benterix

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by benterix 6d ago
It's not a problem at all. It's only for the things I care about and I consider important for a couple of reasons (maintaining and developing mental models etc.).
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by benterix 8d ago
I have no problem with other people outsourcing their intelligence to me, I've been doing this for years. But I prefer not to outsource my intelligence, at least not for things I care about, for various reasons.
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by benterix 9d ago
> we'd be going back to writing code by hand Well, as as SWE who writes code by hand and has no intention to outsource their intelligence to any entity, I felt slightly offended by "back".
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by benterix 22d ago
> Microsoft to instantly get your full name, address, email, phone number, and any other data associated with your Microsoft account. Provided you bent the knee and created a Microsoft account.
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by benterix 2mo ago
LOL. A thief accusing someone else of theft. Also, I love their choice of words. Like "distillation against", "stealing proprietary technology" - it's all aimed at certain people.
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by benterix 2mo ago
> People want to get spoon fed all information they need, especially since AI - no? It's definitely true to some extent, but you can't generalize "people" to some uniform group, we have various needs.
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by benterix 2mo ago
There is a lot of distrust against Google and Microsoft here, also when they opensource stuff, and Chromium and AOSP are great counterexamples.
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by benterix 2mo ago
> human rights and all that rubbish While I understand your point, please think a bit how you formulated the sentence above.
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by benterix 2mo ago
I heard this false justification already in 2007, in spite of many customers asking for it. Incidentaly, smaller competitors solved this issue decades ago, while the big cloud decided it is more convenient never to implement it.
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by benterix 2mo ago
They clearly know it but have to pretend otherwise to keep the money flowing.
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by benterix 2mo ago
> I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes. I'm sorry to break it to you but the sentence you just wrote doesn't contain any —s.
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by benterix 3mo ago
Suppose someone wants to play this game, what's the point? Not to mention the fact that Gnome, even though is not a GNU project, literally means GNU Network Object Model Environment.
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XCP-ng: A sovereign alterbative to VMware(xcp-ng.org)
3 points by benterix 3mo ago|0 comments
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2 Years After Broadcom Destroyed VMware: Where Did Everything Land? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by benterix 3mo ago|0 comments
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by benterix 3mo ago
> Eventually the pricing should be more stable. Why do you think so? This game can be played forever, you just need strong marketing and orgs gullible enough to pay a higher price for a minor upgrade.
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by benterix 3mo ago
> As it turns out, when someone (your wife) gets arrested and tells you to do "whatever you need to do" and "move whatever you need to move at the house", it is highly illegal to then proceed to do so. If it was my wi
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by benterix 3mo ago
> Actually USSR pushed a lot of soft power and spent real money behind it. Especially the authors whose narratives didn't directly violate the narrative of the Party. Do you have any sources for that? I'd like to read about it.
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by benterix 3mo ago
It would be nice but I have no illusions, it won't happen.
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by benterix 3mo ago
One of the problems is that the term itself got muddled to the point of becoming almost meaningless. It covers anything from pattern recognition, classification, to diffusion models. But the fact remains that many people have a love/ha
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by benterix 3mo ago
> The per token costs are still dramatically subsidized. The major AI models are priced below cost especially when accounting for depreciation. Not sure if we can confidently say that unless the first of these companies goes public.
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by benterix 3mo ago
OTOH... We know these plans are heavily subsidized, and we're happy to use them to the limits. At some point they will run out of investor money and will have to readjust. Do you think people using the existing plans will switch to per
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by benterix 3mo ago
Yeah LLMs/GenAI is the current hype but it's just a tiny fragment of the general landscape.
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by benterix 3mo ago
> the US and its allies Which allies?
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by benterix 3mo ago
Well, you can start with this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/musk-v-opena...
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by benterix 3mo ago
I'd say it's almost impossible at that point. Specifically, Altman said so many lies in the past that people stopped believing anything he says. I think the core of this distrust is the fact that these companies positioned themsel
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by benterix 3mo ago
> People think otherwise with AI partly because Anthropic kept telling us that they didn't have to write code or review code any more for most of their work. Their agent swarms just comb through their github, slack and wikis to figu
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by benterix 3mo ago
While you're probably right, reading your comment from a consumer perspective it makes me think how much we've normalized bait & switch.
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by benterix 3mo ago
As it happens in large orgs, with mixed results. The biggest irony being the whole Transformer architecture being actually conceived at Google, only to be implemented as a product/service by another company.
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by benterix 3mo ago
Well, many people don't have very warm feelings for American LLM providers so they don't care. (Which matters because, at least anecdotally, they do care when buying a new car.)
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by benterix 4mo ago
But you're mentioning several things that predate the current LLM craze and belong to the ML domain. These mostly benefit from GPUs but often have much lower hardware requirements. I'm talking specifically about the moat of LLM pr

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