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Now we need to know from the people that experienced the laser how different this hallucination feels compared to that. Very cool stuff!

Interesting. Development of the most powerful technology humans could ever hope to build, happening within our lifetimes, "boring".

Linux and Chromium seem at the edge of the current scale of "ordinary" open-source software. I think perhaps one should also take into account how much money would be needed to be able to build the thing in reasonable time.

Building Chromium sounds awful, but I'm not sure I'd really need to buy another computer for that. If I did I'm sure I wouldn't need to spend billions on it, most probably not even millions.

For LLaMa I definitely don't have the computer to build it, I definitely don't have the money to buy the computer, even if I won the lottery tomorrow I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have enough money to buy the hardware, even if I had enough money to buy the hardware I'm still not sure I could actually buy it in reasonable time, nvidia may be backlogged for a while, even if I already had all the hardware I probably wouldn't want to retrain llama, and even if I wanted to retrain it the process is probably going to take weeks if not months at best.

Like I think it's one of those things where the difference in magnitude creates a difference in kind, one can't quite meaningfully compare LLaMa with the Calculator app that Ubuntu ships with.

To be fair if they released detailed instructions and datasets on how to rebuild llama (considering that there's some randomness in the process) you still probably wouldn't be able to build it, like who has the resources? And if you had the resources you probably _still_ probably wouldn't _want_ to rebuild it yourself, it seems awfully expensive when you could instead spend those resources elsewhere.

Fair point about the license, people have different definitions for what "open source" means.

Yes exactly, at some point I asked to maintain it and kinda redid it. Now I kinda consider it "done", as in "maybe some more work would be put into it, but by end large I don't think it's going to change in the future".

> Aren’t they leaving more size/speed improvements on the table by supporting it?

Only tiny ones, I don't remember the details now, IE11 ended up providing almost all the same APIs.

"modern websites" means IE11+ for cash, it's a fairly old library.

Civet has so many quality of life improvements! It's good that it exists sort of as a playground for ideas that could maybe in the future be adopted by JS itself, kinda like how it went with CoffeeScript.

Closing hospitals would cut deaths in hospitals by 100%.

Like I'm not sure what this measure means, it's not like 26% of people that would die in the hospital would be made immortal or something.

Yeah this seems more like observables than signals. Which despite what you may hear on the interwebs are two different things.

Wait, so Flow is not actually sound and their website is lying? Or do they have some "technically correct" definition of "sound" that takes stuff like that into account?

Enormous humanoid robots for everything! Have you ever watched one of those videos where somebody makes a mini concrete building in a few days? I'd be cool to just scale that up, if it's possible, perhaps with faster-setting concrete or something.