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I'm not sure how robot will be better than a stick made of a non-conductive material. Stick is surely simpler and cheaper.

You have to make sure that robots know their place. Today you treat them too gently, tomorrow you have a robot uprising destroying the whole humanity on your hands.

Haven't the last century of sci-fi books and movies taught you this?

You know, when I first time heard about "sleeping pods" I imagined some of cool high-tech sci-fi shit, like:

- full soundproofing - your own microclimate with always perfectly fresh air and precise control over temperature and humidity - huge screen like right above your head, so that you can stare at it while lying on your back

But in reality they always just look like bunk beds with some extra walls, that's it.

Disappointing.

I mean, it's cool and all, but the idea of giving someone I know nothing about doesn't sound that appealing :(

Of course, I could make a separate throwaway email, but then the main benefit if this service (convenience) disappears.

Lack of a clear monetization model makes my inner paranoid even more concerned: looks too much like an attempt to collect emails for some nefarious purpose. Why else would you allow literally anyone to just burn your money? OpenAI API is not that cheap.

Sorry, maybe I'm just not in the target audience.

Yes, but at intersections drivers are forced to slow down and look for traffic and maybe prepare to make a turn, so you can expect them to move slower and have more situational awareness.

Am I wrong?

> it is vastly safer than crossing at intersections

Why is it safer?

I don't see pricing anywhere on the website. Also, you never explicitly say that it is free. This is concerning.

Here is the other side of the story, in case anyone curious: https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-p...

It's... pretty weird

> We no longer ship to Colorado due to the actions of System76's Principal Engineer (https://www.system76.com), Pop_OS! Maintainer (https://pop.system76.com), and Redox OS BDFL (https://www.redox-os.org) named Jeremy Soller (https://soller.dev).

Source: https://portal.malibal.com/kb/a1064/why-dont-you-ship-to-col...

Err, what? I really can't follow the logic here. What does some dude have to do with Colorado.

The common argument against relying on natural turnover rate is that the most competent workers are also those who are the most likely to leave because it is easier for them to find a new/better job. So if a company just freezes hiring instead of doing layoffs it will experience a reduction in the competence of their workers.

I don't know if this is empirically true or not, I haven't seen any statistics. But I don't see any obvious logical errors in this reasoning.

I mean, imagine that you are leading a team of 4 people.

Are you sure that you will always be able to accurately tell if you need a fifth person or not?

Or you have a team of 5 people. Can you tell if you have a one too many?

To everyone who also wanted to see the game itself: it's not there. It is not released yet.

Saved you 30 seconds of scrolling through the whole thread.

I think that the person was talking about image generation models.

Even the best of existing image generation models often spell words hilariously wrong when asked to generate an image containing text.

I understand that the topic of writing systems is touchy because it involves people's national identity and national pride.

That's why all the comments that mention efficiency of different writing systems are heavily downvoted.

But if we think about writing systems' evolution as an optimization problem that optimizes for "efficiency" (whatever that means. It is pretty hard to define so I'm not even going to try) we could easily imagine some systems being stuck at a local minimum. Or maybe even all of them being stuck at different local minimums some of which are smaller than the others.

Wikipedia says [0]:

> After Japanese administration ended, the system soon became obsolete. Now, only a few scholars, such as those who study the aforementioned dictionary, learn Taiwanese kana.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_kana

How long have you been living outside of a Russian-speaking county?

I'm just not interested in building yet another blogging platform, I think that this ship has sailed long time ago.

If I ever build some publishing or communication tool it will be as decentralized as possible and as uncensorable as possible.

No, I haven't read their financial reports because I didn't knew they exist. I will take a look, thanks.

In the days of the good old internet pre social networks and big tech that so many people are nostalgic about, folks mostly communicated using internet forums that were mostly moderated by enthusiasts.

This whole thing strikes me as an attempt to have your cake and eat it to. Trying to recreate the vibes of the old school web that was largely ran by enthusiasts for enthusiasts while actually running it the way a big corp or a VC-funded startup would.

I think that this is a little bit hypocritical.

I mean, this is a blogging platform. Users, posts, comments, likes, that's about it. People were making blogging platforms since forever. Every web framework tutorial has a "hey, let's make a blog" part.

I don't see why would it require a whole team of fulltime devs.

Inflating team size, constant feature churn etc all make sense for a VC-funded company. But they were kinda making a statement against it, so there is bo reason for them to have a whole team to maintain a blogging platform.

It's hard for me to estimate the cost of media hosting, but again, Hetzner (I'm not advertising them, it's just one dedicated server provider I heard about. There are many others) offers 20 TB / month of free traffic. Is it not enough to serve images at cohost scale? I genuinely do not know, I would love to hear estimates from more knowledgeable/experienced folks.

Or was storage the issue? How much storage are we talking about?

30,000 monthly active users doesn't sound as a particularly high load. Why were they running out of funds?

You can rent a cheapest dedicated server on Hetzner for, like, $50 - $70 / month and I would expect it to be performant enough to cope with 30k MAU for a simple blogging platform.

In the part of the world where I currently live there are cafes/restaurants that have a menu ONLY in the form a QR code that leads to some shitty slow and laggy webpage with the actual menu. I can't express how much I hate this.

Why do I even need a smartphone the go to a restaurant and eat something? Why would anyone effectively refusing service to people who don't have smartphones or do not want to use them? If I need their service and have money to pay for it why would they put additional obstacles in my way? What's their motivation for scaring of a potential customer using totally arbitrary criteria that has nothing to do with the service they provide?

Oh, I hate it so much.

> You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Meta Llama 3 or derivative works thereof).

How exactly would they know if I do?

Also, it doesn't make any sense that they trained this model using whatever stuff they could download from the Internet but we somehow could bot do the same with their models.

I guess it does help by making the cost of adoption lower.

But my main point is that being an early adopter of a non-mainstream tech is fundamentally unpragmatic and usually people are driven to try something new by desire to try something __cool__ not by pragmatic considerations.

I think that it is hard to market a new "pragmatic" language because the pragmatic decision in most cases is to use an existing language that you already know, that has a community around it with all it's accumulated wisdom (documentation, tutorials, blog posts, StackOverflow Q&A), rich library ecosystem etc.

The main point of "killer feature" is not to make the language more "hypeable" but to give a potential user a clear reason why the benefits of learning your language will outweigh the costs of using a less mature or less popular technology.

It's a fun game, but the instructions are unclear. Took me a while to figure it out.

Since when does Delhi high court have worldwide jurisdiction?

Unfortunately, 3156 doesn't really have an explanation why did Guido chose this particular implementation. It just says "yeah, that's what we gonna do". And 492 was written when tulip/asyncio was already chosen and included into stdlib.

A slightly separate but still related question that bothers me every time I, a Python programmer, read about function coloring and different approaches to concurrency:

Does anyone understand why asyncio-style approach to async won over gevent-style in Python? Why was the former approach accepted into to stdlib, got special syntax and is preferred by the community while the latter is a fringe niche thing?

I just noticed that REST framework returns 501 - Not Implemented [0] if the method is not implemented, which I think is really weird. I think that most frameworks return 405 Method Not Allowed in such cases.

Also, it is typically assumed that 5xx return codes are retryable while 4xx are not. So, I don't think that not implemented method should return 5xx, because it is pointless to retry it.

[0] https://github.com/levkk/rwf/tree/main/examples/rest#restcon...