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I'd go for the less complex version: just make copyright last for like 20 years at most.

No, it’s definitely not what a human brain is. That makes very little sense. The ways we interact with language (and thus conceptual memory) is completely and fundamentally differe…

Yeah, if this is stopped, it'll be because of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights or the ECHR. The Charter and the European Court of Justice is why we don't have blanket dat…

It's well established that the companies who own the proprietary frontier models complain loudly that open models are distilled from theirs. There's surely some truth to it (and it…

I mean, I could say the same about Gemini. 3.1 Pro tops a bunch of benchmarks out there but any practical use I've put it to it's underperforming both other proprietary and open we…

Having worked with both proprietary and open weight SOTA models lately, my view is it's definitely not 6 months, it's less -- and shrinking.

It's 100% laziness on the side of procurement, aided by some good marketing and a complete lack of guardrails. Exactly the same mindset that has led to every European government no…

I'd challenge that assertion. LLMs still produce very bad results with greenfield work, so that seed was generated by people who had both creativity and skill a thousand times befo…

To add to that, they'll continue to be great machines running Linux even after Apple has bloated MacOS to death. Tahoe has made my M1 MBP feel significantly less snappy for no good…

What would it give you that, say, Citymapper doesn't?

It is comparable, and thinking about agriculture as a closed system is not even close to correct. We're mowing down natural carbon sinks to an insane degree to grow crops to feed a…

Not the same guy, but I feel like Uber is a pretty cutthroat company, and they are probably not an example of a sustainable model in a more freelance/gig based economy. I like that…

It's only a holdup if the government wants it to be a holdup.

Well, even if it doesn't change much, you're still stuck with the absolute worst part of drug prohibition – unregulated and unclean drugs, turf wars and violence, and hundreds of t…

There are tools to include only the stuff you actually use that you can stuff in your build process though.

When using a language where isArray(arr) turns into toString.call(arr) == '[object Array]' ...then I guess that's more reasonable than if you use something sane.

It's interesting to me that people find this convincing. I find it to be complete insanity. People need their libraries, but putting everything in tiny buckets is just not working.…

I use a mouth guard, it turned out to be sufficient.

From someone else with apnea: absolutely none at all. I didn't have to use CPAP to treat it though, so other people's experiences might be different.

This is an interesting one. I have sleep apnea, the result of which is basically chronic sleep deprivation even though you spend lots of time in bed. I struggled with all sorts of …

Interesting that you had the similar experience to mine – I had years of depression, panic attacks, and anxiety that vanished virtually overnight with sleep apnea treatment. I don'…

You're being downvoted because it's a stupid assertion and it's "technically" not even the same craft at that point.

This is the an explosion of 5 gallons of petrol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C72bv2YhZ6A Doesn't take that much to make an impressive bang.

Many people tend to think of BI as a solution to a world where scarcity is no longer that much of an issue. In a world where a lot of wealth is created by automation, the picture s…