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arcatech

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About arcatech

I’m Dwayne from https://dwayne.xyz

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    Comment #48841211

    > Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged. What makes you say this?

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    Comment #48839111

    When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing. Is it really more useful to have …

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    Comment #48775438

    I’m not the person you’re responding to, but I’ll answer. It’s not worth the (token) cost. It’s too inefficient. It’s brute-forcing solutions to problems by spending more and more …

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    Comment #48738661

    And the trade off for that productivity is relying on a completely untrustworthy company/product that gets more expensive and uncertain by the week while your skills erode.

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    Comment #48738087

    When the motorcycle manufacturers keep making each new model worse and more expensive and the government keeps trying to ban them.

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    Comment #48737619

    Have you considered getting better at coding so you can build stuff yourself instead of waiting for models you might not be able to get access to anymore?

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    Comment #48708845

    Using LLMs for development is not efficient. All of the problems these companies are having trying to provide enough compute and energy are proof. Understanding the actual problems…

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    Comment #48543049

    > AIslop is of higher quality than devslop on average. How did you come to that conclusion? That goes against everything I've heard from people who understand development. Every re…

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    Comment #48522300

    > You must be joking. Funny that you came to this conclusion and then posted the comment anyway.

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    Comment #48520114

    > ICE is just enforcing law. "This changed in June 2025, just weeks after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, reportedly frustrated with the slow increase in ICE arre…

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    Comment #48518619

    > You either have lost touch with reality so far to be unable to understand what "oppressed" means or you're just parotting someone else who suffers from that affliction. This 100%…

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    Comment #48492298

    That is definitely not what everybody else does. Some people try harder to find the things that they enjoy doing that provide value to others.

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    Comment #48450107

    I think it’s just storing embeddings now.

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    Comment #48450076

    Their entire angle here is that Siri AI itself is private/secure. Siloing data from the thing that they’re advertising as private and secure wouldn’t make sense.

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    Comment #48450012

    You think criticism is a sign of being in a bubble?

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    Comment #48205915

    Nothing new about that play. They have been heading in this direction for a very long time now.

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    Comment #48199917

    And do you think that’s how everyone should feel? If not, how is it relevant to people not liking what Google is doing?

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    Comment #48154461

    You’re forgetting the energy part of the equation.

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    Comment #48147922

    The point of open weight models is not having to rely on specific providers for them.

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    Comment #47996894

    It sounds like you’re both agreeing that windows should be controlled by either the user OR the OS, not both.

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    Comment #47849547

    You're asking why they wouldn't pivot to making a regular EV, but I think the Apple way is to ask why they SHOULD make a regular EV. They could do a lot of things that would make m…

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    Comment #47804813

    I believe AWS forwards requests (for Clause models) to Anthropic’s servers. They don’t host those models.