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by toyg 2mo ago
This is why Windows still ships 32bit libraries, after all these years.
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by toyg 2mo ago
If I were to transition my 70yo mum from Windows to Linux, the first thing I'd do would be to add such a skin. Yes, there will be differences, but the value of re-injecting some familiarity with the fundamentals cannot be underestimate
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by toyg 2mo ago
Yes to everything but "the climate is not optimal". The climate was not optimal. I expect this year's weather in most of Europe must have been pretty spectacular for mosquitoes; if it becomes a regular occurrence, as scient
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by toyg 2mo ago
Probably AI models got good enough to bootstrap their own training systems.
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by toyg 2mo ago
So much this. It's like Apple buying Shazam or any other software company, they do it to bring value to their hardware platform.
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by toyg 2mo ago
I have run OpenBSD on Vultr for probably a decade at this point, and never seen that behaviour.
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by toyg 2mo ago
We are talking about facilities that are extremely complex and expensive to build, to the point that only a very small handful of locations in the world exist today - despite their massive economic value. TSMC is not something you can rebui
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by toyg 2mo ago
There is a classic Robin Williams / Craig Ferguson bit about the std sounding like a girl's name.
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by toyg 2mo ago
$2k? LOL. That's not even the GPU budget, these days. The economies are currently out of whack because of underproduction of components and memory, so LLM providers have a few years of runway to entrench. Plus, the whole capex Vs opex
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by toyg 2mo ago
The tech field is increasingly devoid of any resemblance of morality. I guess it's the inevitable parable of anything started by '70s hippies: sooner or later, we all sell out.
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by toyg 2mo ago
This is not the kind of problem most people care about. It looks good, it works, it's good enough. They will likely build their audience outside of search engines anyway.
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by toyg 2mo ago
Lovable is effectively "next gen Wix", which itself was "next gen Wordpress", which was "next gen Dreamweaver". It's simply the natural evolution of products that solve the problem "build a website w
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by toyg 2mo ago
> any api client can just select a model and the system does the right thing My machine can only load one model at a time. The loading/unloading times just don't seem worth the switch. I tend to use qwen3.6 for anything and
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by toyg 2mo ago
Is there some sort of dedicated tool for this type of setup, or did you hand-craft it ?
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by toyg 2mo ago
> antrophic and openai have the goal "lets create the future" Thanks for the laugh, I needed it. They all do it for the same reason: to make a lot of money by selling it to companies who want to cut labor costs.
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by toyg 2mo ago
These refineries burn but the front line is not shifting.
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by toyg 2mo ago
Yeah, I always wondered how one of the wealthiest companies on earth could be so poor in linking to their own documentation. Then I realized that they have a galaxy of consultants and experts that effectively make a living by keeping on top
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by toyg 2mo ago
Read Douglas Adams. We were not really happy even back then.
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by toyg 2mo ago
EU states are providing Ukraine with every resource they can spare without compromising their own defensive stance - which is, understandably, their n.1 priority. In addition, they are ramping up production - largely to satisfy demand on th
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by toyg 2mo ago
If anything they seem to be having the opposite effect, entrenching defender's advantages to the point that maps might never change again . (Ok, it's hyperbole, but hopefully you get the point.)
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by toyg 2mo ago
It's not a binary choice between material support and sanctions, there are plenty of intermediate states. I think you are being hyperbolic again. And I disagree that USSR and PRC were just "rival peers". Rival peers would be
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by toyg 2mo ago
This coming from the leader of the other country in a war... I mean, I do find it credible that Xi might have told Putin to think very hard before doing something extremely stupid, but from there to stating that Russia is "China's
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by toyg 2mo ago
That's what's happening in Ukraine right now, I don't understand why you think it's BS. The point is reaching a situation where one of the parties is ok with going "alright, enough". Not all wars are WWII-level
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by toyg 2mo ago
OpenBSD exploits (defined as bugs in both OS and typically-deployed applications on top of it) are (or used to be) low-value but scarce and hence prestigious. Linux exploits can be extremely valuable in monetary terms, but the attack surfac
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by toyg 2mo ago
Compared to Linux, all of them lag pretty badly in one or multiple areas (performance, features, hardware support, available software...). They can be excellent in very, very niche use-cases. I run my personal site on openbsd, because I w
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by toyg 3mo ago
The videogame is from the '80s; it became iconic partially because it allowed players to choose the music to listen to "in the car", all of them synths (obviously), and one of the songs you could choose was called "Splas
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by toyg 3mo ago
To quote an Italian meme, "yes, but they also did a few bad things".
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by toyg 3mo ago
Mine was a quip, but if we want to go deeper: like any phenomenon, it's obviously a combination of cultural, economic, and social factors; but it's hard not to take the marxist view that it's all about the economy when we get
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by toyg 3mo ago
That's just a convenient technicality for historians. From wikipedia: "Most scholars use the last years of the century, often choosing the French Revolution or the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1804) as a convenient point in
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by toyg 3mo ago
You start with that and then they will clamor for translations into vulgata , and before you know it we're all surrounded by bleeding christiani who don't know their Mars from their Mercurius...

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