netdevphoenix

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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
The economic reality is that none of the social media websites would pass the test without a significant hit to their profits. If you want to see the long-term economic projections of a social media website without the younger market see Fa
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
How so?
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
Those 2 browsers used a rendering engine developed by Google. It would not be wrong to consider them partial chromium reskins with all the technical dependency it entails.
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
I would guess because "so good" does not equate with 100% and presumably the user's needs fall in that 5%. Linux has been usable for non proprietary software for decades now. The fact that people are refusing to jump ship eve
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
That isn't relevant
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
> Most people listen to music in their car. Most people don't have cars
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
>Why not just try and see? There is a difference between trying something and performing a test whose results are meant to be representative of most setups. A lot of people (in tech surprisingly) who see themselves as practitioners of ap
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by netdevphoenix 3mo ago
Digital systems don't necessarily deteriorate immediately after the causal factors. Like technical debt, issues grow unnoticed and become visible gradually.
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
The constant deliberate conflagration of LLMs with general intelligence is so grating.
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
Successful and profitable are not the same thing.
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
The personalised feeds is the whole point of their reason of being. No personalisation no profits. There just isn't a world where these huge companies can exist without personalised feeds. Meta platforms as well as YT would die and you
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
> The evidence is the contrary. The tools are become more expensive by the month it seems. Maybe, but compare the monthly cost of a ChatGPT subscription to the cost of a face to face CS education, the cost of a dev machine, the cost of s
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
Grandma likely isn't able to use most existing web apps beyond facebook, her default email client and little else either. Uncle Bob on the other hand will stop nagging you to make him those apps you never have the time to make him and
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
What is "VLM"?
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
Exactly this. Anti-AI Devs/Techies have their heads in the sand or/and resorting to binary thinking when it comes to AI. No one is going to vibe code a Photoshop replacement just like no average smartphone user is going to take pr
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
Hasn't Anthropic being experiencing issues due to extremely high usage? Being their investor, you would think Amazon wouldn't do Anthropic dirty by weakening their ability to handle user traffic
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
Backups are not encrypted by default. It just takes a single person on the other side of the chat not enabling e2e for your messages to be readable. Meta data is also not encrypted. Your messaging graph is known to Whatsapp including messag
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
Your approach is good for catching stuff that human reviewers might miss not as a first line default-only unit. The whole reason this is happening is because humans are not doing their job. Your solution (humans not doing their job) is just
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
> All the companies involved in PRISM made public statements saying they ceased participation. Google undertook a costly initiative to add encrypted connections over their datacenter circuits This is as helpful as Whatsapp's so call
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
> Cloudflare would face a near-total loss of customer I think more people than you would expect would be happy to accept that as the price for protection against malicious actors
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
> Emotions are universal. they simply lack a term with the exact nuance You are mistaking culture for language here. That's mistake number one. Mistake number two is assuming that a language is merely a purely biological response yo
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
Since you asked us to tell you what we think: How do you deal with emotions that only exist (as their own concepts) in certain cultures (saudade in Portugal, hygge in Scandinavia)?
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
I wonder what is the goal here? If Google Search was used to find a major software flaw would this be reported in this way? Between Mythos, OpenAI's Mythos equivalent, it's not clear if there is some interest to keep the "AI
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
> The quality of translation is amazing and far better than what old systems did. Are you native in both languages? If you are only native in one of them, it would be insightful to find if people with your skillset but native in the lang
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by netdevphoenix 4mo ago
It's just a token predictor what do you expect? What we need are tools that embrace that and ping the agent to validate what it just said or double check. But the trade off is that this might hamper their capabilities to some level
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by netdevphoenix 5mo ago
Reading while walking is possible. I used to do this. But with physical books
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by netdevphoenix 5mo ago
> Any reason not to just open source it? Mmmm...potential commercialisation? Always find it curious that people expect to get source code for free in ways that they don't do for other work (ask George Martin to release his drafts an
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by netdevphoenix 5mo ago
"This site was paused as it reached its usage limits. Please contact the site owner for more information." I wish AWS/Azure had this functionality.
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by netdevphoenix 5mo ago
> making useful and affordable products for all users, Affordable, ethical. You can only choose one.

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