winter_blue

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by winter_blue 6d ago
Could you explain PRISM? I don’t understand PRISM either.
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by winter_blue 6d ago
I guess this might be a matter of subjective disagreement, but I'm personally opposed to all forms of consensual human suffering and death. I'd be fine with wrestling being banned, a law mandating contact sports amend rules to b
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by winter_blue 6d ago
You’re showing a lack of empathy for the instance of yourself that is experiencing all that pain. Simply forgetting it doesn’t make it right to not have empathy for the version of yourself that went through all the pain and suffering.
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by winter_blue 6d ago
I’m hoping that at some point we’d be able to have free range cows that are only hormonally forced to make milk. And no calves need to be born (or killed).
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by winter_blue 7d ago
It's sad that they only changed the law when circumstances meant it would help the rich.
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by winter_blue 1mo ago
This is on the dot. The entirety of their argument can be summed up as “I don’t want to give a shit about my neighbor”. And, “I don’t want to care for the hungry”. Or, “I don’t want to share medical costs with my neighbors”. Basically, “I
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by winter_blue 2mo ago
> I want to force AI to work within the confines of an abstraction, not independently of it. Yes, this is the way. We need programming languages that make this easier.
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by winter_blue 2mo ago
I'm also surprised it's bigger by 20g, since obesity and being overweight wasn't quite as much common at the start of the 90s...
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by winter_blue 2mo ago
This is truly awesome and fantastic, and I hope it becomes a thing all around the world.
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by winter_blue 2mo ago
> The sweet spot is representative democracy with a tendency of socialism, to mildly distribute wealth and assure social coherence. This would be perfect.
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by winter_blue 2mo ago
I do think authoritarianism on its own is bad. I want the freedom to criticize my government, and I want the freedom to run for elections or to advocate for changes I want to see. I think democracy and logical long-term thinking shouldn&#x2
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by winter_blue 2mo ago
It’s kind of amazing and horrifying at the same time that a democratic country like the U.S. is doing all these shenanigans like blocking clean zero carbon energy, while a communist authoritarian country is massively moving towards clean en
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by winter_blue 2mo ago
I found the post insightful and interesting. I'm not sure it was written with AI assistance, but even if it was, I don't see that as a reason to dismiss it. For what it's worth, I spend hours everyday reading AI output and su
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by winter_blue 2mo ago
And it's animated!
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The cost of AI-assisted development: cognitive fatigue(warpedvisions.org)
3 points by winter_blue 3mo ago|0 comments
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by winter_blue 3mo ago
There's a shockingly unfathomable level of data compression that these local LLMs are able to remember in an encyclopedic way, so many obscure little things.
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by winter_blue 3mo ago
There's a summary of this essay on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Guillotine This is a 1957 essay by Algerian-French philosopher Albert Camus.
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by winter_blue 3mo ago
One way AI can help here is identifying prior art. Write a quick sketch of you idea, and ask an LLM with uncapped long-running web search capability to find if any prior art exists!
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by winter_blue 3mo ago
That revenue number is almost meaningless, since they give out tokens at a loss. Especially with Composer 2.5 tokens are sold at a steep loss. They could certainly grow to $8 billion/year, with this negative revenue / heavily subs
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by winter_blue 3mo ago
Composer 2.5 is very heavily discounted with a Cursor subscription. You effectively pay 2% of the API price of Composer 2.5 Fast with a subscription. Does Deepseek offer any discounted tokens subscription like that?
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
Composer 2.5 Fast that Cursor is giving away for very little has been amazing.
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
Couldn't just a single Flatpak release be sufficient? Flatpak can be set up on many/most distros.
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
What do you mean it's dead? It's up at: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23 with the last benchmark having been in February 2025, but they don't run their benchmarks that often, only
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
Used laptops are such a good deal that you could something high quality in excellent condition for so little that I almost can't justify buying something like this. Like used Dell XPS laptops are ridiculously cheap and they're ama
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G7 Agrees on Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI(phoronix.com)
4 points by winter_blue 4mo ago|0 comments
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
Linux can run games better than both Windows and Mac. Steam's Proton derived from Steam now runs Windows games on Linux with better performance than Windows.
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
I'd like to see a study that compares Python and Ruby, against (1) Rust, (2) C, (3) C++, (4) Zig, (5) Go, (6) a JVM language (like Scala or Kotlin or Clojure), and (7) the main CLR language (C#). I would imagine that all 7 of them abso
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
He was Staff-level as well. That's minimum $500k a year or more. And tenure often grows pay disproportionately at Google. That's easily $20 million lost.
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
> You'll talk to people and it's like 25% of their brain has been taken over by a parasite that replicates itself by amplifying their tribe's Talking Point of The Day. This is so true. So many people just parrot whatever n
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by winter_blue 4mo ago
Nationalization is arbitrary and wrong. That's not what I'm proposing. We'd largely be transferring shares in companies to the treasury bond holders, ie the people and orgs who hold US debt. The federal government might for e

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