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Comment · 16 hours ago
So?

No ones going to disable mice/keyboards.

If the point was to eliminate all possible ways of compromising the device, they'd just put the device in the shredder.

You have to balance having a usable and functional thing with the risks involved.

Comment · 1 day ago
That one is pretty easy.

Running NHS (or any other health care system) is literally an economics problem.

Economics is a lot more than just money.

Comment · 8 days ago
no it's not 15Gb/movie

A UHD movie with UHD and dolby audio and all that is anywhere from 50 to 70Gb. That's if you rip it straight off the disc.

You can shrink it a little by being pickier about which audio tracks you take, but not much.

You can do other things to it to make it smaller, but then it's not the equivalent of the physical disc

Comment · 23 days ago
The shower head design is a crime against humanity for the cost of that machine.
Comment · 26 days ago
Anthropic has had this happen at least once.

They didn't even realize it happened until openAI captured headlines and they started looking more carefully at past history.

None of the frontier labs are behaving responsibly when it comes to this stuff. OpenAI seems to have it happen more often, but this is one of those situations where 1 time is too many.

Comment · 1 month ago
The difference is that with llms you have multiple levels of nondeterminism compounding each other
Comment · 1 month ago
This has been common place for at least 20 years at this point.

We did it as my very first startup and we were stupid children back then.

Kind of telling that OpenAI didn’t.

Comment · 1 month ago
> people have to have a chance to leave.

They did give people that chance.. That's kind of what the entire article is about. They literally did leave.

Comment · 1 month ago
> One should first ask permission, and, if we are in a good mood, we might "let them" pursue their happiness.

yes... this is called the law...

Lots of peoples "pursuit of happiness" is hindered by the law because we've deemed it not good for society.

Comment · 1 month ago
There's also the fact that alphabet should have been broken up into about a dozen companies over a decade ago

Larry would still be rich as heck, but probably... less rich..

Comment · 1 month ago
> Do you really believe that landlords will subsidize tenants for a long time?

This literally happens all the time in California.

You buy a house in CA. You move somewhere else. You hold on to the house because your property taxes are fixed and housing prices grow like crazy here. Maybe your kids will want it. Maybe you'll want to move back..

You can't charge enough rent to cover the mortgage and taxes os you end up taking a loss monthly.

Comment · 1 month ago
> Except, of course, no one has actually been robbed, the culture has not been stolen - it's still there - nor are the people involved selling it back in any form. This rhetoric sounds impressive, but really looks more like "piracy is theft" line from early 2000s, similarly flawed in basic premise.

This logic only works if you believe that IP has no value. Which is, of course, utter nonsense.

Microsoft doesn't believe this. Nor do any of the AI labs. Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to scrape the data in the first place as it had no value. All of their software (and other products) would be developed in the open as there's no point in protecting the IP.

They work very hard to protect their own IP so they obviously believe that IP is worth protecting.

Comment · 1 month ago
You don't and that's why everyone gets so angry and annoyed when people try to force precise definitions.

There's no team of lawyers verifying the provenance of all code/projects submitted to codeberg. THe policy is just something they can point to as a general guidelines of what kind of shit they want to support.

Everyone knows exactly what kind of projects they're talking about. The people trying to nitpick definitions are those annoying ass people at the board game night that spend half the time combing through the rule book trying to figure out why whatever they didn't like was against the rules.

Comment · 2 months ago
They are quite good and typically better built (steel instead of plastic in lots of key places)

But they do not work as well out of the box. They require a lot more tuning and calibration. They also lack some quality of life features. For example, changing a nozzle on a bambu printer is a 15 second job. You just pop off the cover, hit the filament cutter, and the nozzle is magnetic. Changing it on a prusa core one is a few minutes and requires tools.

And on top of that, the prusa will cost considerably more and take longer to ship

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