firstbabylonian

Somehow it is always Russian technologists and designers who sweat this type of stuff the most and want to talk about it. When I moved from Russia to a western country in my teenage years, as a fledging web developer and previously an avid Kovodstvo [1] reader, I remember feeling upset, surprised, and deeply disappointed by the state of the real-world English language - particularly when it came to punctuation. It shocked me to see how loose and vibe-y it was, even in professional contexts. Nowadays, I understand that the majority of the world’s population has a much more casual relationship with the formal rules of their language, if those exist at all, compared to the hyper-pedantic Russians. I’m not one to say who really should be learning from whom.

1: https://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/

Self-hatred is not a good look.

> SSD streaming to GPU

Is this solution based on what Apple describes in their 2023 paper 'LLM in a flash' [1]?

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514

If you are like me and can’t read this article on iOS, try using Praxis News

it’s free and cracks most paywalls

https://apps.apple.com/app/praxis/id1598706451

Thanks, Firefox support is in the works.

Thanks — there was a cookie-related bug, which should now be resolved.

"Streaming in 0 countries. See where"

Thank you for this thoughtful response.

It’s also something that has been historically true over and over, sadly. All ‘nice’ pacifist societies ended up getting wiped out or subjugated by their uncaring neighbours. Sustainable niceness does not exist. I wonder if we should accept this fact rather than continue to fight it.

Nothing against you personally, but since you get the same iPhone as the non-technical folks, some compromises have to be made, and they ain’t gonna be in your favour.

Correct, which is why allowing no-store app delivery would unleash an even greater chaos. In a world where any random website can trick a user into downloading an app via sideloading, there's no hope to protect people from 'unclean' software.

Thank you for this honest response, really. I wish you the best of luck out there.

Does it not get exhausting to swim against the current all the time? Don't you ever wish you could let you go and let your inner little mind take control, if not just for a moment? What you describe as being genuine and authentic and open minded sounds like a cross you have decided you must bear. It's okay. You are not Jesus. You don't have to do this.

We are all animals though. That's what's freeing about the internet. I'm not sure you want to take it so seriously.

Yes, I edited the original comment, because I realised that you took offence in it and thought that I was addressing "you" — or the OP — specifically. It was a hyperbolic statement. Does the edit make it clear?

My argument is simple: the internet today is very broad, and humanity — let's face it — on the whole is not very nice. It's admirable to try to create pockets of positivity in it anyway. I simply want to highlight that it is futile, and maybe a more realist perspective is what we actually need to find a way forward.

> ability to install an app off an unsigned IPA file for free

I feel like the thinking is that there must be an entity — somebody running an app store — who could be held legally responsible for any damage caused by malware distributed via their channels. Regular non-tech-savvy users cannot be trusted with such delicate software as apps running on their personal phones.

I am a product of the world, and so are you.

The world is harsh and uncaring. Today's internet reflects that. What used to be a safe space for dorky techies is now a cross-sectional slice of the entire society, a live reel of human nature in motion.

> For performance reasons, Puter is built with vanilla JavaScript and jQuery.

jQuery is overdue for a comeback.

Clean, sensible, introverted living is overrated.

There's something deeply human in the whole 'awkward dance'. Not everyone is born a great dancer, but this doesn't mean that dancing is a stupid and pointless activity.

People have been trading with one another (and often tricking or getting tricked in the process) for millennia. The 'Grand Bazaar' you evoke stands for something timeless — a promise of wealth earned with wit. In a twisted way, our American love for capitalism and these sleazy dealerships are chasing the same ancient dream.

May as well be a part of it.

If you think of Huggingface as a source of 'fundamental models', it makes sense.

The story is called What’s Expected of Us, and it’s an excellent piece.

Link for those who haven’t read it (it’s short):

https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

I don’t know how you can expect English speakers to care about this sort of thing, when the vast majority of them don’t even pay attention to how their own language is displayed in software they develop.

Every organisation I’ve worked at meets attempts to correct apostrophes and curly quotes in their English copy with such an intense mixture of indifference, confusion, and annoyance, that anybody who tries is quickly convinced that they are the insane ones to pay attention to such inconsequential nonsense. Use of tabs vs spaces is easier to turn into a legitimate problem with business impact by comparison.

The Silicon Valley elite lives in a bubble, what else is new