xnickb

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by xnickb 5d ago
I don't like this loose use of the term hacker.
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by xnickb 6d ago
> Trusting your instinct Did that. Ended up closing the tab. Do I still need to buy the "course"? Seems like a crazy good deal
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by xnickb 6d ago
I don't know which exact company you are talking about. I see most proprietary companies heavily criticized and do so myself and used to heavily advocate for OSS at $work. My current work is 99.9% opensource. As for my point, the main
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by xnickb 6d ago
So you are saying "don't hate the player", but hating the game is a big nono. That thing that isn't capitalism is inherently evil and should be avoided like a plague
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by xnickb 6d ago
Doesn't have much to do with LLMs training on OSS imo. They just want to make money. Advancing technology is 2nd or even lower priority for them.
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by xnickb 8d ago
> Until two months ago, any user or OpenAI employee logging into OpenAI’s own help forum (community.openai.com) could have had their ChatGPT and Codex accounts taken over. Hey, it's their call to decide the value of their entire use
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by xnickb 12d ago
This is all valid and I am with you here. However I can totally imagine kids in 10 years viewing writing code by hand same as we view making fire using flint and steel: yes can be useful, but why bother? Except in this case I fear we'r
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by xnickb 12d ago
The question for me is where it leaves innovation. Have we really peaked as a species that we so easily want to give up on the young and hand them over a tool that would substitute reasoning? Call me naive or old, but I don't see a nee
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by xnickb 15d ago
Sounds more like profitmaxxxing to me to be honest.
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by xnickb 16d ago
The good old Aqua Regia test.
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by xnickb 19d ago
That statement is true for the users that both bought and didn't buy a Macbook (with Linux support). The difference is, the one who bought has paid money for the Macbook. I am not an Apple user. Do you _have_ to pay for iCloud if you b
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by xnickb 19d ago
It's not like users will just stop using the services. Rather Linux users will start considering MacBook as a potential laptop to buy. How could that possibly disrupt their Software/Services infra?
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by xnickb 20d ago
Wow. I'm a Linux user and I have to use Mac for some work related tasks. I genuinely hate Finder and was going to lean back and enjoy reading this article. This went into a direction I didn't expect at all.
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by xnickb 20d ago
Bonus points: kids need lego? Buy it without VAT. Write it off as a "client demo asset"
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by xnickb 26d ago
A bit weird to observe how the facade cracks when they're talking about it. Maybe I'm wrong but the whole thing felt very weird to me. Can't put my finger on it.. I want to say immature, but it's probably just unempathet
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by xnickb 1mo ago
I understand what you're saying, but corporation is made of people. How is this communicated to my hiring manager and why do they agree to play this stupid game?
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by xnickb 1mo ago
Any non X source for this so people who don't use X can have a look?
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by xnickb 1mo ago
It's not invasive generally speaking. My healthcare provider allows me to access e-perscriptions via the app. But for that there are certain security requirements which this particular Healthcare provider equated to "Android good,
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by xnickb 1mo ago
I highly doubt companies who did that reasoned out of supporting GOS, so I'd be surprised of they reason back in.
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by xnickb 1mo ago
Some (European) banks/healthcare apps block GOS and require stock android. Just saying
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by xnickb 1mo ago
Ask me in 10 years. If I call it now it will make the prophecy fullfil itself even earlier.
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by xnickb 1mo ago
194. That one country will not be invited.
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by xnickb 1mo ago
I don't and never have used twitter/X so perhaps my view is skewed. But unless this is software running on my machine it being open sourced doesn't really give any insight into what is running on the server. To be clear: they
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by xnickb 1mo ago
> each cell is one sqlite database I just can't wrap my head around this. I know there is probably some very strongly motivated engineering reason like "we want objects to be isolated", but I just can't agree with thi
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by xnickb 2mo ago
I think they just know what they can and can't guarantee.
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by xnickb 2mo ago
Why would apple care? Eu is what a quarter of their business? And where exactly will those people move? They're locked into the Apple infra.
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by xnickb 2mo ago
And when you are done, what will happen with all that code you wrote?
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by xnickb 2mo ago
Fingerprint is an authentication mechanism, not an authorization one.
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by xnickb 2mo ago
So you are saying we need to conduct trials on a representative set of bayesnets of say.. 200k and then it'll be conclusive?
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by xnickb 2mo ago
does it ease the strain on the eyes? I believe that's individual and hard to measure. If it helps OP then I see no issue with it being useless for sleep. I tried using f.lux a decade ago or so. Deemed it not helpful for myself

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