Bratmon

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by Bratmon 7d ago
So, wait. Are you saying each transaction has to be individually approved by the account holder? Because that would break the subscription-based billing model for a lot of businesses.
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by Bratmon 7d ago
How are chargebacks resolved in this situation? This is an important question- most of the costs of a credit card providers come from dealing with fraud and chargebacks. That's partially because, under US law, credit card companies h
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by Bratmon 9d ago
Google Pay and Google Play are completely separate products that might as well be from different companies
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by Bratmon 11d ago
This entire article is the bad toupee fallacy. Readers think they don't like LLM-authored text because they only recognize bad LLM-authored text as LLM-authored. Blind trials have actually shown that readers generally prefer LLM author
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by Bratmon 17d ago
Remember: AMD64 is as old now as the 286 was when AMD64 came out!
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by Bratmon 19d ago
Remember: 1998 is as old now as 1970 was in 1998.
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by Bratmon 21d ago
I wonder if this is a Microsoft Excel situation where everyone 1. Hates the status quo 2. Only uses a handful of the 10,000 features the status quo has 3. Uses a different handful than everyone else Because that model kept Excel as the cen
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by Bratmon 21d ago
Many people think we're on the path to having separate webs for AIs and humans. This may be the beginning of that.
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by Bratmon 27d ago
This project is funny because the outcome was so inevitable: 1. Every large corporation in the world has tried a similar "Let's get a bunch of statisticians to quantify our business and we'll manage the company by looking at
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by Bratmon 27d ago
In my understanding of literature, I went through the same arc as the poster, but then I made it to the next realization- "thickness" is just your willingness to give authors credit for things they didn't write, and it can be
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by Bratmon 28d ago
Don't ethics courses make people less ethical because they teach people how to come up with ethical justifications for straightforwardly bad things?
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by Bratmon 1mo ago
Exactly!
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by Bratmon 1mo ago
I think Em dash fans are quitters ⸻ there are much longer dashes in Unicode they can use.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
This article is very rambling and somehow manages to miss the most important driver of reduced software quality: shifting requirements. You can have the most beautiful perfect design that leverages the greatest abstractions in the world, an
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
The entire pitch of Substack is "You can export the email addresses of your current subscribers at any time" So if they stop doing the "email my subscribers whenever I post" step, another service will fill the gap pretty
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
I think at some point you have to accept that different people are going to take away different things from the same novel.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
I think the Em dash fans are quitters ⸻ there are much longer dashes in Unicode they can use.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
I'm genuinely curious what you thought "AI restoration" was doing if the fact that it added details that it thought were reasonable was surprising to you
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
Those are licenses for API access to data too new to be in the training data (for use by agents), not for the training itself. I don't really understand why you think they're relevant, given that this conversation is about the t
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
> It does seem to be becoming the norm for AI companies to licence premium content in America, judging by the deals they're making. This is a very surprising claim to me (and I imagine many small website owners who keep getting scra
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
But surely at least one of the websites Anthropic scraped to make Claude had a ToS forbidding automatic access? Why is Anthropic's ToS any more binding than that of a rabidly-anti-ai literature blog with 50 readers?
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
AI companies do not get to play the "Making an LLM using our data is unethical because the resulting LLM will replace us and hurt our profits" card.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
I like this comment because its argument only makes sense if you assume that the entire world's output of books and art did not require a huge amount of resources and expertise to make, nor did it add any value. It's the most CS-m
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
Laughing at the idea of distillation being bad is exactly as cliche/flamebaity as complaining that your model got distilled. No more, no less.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
But if I followed that advice here, I would say "Obviously I don't need a library to multiply numbers" and miss the decades of research and optimization.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
This is a problem I have a lot in modern programming ecosystems: How do I tell the difference between a library written by a team of experts who have spent decades optimizing everything to do with the task and a library written by one guy t
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
You've just invented the mobile games industry.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
Push factors and pull factors do much more work together than either do on its own.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
I dunno. If you need to record your thoughts often enough that you're wearing a smart-ring to do it, then it seems like you're going to burn through the 12 hours of recording time pretty quick.
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by Bratmon 2mo ago
Wait, so it can record for 12-15 hours, then it dies and there's no way to recharge it? That's like, horror game flashlight levels of longevity.

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