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I see people are very enervated to defeat trump. just try to get alone with your neighbor. I promise it's not as scary as it seems.
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throwaway27448··on Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
Advantage at what? Enjoying life?
throwaway27448··on Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
We could really use a lot more luddites tbh. Doesn't seem very applicable here tho.
throwaway27448··on Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites
That's precisely my point.
throwaway27448··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
I think this is quite common in tv where the relationship among writer, director, actor evolve over the seasons.
throwaway27448··on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case
Surely this is straight fraud?
throwaway27448··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Yes it becomes space liberalism rather than space communism.
throwaway27448··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
I disagree. Not only did he continually & substantially contribute to Picard's character, it clearly aligns with his own values and ethics as demonstrated over and over in interviews. Why not both? That seems like the obviously best perspective.
throwaway27448··on Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation
The police and flock cameras are there regardless of how people vote lol. Who would bother to pitch flock cameras to people and why?
throwaway27448··on Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation
One of the least democratic and accountable institutions in america, btw, along with the courts.
throwaway27448··on American views of higher ed decline, once again
> Generic college degree does not get into the upper crust

I was referring to private college degrees. Regardless, who you know and how much capital you can access matters many of orders of magnitude more than the text on your transcript or your actual existence

throwaway27448··on My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
I don't disagree, but the wii remote market was/is the absolute worst console device market.
throwaway27448··on American views of higher ed decline, once again
I agree! But the way you ensure this is by paying. This is not an unusual market shape. Realistically wikipedia provides more educational opportunity than any university on the globe did in the 80s—association with education brand is largely a performance. You don't really need to pay anything to be competitive with other people excluded from upper crust society. I am unfortunately moving in the direction that wealth dominates all other factors of human behavior.
throwaway27448··on Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites
Hard to imagine this is actually a concern for game makers. Decompilation aside, AI can only produce shallow visual mimicry. If you were to actually try to enjoy these games you'd be miserable nearly instantly.

Rookie move to fight this legally! What replaces it actually will be engaging and competitive. Palworld is just the beginning....

throwaway27448··on American views of higher ed decline, once again
> I usually interpret this to mean 0.1% or similar

I more meant the top 10% of american wealth. This includes the upper part of the PMC.

throwaway27448··on American views of higher ed decline, once again
oh noes
throwaway27448··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
Look all I can say is now that we have LLMs, you'd have to put a gun to my head to target the browser. Worst application platform imaginable. Somehow it's also become a pretty bad document browser.
throwaway27448··on American views of higher ed decline, once again
It's access to the upper crust of society that you're paying for, not an education. Just pursue scholarships and state schools (which all provide globally competitive programs) and the chances this is the second-highest purchase you'll ever make will be extremely low.
throwaway27448··on LLM Voice
What if? But this certainly doesn't describe LLMs.
throwaway27448··on Solving Postgres' Count Problem
Can we update the title here to reflect the content? "Making COUNTs and the Rest of Search Really Fast (Part II)"
throwaway27448··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
> Why? Why? Why? I hate how everyone seems convinced they need to adopt the latest and greatest browser features just to stay relevant.

Presumably we can deprecate the broken shit if we can get people to buy into software upgrades.

throwaway27448··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
...presumably
throwaway27448··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
This narrative doesn't matter with funding in hand
throwaway27448··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Ok you can easily do so and you probably should
throwaway27448··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Ownership of data was a farcical concept to begin with. Now we have a farce squared
throwaway27448··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
> In fact, I worry whether open weights will even survive once the current AI cycle cools down.

Surely they'll outcompete everyone on cost alone

throwaway27448··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Am I crazy or was pizza delivery free (or very cheap) when i was a child in comparison? I'd pay $5 to deliver most things but the percentage model makes no sense
throwaway27448··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
> AI is a better search engine

Google didn't exactly leave us much choice to opt out. I have to use a firefox extension to hide that bit.

throwaway27448··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
> I think the main issue has been a big shortage of supply of workers who are willing to do the job

Instacart is profitable, yea? So they don't want to provide a better quality service or they would offer greater incentives to workers.

throwaway27448··on Perspectiva Kogui: A message on artificial intelligence from the Kogui people
Ignorance of a topic does not imply its invalidity
throwaway27448··on DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17B, Uniting 2 Delivery Giants
What a shitty day already
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