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wilde

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    Comment #49082904

    HuggingFace was only able to defend themselves with open models. No need to project into the future. Look at the timeline of events for that incident.

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    Comment #47828528

    Lmao this is what I get for not including the “/s” When we were transitioning away from card catalogs I heard similar complaints from my teachers. We all adapted.

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    Comment #47815318

    Google killed curiosity. At least libraries made you search and read alternatives. Google just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong.

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    Comment #46446305

    If your friend keeps taking you out to lunch and you never return the favor, he’s probably going to stop.

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    Comment #45047362

    It’s rather saddening to watch the death of the global internet. China was really ahead of the game I suppose.

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    Comment #44888320

    I love the concept (and was going to hack something for myself). I can’t get through onboarding. The main omnara command just exits complaining of a missing session id and doing “s…

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    Comment #44429315

    This is nice but I really wish they’d just let me fork the damn thing already.

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    Comment #44125347

    > It was hurtful to hear Google thought our site was of “little value” to the web. I read some of the guides. Google is right that there’s little unique content here. Perhaps this …

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    Comment #43221263

    “We advise on technology” proceeds to overengineer a hello world example while providing no demonstration of advantage over curl

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    Comment #42629164

    The deep irony is that some of the original contributors to Birdwatch were working on this stuff at Facebook before being blocked for various reasons and leaving to work at Twitter…

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    Comment #42494089

    I’m very sad that this service is basically on life support and got moved into PHP with everything else.

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    Comment #41871265

    Ben Thompson tried to make this case in various places when Amazon was sued by the FTC. Roughly “businesses should be able to make a case for why you should still be a subscriber”.…

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    Comment #41732947

    TBF it looks like it’s intended as a “before” image but yes suspect the “after” isn’t much better

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    Comment #40506557

    From the full screen cookie dialog preventing me from reading this article: We and our 71 vendors process data for the following purposes: Use precise geolocation data. Actively sc…

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    Comment #40296890

    Ehhh at this point Apple’s privacy strategy is little more than marketing. Sure they’ll push stuff to the edge to save themselves money and book the win, but they also are addicted…

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    Comment #40141343

    Ugh, CarPlay 1 is exactly the division of responsibilities I want. I don’t want Apple anywhere near the actual driving functions and instruments. It takes a long time for my car to…

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    Comment #40100580

    Same engagement baiter who said product reviewers should all be shills. Nothing of value here.

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    Comment #39751914

    Are you a principal eng? The principal engs I’ve known express things in terms of measurable business problems. You have a list of practices with no success criteria.

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    Comment #39637317

    Apple has always been litigious and petty. We just looked the other way when they were innovating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron... . https://en.wiki…

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    Comment #39063988

    Ah yes. Why do I need government help managing my subscriptions when I can checks notes literally get the content from the government?

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    Comment #38933576

    Right before this they chose to exit Korea. https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/05/an-update-on-twitch-in-...

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    Comment #38743953

    Slow and steady won this race.

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    Comment #38695936

    You're about to have a lot more of them, since GM is ditching both. https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-removing-appl...

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    Comment #38611066

    Not if they automate it like in the OP?

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    Comment #38507874

    Do we know how GPT4V tokenizes? You’d probably need the blocks to match the token size?