wraptile

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by wraptile 7d ago
It doesn't matter if sand grains have higher Mohs hardness than metal alloys if the sand grains have no structural integrity to actually do anything.
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by wraptile 7d ago
As early foldable adopter I'm excited for Apple camp to finally join the superior pocket computer format! That being said rounded corners are bad and anyone who's part of this decision should be ashamed. Also corner camera placeme
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by wraptile 7d ago
> Seeing the creases and crunchy-feeling hinges on well-used Samsung Fold display models has always been enough to put me off wanting one. This has been a solved issue in modern foldables already. I live on a beach with Fold 6 and while
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by wraptile 7d ago
I did fair amount of research, and it seems like they take it seriously with GDPR, HIPAA etc. and all the privacy legalities, but obviously Uncle Sam will have his way with it as it's a US based company (California). They will share yo
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by wraptile 8d ago
not if your job is to blatantly shill a billionaire
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by wraptile 8d ago
Thank you for the recommendation! I've been on a lookout for an affordable full sequence and 400$ is very reasonable. Very excited to just have my DNA on my own computer - this feels like the good kind of sci-fi :)
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by wraptile 8d ago
> but only if they remove Levent as an author, as he works for Anthropic. What a terrible look for OpenAI to die on such a tiny hill right there. I wonder whether Anthropic would have made the same requirement.
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by wraptile 8d ago
yes, you don't own your iphone by every defition other than holding the brick in your hand.
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by wraptile 8d ago
This makes me really miss LAN parties. What an absolute gem of early PC culture that is sadly mostly forgotten? A reasonable replacement is phone gaming parties and I'm not kidding - it's really fun! We did Among Us phone LAN part
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by wraptile 8d ago
Do they actually own it though? AFAIK they have no significant moat even in the EU (legal or competitive) and given the current accessibility to non-SOTA AI (open weight models and distillation) it's just a matter of time until Mistral
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by wraptile 8d ago
Apple _owns_ computers in people's pockets. There are very few businesses that can match this value. What does Mistral own? A head start at best. For the record I like Mistral and hope they succeed, but you're comparing apples to
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by wraptile 10d ago
> Apple has no obligation or incentive whatsoever to write Linux device drivers… In ideal world the society would make it an obligation for general computers to remain free (as in freedom) and accessible.
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by wraptile 10d ago
> Software engineers have been trying to put themselves out of a job ever since the profession first came into being That's by design. Software is all about optimizing effort and people who want to do this generally correlate with w
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by wraptile 10d ago
honest question - could have this be avoided even if you ignore American accelerationism? IMO once the transformers paper was published and we learned that LLMs can read code the arms race became inevitable. The only way it could be avoided
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by wraptile 10d ago
> They promoted and hosted violent/terrorist activity. like?
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by wraptile 10d ago
but clearly there is diminishing returns on spend here right? Assuming that tokens will get cheap enough then once we both spend 10,000$ no one's is getting more advantage because both LLMs exhaust all effective paths hitting high rate
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by wraptile 13d ago
I really wonder what the demo people are thinking as there are many great uses of LLMs in day-to-day lives but all we get is these 3 rehashed use cases. No wonder normal people think LLMs still can't do anything.
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by wraptile 17d ago
It's a good illustration what a terrible idea text justification is. It should never even become an acceptable formatting technique as the entire purpose of reading is predictability and varying space length is very much the opposite o
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by wraptile 18d ago
My favorite example of keyboard power is qutebrowser¹ which turns any website keyboard navigable as well as all browser functionality too. It's a really fast and comfortable work flow. https://qutebrowser.org/
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by wraptile 22d ago
> it has Fediverse interop. It has been completely abandoned AFAIK. As expected, the good ol' classic EEE attempt, but it just didn't work due to decentralized architecture and just lack of actual capability from Meta.
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by wraptile 22d ago
Koh Tao is definitely not doing great compared to 2009 though there is some bounce back lately. I just moved from there to Koh Chang which despite poor visibility still has a lot of absolutely stunning untouched corals though unlike Koh Tao
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by wraptile 22d ago
> But I am trying to understand if the government is still largely to blame or not? all blast fishing is a failure of governance so I'd say yes but the fishing cultures here in SEA are so different from anywhere else in the world so
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by wraptile 22d ago
I agree though we had very mid results here in the Gulf of Thailand while the Andaman Sea side has had more luck. The issue with Gulf of Thailand is that it's just so shallow with avg depth of only 50m and too calm making new coral gro
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by wraptile 22d ago
I'm a scuba diver here in Thailand and you can still see blast fishing damage from decades ago that never fully recovered. It's truly as terrible as the article makes it out to be. What is interesting is that both Indonesia and Th
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by wraptile 22d ago
> Datacenters should be required by law to pay to build adequate power generation and infrastructure to pay for their consumption I think we can all agree on this one yet this is not what's being argued in most discussions. What han
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by wraptile 22d ago
calling it "actual food" is clearly misleading when majority of meat is used purely for entertainment not for survival sustenance. By that logic compute is "actual medicine" because some of compute is used for medicine?
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by wraptile 22d ago
> Well the thing with the livestock is that you have to give a cow water. you don't _need_ a cow though
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by wraptile 22d ago
> Livestock: ~730 billion gal This is a good illustration how cursed the datacenter topic has become when people go out of their minds on computer cooling while continuing to eat meat which lets be perfectly clear - is mostly for enterta
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by wraptile 29d ago
You could argue that you don't care what Claude does after work hours as long as it works your hours as you expect it to. Grok clearly failed the latter.
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by wraptile 1mo ago
This complaint should be aimed at operating system developers who should have never allow such infringement to begin with.

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