xmprt

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by xmprt 8d ago
If there are no incentives for mathematicians to work on and share progress in tough problems because they will get scooped, then they will end up quitting and in net we will see less progress overall.
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by xmprt 8d ago
reddit used to shared how much gold purchases went towards their server costs (pretty sure it wasn't 100% accurate but at least good to an order of magnitude). It was approximately $1/hour and they served ~100M monthly active user
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by xmprt 8d ago
> your average Smart TV buyer is prepared to sign into Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, Youtube etc I think this is starting to change a bit especially as companies crack down on password sharing. Once the dam breaks, th
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by xmprt 9d ago
Why are you acting like there isn't a definition of inefficient. I think "underutilized" is a pretty good definition. The fact that every single person has a small private park in their front and backyards that's enjoyed
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by xmprt 21d ago
Bigger "guns" diplomacy. They don't need any legal basis for a C&D. Just depends on whether you have enough money to fight it in court.
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by xmprt 1mo ago
Not much to see here. Crowd sourced, vibe coded app. Not sure what "verified" means because the only verification they did was require a checkbox that "I confirm this is a genuine experience"
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by xmprt 1mo ago
> Yes that's been obvious since the beginning But if it's so obvious, then why are we still relying on it in the system prompt. It's just wasting context at this point.
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by xmprt 1mo ago
You can brush that $177M fine aside but I'm almost certain that none of the Chinese companies above with these security vulnerabilities will pay even $1 in fines.
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by xmprt 1mo ago
> Ask claude, use ssh with key-based auth and he will take care of it :) just saying This already goes over the heads of most non-developers. I think you're misunderstanding my point. It's not that LLMs aren't a useful too
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by xmprt 1mo ago
Most of the people who say LLMs will replace developers have never built and deployed a real app. I know someone working on an app that they were deploying and after "writing" thousands of lines of code with Codex, they needed hel
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by xmprt 1mo ago
To be fair, in many (maybe all?) of those cases, those companies faced consequences. I highly doubt this company is going to face any consequence for this data breach.
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by xmprt 1mo ago
It's still the same problem. Now instead of checking if the code is correct, you have to check every day if your prompt is still validating the correct features that you expect to work.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
One of the reasons it took so long to implement generics in Go was because there was a lot of stuff you could do that didn't need it. Now that generics are there, a lot of that stuff is still the best way to solve the problem and many
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Because Content ID was built following a $1B lawsuit by Viacom regarding copyright infringement. Google doesn't have an incentive to build something similar for creators until some celebrity or large corporation starts suing them for u
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by xmprt 2mo ago
There's more truth to the "Forbes 30 Under 30 to prison pipeline" than people give it credit.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
I think in this case, the OP is talking about "loss" from a financial perspective. Airlines are incredibly useful for society but don't make money and operate on razor thin margins. AI will likely have a similar financial pic
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by xmprt 2mo ago
I can agree that it definitely makes it a different game/playstyle but I'm still not sure if it's guaranteed worse. Putting ads during the break is obviously bad and a cash grab but from a gameplay perspective, it's not
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Agreed. But I think newspapers like The Economist have argued points like "Brexit is bad" quite well and it's not very nuanced because however you slice it, it has been catastrophic for the UK unless you're a corporate l
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by xmprt 2mo ago
> Even if I agreed with them I don't like "100%" biased news I can understand why this might seem like a good take to have but sometimes you need 100% biased news because some things are 100% biased. Things like climate ch
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by xmprt 2mo ago
The idea that doctors are not talking about exercise as if it's some big conspiracy to make more money from the top is ridiculous. Any doctor will say that exercise is the best thing you can do for yourself but most people also know th
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by xmprt 2mo ago
ORMs are just tech debt. Even if your highest cost is developer salaries, you're just pushing that cost down the line.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Nursing and PCP are very different jobs. Ones a lot more cognitive than the other whereas the other involves actually doing/executing on a plan. I can see how AI would help reduce the cognitive burden while actually increase stress on
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Android Auto sucks but I guarantee that any software that those car companies would have made in house would be many times worse.
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this means in that case: > a 1,024,000² (1M²) area of the Overworld (Dec 25 2025 - Apr 13 2026), > a 512,000² (512k²) area of the Overworld (Nov 11 2024 - Dec 12 2024), > a 256,000² (256k²) area
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by xmprt 2mo ago
"The largest available Minecraft world" implies we're talking about one world. Then "totaling 15TB" implies the world is 15TB large which would be incredibly impressive and potentially involve multiple shards of min
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by xmprt 2mo ago
God's algorithm is not computationally feasible on consumer hardware so I'd assume not although there are many algorithms that can get pretty close (either matching or 1-2 moves off the optimal solution) which are much faster to s
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by xmprt 2mo ago
Game seems to be heavily weighted towards building side projects. If only you could build a single side project without raising any funds and get acquired for 10M with an 80% cut...
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by xmprt 2mo ago
> I've had tremendous productivity using AI on some enormous and extremely complex projects, courtesy of modularization, separation of concerns, explicit APIs, and so on. The problem I've had with AI systems is that they eventu
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by xmprt 3mo ago
Relatives vs absolutes. America will spend $500B and because of leaky pipes that's effectively 100B going directly to what's needed. China gets a lot of bang for their buck so even if they're spending a fraction of the US, th
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by xmprt 3mo ago
Buffalo bicycles cost around $150 at least. That's frankly way too expensive to be a good bike for developing countries no matter how well suited it is for rough terrain. The best bikes I saw were ones that a kid from a family could bu

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