diffeomorphism

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by diffeomorphism 6d ago
> Would this be unethical if it was a human who heard rumors about a solution then attacked the problem, solved it and published first? Yes.
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by diffeomorphism 21d ago
Except that you then have to pay a "use tax" of 6%: https://tax.idaho.gov/taxes/sales-use/use-tax/online-guide/ This is difficult to enforce, but it seems that "taking advantage" is s
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by diffeomorphism 1mo ago
Buttons etc. have direct binding. So even if your hub goes up in flames those will just keep working. The automated stuff like "starting at sunrise gradually adjust the lights" might be delayed by 30 seconds. Annoying but hardly r
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by diffeomorphism 2mo ago
People making decisions. Pay me 8x to get 10x, great. Pay me 8x to get 3x, nope.
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by diffeomorphism 2mo ago
Being a "failure" means it fails to meet its success criteria. If you claim 10x and deliver 3x, that is a failure. The 3x may still be impressive or a gamechanger or ..., but it still falls short of its promises.
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by diffeomorphism 3mo ago
Entirely different perspective: If I have to add a separate repo, then this is a red flag. > Any serious project in this space supports as many distros as possible. Wrong way around. Any serious product is supported by lots of distros. D
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by diffeomorphism 3mo ago
The US has it much easier not harder. The average population density is pretty irrelevant here. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_population_map.pn... Lots of high density cluster and much easier geography (Sw
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by diffeomorphism 5mo ago
There are different notions of "reproducible". Nix does not automatically make builds reproducible in the way that matters here: https://reproducible.nixos.org It is still good at that but the difference to other distr
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by diffeomorphism 6mo ago
How would "bit-identical" or "free of side effects" make an actual difference in practice? Rollback is already very easy with filesystem snapshots. Configs are already tracked by etckeeper. New laptop: either copy the wh
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by diffeomorphism 6mo ago
That reads like blatant nonsense. For a 5 (five) document library you added 3 (three) documents just to override a single response. Nothing at all is hidden and all three documents are in clear human understandable language. This is not an
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by diffeomorphism 6mo ago
Because AI needs so much more power and in particular RAM.
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by diffeomorphism 6mo ago
The apple pricing ladder is all about the confusingly named overlap. The Air with more ram costs just a bit less than the pro non-pro. But then maybe you want the pro pro? Or do you need the pro max? Oh, and the ultra will come later but no
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by diffeomorphism 7mo ago
Heavier than competing 14in laptops. Just okay res display. Low refresh rate. No oled or mini led. Basically unrepairable. There are reasons the MacBook pro exists. The air is a nice machine but there are definitely trade-off.
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by diffeomorphism 7mo ago
Wrong question. If you sell a 6k€ machine "for AI", then you are judged on your own merits. Replies like "but, but other laptops" are very weak attempts at deflection.
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by diffeomorphism 8mo ago
Under local deployment: > Local backend server with full API Local model integration (vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio, etc.) Complete isolation from cloud services Zero external dependencies Seems open source/open weight to me
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by diffeomorphism 8mo ago
Because they are a fire hazard: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62vk0p5dn5o Trash compactors break the batteries in these things. A deposit could help to ensure that the vapes are disposed responsibly. Other op
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by diffeomorphism 8mo ago
Companies often have flex offices with docking stations. So previously you would have a screen, mouse and keyboard at every desk and people would move a laptop (ignoring its low res screen and bad keyboard). Here you would have just a scree
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by diffeomorphism 8mo ago
When do you think the "web 2.0 era" was? Web 2.0 is around 2003 or so and chrome would not even exist for another few years. Giving Firefox/phoenix/Netscape the majority credit for the first fall of IE seems accurate. Th
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by diffeomorphism 8mo ago
Nah, the irony is that you think that this was not done on purpose. E.g. look at the hamburger menu on the top right.
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by diffeomorphism 8mo ago
It is called "making fun of" not "irony".
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by diffeomorphism 8mo ago
Which is very much on purpose to make fun of exactly that. Try some of the other settings in the top right, e.g. the literal hamburger menu.
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by diffeomorphism 10mo ago
For matter over thread you do need a hub and you need more certifications for matter, so for manufacturers it is less open. The standardization is a plus though.
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by diffeomorphism 10mo ago
> Because an FFT (short for "Fast Fourier Transform") is nothing more than a curve-fit of sines and cosines to some given data That is not even wrong. A Fourier transform is a basis expansion. In particular, the full expansion
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by diffeomorphism 10mo ago
> Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” This is satire, right?
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by diffeomorphism 10mo ago
Unethical behavior does not become good just because it happens to hurt "bad people" (or more accurately, companies bought by bad people).
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by diffeomorphism 10mo ago
The robots.txt is pretty explicit that this scraping is "disallowed" https://www.goodreads.com/robots.txt So legalities aside, this seems unethical.
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by diffeomorphism 10mo ago
TLDR: regulations The toothpaste maker wants to claim something like "Novamin is useful". In the EU this is treated as for cosmetics, so relatively low bar to clear. In the US this is treated as pharmaceutical, so a high bar to cl
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by diffeomorphism 11mo ago
History, venture capital, single language market, ... . Probably a dozen different factors you could point at instead.
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by diffeomorphism 11mo ago
Not inane at all, just your phrasing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem This is not about "X sucks", but the very first questions from an engineering perspective should be whY? What do you want to acco
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by diffeomorphism 11mo ago
Out of interest: They talk a lot about how they think/hope their license is not contradictory. Has anybody with legal expertise verified this? Open-ish source is one thing, but an untested custom license is an issue in itself.

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