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Comment · 28 days ago
I think it could fit even more domains using a Bloom Filter or similar probabilistic data structure. With a chance of false-positives of course. But that's a trade-off the project already makes.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Why wait? Book a flight to Yunnan, order a tasty mushroom soup or get a fresh batch from the markets.
Comment · 3 months ago
Delegating stuff to Google (more recently AI) and repeating back the result, is one of my core functions at work next to programming.

A co-worker I'd just tell to RTFM when it's bothering me. Higher up the hierarchy, the egos are more fragile and I'm afraid the can't take it.

Comment · 3 months ago
I tried Bun for a weekend around Christmas 2024. I quickly hit a bug that would freeze the runtime (issue #13237) when piping a stream into a file. I found that this had been open since August 2024, scrapped the experiment and moved on. The issue is open to this day. If the GitHub comments can be trusted, this behavior even carries over to the Rust port.
Comment · 4 months ago
Sarcasm. (I guess)
Comment · 4 months ago
> Also you cannot sell sunlight.

Don't give them ideas.

Comment · 4 months ago
> Oh and a Panel of 2 Opus 4.8 models is almost exactly as good as one Fable 5. That smells suspicious. Do we know if that might simply be what Anthropic is doing behind the curtain?

I wouldn't be surprised if Fable/Mythos is a model distilled from a Panel/Council of Claude instances. Recursive self improvement is something all AI labs must be working on in some way or another.

Comment · 4 months ago
It makes sense to me.

When Google Search is quoting a 3rd-party website that happens to have bad information, that's not on them. Blame shifts to the 3rd-party. This is Google's privilege being a search engine.

When Google operates as an answer machine instead of a search engine, the privelege doesn't apply anymore. There's no 3rd-party to take the blame.

Comment · 5 months ago
It still says "Always free" on the website for me. It's both on the billing page on the page linked in the article.

I do share the concerns though. The change in leadership, the poor transparency, 100% price increase and the quiet change in core values.

I was happy paying $10 yearly for Bitwarden. I'm still okay with $20 but there's a seed of doubt.

Comment · 6 months ago
It's almost like they want me to switch to the Chinese clones - which they consider malicious actors.
Comment · 7 months ago
> Germany sometimes bans entire political parties

You make it sound like Germany bans political parties every other year.

Germany formally only ever banned two parties:

- Socialist Reich Party (SRP), 1952 - Communist Party of Germany (KPD), 1956

For context: The Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949.

There are current discussions about banning - or evaluating a potential ban of - the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). If the ban went through (I think it won't), it would be the first in 70 years.

Comment · 8 months ago
I assume Graphene is goning to be an option next to the default google-cerfified Android. Like Fairphone ships e/os as an option.

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