BetterThanSober

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by BetterThanSober 8d ago
I read both both my fiction is almost exclusively Japanese and my non-fiction Western/Europe science/history-adjacent
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by BetterThanSober 10d ago
The natural state of being is freedom, it up to society to restrict what they deemed necessary and punish the offenders. Unless the body of water or reservoir are claimed by the government then it is free for anyone to use, quality notwiths
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by BetterThanSober 10d ago
That's a cheap shed, what's the provider and spec?
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by BetterThanSober 10d ago
Yep, even with something like NextCloud or ownCloud it gets tiring pretty fast. I do get the appeal of handling everything on your own, but it also brings any of the downside of handling everything by myself. I just need a working cloud sto
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by BetterThanSober 15d ago
Probably due to business/commercial licensing, I'm sure they have separate account for playing music in a public space
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
Parked means the storage is kept, right?
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
The models are good even by skeptics standard, it's just that evangelists are overselling the capabilities. If you understand the limits of LLMs not using them as a business is shooting yourself in the foot. However, they are not at th
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
Is it actually reproducible though and do I want to chase and reproduce something that had no human touch? Do you ?
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
I really hated that kind of language, feels like speaking to a motivator anyway it's slop, can sense it even before i started reading
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
the former is harder but still doable
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
Agreed, not discussions but networking
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
For discussion purposes just "WiFi" isn't doing much. I doubt typical AP<->phone 802.11ac on 5GHz can achieve >1km let alone 802.11ax/be on 6Ghz carrier, even 802.11n can only reach a few hundred meters with lin
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
Not minmaxing rent-seeking behavior and vendor lock is a taboo in our contemporary late stage capitalism society
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
LinkedIn can and should be a platform like this, for professionals and catered to professionals. It is a shame that it's now a cesspool of engagement bait and larp entrepreneurs
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
That or Backblaze business model where they are betting that most costumers won't utilize more than their profitability ceiling I believe it is the former though Imagine a kebab shop with a fixed capacity of producing one kebab per day
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
The outcome might not be deterministic (edge-case, race condition, weird error path). This is also true with human but at least a decent engineer can sit in a review board walking through their reasoning on why did they do what they did and
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
Device bound is a bad idea especially if in the future sites is designed to be fail secure, you might be able to recover your account but not your data. The provider will then have to take a negative PR risk for something they cannot do Peo
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
Stop buying "smart" TV
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
I wonder how those AI company can snatch a very good domains and how much did they pay, z.ai is just peak
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
Left ear: Mozart, right ear: The Bible in Chinese
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
I can count while reading and it's fairly easy The sentence below will be written when I'm counting to 60 Let me try counting while writing, it's hard with tons of mistakes and typo (like switching count with write), it'
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
I agree that "coding" isn't solved but LLMs needing a harness is not necessarily a huge hit on AI As for valuation, it's all a grift, always has been for anything hip in tech. SpaceX should've been in the $500b rang
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
I wonder how much they spend on this rewrite, in tokens and $ using commercial pricing
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
(1) There is no single entity called "the backbone." (2) Yes, they do direct peering with ISPs whenever possible, but maintaining on-premise cache AND the "backbone" is not a trivial matter, nor free They're paying
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
> people simply do not value reliable and secure consumer software Because the incentive to care is not there, we'll see things changing when self-driving cats is mainstream
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by BetterThanSober 2mo ago
Google definitely doesn't have free egress
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by BetterThanSober 3mo ago
> accidental kratom overdose You cannot overdose on plain leaf kratom
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by BetterThanSober 3mo ago
If it is mainly genetic then a bird raised in captivity should be able to track the route somewhat accurately, that's groundbreaking
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by BetterThanSober 3mo ago
> aren’t inclined to give their money away when they don’t have to vtuber culture proves that this is categorically wrong
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by BetterThanSober 3mo ago
That's on your bank and not necessarily because of Apple/Google duopoly. I think it is crazy to put the whole banking system on foreign, private company though

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