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KerrAvon

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    Comment #49204402

    This was the basic theory behind Tesla eventually being able to stop killing Tesla drivers with FSD. It has not worked out.

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    Comment #49177193

    They don't control that. Pricing is controlled by the question of when RAM is once again made of semiconductors instead of unobtainium.

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    Comment #49177179

    this is not how it's going to go if OpenAI and Anthropic get their way and the US outlaws use of open-weight models

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    Comment #49173456

    The US is still fixable if young people will just fucking vote. Irreparable damage has been done, which means the old structures are gone, but they can be replaced with new ones --…

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    Comment #49173127

    You're making assumptions that aren't supported if you read the actual lawsuit.

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    Comment #49102746

    We're on the cusp of Kimi K3 becoming usable on sub-10k hardware. https://github.com/gavamedia/deltafin

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    Comment #49070655

    128 isn't enough, but if this report is accurate, the next Mac Studio could run it https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/m5-ultra-mac-studio-202...

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    Comment #49070610

    IME: Gemma is not great for programming, but it is fantastic at following directions compared to anything else in its size class.

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    Comment #49051137

    "Better things aren't possible" is a terrible outlook. There have been real improvements in this space, such as passkeys, and recognition that some of this stuff, like frequent pas…

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    Comment #49050188

    It's actually a little harder than people outside the UI framework space might think (there's really not a lot of time per frame; it's easy to put too much work where it doesn't be…

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    Comment #48997390

    It's relevant politically, and the discussion in question is political.

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    Comment #48997355

    Governments don't have a business model. They don't need to make a profit. (Also, debt doesn't work the same way for the federal government that it does for a business or even a US…

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    Comment #48971490

    >The real reason we are using Claude is for the SaaS aspect of it. It has a toolchain, a friendly interface, and a bunch of integrations with business applications. That is a very …

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    Comment #48951692

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48912149

    Meta had Llama, which set a lot of things on fire in a good way, and then disappeared from the scene as tech advanced. What does Microsoft have? Not sure SpaceX counts. Nobody sane…

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    Comment #48912088

    Wow. That has aged hilariously poorly indeed. OMG. > But China is falling behind on AI algorithms due to their weaker models They wrote this shit in April 2025. And they put their …

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    Comment #48874002

    bash is really painful to use for anything beyond the most rudimentary logic. Bourne and Mashey were terrible language designers. (By contrast, Thompson's V6 shell is very elegant,…

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    Comment #48754892

    This sort of thing drives people to more open competitors. I use both every day and Opus isn't that much better than the Chinese SOTA. If corporate policy allowed me to use GLM or …

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    Comment #48710803

    Given the tenor of the comments on this article, I think reading TFA is super important, especially the author's disclaimer at the end, where they state that they're definitely not…

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    Comment #48707427

    Aside from sportsball, AI and deranged [tb]illionaire behavior is basically it. edit: autocorrect

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    Comment #48677532

    No. It's literally RAM. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-explains-why-it-r...

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    Comment #48674214

    You're into Chainsaw Man and Dorohedero but not JJK?

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    Comment #48674144

    What? This is a golden age of anime. You could count the number of anime available in the west and worth watching 25 years ago on one hand, maybe two. Now? If you can't find someth…

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    Comment #48632370

    None of that makes you happier. Define happiness, but there's a baseline for not being miserable (I have enough to eat etc) and then there's actual satisfaction with your life. If …

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    Comment #48610967

    indeed, there's even a (pretty solid) custom server just for DS4 https://github.com/antirez/ds4 -- works very well on high-RAM Macs