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by benced 10d ago
This is potentially stupider than the claimed crime.
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Apple should allow under-13 kids to use digital transit passes(slowboring.com)
2 points by benced 15d ago|2 comments
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by benced 1mo ago
All the model companies except kind of Anthropic (and even they half-assedly do) implement the OpenAI API. It's not an open standard but, like the S3 API, it effectively is. And, to answer your question, no. The existence of a common A
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by benced 2mo ago
This seems trivial: if you could add enough plants to your room to reduce CO2, we could easily do the same thing at planet-scale and global warming wouldn't be an issue.
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by benced 2mo ago
The situation you're positing already basically exists with housing - who literally ask for proof of your income - and while housing goes up at unreasonable rates due to lack of construction, it clearly doesn't go up at the same r
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by benced 2mo ago
I suspect part of the reason this is playing well on this website is banning surveillance pricing is great for rich people. I don't have the time or inclination to coupon or aggressively cross-shop but I benefit a lot from the less wel
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by benced 2mo ago
I worry about corner cases like rural towns with only one grocery store (although I suspect that those are already gouging people?) but that isn't San Francisco.
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by benced 2mo ago
I would be mad if the syntax was constantly changing but I want the internal implementation to be moving as fast as possible while retaining success. I think that rate is higher than what humans alone can do.
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by benced 2mo ago
Python has so many footguns for server work and the world's worst typing system. It sounds like Golang is perfect for your use-case
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by benced 2mo ago
More gets done in the Bay Area than those places.
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by benced 2mo ago
GLM 5.2 (open-weights) is at or near Opus 4.7 level performance already. I think it's unlikely Anthropic will be able to durably charge us much more than the CapEx depreciation cost of GPUs + the OpEx of running them for non-frontier m
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by benced 2mo ago
The scary thing is the zig project prohibits LLM contributions - the world is going to move faster than them.
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by benced 2mo ago
I would guess the cost to do this with humans would be _at least_ $1.5M in compensation alone (I'm thinking three 500k/year Bay Area engineers) so this is already an order of magnitude cheaper. Is it worth $165K? I'm less sur
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by benced 2mo ago
> We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely. God forbid an engineer express uncertainty.
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by benced 2mo ago
Not a compiler expert - shouldn't language verbosity and binary size be, at best, very loosely related?
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by benced 3mo ago
Anyone with knowledge of Indian regulatory culture would not take this as dispositive.
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by benced 3mo ago
It's pareto better, all else equal (which, fair, it may not be in this case) for a company to serve businesses from $1 and up than to only serve $5M and up.
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by benced 4mo ago
The headline is implying that AI mode is super unpopular with the very large number "28" and not the more accurate number of .16.
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by benced 4mo ago
... DDG had .7% marketshare ( https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share ). 28% more visits would take it to .84%. Assuming those all come from Google, that would mean .16% of Google users didn't love AI mode
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by benced 4mo ago
I meant the structural problem of the EU not having a tech industry (nor any similarly prominent 21st century industry). Yes, it would be better for America and for the EU if America acted normal but I would not advise anyone to plan hoping
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by benced 4mo ago
It is very true that if your company is a political vehicle, having the powers that be enforce that all companies must be political vehicles is quite good for you. America certainly has its version of this in its defense companies. I would
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by benced 4mo ago
I think this is more of a corporate metrics tracking than advertising. Decision makers aren't seeing these ads in commits but they certainly are seeing a report from Anthropic that "75% of your commits last quarter are from Claude
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by benced 4mo ago
I have a lot of issues with the Ive era and the Mac... but every iPhone he designed was a banger. I think the 12-14 era is the only era of iPhones I thought were bad and that was after him. I suppose the iPhone 6 was bendable but that was a
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by benced 4mo ago
The concerning thing for the EU should be that this valuable firm had no European capital trying to buy it. The Dutch have protected their sovereignty today while decreasing the incentive for the next entrepreneur to make something on Europ
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by benced 4mo ago
You mean Chrome would have pushed it, Apple would have filibustered it by refusing to comment (via lack of investment in the WebKit team), and then gullible folks on the internet would defer to them. (I will note that Apple seems to have up
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by benced 4mo ago
Your point is taken but we've turned lead into gold: https://home.cern/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc/
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by benced 4mo ago
I'm sure he copied it from somewhere but this reminds me of Paolini's elves in Eragon singing (magicking) trees to their desired shape.
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by benced 4mo ago
I feel like "find me the shirt from the Instagram post" (which is what's depicted in the ad) is a use case that most people will love .
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by benced 4mo ago
The lumping together of Typescript with Python is a mistake. Typescript is much faster (mostly due to engine investment), is much saner, has more expressive types, and generally has better ergonomics for the backend than Python.
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by benced 4mo ago
I did and I read it previously. It has not changed my interpretation that the Zig project would decline issues mostly generated by LLMs due to their stated policy saying so. If you’re saying their philosophy is compatible with LLM issues, I

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