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Can confirm. It was the first OS I ever pirated (technically it was the Data Center edition, I bought off of some dude on a forum via a money order I sent him[1], because my intern…

I signed up for Kagi earlier today, because I went to Google to search for any recent leaks or tidbits on the 2027 WRX—- I had selected Tools > Time > Past Week and the results wer…

I’ll have to try this exact phrasing. I had a lot of trouble with GPT 5.5 more or less completely ignoring similar prompts and instructions and entering a sort of “doom loop” or ju…

I think it depends on the problem space, and to a large extent the languages used. I have had the opposite experience with GPT. I have found GPT to be pretty awful at writing Elixi…

Granted this is just my personal spend, but Apple has lost out on something like $12k of hardware sales from me over the past six years because they don’t support gaming. I switche…

I would not be surprised based on the post that the trademark will be given to some sort of non-profit foundation. The post itself made it seem pretty clear that the current reason…

Tangential-ish ramblings—- but I don’t think it’s going to be unpleasant for most folks. Imagine you had superpowers, and there were people who were mean to you, kind to you, and/o…

It can be when you don’t have access to boiling water, bleach, iodine tablets, and/or the water you have access to is extremely contaminated with chemicals because of pollution.

> The widespread existence of secondary markets for SNAP benefits, which convert subsidized food for poor people into cash, carries this implication. I think “widespread secondary …

We'll likely see a transformation in how frontier models are trained as a result of a push towards local inference. While it seems unlikely now, given current pricing for RAM, in 1…

If we as individuals were sued it surely would be at least an order of magnitude difference between what is required from us vs Anthropic or OpenAI. That’s even completely ignoring…

I am confused by this comment. The root problem was the wrong abstraction was implemented. Then it was duplicated. Had there been no abstraction, it would not have been duplicated …

The same problem exists, and I think is unfathomably worse, when the wrong abstraction is used throughout a code base. Abstractions are a form of coupling, and coupling can be good…

It’s not at all. They’re wildly different substances. All the synthetic approximations of weed or imitations are categorically different substances. Comparing weed to “spice” is li…

I’ve never seen someone stoned outta their mind get into a fight with strangers, friends, or beat their spouse. I have seen drunk people do that though. I’ve been attacked by drunk…

This is an absurd take since the referenced chips in the article are all desktop parts, and the power usage is dwarfed by any “modern” (within the last five years) GPU. There are m…

That’s what I would do that personally. I hate wrappers around native SDKs. But I also learned them. A lot of folks assume mobile apps are “difficult” because of the underlying lan…

I’m not sure how I feel about the CSS integration. Nor the collocated JS that was somewhat recently released. On one hand, yes it is convenient, but on the other it could become a …

TLDR; LiveView is web only. There have been efforts to make LiveView native, but it’s extremely difficult to do so, and thus far (to my knowledge) all have failed. I was thinking a…

While I think it’s outrageous to send invoices to folks who aren’t paying customers… I’m a little surprised the service even has a niche (I’m old). I guess, with ubiquity of contai…

Just outta curiosity, as I’ve never gotten a spend anywhere near that, what variant were you using? Like max context window and fast mode? Or was it just chugging along non stop fo…

And here I thought it was going to be something to do with, at least in my experience, the much more memorable site: Astalavista. I will say, the linked site is nice for nostalgia …

The sanctions only “prevent” them from directly buying NVidia’s latest and greatest in the sense that NVidia can’t sell directly to them. Essentially, there are companies now who a…

Having a storied history, culture, and customs go beyond simple birthright citizenship and xenophobic behavior to enforce said culture and sense of identity. The US, for all its fa…

I've been writing Elixir for ~12 years now, and I also don't think pattern matching is what prevents types errors, I believe it's more foundational than that. The biggest advantage…