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by zarzavat 4mo ago
I don't like age verification. However I'm not concerned about it. The internet needs new spaces that are more decentralized and less in bed with governments. We already lost our freedom when we agreed to move from IRC to Discord,
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
While I love your eye for malicious compliance I believe that Putin also forced European countries to increase their defence budgets.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Fable = Mythos + guardrails Fable + jailbreak = Mythos
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
The US is special insofar as the US stock market is extraordinarily safe with many options for value investing. In much of the rest of the world it's the reverse: domestic stocks are risky and it's real estate, land and gold that
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
If you're the ethical type you can "buy" it on one of these services and then pirate it in order to keep it in perpetuity. If you're the less ethical type you can skip the "buying" step.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
The Government's position is that Anthropic/OpenAI are forbidden from allowing non-US citizens use the models. This is impossible in reality because how can Anthropic know that the person sitting behind a Claude code session or AP
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
That was in reference to whether anyone outside of Anthropic might be able to have standing to sue at all, not the merits of the case.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Technically the US government is allowing Anthropic to serve the models to any US citizen, and it's Anthropic who decided that's impossible to comply with and so they pulled the model for everyone. I guess a US business with non-c
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
> If the US government says only US citizens can access a model, how do they enforce that. It's easy if only enterprise users have access. It just becomes yet another compliance issue. They won't let the public use it, even if
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Copyrights on UIs are nebulous. You can't copyright the functional aspects of a UI, that's the domain of patents, yet the functional aspects are likely the parts you are most keen on protecting. Also you need to prove that they co
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
What are they going to do about it? Start their own DRAM fab?
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Just buy now. DRAM prices are not coming down any time soon, and Apple may be forced to raise prices again.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
"Password manager" used to mean a program that runs locally on your computer. At some point people started making it into a SaaS, because that's more profitable. I do think there are some cases where an online password manage
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Another way to read it is that the public now have access to resources on a scale that was formerly the domain of three letter government agencies throwing millions of dollars to hire humans to do this work. While in the short-term it'
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
This looks fantastic. One suggestion, for package management you should just wrap pnpm, my desire to move to anything else is nil.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
That's for a larger unit. Most of the world is using low power mini splits that draw less than the max on one outlet. You only need to cool the bedroom(s). Trust me, the rest of the world has figured this problem out a long time ago. T
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Portable ACs are borderline scams because the hot side is inside the room it's trying to cool, among other reasons[0]. [0] obligatory TC rant: https://youtu.be/_-mBeYC2KGc
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
I agree but with a caveat that it depends entirely on what your queue represents. If it's part of your data model then keep it with the other data. If it's separate then keep it separate. Using Postgres gives you transactions and
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
You can buy a new Samsung mini split today for around $200 in asia, so with tax and shipping let's say $300 max. These things are mass-produced in the hundreds of millions of units. They're cheap and plentiful. Obviously the insta
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
An AC unit essentially requires just a small hole in the wall and a bracket to hold the compressor unit. Europeans have walls don't they? I'm European and I have a wall that could host an AC unit. The barrier is regulatory not eng
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
As a European I agree, at least for Western Europe. It's not just the resistance but the price. There is tremendous price gouging in the AC industry. The real cost of a mini split system is the low hundreds of dollars but good luck fin
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
The danger and utility of pointer are two sides of the same coin. You can reduce the need for pointers but not eliminate them completely if you want to be able to call C functions or build low-level data structures. The real problem is that
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Wait a second kiddo, I expect to live longer than that.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Switch to open models and restore your sanity. GLM 5.2 is only slightly behind. Paying money but living in fear regardless is silly.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Yes but my point is that their argument is undermined by the extreme clumsiness of standard mathematical physics notation. I don't believe GA is the best possible notation for physics but it could be a stepping stone. We need more peop
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
There's nothing particularly special about null pointers: you can also have an invalid non-null pointer, e.g. through pointer arithmetic. When you write `int& ref = *ptr;` you are dereferencing the pointer with `*ptr` therefore you
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
How is the geometric product any less motivated than any other notation? Ultimately the value of a notation is how easy it makes it to work and think. I'm not sure if GA achieves that or not, but what's the harm in trying a new ap
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
What we need is steering so that we can have models with different personalities, not just different prompts (because context is subject to forgetting), but this will never happen with closed-weight models, I'm not sure if it's ev
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
This em-dash stricken PR is yet more evidence that the bun project has AI psychosis. The most important feature for a language runtime is reliability. It's the foundation, it should be boring. I need to know that the foundation is stab
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Just think about what "tests pass" means for a rewrite. If you rewrite from language A to language B then any unit tests have to be rewritten during the rewrite. So either "tests pass" does not include unit tests or unit

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