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snoman

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    Comment #49036396

    As they say: in IoT the S stands for security.

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    Comment #48987270

    Additionally I think there is something to the idea that they are trying to undermine foreign competition as a stall. They can’t compete economically for geopolitical reasons right…

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    Comment #48547397

    If the government is going to gate access to frontier models from here on out, even if new releases are a step function change… which they’re not… then it may be even more comparab…

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    Comment #48348336

    Considering that engineer never reliably estimated anything beyond a few days remotely accurately before… but now they can…

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    Comment #48248425

    As one that does, it’s a difficult discussion to have with the executives. My peers look like their teams are producing more than my teams are and any argument along the lines of “…

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    Comment #48080931

    1. And some that are equally skilled that don’t. It matters, internally, to them but it needn’t matter to anyone else.

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    Comment #47824971

    I wonder if there are different use cases. You sound like you’re using an LLM in a similar way to me. I think about the problem and solution, describe what I need implemented, prov…

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    Comment #47820921

    I agree with you, but my gut tells me that a lot of people don’t know what a good outcome should/could look like and are accepting whatever it delivers.

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    Comment #47747998

    I just sync down everything from my wife/kids’ Google Drive/Dropbox/whatever nightly to my NAS. Usability of a cloud solution, but with on-prem backup.

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    Comment #47726740

    That’s so shockingly ignorant/reductive that you shouldn’t be surprised when people start ignoring you in technical conversations.

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    Comment #47726647

    That sentiment always comes from people who are better at fighting with communication.

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    Comment #47445434

    My understanding is that, if you directly assist someone violate a ToS, you can be held liable. Bad analogy but the getaway driver doesn’t need to enter the bank to be guilty in th…

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    Comment #47388948

    That explains why it is always/only wanting to play stuff that I listened to recently, or in 2023.

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    Comment #47336906

    > What is sure is that a lot of capacity is been built and that capacity won't disappear. They really are subsidizing what will be an incredibly healthy used server equipment marke…

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    Comment #46967462

    It only has to be right once. Humanity won’t end until it does.

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    Comment #46637181

    But nobody trusts AI. Whenever I leave my circle of engineering people and am along the general public, I hear nothing but contempt for it.

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    Comment #46589340

    I honestly think that the windows phone development experience is where Microsoft majorly shit the bed. The sheer volume of breaking changes (and the severity of those breaks) mean…

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    Comment #46513876

    It’s almost like people that use the tools to the best of their ability will produce higher quality outputs. This is a new tool like we’ve never seen before with a low skill floor …

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    Comment #46485866

    Maybe you’re the person I’ve been looking for but I’ve yet to find someone that actually maintains a zettelkasten that isn’t a researcher/author and doesn’t come to the conclusion …

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    Comment #46423663

    My reading of it also violates the Boy Scout Rule. That is to say: if improving some portion of the codebase would make it better, but inconsistent, you should avoid the improvemen…

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    Comment #46349691

    Less of a concern these days with hardware like a Mac Studio or Nvidia dgx which are accessible and aren’t noisy at all.

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    Comment #46257029

    Are trying to say it’s not possible to write terms that give them the ability to sync your history without also letting them mine and sell all the insights from it?

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    Comment #46156932

    There’s probably some compliance requirement that it’s technically possible to set it up without an internet connection, so they leave it there, but make it unreasonably difficult …

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    Comment #46156868

    Every salesperson will tell you that good products sell themselves and therein lies the real story.