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by probablybetter 2y ago
no. just NO. look at maps of polio proliferation before/after Jonas Salk, the frikkin guy who DISCOVERED/CREATED the polio vaccine, and then look at maps related to Gates work, which, while admirable, bears no comparison from the
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by probablybetter 2y ago
WHAT??? Jonas Salk GAVE the IP for the Polio Vaccine TO THE WORLD FOR FREE! how dare you say that Billionaires gave us these things. you are telling lies.
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by probablybetter 2y ago
no, creating the actual technical standards and the internet is/was hard. monetizing it and walling off sections of it is STEALING FROM THE PUBLIC that which we already PAID for and selling it back to us! Zoom!? WebRTC! Proprietary XYZ
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by probablybetter 2y ago
and a lot of it is directly funneled to crony's of the current king... I doubt DOGE will recommend cuts to SpaceX funding. I need to remind you that Mush has invented nothing nor is he an engineer. His vast personal wealth is extract
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by probablybetter 2y ago
sure it is. "mature" markets are only interesting for large moneyed entities to try to tweak things and squeeze .01% more profit out of a service/process/product. innovation is risky and rewards accordingly. Ycombinator
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by probablybetter 2y ago
nice try. The billionaires gave us none of the above. Sincerly, an old programmer who was actually there when these things were funded, often at the public expense in many nations. Computer games are pan-et-circenses, IMO, but I also don&#x
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by probablybetter 2y ago
They are dodging a bubble and don't even know it. If America thinks it can base future prosperity on the AppStore and AI, it should think again, because actual innovations are needed, and this low-hanging-fruit tech-bro-fantasy investm
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by probablybetter 2y ago
RaspberryPi's SOC famously boots from it's GPU first, then it's CPU. The GPU is a binary blob (not open source) thanks to Broadcom... Broadcom... that same hardware mfgr that makes your Debian install so much extra fun... (we
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by probablybetter 2y ago
It boggles my mind that the entirety of the hardware world cannot accept the simple concept of making computer hardware capable of booting and running <latest open source operating systems literally purpose-built to take advantage of gen
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by probablybetter 2y ago
Please tell me what quantum leap was provided by LLMs. Please inform me of any developments that made current LLMs possible. I contend that there are none. Witness the actual transformer kernel technologies over the last 20 years and try to
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by probablybetter 2y ago
Please name me one technological advance of major import in the fundamental transformer kernel space that has occurred in the last decade that has any import at all on today's LLMs. I will wait.
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by probablybetter 2y ago
it is unlikely that the output of LLMs will improve. there is no fundamental breakthrough in transformer technology (or anything else) powering todays' LLM "revolution" There is only scale being employed like never before =&g
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by probablybetter 2y ago
Consider the bubble already burst, in terms of developer confidence in this sort of nonsense.
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by probablybetter 2y ago
Containerization and orchestration of containers vs learning how to configure HaProxy, how to use Certbot, hmmmm The questions you pose are legit skills web developers need to have. Nothing you mentioned is obviated by K8s or containerizati
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by probablybetter 2y ago
Author presumes we need Docker in the first paragraph. I suppose this is why they think we need Kubernetes. I propose using "the operating system" as the basic-unit here. It already runs on shared hardware thanks to a hypervisor.
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by probablybetter 2y ago
I have no need for Redis in my life. There is nothing unique it provides in 2024, and they have no special sauce I would consider getting hooked-on (locked into). I am trying to remember why their software became considered ubiquitous for c
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by probablybetter 2y ago
... but, garbage collection, no direct memory management = impossible to write any firmware etc that needed to directly set bitflags and such. how could you call Go "low-level systems programming"? Relative to Ruby, an interprete
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by probablybetter 2y ago
i saw that... (gem, ruby... hahhaha)
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by probablybetter 2y ago
I would say that bad ideas are having a heyday across all economic sectors, not only tech. You could call it the epoch of bad ideas having a heyday, if you want. One has to be careful around opportunistic gold-rushes; if one is not actively
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by probablybetter 2y ago
no Linux build? (appimage or snap etc? not expecting distro support for proprietary small-shop software)
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by probablybetter 2y ago
If you have actually learned from the code, you learned about code structures, and yes, they are attributed/named/noted. Everything from "Gang of Four" patterns to applied mathematical algorithms like a Fast-Fourier-Tran
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by probablybetter 2y ago
I would avoid Facebook and Meta products in general. I do NOT trust them. We have approx. 20 years of their record to go upon.
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by probablybetter 2y ago
Am I the only one that sees unfriendly input/output channel names with Pipewire in client software? (Bitwig, Ardour, Reaper, more? I would like to see "Input 1" or "Channel 1" and not some strange ciphers when tryi
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by probablybetter 2y ago
wow. no. debian is the opposite of a dead end. now, ubuntu and lubuntu and xubuntu = i agree. android, however, is garbage. - it most certainly is not consistent across devices and editions - having to do phone-like-stuff on a desktop/
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by probablybetter 2y ago
The "mess" of Linux audio is due to ONE reason: single-client ALSA driver model. every other layer is a coping mechanism and the plurality and divergence of the FOSS community responds in various ways: - Jack - PulseAudio - PipeWi
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by probablybetter 2y ago
this.
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by probablybetter 2y ago
could but it's owners might have a vested interest in influencing public perceptions to PREVENT positive social outcomes and favor the owners financial interests. (seems rather more likely, given who will/would own such a mach
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by probablybetter 2y ago
it doesn't? if you are referring to issues using sqlite as a production database for large-scale web applications, I would remind you of the phrase "horses for courses". https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html
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by probablybetter 2y ago
I feel that it is important to point out to native english speakers that the word "decadent" shares a root with decay, and simply means a decayed rotten state, a decline. It is perjorative. There are no implications of 'opule