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by sofixa 2mo ago
> Day to day for nearly everyone is exactly the same rule of law where you can call police for a murder and roving gangs can’t setup shakedown checkpoints. Is that your threshold for "rule of law"? And I'm sorry, but what
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by sofixa 2mo ago
Do you have a writeup of how you did it, which tools you used? I have a similar project on a much more mundane topic, where I want to build a searchable index of Youtube videos, blog posts, etc. based on their content.
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by sofixa 2mo ago
> You buy something one day, and it starts to deteriorate and become janky after a year, and you'll have a buy a new one I had a LACK table (9.99 euros at time of acquisition) last for 10 years before a move forced me to give it awa
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by sofixa 2mo ago
> I can morn paper but it's not like the contents are being lost Unless they're sharing the scans publicly or with the Internet Archive or equivalent, they are being lost.
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by sofixa 2mo ago
> It will be interesting to see if SAP can turn into the basis for companies that use AI heavily or if companies that use AI heavily will prefer to replace SAP. Considering the human and institutional complexity of implementing ERP, CRM,
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by sofixa 2mo ago
No, courts so far in the jurisdictions which have heard such cases, have ruled it's fair use. There is plenty of ongoing litigation in many jurisdictions, so it's way too early to just decree "it's been determined&quot
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by sofixa 2mo ago
You sure about that? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...
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by sofixa 2mo ago
Xiaomi phones have/had a feature where depending on which finger you unlock the phone with, it can hide certain applications/folders on the filesystem.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
Scaleway have two separate (one fully managed one a bit less) services for that: https://www.scaleway.com/en/generative-apis/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/inference/
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by sofixa 3mo ago
> But with AI you kinda sorta should just build your own blog Please don't. There is absolutely no reason not to use the extremely simple and powerful combination of: * a headless CMS / static website generated, of which there
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by sofixa 3mo ago
Ecosystem? The JS/TS ecosystem approach is to use as many libraries as possible for the sake of it, exposing you to a massive supply chain risk. PHP doesn't suffer from that because there are barely any libraries for it.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
Adding ID checks would make venue entry a slower and more tedious process.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
> Really unfortunate. I don't understand why there's such a lack of response on the Cursor side. It's hard to vibe code security.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
> Yet, even now, Fable is able to do the work of 4-5 engineers when used by a single senior engineer. Teams can and will shrink. If that's true or not, it's a bit irrelevant. Maybe teams won't shrink because of Jevon'
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by sofixa 3mo ago
It's pretty wild how anyone thought they have standing to fire / reprimand people for this. It's pretty clear cut free speech. Especially from, supposedly, the people crying about cancel culture and lack of free speech.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
A decade to realise that a military base has been resized and there is an obvious school on what used to be a part of the same property isn't fast.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
And a wall between the two was built a decade ago. Considering it was hit on day one, obviously it was considered an important target, which makes it inexcusable that nobody checked it in a decade. https://giftarticle.ft.com&#x2F
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by sofixa 3mo ago
Don't forget the US government openly bragging about using AI for targeting in the Iran war, while also trying to pretend it didn't strike a school and kill a few hundred schoolchildren. (No we don't know if it was AI that ma
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by sofixa 3mo ago
No, they run GitLab because GitHub Enterprise is a horrible thing nobody has ever said a good thing about. GitLab even has a free self-hosted version, and it has a number of advantages (like being able to actually have a structure with inhe
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by sofixa 3mo ago
That's why self-hosted GitLab is so popular in Europe.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
Not really because the transaction occurs in a specific place with specific tax rules, regardless of where the purchaser is from.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
> their AI is not as good as their competitors That's irrelevant because their AI was never a product they sold.
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by sofixa 3mo ago
Removing a useless middleman party that needs a profit margin, and removing the perverse incentives of them having to prove their value thus having inflated prices with fake discounts, and centralising all healthcare purchasing power in a s
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by sofixa 3mo ago
I'm not presuming, I flat out said: nobody sane would trust them with their business. They've been shown as unreliable suppliers due to arbitrary decisions by the White House. Nobody would want for their business automation proces
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by sofixa 3mo ago
Needlessly patriotic and confrontational. I'm referring to OpenAI and Antropic - would they be successfull with ~40-50% of their potential market? And iPhones, not really. But you can bet your ass that every business purchasing softwar
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by sofixa 3mo ago
> What are they going to do? Start their own Anthropic? Go for it. Why is every other country in the world entitled to American technology by default? Because American tech companies make a lot of money from outside of the US. For instan
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by sofixa 3mo ago
> own the app layer with their edge in reputation and powered by their infrastructure. Be apple where everyone else is Linux. Do design, coding, research, SMBs, legal, finance, healthcare and more (they are doing all of this). The proble
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by sofixa 4mo ago
We do still have Chinese manufactured RAM available, it's just that it's DDR4 which is not compatible with a lot of the hardware made in the past years.
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by sofixa 4mo ago
> So what? You're claiming the alliance is irreparably broken, who cares about the text of a treaty The alliance is broken, yes, and everyone is treating it as much. Kicking the US out, other than being impossible, will only piss of
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by sofixa 4mo ago
> Trump says a lot of things. It's foolish to take every outrage seriously. It's pretty clear it's just a tactic of his (albeit a dumb one). And he has also acted on a lot of the things he has said. It's foolish to ig

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