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BetterThanSober

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    Comment #49150982

    Parked means the storage is kept, right?

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    Comment #49150910

    The models are good even by skeptics standard, it's just that evangelists are overselling the capabilities. If you understand the limits of LLMs not using them as a business is sho…

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    Comment #49134991

    Is it actually reproducible though and do I want to chase and reproduce something that had no human touch? Do you ?

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    Comment #49134719

    I really hated that kind of language, feels like speaking to a motivator anyway it's slop, can sense it even before i started reading

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    Comment #49130938

    the former is harder but still doable

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    Comment #49130931

    Agreed, not discussions but networking

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    Comment #49130912

    For discussion purposes just "WiFi" isn't doing much. I doubt typical AP phone 802.11ac on 5GHz can achieve >1km let alone 802.11ax/be on 6Ghz carrier, even 802.11n can only reach …

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    Comment #49106611

    Not minmaxing rent-seeking behavior and vendor lock is a taboo in our contemporary late stage capitalism society

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    Comment #49106597

    LinkedIn can and should be a platform like this, for professionals and catered to professionals. It is a shame that it's now a cesspool of engagement bait and larp entrepreneurs

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    Comment #49018580

    That or Backblaze business model where they are betting that most costumers won't utilize more than their profitability ceiling I believe it is the former though Imagine a kebab sh…

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    Comment #49018494

    The outcome might not be deterministic (edge-case, race condition, weird error path). This is also true with human but at least a decent engineer can sit in a review board walking …

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    Comment #49018440

    Device bound is a bad idea especially if in the future sites is designed to be fail secure, you might be able to recover your account but not your data. The provider will then have…

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    Comment #49002538

    Stop buying "smart" TV

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    Comment #48992457

    I wonder how those AI company can snatch a very good domains and how much did they pay, z.ai is just peak

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    Comment #48946500

    Left ear: Mozart, right ear: The Bible in Chinese

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    Comment #48946487

    I can count while reading and it's fairly easy The sentence below will be written when I'm counting to 60 Let me try counting while writing, it's hard with tons of mistakes and typ…

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    Comment #48891685

    I agree that "coding" isn't solved but LLMs needing a harness is not necessarily a huge hit on AI As for valuation, it's all a grift, always has been for anything hip in tech. Spac…

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    Comment #48891621

    I wonder how much they spend on this rewrite, in tokens and $ using commercial pricing

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    Comment #48792685

    (1) There is no single entity called "the backbone." (2) Yes, they do direct peering with ISPs whenever possible, but maintaining on-premise cache AND the "backbone" is not a trivi…

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    Comment #48789237

    > people simply do not value reliable and secure consumer software Because the incentive to care is not there, we'll see things changing when self-driving cats is mainstream

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    Comment #48789218

    Google definitely doesn't have free egress

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    Comment #48782265

    > accidental kratom overdose You cannot overdose on plain leaf kratom

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    Comment #48782235

    If it is mainly genetic then a bird raised in captivity should be able to track the route somewhat accurately, that's groundbreaking

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    Comment #48772424

    > aren’t inclined to give their money away when they don’t have to vtuber culture proves that this is categorically wrong

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    Comment #48759891

    That's on your bank and not necessarily because of Apple/Google duopoly. I think it is crazy to put the whole banking system on foreign, private company though