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by xmprt 5d ago
> OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com This sentence is way too much detail and it's literally the first thing you read. I can pick apart most of the sentences in the article
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by xmprt 6d ago
The goal for most of these vertical shorts is soap opera so this is a feature and not a bug. Also, in order to maintain engagement, they often need to have continuously escalating plots which makes for bad writing (typically in good plots y
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by xmprt 7d ago
Valve is working on supporting apks for their new VR operating system. If this goes anything like Proton then I'm hopeful for the future of Android without Google.
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by xmprt 7d ago
Google is starting to turn into early 2000s / late 90s Oracle.
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by xmprt 9d ago
Many lawyers are owners/partners compared with software engineers who are more like cogs in the machine. They also bill hourly/contingency per case compared to engineers who are salaried. If a partner in a firm thinks they can tak
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by xmprt 9d ago
> We fund astronomy well beyond the solar system despite there being no real prospect of practical applications There are a lot of immediate practical benefits to learning more about the physics and chemistry of the universe beyond our s
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by xmprt 9d ago
Also it ignores the fact that the core of calculus and the idea of dealing with infinitesimal quantities was independently discovered for many centuries. eg. Archimedes use techniques that were eerily similar to integrals. The work that New
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by xmprt 9d ago
> The biggest wallet wins This was already always the case. If anything, making this more accessible will reduce the barrier to entry for whether or not it's worth your time to take on a case. Instead of 50 lawyers spending 100s of
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by xmprt 17d ago
If there are no incentives for mathematicians to work on and share progress in tough problems because they will get scooped, then they will end up quitting and in net we will see less progress overall.
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by xmprt 18d ago
reddit used to shared how much gold purchases went towards their server costs (pretty sure it wasn't 100% accurate but at least good to an order of magnitude). It was approximately $1/hour and they served ~100M monthly active user
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by xmprt 18d ago
> your average Smart TV buyer is prepared to sign into Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, Youtube etc I think this is starting to change a bit especially as companies crack down on password sharing. Once the dam breaks, th
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by xmprt 18d ago
Why are you acting like there isn't a definition of inefficient. I think "underutilized" is a pretty good definition. The fact that every single person has a small private park in their front and backyards that's enjoyed
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by xmprt 1mo ago
Bigger "guns" diplomacy. They don't need any legal basis for a C&D. Just depends on whether you have enough money to fight it in court.
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by xmprt 1mo ago
Not much to see here. Crowd sourced, vibe coded app. Not sure what "verified" means because the only verification they did was require a checkbox that "I confirm this is a genuine experience"
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by xmprt 1mo ago
> Yes that's been obvious since the beginning But if it's so obvious, then why are we still relying on it in the system prompt. It's just wasting context at this point.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
You can brush that $177M fine aside but I'm almost certain that none of the Chinese companies above with these security vulnerabilities will pay even $1 in fines.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
> Ask claude, use ssh with key-based auth and he will take care of it :) just saying This already goes over the heads of most non-developers. I think you're misunderstanding my point. It's not that LLMs aren't a useful too
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Most of the people who say LLMs will replace developers have never built and deployed a real app. I know someone working on an app that they were deploying and after "writing" thousands of lines of code with Codex, they needed hel
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by xmprt 2mo ago
To be fair, in many (maybe all?) of those cases, those companies faced consequences. I highly doubt this company is going to face any consequence for this data breach.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
It's still the same problem. Now instead of checking if the code is correct, you have to check every day if your prompt is still validating the correct features that you expect to work.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
One of the reasons it took so long to implement generics in Go was because there was a lot of stuff you could do that didn't need it. Now that generics are there, a lot of that stuff is still the best way to solve the problem and many
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Because Content ID was built following a $1B lawsuit by Viacom regarding copyright infringement. Google doesn't have an incentive to build something similar for creators until some celebrity or large corporation starts suing them for u
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by xmprt 2mo ago
There's more truth to the "Forbes 30 Under 30 to prison pipeline" than people give it credit.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
I think in this case, the OP is talking about "loss" from a financial perspective. Airlines are incredibly useful for society but don't make money and operate on razor thin margins. AI will likely have a similar financial pic
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by xmprt 2mo ago
I can agree that it definitely makes it a different game/playstyle but I'm still not sure if it's guaranteed worse. Putting ads during the break is obviously bad and a cash grab but from a gameplay perspective, it's not
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Agreed. But I think newspapers like The Economist have argued points like "Brexit is bad" quite well and it's not very nuanced because however you slice it, it has been catastrophic for the UK unless you're a corporate l
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by xmprt 2mo ago
> Even if I agreed with them I don't like "100%" biased news I can understand why this might seem like a good take to have but sometimes you need 100% biased news because some things are 100% biased. Things like climate ch
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by xmprt 2mo ago
The idea that doctors are not talking about exercise as if it's some big conspiracy to make more money from the top is ridiculous. Any doctor will say that exercise is the best thing you can do for yourself but most people also know th
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by xmprt 2mo ago
ORMs are just tech debt. Even if your highest cost is developer salaries, you're just pushing that cost down the line.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Nursing and PCP are very different jobs. Ones a lot more cognitive than the other whereas the other involves actually doing/executing on a plan. I can see how AI would help reduce the cognitive burden while actually increase stress on

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