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rolymath··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
That's fine for me. As someone who can't draw or design for shit, I am getting effectively millions of dollars worth of artist time for $20/month.

The solution is to socialize AI, not ban it.

rolymath··on Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
It's only humorous if you live in an American bubble. Knowledge sharing has always been a part of Chinese culture. Only Americans try to make it proprietary and monetize it.
rolymath··on The RAM shortage could last years
"I would rather spend the user's money than my engineer's time"
rolymath··on The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
Only in America.
rolymath··on Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Not like I like the UAE (I don't), but during this war they made it plenty clear that it is illegal to record and share any videos or pictures of the damage that was caused by the Iranian attacks. Everyone in the country knows this, and I'm sure airlines have procedures to familiarize staff with the laws of the country they're flying to. If they don't, still not the UAE's problem. Don't like the law? Go somewhere else.

(inb4 any arm chair analyst decides this law is a bad law. That's not the point. The police only apply the law and not write it)

Secondly, I doubt this was some sort of high tech operation. More likely someone just snitched and/or some sort of meta data snooping.

rolymath··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime
Think of it in percentage savings.
rolymath··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
Probably most are overpaying.

Cloud used to be marketed for scalability. "Netflix can scale up when people are watching, and scale down at night".

Then the blogosphere and astroturfing got everyone else on board. How can $5 on amazon get you less than what you got from almost any VPS (VDS) provider 10 years ago?

rolymath··on Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
I was gonna research your points until I saw what you said about the USS liberty and figured that your earlier points are just as biased.
rolymath··on Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents
1) Good luck using anything in a few years.

2) Of course it's vibe coded, it's made for vibe coders.

rolymath··on We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran
Maybe the US should have intervened in 1979. Oh, wait.
rolymath··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
You didn't even use it yet.
rolymath··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
If they were you wouldn't need to call them "trans"
rolymath··on Padel Chess – tactical simulator for padel
Same issue

Android pixel 9 on Brave

rolymath··on Hammerspoon
Is paperwm jittery for everyone?
rolymath··on Cloudflare crawl endpoint
Read who and how it was founded. It's not a secret at all.
rolymath··on Israel says it has attacked Iran, declares state of emergency
And what does that have to do with American tax payer money?

Also, ironically, 35k is almost the same number as women and children killed by Israel.

rolymath··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Great. So you've gone down from $1T to "half of that budget".

If you're honest with yourself, you'll find the true number.

rolymath··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
This is nice rhetoric but ignores the fact that the elected officials are bought out by other billionaires. The US is an oligarchy in a republics clothing.
rolymath··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Not according to published Financials.

Also $1T is dishonest. DoD spends less than 0.1% of that on cloud services.

rolymath··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
I'm just curious, do you understand that the DoD isn't saying it won't do business with Anthropic. Its saying it will also ban any company that does business with the DoD (so 90% of large enterprises?) from doing business from Anthropic. Are you aware of this?
rolymath··on The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
Disagree.

Idiot design means more steps for non idiots (see: terminal vs GUI)

rolymath··on Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
Google changed the ToS to disallow this usage? I'm pretty sure it was disallowed from the beginning
rolymath··on The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
I think the answer is more obvious: The average Japanese web designer doesn't assume his user is an idiot, while western design is more condescending
rolymath··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
In that case we should allow foreign governments to advertise on Facebook whatever they want and not be concerned about them swaying voters.
rolymath··on 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
Yep. I had the same experience. Except for me, it was someone I've never heard of read before, so I was none the wiser and assumed it was real. 30 minutes in I go "man this guy is really shit there's no way he should have this much credit" and I check the description and it says the same "based on X".
rolymath··on Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
1) Cool, but when are they actually going to drive my car for me?

2) Any semblance of American technological superiority is pure fantasy at this point. The only area where Americans are truly "advanced" is in selling overpriced SaaS products. There are dozens of Chinese startups with robots just like this—as seen at CES—yet Boston Dynamics is still treated like it’s some untouchable, DARPA-level tech.

3) A lot of this comes down to cost: you can either hire one American fresh grad or a Chinese PhD for the same price.

3) The second reason is cultural: Americans tend to buy solutions, while the Chinese prefer to build them. Even SMEs in China maintain internal dev teams to build custom software for the business, as opposed to paying Salesforce for what is essentially a glorified Excel sheet with sprinkles of automation.

4) America is facing its own innovator's dilemma. The country is currently being run by MBAs and salespeople focused on extracting every last dollar from the consumer instead of providing real value or innovating. Perhaps we're one step beyond the innovators dilemma. The innovators are dead and we are in the corporate greed stage.

5) Americans are completely oblivious to how advanced China has become because of the propaganda they're fed. My personal "aha" moment was when Chinese EVs hit my local market and completely obliterated legacy automakers on both features and price. The American "free" (lol) market is being guarded by politicians but that won't work for long.

rolymath··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
Why do none of you understand that this is for Anna's archives official torrents only?
rolymath··on I’m joining OpenAI
> Listen to... Lex

People can do that? I always assumed Lex was a CIA psyop to experiment with the ability to make people sleep on demand.

rolymath··on Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
What good does this do for people who have already had their faces enrolled in Thiel's venture now?

"oh sorry, we said it's local but forgot to tell you about the experiment that sends you data to Thiel"

rolymath··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
I feel like you're over reacting.

They're comparing against 5.2 xhigh, which is arguably better than 5.3. The latest from openai isn't smarter, it's slightly dumber, just much faster.

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