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by alerighi 12d ago
I've bought new a Google Pixel 7a two years ago, paid for it 400 euros. After 1 year I've dropped it, landed on a corner, screen completely broken, replacement costed screen costed me nearly 120 euros (and was not an original scre
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by alerighi 15d ago
Nooo what you are saying communist. I also think so, but each time someone (typically the EU) does something in the direction (e.g. digital market act) the US government, companies and citizens accuse us to be communists, against progress,
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by alerighi 15d ago
Being a developer, I can say that working with Google is a pain. There is no possibility to talk with a human, all communication is answered by the same AI-generated response that links you to the same AI-generated documentation. And if suc
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by alerighi 20d ago
Maybe it was advanced for the time being created, to me it's just any other RFID card that is issued everywhere else in the world in the matter of read speed, from every public transit card that I find in every EU country I've vis
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by alerighi 20d ago
Well you can get it only in some kind of machines, and you need to pay it cash. Also you need to use cash to charge it, and you can charge it minimum by 1000 or 500 yen at a time depending on the station, not less. The digital version only
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by alerighi 21d ago
In Italy we are at 78% of addresses covered. That doesn't mean automatically that one gets fiber. First at all, if someone doesn't need to download heavy stuff and has a good coverage a 5G SIM with unlimited data (something you ca
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by alerighi 21d ago
It doesn't really matter, because x86 processors inside are almost similar to modern ARM processors, the instructions that most programs use are more or less the same, and more complex "legacy" instructions are just emulated
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by alerighi 21d ago
Really in Linux you can setup then do do whatever you want, you can setup them the same of Windows or MacOS if you want.
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by alerighi 21d ago
I have in my basement a PC with Windows 98 that feels way faster using it than a modern Windows 11 full of vibecoded AI slop features.
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by alerighi 21d ago
For this reason: more upgradable Apple wants to sell you a new system every couple of years, they don't want you to upgrade. They want you to throw it away the system completely and replace it (and they claim they are environmentally s
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by alerighi 21d ago
Same thing, I still have at home a desktop I've built when I was 17 (now I'm 30!) and still runs fine for day to day tasks, of course with Linux on it. It has 8Gb of RAM (DDR3), 512Gb SSD (not original of course because back then
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by alerighi 21d ago
Everything that is generate from a LLM is shit, I don't know why people continue using it. I'm waiting for this bubble to explode once for all so we can return doing things in the sane way.
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by alerighi 23d ago
I wouldn't even compare AI to any of one. Rather, AI will even contrast with some of these, democracy for example, if we stop critically thinking and delegate everything to AI (= big corporations that control it) it cannot end well to
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by alerighi 23d ago
My barber in Italy just doesn't make me a receipt in exchange for a discount if I pay him cash so he doesn't have to pay taxes. Come on... the cost to operating a small business are usually low/there are tax exceptions, and t
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by alerighi 23d ago
Really the chances that someone will ask a small company to be compliant are just very low. Of course if you sell something in an envelope nobody will ask you anything, the deal and the reason for this law (that I consider correct) is to ad
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by alerighi 26d ago
Yes but let's continue using Claude to write code because we suck at programming. Really the only way out of this is to STOP NOW using AI and use our brain instead. These company will just shut down if we stop using, and thus paying, f
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by alerighi 27d ago
To me TUI have a better user experience than graphical applications. And considering the amount of companies that are still using decades old AS/400 systems instead of new ERP system I'm probably not the only one to think it like
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by alerighi 29d ago
I don't know the US law, but surely in Europe specifically every private conversation is private, period. No matter if it's work email, your company cannot read the emails directed at your company mailbox by its initiative (of cou
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by alerighi 1mo ago
For me it's probably time to learn to use vim or something similar. I'm the only one that likes coding manually, without all this AI shit? I'm faster writing code myself than trying to explain to artificial stupidity what I i
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by alerighi 1mo ago
For a big tech the publishing fees are nothing in comparison to what they can revenue on patents. Let's say that they AI generate 1000 patents and let's say the cost is 1000$ for each one, it's sufficient that only 1 of them
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by alerighi 1mo ago
The problem is that it doesn't work as such. We all know that Meucci invented the telephone but Bell patented it. The patent office rarely care about it, they register whatever you want, and then lawyers of companies can sue you for us
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by alerighi 1mo ago
Depends, for example if the variable that selects between the two implementations is a compile time constant (#define or constexpr variable) the compiler can really remove the conditional and all the code of the choice that is not always se
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by alerighi 1mo ago
Indeed. The problem is trying to apply the principles of "Clean Code" or more generally of OOP everywhere. There are surely cases where having an interface as an abstraction and multiple implementations makes sense. There are case
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by alerighi 2mo ago
Only reason that I see is that is free to use, why other alternatives are either paid or you needs to be hosted (and thus you need to pay the cost of a server and the work to maintain it).
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by alerighi 2mo ago
Well, not exactly. A LLM is still a computer, doesn't have an intelligence (beside being called AI). That means that their output is a mere computation of their input data, and their input data it's the stuff that was used for the
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by alerighi 2mo ago
Let's say that Anthropic trains their models on their internal (private) codebase. Let's say that a contributor using Claude generates a piece of code (long enough to account for copyright) that is identical to the internal closed
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by alerighi 2mo ago
An this is exactly the reason why the GNU project doesn't want LLM contributions. They don't want the chance that lawyers of some big tech state that they violated they copyright and asks for millions of compensation, like it happ
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by alerighi 2mo ago
To be fair, as an European, I'm now more concerned about the usage of AI that the US will be doing rather than China. And this is a sentiment shared among most European people that I know.
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by alerighi 3mo ago
I appreciate my 2011 vehicle that only has a car radio with FM tuner and CDs, and yes, I know that I could easily swap it but I didn't on purpose, let me explain why: - all the controls that I need, that are basically volume, radio sta
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by alerighi 3mo ago
Except than later we returned to a sort-of segmented memory. That is of course paging, our programs allocates pages of memory that are a fixed size (4096 bytes) and are arranged in memory or in swap space how the OS decides. We just have th

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