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by vovavili 7mo ago
Thank you for your contributions to the Python ecosystem. It definitely is inspiring to see Python, the language to which I owe my career and interest in tech, grow into a performant language year by year. This would not have been possible
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by vovavili 8mo ago
A very quick Google search could have done the trick for you - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...
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by vovavili 8mo ago
Extensions prior to MV3 were notoriously insecure and granted extension developers a very wide attack surface. Assuming that Google only has a sinister reason to switch to a better standard in an ecosystem riddled with ill-intentioned actor
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by vovavili 8mo ago
I have seen major celebrations here in a major Dutch city. If anything, my bet is that overall balance of Muslim opinion on the West has probably shifted to be more favorable.
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by vovavili 8mo ago
Ycombinator is far from your average venture capital rent-seeking company. I am surprised that a person who thinks this way without added nuance would spent time on this website.
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by vovavili 8mo ago
I'd say that it's taking much needed steps to achieve perfection but many more steps are there ahead. The next language closer to perfection would definitely have a much gentler introduction curve, among other things.
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by vovavili 8mo ago
A bit surprised to learn that Rednote maintains one of the leading open-source OCR models on the market, nice.
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by vovavili 8mo ago
Fair point. The AI is simply taking open-source projects engaging in an infinite runway of virtue signaling at a face value.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
God speed and thank you for your work. We need a professional world without the hellish Teams-Slack duopoly.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
The last thing I would want is for excessively neurotic bureaucrats to interfere with all the mind-blowing progress we've had in the last couple of years with LLM technology.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
Only if your company already is lacking in the domain of competence of your engineers. If that is the case, either you have bigger problems to worry about, or your product probably isn't impressive enough to begin with to warrant an ad
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by vovavili 9mo ago
>the free alternatives are also expensive, just a different type of cost Not if you hire reasonably competent people. These days for vast majority of FOSS services all you need is an ability to spin up a VPS and run a number of simple Do
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by vovavili 9mo ago
I'd argue that it is in the long-term interest of any genuinely innovative company to attract intellectually curious talent with some coolness factor.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
Mac Minis are perfect for locally running demanding models because they can effectively use ordinary RAM as VRAM.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
The OP's article screams "I failed to control for confounders". Not sure why it is being upvoted so heavily.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
>And Office suite wise, it took Google about 15 years of pouring money into Google Docs to be almost as good as the MS offering. And yet they _still_ don't have a desktop client for hotkey-driven and very fast-paced workflows, meani
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by vovavili 9mo ago
Just like as it tends to happen with most bits of regulation, the problem is that you give it a meter and it walks a mile.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
>Right now I think it's a problem that social media companies can do research without answering to the same regulatory bodies that regular academics / researchers would. For example, they don't have to answer to independen
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by vovavili 9mo ago
I live in South Holland and I still say to foreigners that "I am from Holland" meaning "I am from The Netherlands".
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by vovavili 9mo ago
>So what would your straightforward "fix" look like? A repairable powerful phone with replaceable battery and pathways to minor upgradability that you can trust not to fuck you over long-term. I.E. the closest equivalent of Fra
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by vovavili 9mo ago
I don't see a reason to buy a new phones when I can buy refurbished flagships from a couple of years prior. The fact that this is the best option available is precisely what strikes me as being so straightforward to fix.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
>still be a product that you'll only buy if you put sustainability over performance/convenience That would product that I and countless others would be gladly willing to buy on the smartphone market.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
Minor upgradability might as well be baked into a phone.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
I often wonder why there still hasn't been a YC-backed attempt to disrupt the "replace your phone every couple of years because your battery became slower" cartel in 2026. Seems like such a low-hanging fruit, especially given
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by vovavili 9mo ago
That seems like a wildly irrelevant claim in the context of this conversation.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
And how does this claim contradict my initial statement?
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by vovavili 9mo ago
There is nothing impressive about an AI slop Wikipedia rewrite by a radicalized eccentric billionaire.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
You misspelled "vital for manufacturing consent".
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by vovavili 9mo ago
U.S. literally invented the transformer just a couple years ago. I would argue that it is the rest of the world is lagging.
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by vovavili 9mo ago
>cannot do it, because there is actually a law Oh sweet summer child.

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