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coffeeblack

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    Comment #40900349

    In 2014 it wasn't all that obvious yet that the future internet would largely abandon the Web and become mostly apps talking to JSON APIs.

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    Comment #40168649

    "import pytorch" is the new "if-else".

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    Comment #40155675

    We can do both at the same time. Are you working on X11 though?

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    Comment #40155615

    Just like any other LLM.

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    Comment #38620812

    It's a positive and a negative. It makes people less happy, sure. But it's also the reason why German machinery has the good reputation it has. Because even if it works pretty grea…

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    Comment #38620773

    Or, to quote grandpa Simpson: "You only think you're happy, but you're not!"

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    Comment #38569298

    Musk did an interview with Sandy Munro about it. Worth watching.

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    Comment #38236177

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    Comment #37464154

    It uses methane and oxygen, could that be easily mass produced from solar or hydro? It may turn out better than burning fossil fuel in a plane. Just a thought, no idea if true or n…

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    Comment #36310575

    Isn't the sun doing that already pretty successfully?

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    Comment #36135172

    If they have password and 2FA on the same device, then it's not 2FA. Tell them to get an external TOTP generator, at least.

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    Comment #36130939

    What made you think that you "need" to "celebrate" anything? Who told you that? Weird choice of words.

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    Comment #36123749

    You missed to mentioned that he murdered all voices that dared to come up with ideas.

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    Comment #36123725

    About what? That phrase, that was just a trick by the Chinese Communists to find and kill millions of its critiques?

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    Comment #36123692

    Or that "toy OS" Linux. Heard it all a thousand times already.

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    Comment #36122549

    Interesting, how many negative comments this gets. People seem to love monoculture run by committees. This is exactly what OSS is all about. Take a code base and develop it into di…

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    Comment #36122527

    Forking is an essential feature in OSS, its what OSS is all about.

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    Comment #35495355

    My guess would be that most of them were. Not just by the tribe for the anti-social aspect, but by its leader for the threat to his power.

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    Comment #35495314

    And most importantly: who controlled that new invention. Because that may come with a shift in influence and power. And the current leader may simply kill the inventor to stop chan…

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    Comment #35416297

    That was 15 years ago. Today, it's a big time saver compared to Windows.

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    Comment #35197808

    Not just that, but it will also understand what everybody is talking about on WeChat etc. It can scan every word that 1.4 billion people say to each other and alert the authorities…

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    Comment #35195033

    Imagine a company like TikTok, but it offers a free GPT. Subversion of every society worldwide, fully automated.

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    Comment #35194665

    My guess is that lawmakers in Western countries will soon make this illegal. Without actually defining it well.

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    Comment #35031631

    What I said was already 10+ ago in Hurun Report about why Chinese money flees to the West. But Chinese rich should probably ask you for advice.