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by zarzavat 1y ago
> He thought he could do what SpaceX did for space Even SpaceX, with unlimited resources, tried carbon fibre, couldn't get it to work, and switched to stainless steel. Different application but still. It's not a budget material
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Passkeys seem like alpha software that somehow got shipped by mistake. Wake me up in 5 years when/if they are actually safely usable (not just securely usable). Until then I advise my family members to stay away from them and I think
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by zarzavat 1y ago
If you allow Googlebot to crawl your website and train Gemini, but you don't allow smaller AI companies to do the same thing, then you're contributing to Google's hegemony. Given that AI is likely to be an increasingly import
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> For example, I have to use a third-party library called react-hook-form to build forms Why? I've written a lot of React and I've never used this library. In fact, I rarely use any React-focused dependencies except a router, a
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by zarzavat 1y ago
You may live in a bubble. Rust is great and all but C++ is still dominant in its space. The web browser you're using right now? C++. The OS you're using? Probably some unholy mixture of C and C++. Console and computer games? Writt
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Every single one of my Apple rubberized cables has disintegrated. Every. Single. One. MagSafe chargers and iPhone cables. Yes Apple build quality is high, but it's not perfect. It's an iron law of electronics that heat shortens li
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Do PMs at Google have so much power that they can shut down a product used by billions of people?
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by zarzavat 1y ago
To paraphrase an Internet aphorism, don't have personal relationships with mentally unsound people. There are many ways to ruin someone's life, cancellation is but one of them. If someone really wants to ruin your life, they will
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Why not crack the lid a little? No way I'm letting the display of my very expensive laptop contact the chassis while it's in operation.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Yes but the mainstream systems are not decentralized enough. We need better systems. We, the technological community, have failed the wider public by not creating decentralized alternatives that are as good as centralized ones. Chat Contro
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by zarzavat 1y ago
It's common in London, phones are being stolen for the access to financial accounts, not the value of the phone itself. They steal the phone out of your hands while it is unlocked. For example: https://www.bbc.com/news&
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> modern internet connection Have you heard of these things called smartphones? I hear they're getting quite popular.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Buy an older iPhone for ~$150. Install financial apps on it and don't use it for anything else. Keep it in a safe place, only carry it around if you must. If you need to manage non-trivial amounts of money through your phone, having a
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Closed doesn't always win over open. People said the same thing about Windows vs Linux, but even Microsoft was forced to admit defeat and support Linux. All it takes is some large companies commoditizing their complements. For Linux it
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by zarzavat 1y ago
The issue (with Sonnet, I'm not using Opus), is not always that the code is bad per se, but merely that it doesn't solve the problem in the way I expected. I have two problems with that. Firstly, I want my code to be written a par
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by zarzavat 1y ago
I agree. I'm on the base plan, yet to hit any limits. The bottleneck is my ability to review the code it writes, and to write prompts detailed enough for the output to be useful to me. I assume that the people hitting limits are just l
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by zarzavat 1y ago
I completely disagree. Look at (old) Reddit which allows for individual styling of each subreddit, or VSCode which allows themes to restyle the editor, as examples of real world products separating style from structure to huge success. Not
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by zarzavat 1y ago
There's three groups: First, a vocal minority of security freaks lead by Tony Blair who think that forcing everybody to carry ID cards around is a proportionate way to protect Britain from terrorists, illegal immigrants and other foes.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
This is the complete opposite of what good CSS is supposed to be. The class name is supposed to tell you what it is not how it looks like. Anyone remember CSS Zen Garden?
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by zarzavat 1y ago
I had a debit card when I was 11 years old.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
1% of domains perhaps, not 1% of developers.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
The difference is that ARM is not existentially important to UK national security, whereas TSMC is existentially important to Taiwan's national security. A TSMC fab in the US is essentially like a military base, if the US decides to ta
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by zarzavat 1y ago
SPA means single page app . For example, Google docs, Figma, Google calendar, etc. Apps that use web technologies instead of being native apps. A long time ago some webdevs started abusing the SPA concept to build simple websites. However
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by zarzavat 1y ago
It's probably the opposite. I very much doubt that the factory would continue to operate if the US refused to defend Taiwan. The factory gives Taiwan a huge amount of leverage.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> Some bioethics experts are concerned I do have to wonder what goes on in the minds of these people. My sister-in-law has a child with Down's syndrome and the situation basically ruined her life. She can no longer work, so they now
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by zarzavat 1y ago
You need to subscribe to better YouTube channels. I stopped watching regular TV (including Netflix, etc), because YouTube is much more erudite and I actually learn things rather than passively consuming dramas.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
This is why whenever someone asks me what language they should learn first (if they want to be a professional and not just a hobbyist), I say C. Don't learn a high level language first. Learning Java before C is like learning to ride
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by zarzavat 1y ago
In principle yes, but I'd rather people put their lithium batteries in the overheads rather than the hold. The solution is to set minimum baggage allowance regulations to prevent a race to the bottom.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
I don't think an alloy can be as good as a larger model in general, though perhaps in special cases it can be. Say that you want to translate a string from English to language X. Models A and B, having fewer parameters to spare, have l
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by zarzavat 1y ago
No, there is no copyright. If you tried to sue someone for copyright infringement based on code that an LLM generated for you, you'd be laughed out of court.

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