majormajor

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by majormajor 4d ago
I don't think "jailbreak and install your own software on your TV" would be common even without the DMCA...and it would still be necessary, nothing would be stopping the companies from writing these stock software systems. A
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by majormajor 4d ago
In the "volatile and unstable" scenario that you're replying to, the $BILLIONS from cashing out while it's a hot market is a more sure way to have long-term influence on things.
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by majormajor 4d ago
The game featured a store and stuff in it, that's a product category IKEA markets. If the name of an unrelated game was IKEA as some clever acronym or such and it was unrelated to stores, that would be a different trademark convo.
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by majormajor 4d ago
Hah, I was aware of 5G vs 5G mm-wave, didn't realize there was another way in which most 5G was "kinda fake" too.
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by majormajor 4d ago
How is paying $20 instead of $50-60 ripping themselves off? Have you considered that the extra 985GB might be useless to them?
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by majormajor 4d ago
Net neutrality as generally understood says nothing about being able to pay more for a higher service tier from your ISP. It's entirely on the publisher side: net neutrality was an attempt to avoid ISPs getting paid extra---costs that
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by majormajor 4d ago
ISP's spent $$$$$ against net-neutrality cause they wanted to get paid twice (Google already was paying for their side of the bandwidth as the source). When you add the second line---pretending that that nobody funding all the anti-n
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by majormajor 4d ago
Do you find Fable significantly better than Opus at avoiding-overengineering? All of my recent testing of Anthropic models seems like they're tuned-to-hell to (a) be much slower than they need to be (running tests over and over during
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by majormajor 5d ago
This has not been the case at any of my past employers in B2C... There was a fair amount of scrambling to get GDPR/CCPA compliant, but even that was done largely with a prevailing "ah, this is a defensible thing to store, make sur
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by majormajor 6d ago
That's a recipe for regressions as the amount of surface you have to cover with "just...use the app" gets bigger and bigger. You can write more automation to test it. But that's also how you end up with ever-growing test
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by majormajor 6d ago
Yeah, it's smaller in a different way than the mini was small. But the thinness isn't actually the appeal. The key thing is that it's a lot lighter . (And yes, a case adds weight as well as thickness. But if you start from a
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by majormajor 7d ago
We've seen that some---gpt5 was considered pretty lackluster intially, in particular. Opus 4.7 and 5 vs 4.6 were also greeted with a lot more "meh" than 4.6 or Fable.
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by majormajor 7d ago
> I also think there's an aspect where initial testing is more forgiving because the more persnickety polish bits can be ignored and tests are likely to have similar structure to things that can be trained for. Meanwhile, actual spe
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by majormajor 7d ago
Not a huge fan of the movie (largely because I think the story is rather meh and played out, sometimes classics can stay in the academy and are no longer fresh enough to merit a big budget retelling), but it had one major redeeming factor o
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by majormajor 7d ago
"Try a different smaller form factor every couple of years" is a reasonable strategy. First Mini, then Air. Supposedly they're gonna refresh the Air next year, we'll see. But even if they don't: we're well into
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by majormajor 8d ago
> I can't help but think the most plausible scenarios are the ones that have a little less machine supremacy and a little more human stupidity. The Matrix is less plausible than WarGames. Used to be that we were afraid of sentient A
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by majormajor 8d ago
If you're a doomer, wouldn't the "let's try to get there so fast" actions of the companies suggest that, in fact, there are no reasonable people in positions of influence there? By your own description neither Altma
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by majormajor 8d ago
> Copyright maximalism is a bad look on a site called "Hacker News." Perhaps other sites beckon. Frankly it's more of an insult to the "hacker" name to be apologising for big companies profiting off of frontrunni
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by majormajor 10d ago
> In a statement after the vote, Yaryna Ferencevych, deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, accused the United Nations of promoting an ideological agenda and distracting from more pressing issues. > "
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by majormajor 10d ago
Well, I mean, no. It could mean that regular Windows has things that could be distracting for developer workflows but might have other legitimate purposes. Like when a Porsche 911 trim strips out the AC and stereo to provide a "dis
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by majormajor 10d ago
For a group who's so bloody-minded about "words have meanings" about certain things, this whole "movement and affiliation and organization are all obviously exactly the same thing" claim is blatantly ridiculous. Whe
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by majormajor 10d ago
Heh, the version of this I heard from a Porsche tech was that the reason Porsche's supported Carplay (added in 2017 models) but NOT Android Auto for so long (added in 2022 models) was because Apple wasn't snoopy and Google was.
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by majormajor 12d ago
> The US has been marching in that direction for a while. It's trivial to remember corruption issues from 100+ years ago (I learned about one in middle school with Teapot Dome and political "machines", and those are hardly
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by majormajor 12d ago
When I've tried it using API-rate billing I've saved on $$ on the tasks where I split planning+execution into Sol+Terra or Terra+Luna even. I wasn't paying attention to the token count, I was paying attention to the spend.
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by majormajor 13d ago
The purpose of the scratch pad is very often to refer back to it later.
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by majormajor 13d ago
> A politically impossible outcome that isn't worth hanging our hopes on. > A more realistic approach is legislation that either forbids providers from suspending or otherwise limiting access to any government integrated system o
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by majormajor 14d ago
This is true, I'd go much further than the OP here and say the barrier for merger should be MUCH higher than the barrier for spin-out or split. There's no shortage of obvious problems that can arise from concentration of influence
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by majormajor 14d ago
> I don't know anything about elections, a question worth asking is what would it look like if a conspiracy set out to exploit mail ballots? could detection only originate from a defector? Why don't you start with some research
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by majormajor 14d ago
there have been MANY investigations what have they found, exactly? at some point how much more money do you want to burn on investigations w/o any particular new cause? "unverifiable" ain't exactly true either where i li
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by majormajor 14d ago
"Abhors democracy" isn't necessarily the right phrase for the on-the-ground majority. The leadership, sure. But not the average folk. "Has such a small imagination that they can't imagine they wouldn't be the m

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