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by xmprt 8mo ago
To give you an idea of the scale, OpenClaw is probably one of the biggest developments in open source AI tools in the last couple of months. And given the pace of AI, that's a big deal.
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by xmprt 8mo ago
> removing the suggestions form entirely, because it results in exactly this level of expectation I think the expectation is less about the suggestions form and more because of the tagline "a place to find good blogs that interest y
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by xmprt 8mo ago
Because Google has the money to build 10 different versions/iterations of Gemini and can essentially force one to work. They have most people's data and most people use them for mail/search/browser/maps as well. In
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by xmprt 8mo ago
Then wouldn't open source models running on commodity hardware be the best way to get around that? I think one of the greatest wins of the 21st century is that almost every human today has more computing power than the entire US govern
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by xmprt 8mo ago
Not sure where you're getting this from, but the latest MacOS works on devices from 2019 so it's at least 6 years of support. And homebrew supports versions from macOS 14 fully (and some support up to 10.15) which means full suppo
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by xmprt 8mo ago
If you think of building software as just writing the code then sure AI makes things a lot easier. But if software engineering also includes security, setting up and maintaining infrastructure, choosing the right tradeoffs, understanding ho
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by xmprt 9mo ago
> to be executed by 31 December 2028 So I don't think it's going to be executed at the absolute peak. But it does imply that the finance people in ASML believe that the stock is undervalued even if the market as a whole is at a
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by xmprt 9mo ago
Human comments tend to be short and sweet like "nit: rename creatorOfWidgets to widgetFactory". Whereas AI code review comments are long winded not as precise. So even if there are 20 humans comments, I can easily see which are im
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by xmprt 9mo ago
> No normal person engages in this stuff On top of being false, that's kind of a non-statement. You probably don't see average people around you protesting because if the average person was engaging in this then that'd imp
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by xmprt 9mo ago
I didn't think we'd ever see the day where we started enshitifying labor
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by xmprt 9mo ago
This is great for Skip users, but I'm curious how they plan on monetizing for long term sustainability. Donations are notoriously not sustainable and if they weren't able to get enough in license fees before, I don't see how
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by xmprt 9mo ago
Very true. On immich, I've always wanted a way to do certain operations locally like adding to an album before the photo/video is fully uploaded, but I'm not frustrated that it's not possible because if I cared enough I&
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by xmprt 9mo ago
If you're worried about someone taking away your vote by erasing your pencil marking, then you should be equally/more worried about someone spoiling your ballot by voting twice on the same ballot, thereby invalidating it. You just
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by xmprt 9mo ago
> We should move back to paper voting. We already use paper voting. If you mean go back to a time before voting machines, then I fear that would actually reduce trust because the amount of tabulation errors, data entry, and spoilt ballot
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by xmprt 9mo ago
I agree. But I'm just surprised that you'd be extremely wary of running a sub 100 line open source script as a one time operation that you can easily audit yourself but on the other hand are likely using a browser that no one in t
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by xmprt 9mo ago
If you're this paranoid then you can't really trust any piece of software. Many "random" shell scripts that update your system config are more well vetted than 90% of the software you run on your computer daily.
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by xmprt 9mo ago
I thought your quote was hyperbole or an exaggerated summary of the post. Nope. It's literally taken verbatim. I can't believe someone wrote that down with a straight face... although to be honest it was probably written with AI
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by xmprt 9mo ago
Would you consider OpenAI a corporation despite it being a non-profit?
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by xmprt 9mo ago
I don't think corporation implies for-profit. In my eyes, corporation refers to a large organization with some self-serving motivation which is not necessarily just money. Being a non-profit just so happens to be the best vehicle for t
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by xmprt 9mo ago
To be fair, that was always the case when working with external contractors. And if agentic AI companies can capture that market, then that's still a pretty massive opportunity.
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by xmprt 9mo ago
You're either overestimating the capabilities of current AI models or underestimating the complexity of building a web browser. There are tons of tiny edge cases and standards to comply with where implementing one standard will break 3
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by xmprt 9mo ago
I'm confused. Why wouldn't the same taxes apply to a disposable vape which has the same liquid inside of it? Also, in the GP comment, you mentioned the cost was 400€ but here you're saying 56€. Are you talking about different
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by xmprt 9mo ago
Who bears the cost of that improvement? Either the manufacturer, the retailer, or the customer. The problem is that the waste created by vapes is a negative externality so there's no incentive to improve their design. Until the governm
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by xmprt 9mo ago
The first step to solving this is correct cost attribution. And then once you do that, it's easy to go to org leads and tell them that their logs are costing them $X and you can save them 40% by applying these suggestions. They'l
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by xmprt 9mo ago
Or to flip it on its head, be the solution. If a church or some other activity is requiring Whatsapp, then come up with a better alternative that does more than Whatsapp ever could.
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by xmprt 9mo ago
I think the reality is a lot less nefarious. They don't want your face. But they also don't care enough to not take your face. Why would Google spend lobbying and legal money trying to fight this requirement when it doesn't
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by xmprt 9mo ago
What makes you think you couldn't have made brownies without Google. Just go to your local library and find the first baking cookbook you can find. And there it is, a better recipe than Google without all the SEO blog spam. To avoid my
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by xmprt 9mo ago
I think this title is quite misleading given that it's only impacting open source models which is a very narrow interpretation of open source.
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by xmprt 9mo ago
This only works until you find a bigger vampire squid (Apple).
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by xmprt 10mo ago
If that's considered bad then there really is no good way to make money from software in 2025.

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