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by swiftcoder 14d ago
That's pretty shit. You'd think changes like this would need to go through a public comment period with the affected users (much like city planning decisions do)
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by swiftcoder 14d ago
> when you compare this situation to PC since there is choice there, but not when it comes to this They may not be playing in the same league as Steam, but PC folks do have the choice of GoG and itch, which both sell DRM-free binaries.
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by swiftcoder 15d ago
> existing profitable, successful companies are spending larger and larger amounts of their revenue on AI Apart from the brief "tokenmaxxing" craze among the big tech firms a while back, is there any evidence that profitable co
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by swiftcoder 15d ago
> all of whom are spending money on AI models Real money, or credits? I also contract in the startup space, and many of these startups have pretty much their entire infra bill covered by AWS/Azure/GCP credits, and all of their
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by swiftcoder 15d ago
> I imagine an LLM with no safeguards and a psychopathic mind would be considerably more dangerous than a gun Define the axis along which "more dangerous" is measured? If we are scoring on lethality, guns already score 100%, in
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by swiftcoder 16d ago
> a lot of people who live in countries with gun control don’t want AI offensive capabilities to be regulated These are not really analogous: direct lethality of LLMs is quite low. Yes, they might be used to exploit a critical system, le
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by swiftcoder 16d ago
For some reason on all the canvas based demos, the text cursor is displayed on the line below where actual text insertion happens (at least on Safari). Canvas-based text editor is definitely hard-mode
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by swiftcoder 16d ago
Having once bought a girlfriend the $400 Dyson hairdryer, I tried to guess the price before I clicked the link, but I still guessed low.
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by swiftcoder 16d ago
Financial reports alone don’t paint the whole picture when it comes to valuations. For example, theoretically amazon has committed to invest 25 billion in anthropic, and anthropic has committed to spend 100 billion on aws compute. As far as
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by swiftcoder 16d ago
> Given how fast these companies are growing (in terms of revenue and profit), it doesn't seem that AI is, as Zitron implied, some kind of desperation move they're reaching for because "they don't know how to grow&quo
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by swiftcoder 16d ago
Man, sockpuppet accounts on every rust-adjacent story on here are beyond tiresome. What does someone actually get out of being anti-rust?
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by swiftcoder 16d ago
The idea of personalised pixels goes back way before NFTs, such as The Million Dollar Homepage[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> Nobody cared about or was using Mac Mini's for OpenClaw This is rather revisionist. A lot of the early OpenClaw publicity was about connecting it to iMessage (which was really only possible on Mac hardware at the time)
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> Don't know what pause came from The double-pipe pause symbol originates on the video side, where pausing keeps displaying a freeze-frame image, and stopping does not. Audio players had pause long before (which just causes the driv
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> I'm also convinced the effect would not be there If I had a 10$ budget. Sure it would be. I pay $10/month to OpenCode for a Go subscription, it's fine for day-to-day coding tasks. I wouldn't necessarily try and one-
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> and ruining the quality of internet search engines. Tbf, I'm not sure we can really lay this one at the feet of GenAI. The SEO bros had pretty thoroughly ruined search before LLMs took off - the process just accelerated a little a
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> I don't find surveillance cameras better in that regard Yeah, that's fair. I do prefer living somewhere that requires neither.
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> Physical stuff (window bars and a security door) is much, much more effective I've lived in a couple of countries where everyone has bars on all their windows due to perceived (in some case correctly, in other cases not) crime lev
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by swiftcoder 17d ago
> You don't need to be extremely bright to realize that it's easier to burglar a home with no alarm system and cameras than one with You also don't have to be extremely bright to realise that a home with a fancy security s
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by swiftcoder 18d ago
Can anyone name a non-threatening orb? All the orbs are can think of are decidedly palantir-like - ostensibly useful, but corrupted by dark magics...
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
Yeah, I've always liked Forth clones for this reason. An entire compiler in a few hundred lines of code.
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-...
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
So outdated that this week Apple used it as a benchmark of the M6 Mac mini: "Spreadsheet calculations in Microsoft Excel are up to 2.3 times faster than on an M1-based Mac mini"
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
I'm pretty sure one wears a harness for a strap-on, bud
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
> Good UX I believe doesn't mean that the implementation details are hidden, but conveyed in a way that is human-readable. You do not hide the machine from the man, but translate between them in a way that makes neither of them invi
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by swiftcoder 19d ago
> Debian is open source, there is no incentive to be "responsible for it" Sure there is. Contributing to open source is a privilege, not a right. Abuse it, and find yourself unwelcome as a future contributor
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by swiftcoder 20d ago
I vaguely remember a reverse engineering tool in the mid-to-late 2000s that displayed a similar (albeit greyscale) visualisation of entropy within large binary files. Anyone know what tool that would have been?
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by swiftcoder 20d ago
Well, they at least say that one is obligated to address bugs in a timely manner (where "not widely exploitable; won't fix" is a perfectly valid resolution).
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by swiftcoder 20d ago
It isn't the only marker, for sure, but Claude talks like a thesaurus, and n-gram test like these highlight that.
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by swiftcoder 20d ago
It's interesting that OpenCode Go is treating it as 2x more expensive than DeepSeek Flash, even factoring in the 50% discount

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