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by vidarh 17d ago
That is a good optimization, but you still need to figure out the starting state at a given location, and for quite a lot of languages that is not solvable in the local case. E.g. if you're looking at a page of Ruby, you can not in t
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by vidarh 17d ago
Most readers are women, and the largest genre by far is romance novels, so book stores catering to women is a matter of chasing sales. Otherwise fully agree with your points. The non-fiction market is easier to saturate as there's on
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by vidarh 17d ago
Fiction writers also have to hustle a lot to be successful. The average full time writer in the UK would've made more at McDonalds in the UK, and I doubt it's much better elsewhere. It's both an extremely competitive fiel
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by vidarh 18d ago
> Many trademarks are indeed more or less global. And the vast majority are not, so this has no relevance. > That's irrelevant - Apple Computers owns the Apple trademark (for certain industries). And yet you yourself concede in t
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by vidarh 18d ago
It's a sea change because a lot of this code looks plausible and seems to work to someone inexperienced at assuring quality, and it will take some time before the people emboldened by that learn. I just yesterday had an agent produce
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by vidarh 19d ago
Same. Claude "loves" writing tools to make checks deterministic so much that I actually have to pull it back sometimes and point out that some things need to keep using LLMs. But even then, I have it "farm out" a lot of
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by vidarh 19d ago
If that matters to you, you pick an instance that rarely blocks, and then you can talk to both of them seamlessly. Occasionally some people are affected because they've picked a major-ish but somewhat block-happy instance, in which cas
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by vidarh 20d ago
If I refuse Nazis access to my house and other people chose to visit my house knowing I won't let Nazis in, I'm not censoring Nazis as I have no influence on their freedom of speech - they remain entirely free to speak elsewhere,
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by vidarh 20d ago
There are instances full of actual Nazis on Mastodon - that we can choose to refuse to interact with those instances (yes, I've blocked a nazi instance on my instance) does not prevent them from talking amongst themselves or to people
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by vidarh 20d ago
Nothing in that comment mentions force? Figuring out how to make people actually care, and also figuring out how to make migration easier would both be a big deal. Maybe forcing the platforms to make it possible to make followers/fol
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by vidarh 22d ago
That's what we thought when we applied for .name, especially coupled with mail forwarding at doe.name so jane and john could get jane@doe.name and john@doe.name respectively. In practice the demand was lacklustre. We ran a webmail pr
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by vidarh 22d ago
This wasn't really a consideration for anyone back when we applied for .name, and it already wasn't true back then (.us, and .uk were both prominent examples where it didn't hold)
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by vidarh 22d ago
Fun fact: The Peter Morgan listed on that page was an actual employee of Global Name Registry. I believe he agreed to sign a contract to let us use the name as example.
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by vidarh 22d ago
> While there are laws that ensure to a decent extent that there is a single company called "Google" There aren't laws to ensure that. Within specific jurisdictions, sure, but not globally. A lot of companies also don&#x27
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by vidarh 23d ago
It was deemphasized pretty early because people didn't understand it. It made sense to us because our starting point was an email service letting people share lastname.sometld, but we never got close to as many registrants on .name as
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by vidarh 23d ago
No, we were in fact part of the very first batch of "new" TLDs
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by vidarh 23d ago
A quick Google search shows me that I could afford to buy a used lower-end MRI machine... (not that I would) They don't seem that expensive (though there's a factor of 10 difference between the cheapest lower-resolution used machi
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by vidarh 23d ago
Yeah, my thought when seeing the title of this post was "everyone should build their own text editor". You can start with a couple of hundred lines of code. Not everyone will be happy using their own editor for very long, but it
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by vidarh 23d ago
That's great. It'd definitively be very interesting. Not least as an indicator of which harnesses to dig into the code of. Kimi-cli is actually very interesting in that respect for the checkpoint / messaging mechanism I menti
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by vidarh 23d ago
It can't hurt to try to contact someone, but I doubt Verisign would listen. Already back then (we contracted them to run the registry backend, over my objections) they were stuffed full of bureaucrats. Maybe ICANN. I left back in 2003,
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by vidarh 24d ago
Most critically, the intent was to offer email forwarding at lastname.name, so you could also get email at firstname@lastname.name. That was the starting point - we started as a webmail provider letting people share lastname.sometld domains
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by vidarh 24d ago
I cofounded Nameplanet, which morphed into GNR, and my name is in the ICANN docs for .name... Basically, .name came out of us starting out as a webmail provider offering people to pick from ca. 60k domain names covering most common last nam
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by vidarh 24d ago
Fewer Spectrum's of all models combined appears to have been sold than the C64 alone, so it dominated very few places.
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by vidarh 24d ago
Testing it against Kimi is potentially skewing the numbers massively. Kimi has a number of quirks that requires behaviours that e.g. Claude or GPT doesn't. Harnesses that are built around needing to work with "weird" models w
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by vidarh 24d ago
You don't need a national ID card scheme to do this, though. The EU/EEA is rolling out a digital identity mechanism with interoperable wallets that can hold any range of identity documents and other credentials. You don't nee
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by vidarh 25d ago
It refers to exactly what they describe: A blank, open-ended ticket you can fill in by hand.
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by vidarh 27d ago
I'd fully support a vote if rejoining was one of the options. It's pretty clear from polls that support to rejoin is far stronger than the support for Brexit was (in June, it was 55% for vs. 34% against, vs. 59% in support of
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by vidarh 28d ago
Indeed parts of the leave movement explicitly used as an argument that a soft Brexit was possible, including explicitly airing the possibility of a Norway-style EEA membership. Given how close the result was, it's highly unlikely tha
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by vidarh 28d ago
"body" is the "json in its own column" you're asking for. They are doing exactly what you're saying. The point is exactly that it means you can selectively retrospectively add virtual columns, optionally backed
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by vidarh 28d ago
The EU doesn't have a military, much less a draft, so that would be rather difficult.

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