What do you mean LLMs are blind? All frontier models are multimodal, which means they literally consume images as tokens. They can “see” exactly as well as they can “read”.
Just produce your own numbers. Install whatever flavour of Linux you like (all distrohopping leads to Debian) on a separate partition and benchmark it yourself. It isn't complicated.
In the case of my machine, I haven't observed any difference. And by observe I mean with my eyes, I haven't bothered with actual benchmarks because it seems to work about the same, which is good enough for me. I haven't booted my Windows partition in months, and I'm probably just going to blow it away next time I need storage space.
Interesting take. Having said that, did you ever try and use workbench in Amiga?
Yet, I remember being around in the 90s and helping seniors navigate Windows98. While it was Windows 98 offered an easier UI/UX than 3.1, was it really superior over the UI/UX of modern interfaces and application design?
I too dislike Mac interfaces, and think that KDE is likely the best UI ever. While on KDE, lets include the also German, and now discontinued, YaST over Windows98 control panel!
When I was at the fruit company I became aware of multiple phones starting house fires. Their lawyers would immediately gag the victims and offer $$$$. IIRC it was close to 1 every fortnight I was there.
I have never had an issue with fire with one of my machines, but I have had 3 or 4 of them fail because they detected inconsistencies with their thermistor, immediately removing voltage from heating elements until they can be convinced that the problem has been resolved.
IIRC Some enders shipped with a faulty marlin firmware that had faulty thermal shut off code, and you used to receive a pamphlet with the printer to update the firmware immediately. I suspect that a lot of people simply did not.
Dont know what this bloke did, but between anycubic and the kind of person who carries a flaming 3d printer in his arms, something went very wrong.
I’d say there is a product there, what remains to be seen IMO is whether the market will bear whatever the price of that product ends up being once Anthropic are finished changing their terms, pricing, and rules of engagement every several weeks…
I'd be curious to hear why? Cook is a stooge, he's not going there to promote privacy, human rights, or admonish China's threat to Taiwan. Much like Musk and Huang, Cook's job is to support the Trump admin's ideology and suggest financial incentives to deescalate the tariff war the US imposed.
But I'm talking about general day-to-day security too. What stops a single disgruntled employee from doing this before being fired? And if you have a good story there, why do you need the most extreme approach to "off-boarding"?
It makes sense to terminate someone's high-risk credentials immediately when they're fired. But it's extremely worrying if every credential held by every employee is considered high-risk. It suggests a bigger failure. "Unilateral access to a database filled with plain-text passwords" shouldn't ever exist. "Email account filled with dangerous stuff" should at least be unusual.
I could buy the argument if the friend had a moment of weakness, regretted it, won't do it again, and please don't report it. They've learned their lesson, that's enough.
But if they do it and they're fine with it and they're going to do it again and what's the big deal? Refusing to report that isn't loyalty anymore, it's not sticking with someone who made a mistake, it's protecting deliberate bad behavior.
well except that there is no FOSS license that requires you to submit your changes upstream. so the license argument is not going to be valid in most cases. GPL only require you to share with users, so any in-house use of software does also not require you to share the code with anyone outside. AGPL might trigger sharing if the software is used in a website, but also only with users of the website, not with upstream.
only the maintenance argument holds, but that is a trade-off, not a legal requirement.
Another LLM tell is that they penalize repetition so they'll use as many synonyms as possible. You may end up recognizing the same concept being rehashed with synonyms constantly. You can look up examples of thie as "elegant variation"
The old saying is that if you're not paying for the product, you are the product[0]. The argument is usually that when you're getting things for free, you're being sold to advertisers in some sense. But it could just as well be that if you're getting things for free, the ability to influence you is being sold to those who want to influence you. In fact, with sufficient cynicism, all sorts of such theories can be considered plausible. Your experience seems to indicate that perhaps one does not need that much cynicism.
0: I've never thought much of the saying because I think you can have multiple people participate in an economic interaction.
The doctor has already managed to find time for the service - she’s seen you. Potentially even done the procedure. The hospital has made room for you. The resource is already consumed by you, like a restaurant meal. The question is who is picking up the check, when you already have a subscription service paid for.
slowloris mititgations actually weren't too bad, just a couple syscalls to setitimer(), sigaction(), and setsockopt(). Range header parsing was awful, so was content length. I'd say all in all, probably Range headers. Just string parsing in general is pretty awful in assembly.
Those are great points and it leads right back to the solipsism thing. Also, you snuck a "It's not that foo. It's that bar" in there. Nice.
> you should just do a monthly "Vibe HN" thread
It wouldn't stop people from feeding them into the Show HN stream, which is the problem. If we had a good-enough way to tell them apart, we would factor them into two streams, but we don't.
Haha love it, and that’s fair. Still figuring out what works, it’s meant to be an experiment more than anything. Could very well be a major failure, but won’t know until I try right?
I’ve spent so much money and time building full end-to-end products before that got little to no traction, so trying the validate-first approach this time. Closer to a waitlist play than anything fancy. Borrowed the format from Pieter Levels (12 startups in 12 months).
Sounds like you’ve had success launching direct without waitlists. Would love to hear about your experience, what you did differently. Always trying to learn.
I was only able to install the latest CachyOS image by modifying the boot arguments in grub of the live installer, after reading the lengthy log file it pooped out after the first install fail.
I have no idea why people recommend this to people who aren't actually deep into tech and linux already.
I don't doubt that this is true at some level. But is it really perceptible for 20cent differences? I don't know anything about this, but I'd be surprised. I'd say +/- 20 cents is a bare minimum for calling something "tuned", but low single digits is really the goal.
Yeah, I guess it was just charity that led them to develop a really fast, efficient processor and to put good memory in their machines in the first place.
Don't mistake not caring about "specs" with being indifferent to the experience.
Most major platforms already have enough asset flips cluttering their storefronts[1][2] -- generic games made from preexisting engine templates with some assets bought from the store. Using AI will just make producing the slop easier, it wouldn't make something that's worth playing.
Anyone actually looking to make something genuinely fun will probably go the old fashioned way of spending countless hours honing their craft, which in turn gives them a good eye to make sure what they're making doesn't have the shovelware stink.
The fraud conviction seems totally inappropriate for a government contractor and yet... somehow totally appropriate for someone appointed to work directly for the upper echelons federal government. Hell, everyone else hacking government officials emails and tax returns and randomly deleting stuff for the lolz in February 2025 was being paid by DOGE.
I think that such a duty of care does not exist ethically or morally, and that legislating it into existence is foolish.
Both parties can walk away from a deal they don’t like. It’s just a business transaction. There are other employers; the balance of power is not as one-sided as everyone pretends it is.
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