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Your comment is definitive but your reference is to a Wikipedia section labelled as "speculation".
Re:Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust on Sunday December 22, 2024 @10:58AM (#42487117)
What counts as a project in your case? Would you oppose the idea of modules within a project mixing languages? I believe curl is over 500,000 lines of code so in the case of forks a progressive rewrite, module by module seems a lot more achievable than porting everything all at once
Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:29AM (#41615022)
I strongly disagree. I don't know the rights around one's own voice, but the idea that you suddenly lose ownership of something because you shared it online is the exact thing that many people take issue with when it is written in the terms of service for social networks, creator tools (adobe), etc.
Re:Attacking Journalists as Terrorists on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:03AM (#38601751)
Potential abuse of such powers should not be tolerated regardless of whether one is part of a protected group or not.
Re:NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:04AM (#36326148)
Cool, now I can name my internal packages keygen to avoid dependency confusion /s
Re:I downloaded all 1,680,399 posts on Bluesky on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:31AM (#35989431)
I assume the bandwidth was too costly. It seems to be archived on Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20230509042606/https://worthdoin...
Did you fill in the form with super compelling use case or something?
Re:An Update on the Lock Icon on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:24PM (#35795595)
They updated it but as soon as you click it the old icon and UX is there?
That would be nice but at least they published their research
Re:Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:46AM (#35136391)
Reading this makes me wonder if there is room for something similar to "The Global Chubby Planned Outage". In addition to good comms, they could gradually degrade your service up until suspension as a way of getting your attention.
Embeddings are often used as features for these LLMs so before they were paying to generate embeddings and doing inference with these large models. Now they pay to generate embeddings, fine-tune them and do semantic search (probably approximate k-nearest neighbors). The hardware requirements for most LLMs make them much more expensive than approximate KNN with a vector database.
Re:Scheduled Messages in Microsoft Teams on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:44AM (#34740253)
It looks like the feature was released in September last year but has not been well publicized.
Re:Heart attacks on dramatic rise for 25-44 age group on Sunday January 29, 2023 @08:41AM (#34567984)
"any and all testing?". Are you aware of the flat earth movement? For some of their members, no amount of evidence is enough. The goal posts always move. I suspect the same applies here.
Re:Javice and the Data Science Professor Create Fake Customers on Saturday January 14, 2023 @02:13AM (#34378016)
Imagine JPMC paying off your debts as part of merger when those debts include the cost of generating fake customers
Re:The 5% Rule on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:40PM (#34203672)
I'm inclined to agree with the premise of this article but I'm skeptical of the numbers.
Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:04AM (#34093967)
Not saying one is better than the other but there were other costs too. Like the people displaced from their homes, the environmental clean up costs, etc.
Pressumably things will start to snowball if these smaller scale trials demonstrate adaquate safety
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:31PM (#33987716)
Playing devil's advocate in Twitter's defense:

Is there any public information about how twitter handled the two examples you provided at the end there? Do we know for sure they actively chose not to take any actions?

If not, I'm not sure it is fair to claim they completely ignored them. They may have limited their reach via some kind of shadow banning. Action like that is harder to notice than an account ban.

Also, since your examples predate the particular ban we are discussing, do we know for sure there weren't policy changes in between. Perhaps even because of examples like the ones you list.

Personally, I wonder if Twitter might have a more American-centric view of the world and a higher sense of urgency for "events at home", so to speak. That could go some way to explaining what seems to be selective enforcement of their terms of service.

Re: on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:38AM (#33035502)
A less sensational take is also provided by https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2303
Re:Get in zoomer, we're saving React on Saturday September 24, 2022 @03:26AM (#32960412)
So unnecessary too. Having experience in the domain, like teaching react, lends more creditability than "trust me, I am old".
With the upcoming Apple event, I wonder if this is another case of crushing the competition before Apple releases its own app?