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I think if you take a step back and try to fight against confirmation bias you'll see that the arguments you're making are very weak. You are also moving the goal posts. You starte…

The claims of AI use were unsubstantiated and pure conjecture, which was pointed out by people who understand language, including me. Now it appears that the community has used an …

You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the actual claim was that Zigbook had not complied with the MIT license's attribution clause for code someone believed was copied. MI…

I say this as someone who has been cautioning about Microsoft's ownership of GitHub for years now... but the Zig community has been high drama lately. I thought the Rust community …

It's true that it's about totalitarianism to some extent. But we have Orwell's actual words here that it's chiefly about communism > [Nineteen Eighty-Four] was based chiefly on com…

Big Brother is a reference to George Orwell's critique of Communism in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Qwen is a video model trained by a Communist government, or technically by a company wi…

The writeup makes it sound like an acquihire, especially the "what changes" part. ChatGPT is feeling the pressure of Gemini [0]. So it's a bit strange for Anthropic to be focusing …

It's not just less literate, it's also people who feel the need to be amateur prosecutors. It's the same thing as judging people who wear their hair too long, or wear pajamas on th…

> At current job I think we have slightly more microservices than engineers on the team. You are free to do that, but that's a very specific take on microservices that is at odds w…

That's a pretty extreme definition in my opinion. Google played a role in popularizing the microservice approach. When I was at Google, a microservice would often be worked on with…

Most likely they see AI as a competitor to search and are trying to survive by pandering to the anti-AI movement

I understand the cryptography and I agree with his analysis of the cryptographic situation. What I don't understand is why -- assuming he thinks this is important -- he's chosen to…

That was when he had the legal expertise of the EFF to help him make his case. Later he decided to represent himself in court and failed > This time, he chose to represent himself,…

D. J. Bernstein is very well respected and for very good reason. And I don't have firsthand knowledge of the background here, but the blog posts about the incident have been writte…

Yeah, rage isn't something the US needs. It's something the US's enemies need us to have.

one of the current approaches is to turn communities against solar and wind projects on the grounds that it's racist or disturbs plant life etc. This has advocates of environmental…

This is also my take on the market, although I also thought it looked like they were going to win 2 years ago too. > How are we feeling about Google putting everyone out of work an…

> The use of any specific word does not determine in and of itself if something is an assertion of fact or an assertion of opinion. It depends on how you're using the word. Yes tha…

Haha, I know, thanks :). I don't mind saying it... it's just such a raw word and I wanted people to focus on the substance without aggressively escalating the potty mouth in the th…

where do we land on motherf!cker? Taken literally it's accusing someone of a specific depraved act, but it's also clearly a term of abuse. My guess (not a lawyer!) is that once a t…

Even if one believes everything should be possible with cameras, the goal posts are moving. Other automated vehicles use radar or lidar. Even if Tesla achieves fatality levels comp…

If Tesla's robotaxis develop a reputation for accidents, they'll create an unpredictable traffic bubble around them. Some people will slow down to minimize the fatality of an impac…

It seems like they should add lidar or radar. What is the argument for deliberately impoverishing the Tesla sensory input?

No it's not. I mute people who post that sort of content and it's the math instance. If you are forced to see it despite spending most of your time silencing it, it's not the peopl…