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by devsda 2mo ago
Makes sense but honestly if you've spent more time testing and working around the nuances to build consistent experience doesn't it mean you actually need more standardization to easily switch models if/when your trusted mod
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by devsda 3mo ago
It doesn't even have to be censorship of speech. If you are wrongly charged a significant amount by either Google or Apple and their service is of no help, what would you do? Most people would weigh the options, then just eat the cost
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by devsda 3mo ago
Its worse in a different way. I mean when people complained about Apple, the standard reply was "if you don't like Apple use Android,it's open! ". Now when people complain about Android doing the same, the answer is how
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by devsda 3mo ago
Raise it at whatever level we can. I've seen more outrage on HN posts about license changes than those related to this. I mean we are in the midst of one of the biggest rug pull of our lifetime and the response was not even remotely p
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by devsda 3mo ago
What happens if you "accidentally" become persona non grata with both Google and Apple? If you want to participate in the society, you will forever have to resort to shady tactics. Shady can be defined something as arbitrary as
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by devsda 3mo ago
How long before someone builds an ssh/rsh type shell experience on top and project it as "natural language shell" for dummies.
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by devsda 3mo ago
> The US, under Trump, is a foreign policy disaster. This administration only removed the blinds on what has always been an adversarial policy, allies included. If given a choice you may choose US or Chinese models for whatever reason i
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by devsda 3mo ago
A healthy competition is always good for the customer but I have my doubts on the healthy part. A flood of fly by night products with low effort mess is going to lower the trust in genuine indie development products and could drive users to
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by devsda 3mo ago
Can I pay for a movie, hit record, sleep in the theatre and play it back when I get home? I pinky promise that I will close my eyes while recording. Its still the same photons hitting my own camera retina. Many of us here are software deve
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by devsda 3mo ago
> just because of that edgy wannabe way to go about naming Microsoft. I think it stopped being edgy and transitioned to a symbol of user frustration the moment their CEO tried to address the slop without acknowledging their customer pain
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by devsda 3mo ago
> Exposing those thinking mechanics to competitors would completely defeat the purpose of their spending. I think one of the reasons could be to limit liability too. What if reasoning helps in establishing provenance for questionable so
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by devsda 3mo ago
And the expectations - People asking for and always expecting new patterns and colors. - Raise hell if you miss a few superficial stitches and demand immediate patch work. - No exit path without complaints. If you find it unsustainable and
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by devsda 3mo ago
> People vote for a government that does something very tangible about all of those things People don't do that. Politics in US(and democracies in general) have what I call the cable tv bundling problem. Imagine you have only two bu
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by devsda 3mo ago
Did anybody else misunderstand the title as removing strncpy func for linux users ? For a moment, I misunderstood it as (g)libc removing strncpy and was worried about the trouble its going to cause.
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by devsda 3mo ago
If the supply side constraints remains the same, I doubt they'll be releasing their GPUs as they could be considered strategic assets. Their current moat is largely hardware right. In few years open weight models may be good enough fo
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by devsda 3mo ago
If you send cards via a third-party subscription service that mails random cards to uploaded contacts in bulk, you'd get marks for setting it up the first time but as the cards pile up and the if the service is detected, it will eventu
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by devsda 3mo ago
Is it possible that the team collecting the feedback is reporting specific feedback for 'AI' terminology ? Renaming customer service team to customer success team and claiming customer service issues reduced is like corporate&#x
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by devsda 3mo ago
If chad is really struggling and asks to partially pay for his gas costs to meet halfway for getting my stuff* back, I would understand and not be mad at him. [*] assuming chad doesnt lie about having my stuff as OP claims in this case
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by devsda 3mo ago
This[1] was a beautiful comment and sentiment to preach but difficult to practice I guess ? 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40802676#40804968
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by devsda 3mo ago
Yes, it used to be my goto few times when some devices tried to lockdown everything with bare minimum core utils and no network capable tools like curl etc.
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by devsda 3mo ago
In case of driving the stakes are equally high for everyone on the road. Can we say the same for an agent? Having an agent is like forever having a genius intern who'll almost always do the perfect job for you. But there is non-zero ch
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by devsda 3mo ago
From their perspective, they don't want 1. Standard tier users increasing their usage just to minimize "wasted" token credits. 2. Higher tier users with extra usage enabled to use and pay for those extra tokens instead of pla
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by devsda 3mo ago
> It just doesn't matter. Pre LLMs it did matter, not rust specifically but the language itself. It meant the difference between asking the developer for a feature/fix and getting it done myself if needed. Now not so much with
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by devsda 3mo ago
> Coherencey from LLMs decreases as the source increases in volume, waiting to see how this all turns out. I wonder if feature velocity closely tracks LLM context management innovations. May be this encourages more modular systems if tho
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by devsda 3mo ago
> EU regulators' fantasies that they get to dictate the product design of products from non-EU countries. They should get to regulate the design of products from non-EU countries only those that are sold inside EU. The fact that it
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by devsda 3mo ago
> I like quality, am not price sensitive but any device that requires an app or has a camera/mic built in is out of question You probably meant "I want no frills product because of its simplicity, not because its cheap" b
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by devsda 3mo ago
The goal is to normalize the usage of alternative OS. The moment you find workarounds and not question, you accept their position and eventually you'll run out of workarounds. 'you can still do X through Y, they are not removing i
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by devsda 4mo ago
> It's not necessarily bad, but in tech, not actively growing is tantamount to shrinking. Dont we frequently complain that the primary driver behind ensittification of products is the need for perpetual growth at any cost. I underst
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by devsda 4mo ago
It took a 100 billion people and their knowledge,experience to generate the data to train an AI. So that cost also comes under the environmental costs to build his version of AI. unless he plans to freeze the training data at this point and
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by devsda 4mo ago
How do you distinguish Google/MS scraping for Gemini/Copilot vs Google Search/Bing? In the case of Google, the UA is the same and you are entirely at their mercy to honor the Google-Extended instructions in robots.txt Google

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