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ric2b··on Half-Baked Product
It's well known that what you're doing actually uses more water and detergent.
ric2b··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
This administration banned states from legislating AI, then turns around and does draconian measures like this.

None of them care about states rights, they just want to control things directly.

ric2b··on Running local models is good now
2K is 10 years of a Claude Pro subscription, which also gives you better models...
ric2b··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
I'm curious how the relative difficulty between the problems can be assessed when no one knows how to solve any of them.
ric2b··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
No they aren't, they can't even manage a vending machine.
ric2b··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
That's Google forcing you to publish your app publicly, not the EU.

If they allow you to side load you won't need to make the app publicly available and so won't need a privacy policy.

ric2b··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
You mention Microsoft at the same time that multiple EU governments are moving away from Windows and Microsoft Office and recommending businesses to do the same.
ric2b··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
They're more like comparing Movies to TikTok.
ric2b··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
Your last two sentences are contradictory. That is a very significant difference.

Another significant difference is how useful the standard library of each language is, so that you can avoid 3rd party libraries.

Also the tendency in the JS ecosystem to break libraries into tiny parts, because it helps or historically helped to ship less code to the user.

ric2b··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
No, because Rust has a standard library that covers the basics enough to not push you to start adding decencies as quickly.
ric2b··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
Depends on what you mean, if using batching technologies like Lightning Network it is theoretically unlimited.

If you mean on the globally replicated and stored forever blockchain, I think it's 50/s or something like that.

ric2b··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
That usually ends up as proxies to the upstream repos, because the people managing the company repos don't have time to review every new version of a package.

At that point you're just as vulnerable to a supply chain attack.

ric2b··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
I was with you until the talk about risk.

Low level employees are always taking far bigger risks in relative terms, the worse position a CEO will be in if all of his "risk" hits him is that they'll have to become a regular low level employee.

ric2b··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
Actually I have the best model, but I'm afraid to release it because it's so dangerous.
ric2b··on Git commands I run before reading any code
But it will run into so many more broken commits...
ric2b··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Most packages don't become unsafe just because they were released a week ago.
ric2b··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
JS as a language is part of the problem because the standard library is so minimal that people need to use a lot more 3rd party libraries than they would in most popular languages.
ric2b··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Windows is a small part of their revenue on purpose, because the OS monopoly enables them to sell and push a lot of their other revenue streams. Windows has always been easy to pirate for the same reason.

But make no mistake, it is very important for Microsoft and leadership, or they wouldn't keep updating it so much and talking about it so much on their keynotes and marketing.

ric2b··on A lot of population numbers are fake
Funny how the start of your scale, 1200 Elo, is essentially what I have as a goal and am not even close yet, lol.
ric2b··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
I'm old enough to remember people in Iraq cheering for the fall of Saddam. Didn't make it great.
ric2b··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
There was a large scale self-reported study in November of 2024. It was actually way over 30%, if you ignore non-respondents.
ric2b··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
That was 2014, there have been multiple elections since then, with multiple winners and international observers.
ric2b··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Libya was a UN Security Council resolution, doesn't get any more legit than that.
ric2b··on GPT-5.2
How is that a technical hurdle if they obviously were able to do it before?

It's probably just a question of cost/benefit analysis, it's very expensive to do, so the benefits need to be significant.

ric2b··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
You're describing planned and unplanned economies, which aligns somewhat with capitalism and state communism but is not the defining feature of them.

The main difference is ownership of the means of production/companies by the workers or by a separate group that might not work at the company at all.

ric2b··on FSF announces Librephone project
No, software licensing often gets in the way.
ric2b··on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
The difference is that a government or company can't ban you from using a cryptocurrency. They can only make it more difficult by banning your access to certain exchanges or something similar.
ric2b··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
And then coal mining will be highly paid work, as it should be.
ric2b··on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
How will market forces force a redistribution when they can just invest their wealth and keep growing it even more?
ric2b··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
People mostly use descriptions like "dictator" or "murderer" for Putin, not wordplay based insults.
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