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by bsder 1mo ago
Well, it is always possible that OpenAI and Anthropic have some secret sauce that they are hiding that nobody knows about. However, the pricing of tokens on places like HuggingFace and OpenRouter suggests that probably isn't true. In
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by bsder 1mo ago
Functional is all about reification . You take a set of things in, you apply/map/collect/fold/whatever, you eject a set of things out. That is 100% functional--every time you supply the same inputs you get exactly the
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by bsder 2mo ago
> $200 in rent every month into the large model providers We all know that is hugely subsidized, and I guarantee that OpenAI and Anthropic are looking to enshittify that ASAP. The enterprise users, however, are not subsidized like that.
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by bsder 2mo ago
> UI is also very much not functional, I disagree, and I believe that the complete stagnation of GUIs is due to ignoring this. There is no good reason why a GUI system isn't: Description->Pack->Apply events->Generate assets
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by bsder 2mo ago
> For reasons unknown to me, instead of using the word with the meaning they probably are trying to convey, they rather use vague analogies or metaphors. First, most native English speakers have an execrable vocabulary. I seem to reme
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by bsder 2mo ago
The problem is that there are two different costs associated with running an electrical grid. The first one is a variable usage cost tied to generation and is what everybody thinks about. The problem is that there is also a second constan
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by bsder 2mo ago
> Yet in most locales it's illegal to disconnect from the grid. That's kind of ... required? Otherwise you have a bunch of people who are off the grid until the sun doesn't shine for a week and they run their batteries dow
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by bsder 2mo ago
Those are two different and separate arguments. "We shouldn't be growing anything out there." is an argument that the agribusinesses don't want to have. "We shouldn't be growing alfalfa out there." is a ni
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by bsder 2mo ago
Please reread my statement: > the alfalfa is a soil restorer So, yes, the agribusinesses WILL grow that alfalfa even if they can't sell it. Now, you can factually dispute me since I am by no means a California agribusiness expert.
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by bsder 2mo ago
I'm all about stomping on the agribusiness water usage and think that whole swathes of agribusiness in CA should get shut down. However, as I understand it, the alfalfa is a soil restorer that the agribusinesses are going to grow anywa
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by bsder 2mo ago
I feel like people give Ron Gilbert way too much credit. His writing seems just mediocre at best. One big problem is that Ron Gilbert can't write an ending for crap. A meta-ending is interesting or surprising maybe once. Afte
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by bsder 2mo ago
Maybe RedHat should contract this guy to finally get pointer warp implemented for Wayland everywhere it needs to be.
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by bsder 2mo ago
The "solution" is to shoot CGNAT and to finally force the ISPs to adopt IPv6 so everybody can drop the addresses of a detected residential proxy into a ban list. Continuing to allow CGNAT is what allows the residential proxies to
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by bsder 2mo ago
> Is an utterly irrelevant comparison. For physical thing we have engineering, and the practical application of the trades and craft, trial and error. > > For modern medicine, we're only just starting to come out of the wild w
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by bsder 2mo ago
Yeah, I really wish all the people whining about Codeberg would give us all pointers to free alternatives that don't have these restrictions. And, if those alternatives don't exist, well, you now understand why Codeberg is taking
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by bsder 2mo ago
> They're giving everyone their next hit. More like trying to prevent people from moving off of them. The only people that these companies are really trying to limit are the tokenmaxxers on flat rate plans and enterprises on flat ra
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by bsder 2mo ago
> Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore This is something we of the HN bubble take for granted. Most of us know how to type quickly and use editors and use macros and program scripting languages and compose regexes.
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by bsder 2mo ago
My thought was because most cheap, small dehumidifiers are janky crap that almost always result in unhealthy gunk everywhere? I can certainly see that Miami would have no issue with refilling this though.
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by bsder 2mo ago
> Ask yourself: in what year did it become difficult to ask questions on Stack Overflow? 2014? 2016? 2018? 2020? The year that Google made "open source contribution" a checkbox on your annual review. That's when almost A
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by bsder 2mo ago
> i have a chinese robot from 3i that fills its mop water tank from humidity in the air. Okay, I definitely want a link for that one. That's either the most awesome hack or the biggest marketing lie ever.
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by bsder 2mo ago
> languages ideally should not have breaking changes ever. I disagree MIGHTILY . This is how you wind up with C++ and Java. Languages need to be able to remove features to stay coherent. Occasionally, you get things wrong, it takes
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by bsder 2mo ago
If you're going with songwriters grabbing epic snapshots of life, you're talking about songwriters in the class of Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, or Prince who wrote not just for themselves but others as well and wer
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by bsder 2mo ago
Definitely Twain and it's not even close. Huckleberry Finn even has the episodic flavor of The Odyssey. For books you have "The Innocents Abroad", "Roughing It", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "A Tr
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by bsder 2mo ago
> Art of Electronics I would never recommend AoE to pretty much anybody nowadays. The problem is that AoE happily presents circuits you should almost never use right next to circuits you should almost always use with no indications dist
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by bsder 2mo ago
> Everyone is going to turn that order down because there’s no money or future in it, but there’s plenty of better work that pays better from companies who want to keep using your services in the future. Until there isn't, and you g
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by bsder 2mo ago
And yet somehow we had no toilet paper in the pandemic. The manufacturers all simultaneously refused to retool. This proves that the market does not inherently work magic.
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by bsder 2mo ago
Naive was 4-9% on the initial pass. Also note that the larger percentages were against already smaller binaries. That smells like there was a single large constant number that got saved somewhere rather than general improvements. > Afte
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by bsder 3mo ago
> The US's longstanding refusal to apply antiticompetition law causes a number of harms to consumers, entrepreneurs, and the stability of our economy. It's worse than this. The US Government had an actual goal to reduce the n
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by bsder 3mo ago
It's not up to the peanut gallery to disprove easily falsifiable statements from easily found public evidence.
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by bsder 3mo ago
Most of the evils of the modern internet trace back to the fact that the default access device became a phone without a keyboard. Using a phone automatically puts you in "low interaction passive consumer" mode. Once you concede

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