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mittensc

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    Comment #49255299

    ideas, sure - "i think we should build an open source OS." ideas + execution - not really - (Linus Torvalds sharing his work on Linux and that taking off)

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    Comment #49255079

    he's missing out on any attention that his shared thoughts would bring? and all benefits that might bring if he's good at what he does. he's training his cheap replacement - his th…

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    Comment #49255023

    Google can properly classify email spam. They should be able to fight this as well. Problem is they are the ones funding the poor quality spam and they're in turn profiting by taki…

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    Comment #49254938

    perhaps this would not be a problem if google did not directly monetize AI Slop... for that matter why even include AI crap in search.

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    Comment #49254501

    I mainly shared my projects for learning, discussion and bragging rights. LLMs just use everything, generate similar code with no attribution and keep users from visiting, so no br…

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    Comment #49174470

    tactical win - they achieved that quite easily. strategic failure - iran shrugged it off and now are causing massive damage to world economy with no end in sight.

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    Comment #49169169

    > Could be deliberate theater. The real plan is a containment and a slow economic collapse of Iran anyway. Doesn't seem like there's a coherent plan. What you are saying is the old…

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    Comment #49152096

    It seems real and familiar, and in a way I can see how this was written. > It's exhaustive writing, something an LLM can easily be tasked with It is also something someone with tha…

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    Comment #49119631

    > They are bleeding out. You do nothing There are a lot of people that do not know what to do. There are also wounds that you can't really do anything about without hospital. (inte…

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    Comment #49034524

    Might be better to actually start competing... BYD / Tesla / other EV makers are eating their lunch and all they can think is how to lower production costs ... Might be better to a…

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    Comment #48971552

    > Will the American government have an easier time taxing the physical datacenter in the United States or the billionaire that owns it in Tahiti? The datacenters already get long t…

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    Comment #48971513

    other side: what benefit does an AI datacenter bring to a community? why wouldn't people complain? on that note, if LLMs dissappeared tomorrow, what would be the loss for common fo…

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    Comment #48874392

    thanks! Associating with past bugs is a nice use case Suggesting fixes seems risky, can lead people on wrong paths and waste time or fixing a sympthom instead of proper root case a…

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    Comment #48870720

    > At work we're using an LLM to analyze Windows crash dumps, which turns out to be quite expensive -- several dollars per dump, and you might analyze many every hour Is that in any…

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    Comment #48822263

    There's nothing Biden could have done that would have prevented the american people from voting in Trump. Trump was convicted, he still won. He probably would have won from jail as…

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    Comment #48821269

    It's not whataboutism if you point out question was naive. (answer is the same everywhere and has always been the same) Inner circle leadership won't be prosecuted anywhere as long…

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    Comment #48820448

    of course

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    Comment #48820416

    You can ask the same about inner circle of current US leadership It will have the same answer, no who would be able to prosecute them and how? who would even investigate them

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    Comment #48762031

    You're saying that like it's not a possibility. What could push EU to do that? Arbitrary tarrifs? Invasion/threats of invasion? It wouldn't be out of spite, nothing ever is, it wou…

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    Comment #48757023

    What's there to like about Trump? And how do those compare against all the negative things he's done/caused so far?

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    Comment #48757004

    They can try, they'll also lose out on money and have piracy to contend to. Governments can still force them to sell same as rest of the world or have them pack their bags and leav…

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    Comment #48746545

    > And the most relevant part is that you cannot transfer/sell a digital copy. EU or any other gov can pass a law to allow that and we'll have the option.

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    Comment #48696247

    There's a difference in math between giving just the answer to a problem and doing it properly/elegantly. So yeah, generated machine-valid proof can be denied if it's incomprehensi…

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    Comment #48596906

    Allright, so since you're using Linux and alternatives are worse... what's there to complain about? why not put that effort into improving stuff / finding solutions?

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    Comment #48596431

    > Also, running a program is the most basic functionality of an OS and you suggest that I need to write my own sandbox to do this because it is not included with Linux. Maybe that …