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by thayne 4mo ago
They care more about short term cost reduction than long term effects of upsetting customers. Even moreso if there is a lack of significant competition, as is often the case for companies doing this, since customers can't just easily s
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by thayne 4mo ago
In a missing person case, it isn't just justice, you also want your loved one back (assuming they are still alive).
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by thayne 4mo ago
This is an example of the Vimes Boots theory. If you are well enough off that you can afford a lawyer, you might be better off in the long run, while someone who doesn't have the disposable income for a lawyer can end up losing more th
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by thayne 4mo ago
It absolutely is. In theory, staying silent or getting a lawyer shouldn't hurt you in court. But it could lead to the police focusing their investigation on you and/or making your life difficult.
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by thayne 4mo ago
But lawyers are expensive, and if it turns out you are just a witness, you are going to be spending a lot of money for nothing. And then consider if you are are the spouse or parent of a murder victim or missing person, and are innocent.
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by thayne 4mo ago
> it's not possible to add a precondition without introducing a runtime overhead Indeed. Adding an assertion to a single function isn't a big deal, but if every function has to check all of it's arguments, that's goin
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by thayne 4mo ago
Will those new jobs be as good as or better than the jobs that were lost? Will those jobs appear shortly, or will it be decades before they appear? Will the people who lost jobs get free education and training for these jobs that will suppo
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by thayne 4mo ago
Are there any alternatives that are independent of streaming services?
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by thayne 4mo ago
That assumes that this results in the IPO getting delayed long enough for Anthropic to need another private funding round, and that Anthropic won't be upset enough about this that they won't let Amazon invest more.
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by thayne 4mo ago
The only reason I can see is because Amazon wanted something like this to happen. But I'm not sure what Amazon would gain from that, since they don't have their own competing frontier models.
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by thayne 4mo ago
If you get downgraded to a cheaper model, do you still have to pay the rate for Fable?
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by thayne 4mo ago
AWS has over 200 services, so that's a little over $2 per service. Yeah, a lot of it is built on OSS, but there is a ton of it, and there is also a lot of work involved in building the APIs and web UI, and making it scalable , secure,
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by thayne 4mo ago
For one thing, the financial barrier may not necessarily stay that high forever. For another, such regulations could prevent a competitor from making the weights open for their model to try and disrupt the competition. And finally, Amodei w
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by thayne 4mo ago
Not necessarily. It isn't at all unusual to use something because it is useful and also want to be able to make improvements to it.
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by thayne 4mo ago
> You are not a person or entity that is: (a) located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in any country or territory that is the target of comprehensive U.S. sanctions Seems to be pretty clear that it would include n
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by thayne 4mo ago
IANAL, but it seems like the argument from Wickard v Filburn would apply to LE. They may not be taking money but they do impact the commerce of the market for certificates. I disagree with that ruling, and I have some serious problems with
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by thayne 4mo ago
It isn't just the US. China, Russia, the EU, and Australia and probably others are all increasingly trying to create virtual walls of various forms in the internet.
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by thayne 4mo ago
Or maybe your audience is developers who might want to contribute to the project, and would prefer to work in some languages more than others.
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by thayne 4mo ago
I suspect the fact that Github and Gitlab use ruby backends is a significant (although by no means the only) factor in the slowness of Github and Gitlab. So yes, being written in a language that is better suited for high performance at scal
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by thayne 4mo ago
> the behavior is undefined if the process created by vfork() either modifies any data other than a variable of type pid_t used to store the return value from vfork(), or returns from the function in which vfork() was called, or calls an
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by thayne 4mo ago
> if it is in the best interest of the city I think a lot of people, including many of the citizens of this city would say this is not in the best interest of the city.
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by thayne 4mo ago
This true, but these methods don't increase the number of syscalls you need to make.
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by thayne 4mo ago
PaulDavisThe1st is saying that the Unix pattern of forking a process (and not calling exec) was an early form of multi-threading (or multi-processing), but unlike threads in NT and later pthreads, they didn't share memory and communica
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by thayne 4mo ago
Another possible design is instead of forking the current process, you create a new empty process, then the parent calls syscalls to set up the new process, and eventually call exec on the child process. That does mean you either need new s
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by thayne 4mo ago
With large enough processes, like say a server JVM process that uses 10s of GBs of RAM, even just copying the page tables for CoW can be slow. And unless you have aggressive overcommit settings you can get an OOM on fork, even if you'r
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by thayne 4mo ago
Since the zone is is device specific, it doesn't make sense to send it over the wire in html links or a host header, bit it does seem like it could be used in the url bar, at least.
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by thayne 4mo ago
> So changing the default PATH for cron requires a green field rewrite? I never claimed that. It's just one of many reasons why I think systemd timers are easier to use.
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by thayne 4mo ago
> What do you mean by "you would expect" I mean it should include things that are usually on the path, like /usr/local/bin. And for the root user it should include sbin. I don't really expect /opt/
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by thayne 4mo ago
I wouldn't say that the PATH is ambiguous , but cron does have some problems with PATH: - the default value is missing some values you would expect, like /use/local/bin and /usr/sbin for root. - on some distri
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by thayne 4mo ago
For a large project with dedicated resources that is pretty reasonable. And GitHub issues probably isn't sophisticated enough for you anyway. But for a small to medium open source project, that's a lot to set up and manage, and in

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