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It's not just random internet noise. It's generative AI. This is not low-quality digital output. This is value-driven generative AI. Not automated. Generative.

There's poor and stupid, and then there's poor and smart

Probably not a popular opinion around here, but here goes anyway: the fundamental problem is that unless your net worth is $100m+, there is no point being a do-gooder as any attemp…

I agree. What is the purpose of this article?

I mean just look at UV. Did that guy make it because Rust, and because he's passionate about that sort of thing? Probably. But it's fucking fast. So did he sell out to OpenAI? Of c…

Yes I see, fair enough

So what happens when the datacenters need to upgrade (new hardware, or stupid enterprisey reasons like "must be new when replacing broken stuff")? Surely there remains a secondary …

Sure, but, aim for the stars and you hit the moon right? Like fundamentally who cares? For the purpose of an AGI benchmark I'd argue you'd rather err on the side of being more inte…

+1 on the UI thing. I don't know what it is, but UI on Linux always feels too disjoint from the rest of the system. It's a bit like how Windows 3.11 was just UI-on-DOS. I get the s…

The thing that always irks me about c++ is this sort of thing: > Explanation 1) Searches for the resource identified by h-char-sequence in implementation-defined manner. Okay, so n…

So here's the thing I struggle with. I do a lot of work in jupyter notebooks. I come up with a new model or approach to some problem, and I want to fork out and test a hypothesis i…

Dumb question, but how do you know it's smallest?

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This can be fixed by switching ads provider

This is a fair criticism for the current state of the site - but our goal is to expand this if the PoC gives useful results. In our experience people are very sensitive about allow…

Caution: it's a little ad-heavy at the moment (sorry) but we need to sustain the hosting cost somehow. The idea is to survey the Internet about what "attractive" means and see if s…