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by zarzavat 11mo ago
The question is, how is it sustainable? Nobody likes being rug pulled. Why not charge money for it? I'd rather pay a few dollars for a service that will be around 5 years from now, than pay nothing and have to deal with churn.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
It depends... if OpenAI bought the DRAM in order to use it, then fair play to them. If they bought the DRAM in order to stop their competitors from using it because they are falling behind, that's anticompetitive in spirit, though I&#x
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
That's when you raise prices without a change in the market conditions. OpenAI is creating more demand, therefore the price must go up, if it didn't then there'd be shortages.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
I believe we are in agreement. If you are a communication platform that implements e2ee then you provide the guarantee to users, backed by security researchers, that the government can't read their communications by getting a subpoena
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
It's kind of the opposite. Crucial is a throwaway brand so that the premium brand (Micron) can sell cheaper shit without tarnishing their enterprise branding.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
No, it's not collusion to ask for more money from OpenAI if you hear that they are trying to buy 40% of the world's supply. Increased demand leads to higher prices, that's normal. OpenAI, by doing simultaneous deals, hid the
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
It's just a brand. They can start it up again later if enterprise demand falls.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
Your employer is supposed to check that you have the right to work. This can be done in a variety of ways, depending on your citizenship, looking at your British/Irish passport is one of the ways. https://www.gov.uk/gov
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
Yes but National Security Letters make that pointless. You can't encrypt away a legal obligation. The point of e2ee is that a provider can say to the feds "this is all the information we have", and removing the e2ee would be
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
e2ee implies that there is a third party who can't read the messages. If you are chatting with an AI, who is the third party?
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
await isn't viral per se, it's a purely local transformation. The virality is from CPS/callbacks and Promise.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
Exactly, there is nothing wrong with function coloring. It's a design choice. Colored functions are easier to reason about, because potential asynchronicity is loudly marked. Colorless functions are more flexible because changing a fun
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
In that case JS is not colored either because an async function is simply a normal function that returns a Promise. As far as I understand, coloring refers to async and sync functions having the same calling syntax and interface, I.e.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
I have a British accent and the speech-to-text from the keyboard is also terrible. Honestly with these assistants I'd rather just type my query. Voice input is embarrassing and error-prone. The only place that voice input is useful is
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
For most professional software, the open source options are toys. Is there anything like an open source DAW, for example? It's not because music producers are biased against open source, it's because the economics of open source a
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
UK isn't commandeering anything. The UK government hasn't decided yet how digital ID will work, currently it's just a talking point. Probably it will be an app that you install, like the NHS app. Nobody is proposing that it b
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
I assume that almost everyone in the UK who is able to work has a smartphone already. If they were to require digital ID for pensions or disability benefits there would be more problems.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
Your echo chamber is probably full of virgins. Try a different one. Puritanism follows a bathtub curve. The most judgmental people are the very young who lack experience in the world, and the old whose experience comes from a different age.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
What is the best way to harden the internet against these imbeciles?
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
If I have a potato field, the cost to me of a potato is whatever equipment and labor it takes to farm one, divided by the yield of potatoes. If there's suddenly a potato famine, then the cost to other people who don't have a potat
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
There's no way that Apple pays spot. They will have contracts directly with the manufacturers, guaranteeing them a given supply at a given price. Their whole business kinda depends on it.
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
It's hard to put into words how unsafe Singapore makes me feel. No, literally, it's hard to put it into words. I feel that if I criticize the country, the govt might take revenge the next time I visit. (See also: Bald JD Vance) Me
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
Some of us are old enough to remember televisions. It's not piracy to leave the room or turn the TV off while the ads are playing. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Co._v._Dish_N...
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by zarzavat 11mo ago
The meaning of the word "history" is the study of historical records. The events that happened in times before writing are called "pre-history", and similarly the events that happened in places that didn't write thi
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by zarzavat 1y ago
This is exactly the kind of task that LLMs are good at. They are good at transforming one format to another. They are good at boilerplate. They are bad at deciding requirements by themselves. They are bad at original research, for example d
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by zarzavat 1y ago
If you don't look both ways when you cross the road, then you may get hit by a car. The solution is to pay attention. It's acceptable to build a system where human error can lead to catastrophic consequences, even death. Every tim
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> React is that the compilation step is almost required - and that compilation step is a significant and growing piece of friction. As a recovering C++ programmer the idea that a basically instant compilation step is a source of fricti
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by zarzavat 1y ago
In a country that has exit checks, in order to go airside, a border agent will stamp you out and record your exit. If you were to get stamped out and then decide that you don't want to catch your flight after all, you'd have to ge
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by zarzavat 1y ago
This is because the UK doesn't have exit checks. They rely on airlines to submit the information to them. I guess this makes sense when you consider that there's an open border with Ireland. Though you'd think that the UK and
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Originally websites had usernames and passwords. Username was used as a primary key (such as this website). Using the email address directly as the username/key is a more modern trend (mid-late 00s). I believe this coincided with the d

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