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ddalex

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About ddalex

open source engineer

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    Comment #49045933

    > At some point, the chickens are gonna come out. What does this mean ? AI will only get better and cheaper. > essentially all about money and government backing So is nuclear powe…

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    Comment #48844585

    I give it 6 years for not being able to disable the "safety" feature for all the cars in EU.

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    Comment #48729293

    And why is this skill important, if a machine can do it ? What's the last time you ploughed your field with oxen ?

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    Comment #48722908

    I just got Claude to download and install all the models and servers and agents and prepare all the launch scripts for me... no need to learn, just ask it to do it for you

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    Comment #48574298

    > People are growingly concerned with both the car manu and Apple/Google control over their car and related extra software goodies. 10 out of random 10 drivers out there don't care…

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    Comment #48574228

    I would guess there are a couple of orders of magnitude difference between the complexity of interfaces comparing the head unit with wheels and tires. Like, the head unit is in con…

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    Comment #48572057

    Why should they ?! Do you also want to force them to design their cars so the engine is easily replaceable by a Custom Engine OS so that the community can build their own engines ?…

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    Comment #48422040

    "they only be stealing a tiny amount so not worth doing anything"

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    Comment #48395647

    Because the economics are simply not there. There is not enough money in space exploration, let's be real. SpaceX biggest customer is itself. Hence the vaporware about datacenters …

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    Comment #48395583

    > understanding that this is one infinitesimally small cost They are stealing your money with make believe numbers, but just suck it up.

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    Comment #48321743

    where would it be stored ? it's just a big set of numbers.

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    Comment #48319185

    what can it do ? it's just a big set of numbers, if you trust the host that's good enough

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    Comment #48204087

    If the repo is already forked, what difference does it make if Google supports it or not? The community can just continue development if they so choose

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    Comment #48199908

    In fact, more then what the call seller expects, not the market.

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    Comment #47819154

    LLMs can play chess, Gemini 3.1 Pro reaches an accuracy on 96.9 on chess.com and wins regularly against stockfish 18 set on elo 2000

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    Comment #47556252

    Quantity is a quality of its own. Maybe there is enough plane onboard capacity to deal with just 50 batteries, let's say; multiply the failure rate expected and the pax capacity of…

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    Comment #47454247

    Don't assign to malice what can be explained by incompetence: * new automated UX experiments starts * the UI bot made a change that made the page unscrollable * the experiment has …

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    Comment #47295010

    > You could prototype this in a few hundred lines of python. You mean Claude can one-shot this.

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    Comment #47163786

    I think Google has a database with everything. EVERYTHING.

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    Comment #47135238

    The human also started the bot.

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    Comment #47122959

    A human is not punished, the access of the robot to the API is restricted. The human has not suffered any damage.

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    Comment #47119094

    The consequences for Google are that the people are misusing the keys and the Google is fixing that. They're not banning anybody using proper API keys

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    Comment #47046479

    but its not mass surveillance, its targeted at a large but finite number of people

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    Comment #47046468

    Appear weak when you are strong, and all of that