This will not - and would not - be any different without Sam. The decision to close the models was made over 2 years before t

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