well_ackshually

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by well_ackshually 5d ago
* Release new model that scores an arbitrary 100 on a benchmark * Get everyone to talk about you as the first model to ever score 100 on the 100benchmark. * Tune it down over time so that you end up only scoring 75 on the benchmark and peop
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by well_ackshually 5d ago
Unlike a 256GB M5 Ultra that is $10k+.
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by well_ackshually 6d ago
Always being five years behind everyone and doing its own boneheaded decisions that they inevitably have to walk back does tend to make Apple the Aztec in this case. Mockery aside: it's all the same. They're all good enough for po
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by well_ackshually 6d ago
>Recently, a Vercel engineer called on harnesses to send the programming language the client prefers oh would you look at that, Vercel suggesting to abuse how standard headers have been used for decades so it can send Accept-Language: ru
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by well_ackshually 6d ago
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Me me me me me me This is what happens when you let things get to your head. You work on a (highly inefficient, often broken) piece of extremely basic software by prompting a slot machine and hoping it works. Calm down
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by well_ackshually 6d ago
Rossmann might be a useful tool in fighting against companies, that doesn't change the fact that he's a gigantic asshole who regularly harasses people he disagrees with. In the same way, if Stallman could stop eating his toenails
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by well_ackshually 6d ago
Half of these people are trying to actively make life worse for you, or someone you know. We care about that stuff because otherwise people like DHH will want to get you shot if you're black, or people like Stallman will want to sexual
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by well_ackshually 6d ago
Because DHH openly calls for murder of "immigrants" (read: non white people, even if they've been there for decades and been more productive members of society than DHH has ever been.), and it's not even a dogwhistle any
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by well_ackshually 7d ago
Singapore isn't a city, it's a state. That happens to be the size of a city. You wouldn't say that New York is a failed state, because it doesn't make sense, and because the rest of the united states is able to feed it.
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by well_ackshually 7d ago
The future is an inappropriate OS with catastrophic battery management, zero software available, no sandboxing or proper security measures, and the oh so stable kernel ABI & Gnome APIs to develop for, yep yep yep.
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by well_ackshually 8d ago
A non self sufficient society, where anyone but the richest have to rely on another country for food is a failed society.
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by well_ackshually 8d ago
Because nobody would publish through them anymore. Because Valve has zero legitimacy to mandate that anyone changes their software for any reason. Because this is such an apple-brained, anti developer, anti user move that noone else in the
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by well_ackshually 9d ago
There's no such censorship on TikTok, it's entirely groupthink based on people saying "when I use that word my video is seen less so therefore it's being censored". Youtube is a lot more guilty of it though, as well
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by well_ackshually 9d ago
"My country that is hostile to public healthcare doesn't offer public healthcare" no shit sherlock, the US's healthcare system is a shitshow. Look at anywhere in Europe where those lotteries are publicly ran. The entire
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
I'm not the one posting daily about how "AIs are going to destroy the world because of how smart they are", "humans are finished" and "we've reached super duper mega intelligence". Go see Dario and Sa
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
Some things are better left in control of the government _because_ they are dangerous. You either: * Outlaw gambling, and gamblers will just go towards shadier options, putting their own lives in even more risk. * Allow private operators w
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
It would. But Mozilla has zero long term survival chance in the current ecosystem. The economics are just not there, there cannot be more than one big browser in the way this system works.
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
Ah yes, the customers of Mozilla, who are certainly paying users and not just people whining and saying BACK IN MY DAYS IN THE LAST MILLENIUM IT WAS DIFFERENT. Get over it gramps, things are changing. Mozilla spent ten years trying to mostl
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
That's a lot of words and assumptions, when a single check of my posting history would show that I despise the HN bros as well. Jumping on a tangent about libertarianism when you could have simply called them retarded and saved a lot o
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
>Tool use is a widely accepted measure of intelligence. Stop anthropomorphizing the parrot. The parrot has had stockfish's source code blasted at high pressure into its head along with dozens of millions of other pieces of code whos
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
>What happens when you ask those same frontier models to write a chess-playing program? they shit out a carbon copy of https://github.com/official-stockfish/stockfish that they have in their training data. Still doe
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
Here's a crazy idea if you don't want Smart Window to send your data anywhere: have you tried not using smart window (like you're currently doing)?
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by well_ackshually 10d ago
The only people having an expectation of translations being done locally is exactly the nerds that keep whining that it's not using a local model. Every single normal person, when presented with a "translate" button either kn
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by well_ackshually 11d ago
Any serious project will be using NullAway and annotating everything (or, indeed, using Kotlin). Otherwise, yeah, you're still in for a world of pain.
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by well_ackshually 12d ago
"We replaced a somewhat fair income tax with the most unfair tax of all, VAT!"
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by well_ackshually 12d ago
With anything but an F350. How did farmers do anything before Ford saved them with the worst trucks to ever exist, truly a wonder.
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by well_ackshually 13d ago
Hundreds, at this point? Every benchmark is flawed as shit, written by clowns. DeepSWE, They're given the full git history (the solution is in it), others don't even bother to verify if the code is the right one and just the outpu
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by well_ackshually 13d ago
Breaking news: after being the biggest threat to world stability, the US realizes that their behavior is also a threat to their own stability.
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by well_ackshually 13d ago
The only metric by which they are the largest company in the world is valuation. There are thousands of companies more important to your daily existence than Jensen's leather jacket factory. They are also talking out of their asses, a
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by well_ackshually 13d ago
>Who is actually paying this money? You, when their circular financing scheme fails and you're the one left holding the bag as your government says "they're too important to let them fail".

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