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Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:52PM (#49076576)
> "We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations" I'd prefer if there was a crack down on industrial-scale scraping. Maybe even reimbursement for the problems it has caused (some nasty AWS bills, tons of man-hours spent on preventing new nasty AWS bills, etc).
Re:The Strike Is Coming on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:32PM (#42900804)
With such a wide set of goals, this won't go far. They are limiting themselves to people that agree with all of that.
Re:Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:43AM (#42622853)
Stock images only have okay pricing (per image) if you use some sort of decently sized subscription. Anyone that only needs a few images are unfortunately screwed.
Re:After USA Ban: Google Kicks Kaspersky Out of Play Store on Monday October 07, 2024 @02:46PM (#41769497)
Got any suggestions for this situation (invasion of Ukraine)?
Anybody running a site with data that is useful for AI will learn how horrible bytedance is.
Re:AMD Inference on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:57AM (#41728712)
I don't really have any problem with ROCm these days, although I only use system packages. It used to be quite wonky though, and I've totally given up on custom ROCm installs.
Re:It is hard to recommend Google Cloud on Sunday September 22, 2024 @07:14AM (#41616264)
I'm part of a smaller shop. GCP didn't even bother responding to us when we tried to contact sales, which is why we're at AWS.
I don't really agree about that "frobnicate" deal. If you messed up when you added a parameter to "frobnicate", you'll get "Hi, you broke frobnicate, please fix it. It's causing issues.".

You break it, you fix it, including the troubleshooting.

Re:Airplane acquired by Airtable and is shutting down on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:54PM (#38861815)
Well, it has been an Incredible Journey.

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about email on Thursday September 01, 2022 @01:54AM (#32672517)
Lists like these would be better with some more explanations for the less obvious bullet points. For instance, when/why would an email have multiple From addresses?
Re:Paper Airplane Designs (2013) on Monday July 18, 2022 @04:14AM (#32135823)
Was it this [1] program?

[1] https://archive.org/details/thegpa