sedansesame

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by sedansesame 13d ago
Privacy is non-negotiable for corporate. Even without considering costs or country of origin, we've seen from OpenAI that claims of AI safety are worth less than the (virtual) paper they're printed on. All it takes is one incident
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by sedansesame 2y ago
Personally, I think the pricing issue is related to the web app issue from the parent comment. Even as a free iOS app, there is the $99/year Apple Developer fee, on top of any server costs. Meanwhile, a web app can be used by anyone on
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by sedansesame 2y ago
Yes, because that is exactly how American cities are currently built today -- expensive carbon-intensive roads paved out to sprawling suburbs, the independent financial upkeep of which is not sustainable long-term. [0] The costs for car-bas
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by sedansesame 2y ago
It is free and opensource, but there are different parts to it if you selfhost. Synapse is the Matrix server backend, and Element is the UI (web/mobile app). [0] ESS is a paid, fully managed service by the Element team for ease of use.
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by sedansesame 2y ago
That sounds proportionate to me. They get to make profits, and I get to use their improvements if they also benefit me. This can foster more community than if MIT code were to be taken and locked behind closed doors, for profit and to no be
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by sedansesame 2y ago
A notable and interesting example I remember of "economics" being used to refer to practical skills is in "Home Economics"[0], which actually has nothing to do with home prices or underlying theories about spending in ho
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by sedansesame 2y ago
Most of the article talks about characters, but in my experience, they are the easy part. Unlike Japanese and its 15 ways to pronounce 生, Chinese is "easy" by comparison, with most characters mapping only to one sound. The death b
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by sedansesame 2y ago
The popular reason is likely because 文 is used across East Asia in Chinese and Japanese (Korean and Vietnamese too, though written differently)[0], with the ideograph standing in as a sufficiently different contrast to the Latin alphabet, a
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by sedansesame 3y ago
I took "Ultimately success is a matter of effort" to mean only that. Even if you were handed opportunities on a silver platter (ie. rich parents), you still had to put in your own effort somewhere along the chain to get the ball r
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by sedansesame 3y ago
Not sure about within anime, but back in our fleshy human realm, Crunchyroll was founded by Berkeley graduates and is now the go-to anime platform. I suppose if you can't beat 'em, join 'em?