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Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:49PM (#50200830)
> Mistral Large 4 “Human beings are terrified animals wearing the costume of rationality, constructing ever-more-elaborate myths precisely because we cannot bear the truth that we are temporary, meaningless accidents in an indifferent universe.”

Serious Nietzsche in there. Looking forward to when it gets past nihilism to absurdism.

Re:MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:17PM (#50156718)
Is there a single use case where you would not be better served using MiMo 2.6 Pro?

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/mimo-v2-6-p...

Re:My Humble Opinion on 'Omarchy' OS on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:35PM (#49834103)
OP: Old man yells at cloud without citing evidence

Evidence: https://community.frame.work/t/omarchy-is-not-a-secure-distr...

Re:OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:06PM (#49804544)
I'd be surprised if they weren't aqui-hired by one of the big labs as a unicorn.

The ability to use classifiers under the hood for the larger models has the potential to dramatically improve cost and throughput, allowing them to increase margin on a very similar service.

Color me unsurprised that caution is based in shame and anxiety.
Re:What Is a Dickover? on Saturday May 30, 2026 @09:57AM (#48336242)
If you show me a modal dialogue, there better be a literal fire.
Altman: "See I'm prolific!"
This is just the Chinese room argument applied to the Chomsky vs Norvig debate, maybe with a dash of the hard problem of consciousness. Whether consciousness is inherent in particular structures or whether a statistical modeling can achieve it. Does the experience of experience deserve special pleading or would the simulation suffice? https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Re:GitHub Actions is the weakest link on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:54PM (#47939733)
pull_request_target is criminally negligent -- github should simply disable it.

The security risk for running unvalidated code on any random PR with access to account secrets has no legitimate use case which outweighs its unbounded risk.

Re:How Cursor (AI IDE) Works on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:17AM (#43389468)
The voiceover is very different from the article.
Re:Periodic Cooking of Eggs on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:24PM (#42965030)
I use a similar but simpler technique to cook eggs to a runny soft boiled by cracking eggs directly into a small quantity of boiling water. This sets the whites quickly but drops the temperature of the water before it can set the yolks. It's kind of like lazy poaching.
Hmmm. Still tempting.
Re:Why I Prefer RST to Markdown on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @02:22PM (#41121799)
the toc macro on asciidoc is sublime

:table-caption!: :toc: macro :sectlinks:

toc::[]

Re:Dear Roku, you ruined my TV on Monday July 08, 2024 @05:07PM (#40909714)
Per the law of enshittification, soon only monthly subscribers will gain the ability to disable motion smoothing.
Re:ModRetro on Monday June 03, 2024 @02:45PM (#40565977)
What? You don't want to fund the military industrial complex with a hand-held retro console?
> "bromine fluorine dioxide"

That's 3 reactive back-to-back no-thank-you's.

Re:How did Ancient Greek music sound? on Friday May 03, 2024 @04:33PM (#40252085)
delightful!
Re:How did Ancient Greek music sound? on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:53PM (#40241250)
> How did Ancient Greek music sound?

Like ass. Ass and kazoo.

Re:Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls – Paywalled on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @11:20AM (#40053151)
Too bad there's not a netflix/spotify for journalism. No single journalism source is worth a subscription for 99.9% of people. Aggregated, maybe.
Re:Logbook on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:22PM (#39564082)
This is the etymology of computer logs. Captain's log is short for logbook

> The book so called because it recorded the speed measurements made by means of a weighted chip of a tree log on the end of a reeled log line (typically 150 to 200 fathoms). The log lay dead in the water, and sailors counted the time it took the line to play out. The line was marked by different numbers of knots, or colored rags, tied at regular intervals; hence the nautical measurement sense of knot

https://www.etymonline.com/word/log#etymonline_v_43590

Re:SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed] on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @05:16PM (#38933028)
I'm sure Gensler will use this as another excuse of no BTC etf since digital security is hard.
Re:Etsy is laying off 11% of its staff on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:08PM (#38630387)
89% too low?
Re:How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python? on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:40PM (#38603602)
So your solution to if statements is to add more if statements?
Re:WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:36PM (#38091718)
Seems he internalized the lessons from Ray Kroc, only he used real estate to extract wealth from investors/shareholders instead of franchisees. "owning the land on which the burger is cooked"

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/we-company-ceo-in-hot-wate...

Scene from "The Founder" "You have a miniscule revenue stream, no cash reserves, and an albatross of a contract....

What you ought to be doing is buying up plots of land, then turning around and leasing said plots to franchisees, who as a condition of their deal should be permitted to lease from you and you alone. This will provide you with two things: One, a steady, upfront revenue stream. Money flows in before the first stake is in the ground. Two, greater capital for expansion. Which in turn fuels further land acquisition, which in turn fuels further expansion. And so on and so on. Land... That’s where the money is. (BEAT) And control."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxCL2RqCuiY

Re:Alternatives to Adobe on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:50PM (#37922086)
https://www.photopea.com/ is a drop-in replacment for photoshop CS
Re:Alternatives to Adobe on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:48PM (#37922071)
Affinity Photo is terrible. The jagged edges for lasso tool without anti-aliasing makes it useless to me.

Photopea is 10,000x better and free.

Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:48PM (#37919745)
> You are throwing your employees to the wolves when you do that. Once you've sold, the decisions are now ultimately made by a new entity with new priorities (for better or for worse).

At its heart, tech is adapting to change and uncertainty through the fusion of creativity and process. Job changes are just another input.

Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:54AM (#37917039)
Bandcamp was profitable. Clearly songtradr thinks they can be more profitable. Assuming average comp of $100k x 60 employees x 1.3 for taxes and additional expenses thats about $7.8MM revenue.

Songtradr just did a series D in 2021 for $50MM and recently acquired 7Digital for $23.4MM. I couldn't find a statement on how much it cost to acquire bandcamp, but it seems this might be motivated by Songtradr being cash poor and not wanting to dilute further.

"But within this discrepancy lies a paradox: Bandcamp, as comparatively threadbare as it may seem, with about $20 million in net revenue in 2022, is almost certainly profitable—based on the fact that the company has stayed lean and taken on no new funding since 2010"

https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-...

Songtradr - 45MM revenue / 157 employees = $287k/employee Bandcamp - 30MM revenue / 118 employees = $254k/employee

https://www.zippia.com/songtradr-careers-1401192/revenue/ https://growjo.com/company/Bandcamp

Re:Judge Rules US v. Google Trial Documents Can Be Posted Online on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:23PM (#37681522)
I want to hear Attenborough annotate Jerry's morning today.

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