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Comment #49231692
"No waiting on the same row, less contention."
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Comment #49201381
> Doesn't that mean agencies like this are not free to set their own rules when a law is ambiguous? Agencies can say whatever they want but courts are not required to defer to them…
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Comment #49198979
Do you target macos or windows, which have always given users full control of software management?
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Comment #49190687
So EU "digital sovereignty" still means hitching most critical functionality to Google?
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Comment #49181498
The quotes are appropriate because only Congress, not executive action, can change the official name.
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Comment #49162225
Another interesting question is why the frontier labs are piling on pure maths, which has little direct economic value compared to something like law or improving the efficiency of…
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Comment #49133423
What about AI research itself? Is OpenAI close to automating its human staff out of a job?
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Comment #49068105
Were you a Caucasian in China? Foreigners, particularly those from powerful Western countries, tend to get much more deferential treatment than locals.
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Comment #49059513
Any independent reasons for your claim besides appeal to authority?
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Comment #48920403
A lot of "native" apps rely on the Internet for essential functionality. Your Starbucks app would be deadweight if it couldn't pull your account info and store catalogs from starbu…
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Comment #48858554
Or just buy a MI300A server like https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-g383-r80-aap1-amd-inst...
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Comment #48776772
It's interesting that Linux users have been conditioned to expect this level of coupling when any other user would find that absurd. Do Windows 10 users expect to be stuck on softw…
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Comment #48773928
The outbox is basically a local queue in front of the remote queue.
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Comment #48773829
What happens if Google says "nope" to a developer who applied for ADV? Does the developer retain the ability to distribute their software to end users through whatever non-Google-a…
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Comment #48773602
From day one, Google sought to attract customers to Android by marketing it as an "open" alternative to Apple's locked-down appliance model. Android couldn't quite compete with App…
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Comment #48767263
Isn't Docker is basically a front end to containerd, the most common k8s container runtime? One could just as well ask why use a completely separate container stack just for local …
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Comment #48666663
Would they be able to hire top ML talent with US government salaries?
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Comment #48608551
All the Jetbrains tooling as well.
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Comment #48583712
> It’s a perfect example of research that does nothing except making people feel virtuous for doing the research. You could say the same for basically any of the fundamental scienc…
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Comment #48578767
>This is a completely derivative conclusion from something I learned in molecular biology as an undergrad. The only "new" thing here is saying that poor people live in environments…
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Comment #48573501
"illicitly" implies a law that is being violated. What law?
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Comment #48561388
See Sarah Wynn-Williams' book and congressional testimony for more.
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Comment #48561335
In what world is more spending for less data a good deal?
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Comment #48557433
How about "nerfed adblockers"? Do any of the MV3 versions replicate the full power of ublock origin on Firefox? ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... )
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Comment #48498136
Devs shouldn't need root access to install tooling or dependencies for a project. Mixing user and system software is like having Photoshop and all of your games install their files…