cvadict

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by cvadict 1mo ago
meh, every single license key ever issued is stored in the binary.... also you can just compile your own copy from scratch. -or- just pay the author the $7 or whatevs if you use it.
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by cvadict 2mo ago
That's the absolute best possible outcome... The more severe risk is where a neighborhood child gets severely injured and then the liability policy/coverage you were relying on as a homeowner is invalidated because you failed to
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by cvadict 2mo ago
> But during covid archive.org decided to just remove the limit and lend unlimited copies concurrently IIRC, this was 100% it. Lending one digital version of one physical asset was likely already a violation copyright. Lending UNLIMITE
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by cvadict 2mo ago
> I loathe their bug-ridden UI. So weird that the same exact people telling you that programming careers are now obsolete are the same group who haven't been able to fix screen flickering bugs for like a year...
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by cvadict 2mo ago
searching for .gov reveals 0 matches... doubt
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by cvadict 3mo ago
>very loudly stating the foreign labs have been distilling their models Help! Someone else is blatantly ripping off my plagiarism machine!
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by cvadict 3mo ago
> Fail cleanly. This is the same exact industry that gives you paid usage limits as a unit-less percentage bar then gaslights customers every time the algorithm running that percentage bar changes or they lobotomize an existing model wit
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by cvadict 1y ago
Yes, but they are suuuuper safe. /s So far I have mixed impressions, but they do indeed seem noticeably weaker than comparably-sized Qwen3 / GLM4.5 models. Part of the reason may be that the oai models do appear to be much more
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by cvadict 2y ago
That is fine as long as the input / output is always in UTC... but at the end of the day you often want to communicate that timepoint to a human user (e.g. an appointment time, the time at which some event happened, etc.), which is wh
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by cvadict 2y ago
> That’s a good target for terrorism. Exactly! Nobody would be laughing if Al-Qaeda drove a giant Dasani truck into TSA headquarters, would they?
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by cvadict 2y ago
Iirc. you just need the openMP libraries from a compatible version of clang.
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by cvadict 2y ago
Agree 1000%. I'd take less pay to not have to deal with some middle-management dimwit who read this article trying to actively "coach" me.
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by cvadict 2y ago
> to do what boils down to a few API calls LOL @ anyone who believes that global financial processing is primarily a technical problem vs. the regulatory / bureacratic dystopia it actually is.
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by cvadict 2y ago
Well Google's garbage-tier product cohesiveness makes a LOT more sense now.
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by cvadict 2y ago
IMHO, the overhead of perpetually babysitting compiler diagnostics or performance metrics to ensure your latest update didn't confound the auto-vectorizer is never a net positive over just using something like xsimd, Google highway, et
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by cvadict 2y ago
Agree 100%... Getting caught using a phone while driving, should be punishable by a suspended 5-year prison sentence contingent upon completion of a 1 year smartphone ban. Get caught using anything other than a flip phone at any point dur
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by cvadict 2y ago
> thief breaking into your house, stealing all. . . This is where your analogy is flawed. You are pre-supposing the "defendant" is indeed the thief that stole your property. Whereas that is entirely a legal determination which
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by cvadict 2y ago
Speaking of sugar coatings, have you tried Candy Crush Saga 365 yet? I've already pinned it in your start menu favorites for convenience.
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by cvadict 2y ago
That’s how admissions used to be run ish... TBF, now you have to do an additional secret indirection dance to get around the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action.
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by cvadict 2y ago
No device support... I started playing around with porting some CUDA code to ROCm/HIP on a Ryzen laptop APU I had. While an "unsupported" configuration (which was understood), it all worked until AMD suddenly and explicitly
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by cvadict 3y ago
> Simply register and enable the repositories that you need. Counter offer: nah... how about I just target+deploy on any of the numerous competitors that don't make me jump through ANY licensing hoops whatsoever from here on out.
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by cvadict 3y ago
> Almost every major open-source project is actively contributed to by Red Hat, or has been at one point. That's nice... but Redhat's entire business is also built on the open source software contributed by tens of thousands of
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by cvadict 3y ago
Meh... there are plenty of (better) fish in the "do your own thing" sea. The thing that actually made CentOS, followed by Rocky+Alma compelling to anyone was the 1:1 bug compatibility with RHEL. Not sure what use-case exists for
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by cvadict 3y ago
> which states you may not impose any further restrictions on the recipient's exercise of the rights granted herein. So "technically" that's not what they are doing. Redhat will happily give any of their customers th
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by cvadict 3y ago
> it doesn’t just throw up its hands and disengage - it’s going to attempt to stop or maneuver out of the way of danger Lol. That is EXACTLY what every modern auto driving system I've used does. If it gets confused it beeps and th