ants_everywhere

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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
I think if you take a step back and try to fight against confirmation bias you'll see that the arguments you're making are very weak. You are also moving the goal posts. You started with it was sketchy to claim a namespace now you
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
The claims of AI use were unsubstantiated and pure conjecture, which was pointed out by people who understand language, including me. Now it appears that the community has used an MIT attribution violation to make the Zigbook author a victi
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the actual claim was that Zigbook had not complied with the MIT license's attribution clause for code someone believed was copied. MIT only requires attribution for copies of "su
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
I say this as someone who has been cautioning about Microsoft's ownership of GitHub for years now... but the Zig community has been high drama lately. I thought the Rust community had done themselves a disservice with their high tolera
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
It's true that it's about totalitarianism to some extent. But we have Orwell's actual words here that it's chiefly about communism > [Nineteen Eighty-Four] was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
Big Brother is a reference to George Orwell's critique of Communism in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Qwen is a video model trained by a Communist government, or technically by a company with very close ties to the Chinese government. The Chine
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
The writeup makes it sound like an acquihire, especially the "what changes" part. ChatGPT is feeling the pressure of Gemini [0]. So it's a bit strange for Anthropic to be focusing hard on its javascript game. Perhaps they see
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
It's not just less literate, it's also people who feel the need to be amateur prosecutors. It's the same thing as judging people who wear their hair too long, or wear pajamas on the plane, or who wear pants that are too baggy
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
> At current job I think we have slightly more microservices than engineers on the team. You are free to do that, but that's a very specific take on microservices that is at odds with the wider industry. As I said above, what I was
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
That's a pretty extreme definition in my opinion. Google played a role in popularizing the microservice approach. When I was at Google, a microservice would often be worked on with teams of 10-30 people and take a few years to implemen
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
Most likely they see AI as a competitor to search and are trying to survive by pandering to the anti-AI movement
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
I understand the cryptography and I agree with his analysis of the cryptographic situation. What I don't understand is why -- assuming he thinks this is important -- he's chosen to write the bits about the standardization process
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
That was when he had the legal expertise of the EFF to help him make his case. Later he decided to represent himself in court and failed > This time, he chose to represent himself, although he had no formal legal training. On October 15,
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
D. J. Bernstein is very well respected and for very good reason. And I don't have firsthand knowledge of the background here, but the blog posts about the incident have been written in a kind of weird voice that make me feel like I&#x2
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
Yeah, rage isn't something the US needs. It's something the US's enemies need us to have.
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
one of the current approaches is to turn communities against solar and wind projects on the grounds that it's racist or disturbs plant life etc. This has advocates of environmental justice, which is an important concern on its own, wea
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
This is also my take on the market, although I also thought it looked like they were going to win 2 years ago too. > How are we feeling about Google putting everyone out of work and owning the future? It's starting to feel that way
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
> The use of any specific word does not determine in and of itself if something is an assertion of fact or an assertion of opinion. It depends on how you're using the word. Yes that's the point I'm making. The entire threa
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
Haha, I know, thanks :). I don't mind saying it... it's just such a raw word and I wanted people to focus on the substance without aggressively escalating the potty mouth in the thread.
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
where do we land on motherf!cker? Taken literally it's accusing someone of a specific depraved act, but it's also clearly a term of abuse. My guess (not a lawyer!) is that once a term becomes more associated with abuse the more yo
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
Even if one believes everything should be possible with cameras, the goal posts are moving. Other automated vehicles use radar or lidar. Even if Tesla achieves fatality levels comparable with human drivers, other vehicles will outperform th
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
If Tesla's robotaxis develop a reputation for accidents, they'll create an unpredictable traffic bubble around them. Some people will slow down to minimize the fatality of an impact and to increase reaction time (similar to people
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
It seems like they should add lidar or radar. What is the argument for deliberately impoverishing the Tesla sensory input?
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
No it's not. I mute people who post that sort of content and it's the math instance. If you are forced to see it despite spending most of your time silencing it, it's not the people you follow it's the culture. Judging f
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
it's always a config push. people rollout code slowly but don't have the same mechanisms for configs. But configs are code, and this is a blind spot that causes an outsized percentage of these big outages.
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
this was on the math instance
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
Mastodon seems pretty unhealthy to me. I logged in for the first time in months a few days ago and it was mostly angry memes, a surprising number of which were celebrating violence and murder. This is despite me aggressively muting people w
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
Chances are still good that somewhere within Cloudflare someone really did do a global configuration push that brought down the internet. When aliens study humans from this period, their book of fairy tales will include several where a terr
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
> working with complex systems and constraints there often isn't an aha moment You only get the a-ha moment when there's essentially one discrete piece of information needed to decide between alternatives. That doesn't app
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by ants_everywhere 10mo ago
this construction is familiar to anyone who has taken a course on writing post middle or high school. The formal version is "not only... but also" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-gramm

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