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benterix

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    Comment #49018127

    LOL. A thief accusing someone else of theft. Also, I love their choice of words. Like "distillation against", "stealing proprietary technology" - it's all aimed at certain people.

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    Comment #48976953

    > People want to get spoon fed all information they need, especially since AI - no? It's definitely true to some extent, but you can't generalize "people" to some uniform group, we…

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    Comment #48976784

    There is a lot of distrust against Google and Microsoft here, also when they opensource stuff, and Chromium and AOSP are great counterexamples.

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    Comment #48976751

    > human rights and all that rubbish While I understand your point, please think a bit how you formulated the sentence above.

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    Comment #48947467

    I heard this false justification already in 2007, in spite of many customers asking for it. Incidentaly, smaller competitors solved this issue decades ago, while the big cloud deci…

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    Comment #48830496

    They clearly know it but have to pretend otherwise to keep the money flowing.

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    Comment #48814932

    > I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes. I'm sorry to break it to you but the sentence you just wrote doesn't contain any —s.

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    Comment #48717508

    Suppose someone wants to play this game, what's the point? Not to mention the fact that Gnome, even though is not a GNU project, literally means GNU Network Object Model Environmen…

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    Comment #48689612

    > Eventually the pricing should be more stable. Why do you think so? This game can be played forever, you just need strong marketing and orgs gullible enough to pay a higher price …

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    Comment #48685076

    > As it turns out, when someone (your wife) gets arrested and tells you to do "whatever you need to do" and "move whatever you need to move at the house", it is highly illegal to t…

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    Comment #48674385

    > Actually USSR pushed a lot of soft power and spent real money behind it. Especially the authors whose narratives didn't directly violate the narrative of the Party. Do you have a…

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    Comment #48596134

    It would be nice but I have no illusions, it won't happen.

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    Comment #48596085

    One of the problems is that the term itself got muddled to the point of becoming almost meaningless. It covers anything from pattern recognition, classification, to diffusion model…

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    Comment #48596071

    > The per token costs are still dramatically subsidized. The major AI models are priced below cost especially when accounting for depreciation. Not sure if we can confidently say t…

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    Comment #48596062

    OTOH... We know these plans are heavily subsidized, and we're happy to use them to the limits. At some point they will run out of investor money and will have to readjust. Do you t…

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    Comment #48567555

    Yeah LLMs/GenAI is the current hype but it's just a tiny fragment of the general landscape.

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    Comment #48537620

    > the US and its allies Which allies?

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    Comment #48473070

    Well, you can start with this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/musk-v-opena...

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    Comment #48473048

    I'd say it's almost impossible at that point. Specifically, Altman said so many lies in the past that people stopped believing anything he says. I think the core of this distrust i…

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    Comment #48473013

    > People think otherwise with AI partly because Anthropic kept telling us that they didn't have to write code or review code any more for most of their work. Their agent swarms jus…

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    Comment #48457967

    While you're probably right, reading your comment from a consumer perspective it makes me think how much we've normalized bait & switch.

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    Comment #48457955

    As it happens in large orgs, with mixed results. The biggest irony being the whole Transformer architecture being actually conceived at Google, only to be implemented as a product/…