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brigadier132

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    Comment #41651649

    > its usually always for legacy Legacy is the dumbest reason to work and does not explain the motivation of the vast majority of people that are wealthy. edit: The vast majority of…

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    Comment #41650656

    For someone so in touch with what studies say you seem to have a very inaccurate view of the political leanings of academics https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYOm6ciXcAAZ0vl?format=jpg&…

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    Comment #41647743

    It's a dog whistle. There are no studies on this, why would academia (which for the field that would study this is 100% composed of leftists) have a study on leftist dog whistles? …

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    Comment #41647589

    Yes, they are always using the second definition.

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    Comment #41643575

    Economic transactions only happen if there is a mutual benefit. Typically one side of the transaction has more market power than the other and captures more of the surplus but the …

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    Comment #41643529

    It's definitely copyright infringement. Also it's hilarious that the owner of this repo is advocating for DRM. When someone uses the word "exploit" to describe commercial transacti…

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    Comment #41637508

    You can test it by comparing human translations with LLM translations. The results are pretty close. Like I said in another comment, the common failure mode with mandarin is around…

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    Comment #41637360

    > Most people have no need for translation software Most people benefit from translation software indirectly. Every localized app / translated tv shows / etc.

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    Comment #41637305

    My point with regards to 2 is that it would have to maintain consistency across translation runs. Entire novels don't fit in the context so it can't make up a logically consistent …

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    Comment #41637147

    We have some people that read Mandarin and double check the output once in a while. If it didn't work well the story would quickly become incoherent and make no logical sense becau…

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    Comment #41637120

    The novels I like the most right now are "Mysteries of the Immortal Puppet Master" and "Eternal tale" which are both just fun Chinese fantasy novels. > What brought about the inter…

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    Comment #41636954

    > Nobody thinks GPT4-o1 or Sonnet 3.5 is going to change the world They already have, people don't realize it because expectations have shifted so much because of how transformativ…

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    Comment #41629131

    SQL is good, writing SQL using strings is not good.

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    > SeaORM is not typesafe, by design What is your definition of typesafe here? With SeaOrm structs are created directly from the db schema with codegen. This is vastly superior to u…

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    Comment #41627387

    Like I said in another comment, I'm pointing out what is going to actually happen based on incentives, not what I want to happen. I'd much rather the open web continue to exist and…

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    Comment #41627353

    It's pretty easy to see how cloudflare arrived in a situation where they are in a position to create this sort of marketplace without resorting to conspiracies about them trying to…

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    Comment #41627181

    Ok, fine, let's restrict it to AI agents only, without training. It's still an adversarial relationship with the content creator. When you take an AI agent an ask it "find me the b…

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    Comment #41627102

    You don't need to be a cynic if you have a grasp on reality If your truly understand something you are capable of evaluating it on a case by case basis without resorting to pathos.…

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    Comment #41627017

    For traditional search indexing the interests of the aggregator and the content creator were aligned. AIs on the other hand are adversarial to the interest of content creators, a s…

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