lccerina

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by lccerina 24d ago
The complaint is totally understandable, BUT the examples do not make sense. Arduino did not start as some dude selling less than 10 boards a year, but as an educational tool, which THEN ramped up to 100s of boards produced every day. If yo
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by lccerina 4mo ago
Exactly, my vaccine against GenAI chatbots is to not use them, which is the equivalent of masking when covid vaccines were not available. I am just waiting for the GenAI vaccines (ideally regulations, practically people rioting in municipal
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by lccerina 4mo ago
Indeed. It's a step forward and two backwards, personally I don't have payment cards on the phone wallet because one company surveilling my purchases is enough. Hopefully there will be some Wero-powered card option. From a UX poin
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by lccerina 4mo ago
How many devs would be able to keep working if GitHub disappeared tomorrow? You can do inference on SOME laptops, but the current shape of GenAI need massive data centers to be used at scale. Also the existence of various big tech companies
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by lccerina 4mo ago
You don't need to have a "good knowledge" of a misused technology to hate it when it's used by malevolent people. In the same way I don't need to be a virologist to know that is better to avoid the flu, I don't
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by lccerina 4mo ago
The idea is that merchants will ditch the card-pos in the long run. You scan a QR-code or send money through some app. Satispay does that in Italy and got massive rollout from stores because fees were pretty low also for smaller transfers,
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by lccerina 4mo ago
Google started to crap on search six years ago. At this point anyone choosing to use google search (I am excluding here all the people that are not aware other search engines exist because Google pays to be the default search engine) are ma
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48000 Samsung workers ready to strike(engadget.com)
3 points by lccerina 4mo ago|1 comments
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by lccerina 4mo ago
Samsung is making heaps of money thanks to AI-induced RAM shortages, workers rightfully want a piece of that cake too.
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by lccerina 4mo ago
No, simply 95% of games don't have copy and anti cheat, and some anti cheats run ok on Linux
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by lccerina 4mo ago
It's almost as if putting competent people in the right place and with the right budget is the best way to achieve government/public-funded results...
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by lccerina 4mo ago
With the (somehow sadly) added value that the TV broadcast algorithm is kinda known by everyone (morning programs, prime time etc), and that if there wasn't nothing interesting to watch, we would just do something else.
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by lccerina 4mo ago
Honestly surprised that Italian municipalities are doing relatively well compared to other countries. Maybe it helped a push from the government to have a shared design for municipal websites ( https://github.com/orgs/it
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by lccerina 4mo ago
And then Google is moving at full speed to lock-up the whole Android experience (bootloaders, OS, app store, etc.) so that even tech-savvy consumers are forced to get new, crappier devices when the old ones start slowing down. Enshittificat
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by lccerina 4mo ago
It's a quid pro quo from Valve. They are investing profusely in Linux ecosystems, and the distro-devs are following that. Meanwhile Epic Games still lacks a first-party app on linux, and users need to pass from Lutris, Heroic etc...
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by lccerina 5mo ago
It seems that Zig people are following the path of ZeroMQ [1]: "To enforce collective ownership of the project, which increases economic incentive to Contributors and reduces the risk of hijack by hostile entities." A healthy cont
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by lccerina 5mo ago
If you see them, why don't you help squash them?
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by lccerina 5mo ago
Not at all, if you have a lot of data coming from imperfect hardware (which can mean both a fixed bias and unknown variance), and you don't know the variance for plenty of practical reasons, you are left with a result that is statistic
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by lccerina 5mo ago
On other news, the AI company recently found to have poor cybersecurity posture, still has poor cybersecurity.
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by lccerina 5mo ago
If this was a peer-reviewed paper, it won't pass. - Is the wearable accurate enough to be sure that 3bpm is not a measurement fluke? - Why did you use the minimum heart rate value (which could be a measurement glitch) and did not compa
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by lccerina 6mo ago
Honestly impressed! While humanoid legs are an interesting challenge from a technical point of view, there are plenty of examples in nature (roadrunners) and tech (anything with wheels) that are more efficient and practical.
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by lccerina 6mo ago
Fair, I forgot about aphantasia! The whole plan for AGI is still built on creaky eugenic foundations: measuring intelligence to distinguish who is "intelligent" and who is not. The whole idea of "human baselines" from th
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by lccerina 6mo ago
Every week we are 50% closer to shifting the goalpost... from the paper "AI systems already possess some capabilities not found in humans, such as LiDAR perception and native image generation". I don't know about them, but I
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by lccerina 7mo ago
Except now we get websites that need to download 20-25MB of "latest cool framework" to show you a blurb of text because programmers before you created unnecessary complexity that needs to be maintained forever. The honest opinion
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by lccerina 7mo ago
Dijkstra understood it 50 years ago, and again 26 years ago [1]. Nothing changes. Malpractice just propagate and there are zero incentives to build simple, small, and maintainable software. If the company you work for just push for unnecess
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by lccerina 7mo ago
From the post you linked "These findings do not represent the specific environmental impact for all Gemini App text-generation prompts nor are they indicative of future performance." I would like to see independent agencies having
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by lccerina 7mo ago
Their whole product is about vibe-coding unmaintainable "apps", not surprised they put the same level of (dis)attention in their blog too. Also yikes for the proprietary modifications. AI companies: "what's yours is mine
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by lccerina 7mo ago
Sam Altman (and everyone else in the field) complain that estimates of water and power consumption of AI are wrong, but instead of just publishing that data they come up with this crap.
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by lccerina 7mo ago
Humans also don't have wheels, but we build objects with wheels. It is as if we can build objects that don't resemble humans for specific purposes. Crazy...
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by lccerina 7mo ago
Maybe because of the multiple investigations Tesla has currently due to crashes, deaths, injuries, etc. all caused by "whoops our cameras were fooled by some glare/fog and accelerated into a truck/pole"

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