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HighGoldstein

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    Comment #49068641

    The EU isn't monolithic, you could probably do this fairly easily in someplace like Poland where there isn't a bureaucratic hell and a large supply of skilled workers and engineers…

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    Comment #49030827

    Decade? We're 4 years in since ChatGPT released publicly and have gone from "Wow this thing is stupid" to running coding agents on auto mode, and the Chinese labs have been around …

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    Comment #48957972

    > Do. Not. Buy. LG. > There are a lot of decent alternatives. Can you name them? Dell and Samsung are the main competitors for displays as far as I'm aware, Dell tends to be hit-or…

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    Comment #48640440

    The PS5 (which is realistically the main competitor) has the caveat that to get even something as basic as multiplayer you need to pay a $10-20 monthly subscription, so you can mul…

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    Comment #48397007

    At some point I was thinking that maybe I am too hard on the AI and that humans routinely produce exceptionally stupid code, however after a while I've realized that this is only p…

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    Comment #48337558

    Yes, which goes in line with the argument that claiming that it's "the most deployed" as proof of superiority or suitability for any use case is equivalent to claiming the same for…

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    Comment #48335362

    The reason SQLite is the most deployed is that it's used by Android.

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    Comment #48221040

    Sandboxing doesn't necessarily mean isolating the extension from all potentially dangerous functions, you can have a permission system so that for example a color theme extension c…

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    Comment #48204490

    Considering how many AWS and non-AWS services go down at least partially when us-east-1 fails, this reads somewhat like "Don't worry that the steering wheel and pedals aren't worki…

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    Comment #48179234

    The Greek term would be decatetrahedron.

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    Comment #48173178

    > That's the problem though. Thinking your product will get by on looks when it's clearly outcompeted on performance, price, availability and longevity. That's not just optimism, i…

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    Comment #48096465

    > Haven't most people looked around and asked themselves where are all the 50+ engineers? They basically don't exist in large numbers. I'm not discounting ageism in the industry, b…

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    Comment #48073052

    > P.S. I also live in Poland, not Polish. I also lived in Berlin, and I dont think the salaries are always so different. Anecdotally this is also my experience. Several countries i…

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    Comment #47961069

    An article without telltale signs of an LLM is indistinguishable from an article written by a human, so yes.

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    Comment #47920080

    Do we? Or are we born with pre-training (all the crucial functions the brain does without us having to learn them) and a context window orders of magnitude larger than an LLM?

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    Comment #47909029

    > They do see those use cases. It's not surprising that they focus on the enormous number of other, negative use cases. It's misleading to describe the medical use cases as "more i…

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    Comment #47797755

    > I think it's what led to Google's downturn. What downturn is that exactly?

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    Comment #47765798

    > "We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a …

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    Comment #47647669

    Essential services (banks, government services, public transport) generally still support SMS as an alternative to their mobile apps when there's no completely offline process.

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    Comment #47623430

    Wild guess, touching this with a 10-foot pole risks validating his claims. If they sue for breach of NDA, it means his claims are factually correct, and if they sue for libel and i…

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    Comment #47488670

    I could've sworn I saw a comment like this in 2016 when Tesla was blowing up

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    Comment #47438621

    If you hold the belief that the Trump administration (and Trump himself personally) have not commited a rather long list of crimes openly, you are either willfully ignorant or comp…

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    Comment #47437849

    > A connector of any kind reduces signal quality. Like the M.2 connector? > Data lines need to be longer Like the data lines going all the way to an on-motherboard storage device?

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    Comment #47274894

    Freedom without supervision vs supervision without freedom, both failures of parenting.

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    Comment #47264171

    Apple has their high-bandwidth chips, the rest of the commercial desktop market is effectively running Windows, and Microsoft has no incentive to move towards local AI, their ideal…