horsawlarway

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by horsawlarway 3d ago
I think they'll push it pretty far. The modern structure of society has effectively given government a complete monopoly on force and violence. So the second a disenfranchised person responds with violence, it's easy to spin it as
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by horsawlarway 4d ago
History rarely repeats, but often rhymes. Modern feudalism will be the right to control your access to "required services" needed to be considered a normal member of society. Ex - who needs to get physically violent with you when
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by horsawlarway 4d ago
Sadly there's not much credibility for any participant in this industry. There's simply to much financial entanglement to take any statement at face value. So... No. Even if he means what he's saying, it's irresponsi
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by horsawlarway 7d ago
they literally would be selling it to me. I deploy browser extensions to millions of devices, and small local models that I can run in that space are incredibly appealing. But the "per user" model is just especially difficult to
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by horsawlarway 7d ago
I don't even really understand the complaint. I quite like the way Rivians look. It's a fairly generic body shape, but the headlamp and grille shape is distinctively "happy" instead of "aggressive" (this is a
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by horsawlarway 7d ago
50k annually for a static set of weights is actually crazy, though. As in - I make software for a living and they can fuck off. Produce the item. Sell the item at a cost you find reasonable. Convince me to buy it again with an upgrade th
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by horsawlarway 8d ago
Hardly need to add "Modern" on this statement. Hell - Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" is nearly 40 years old at this point ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent ) If anything -
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by horsawlarway 9d ago
This isn't making the point you think it is... Uber doesn't buy the cars because it's not profitable. They let the driver eat the depreciation, assume the capital risk, and deal with lemons and accidents. No one drives Ubers
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by horsawlarway 12d ago
They might be in the clear if they were solely downloading ( might ) but if he's also seeding then it's just copyright violations.
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by horsawlarway 12d ago
They discuss quite a bit of this in the video. I actually thought it was a decent walk through of why they're targeting the space they're targeting, and how they're thinking about exactly these problems. Some items to consid
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by horsawlarway 12d ago
You're not corporate America (and trust me, I mostly mean that as a plus). I also work in software, and while I vaguely disagree that open models can't be used (they absolutely fit into productive niches here, and holy hell are
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by horsawlarway 14d ago
Literally, what the fuck are you talking about. As in, please be more specific with your claims that we don't require identification to vote. Because it strikes me as a very low effort Fox News talking point, not any reality. Most stat
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by horsawlarway 14d ago
While I agree this is a technical path that makes sense, I'm not sure it's a financial path that does. Or at least not outside of very upscale, niche products for wealthy consumers or businesses. Which doesn't mean I disagree
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by horsawlarway 15d ago
> I think Trump feels duped This is an incredible spin on this whole fiasco. I cannot emphasize enough how understated I am being when I say this: I expect our president to be capable of accurately assessing the consequences of milita
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by horsawlarway 19d ago
I think this take holds up very poorly when the reality boils down to: "Government policy and critical services have made it so there are functionally two markets for mobile software, each owned by the manufacturers and developers of t
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by horsawlarway 19d ago
Yes - because the system is trying to prevent the flood by piling up sticks instead of removing the source of water. It's in failure mode (intentionally, is my read) because while it might eventually declare "x is not legal"
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by horsawlarway 19d ago
This line also undercuts the whole fucking article too. Because as it damn well says - this is POSIX working exactly as designed. I don't know why he's in here playing this up as some unexpectedly crazy, scary, dramatic music styl
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by horsawlarway 21d ago
I think it's a bit more complicated than you're implying here. Yes - you are technically correct that each country is taxing its own citizens/businesses with tariffs. I also agree that phrasing is more honest than what the a
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by horsawlarway 21d ago
In a lot of spaces, this is actually preferable. Ex - nodejs natively supports a huge set of typescript with built-in type stripping these days. But ask most hosted models to build a typescript project and they default to a heavy compile s
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by horsawlarway 22d ago
shut your mouth - that brown was beautiful.
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by horsawlarway 22d ago
I don't really see a problem. Prior to this it would have been the millions of throw-away "hello world" intro projects, or "todo app" websites. Hell - think of how many people wrote "facebook clones" back
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by horsawlarway 27d ago
Yeah, I think engineering orgs mostly jumped the shark. Metrics like pr count and commits have always been terrible gauges for success compared to business performance. But they're easy to measure, and even easier to game now with AI.
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by horsawlarway 27d ago
I think this is one of the more important points in this thread. The problem is that too many pieces require experiences that the majority of the classroom just doesn't have. It's not that students don't venture far enough
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by horsawlarway 27d ago
And none of these are meaningfully different on high end laptops from other providers. Apple had a window with M1 devices where I'd probably agree they were just better. Apple also has a history of making devices that are very expensi
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by horsawlarway 28d ago
Apple makes nice hardware, but it's definitely not superior for everything, and the gap between other manufacturers isn't really there anymore on the upper end. So sure - the Macbook is better than a cheap ~$500 laptop. But betwe
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by horsawlarway 1mo ago
I've read most of this. I find it be incredibly self-contradictory. I don't even think this aligns much with the actions of the company. > Second, there is a good chance free information really does undermine authoritarianism,
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by horsawlarway 1mo ago
Yeah... Anthropic gives off big "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" vibes.
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by horsawlarway 1mo ago
Approaching this from the perspective of a potential customer and not a designer - I find that I actually like the smaller/open model output quite a bit more. Kimi, GLM, and Deepseek all absolutely run away with the "Can I quickly
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by horsawlarway 1mo ago
Most of these problems are actually solved with containers, though. An opinionated release of k8s (k3s, microk8s, etc) does wonders for making much of it just disappear. You pay a slightly higher up front cost in complexity, in return for l
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by horsawlarway 1mo ago
Nah he's entirely right. Serve http, let the user do https. If you want to put caddy in front of yours? Great it works. For me, running a much larger setup? Great, it also works. For users who never expose it beyond an IP address on la

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