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Crestwave commented on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
maxdo · a month ago
Right , just to remind that China is the country that supports Proxy wars with west ( Ukraine ), supports Iran , a country that placed tariffs on whole industries, like cars, software , spy and buy technology to replace anything advanced.

A country willing to cut mineral supply anytime they don’t like anything is good partner and friend of EU , lol, how delusional someone can be ?

Even current US Administration sends Patriots and military support to Ukraine, while China is sponsoring WAR, help Russia to keep up with war killing people around the world.

China can end that war in 1 week if they really want.

US spent fortune to protect collective west while countries like Germany almost dismantled their army in the past.

Very rational thinking , sure. China will wipe out entire west with technological superiority in the next decade or two without west being united.

Crestwave · a month ago
The US has committed more than its fair share of war crimes and notably even voted against the 2025 UN resolution condemning Russia for the Ukraine invasion, while China abstained from the vote.

China may potentially be able to stop the war, but at what cost? They've been licking their wounds and rebuilding their nation at breakneck speed for the past century, and it's only recently that they've finally reached a critical stage with innovations on all fronts. Going against one of their two allies now would be pretty ill-advised.

The US has also been very erratic, while China's current goals seem to be fairly consistent: reclaim everything they lost during the century of humiliation.

Crestwave commented on Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds   npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis
harimau777 · a month ago
I think you'd still need to adjust your diet signifiantly. Most powerlifters don't look particularly in shape.
Crestwave · a month ago
Most powerlifters intentionally maintain a signficant caloric surplus in order to bulk up. Some bulkers even chug straight-up olive oil to meet their daily caloric goals.
Crestwave commented on Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost   update.botghost.com/... · Posted by u/exists
Mashimo · 2 months ago
> Never build your main business on somebody else's platform.

Are there any (profitable) phone apps that are not build on top of the app/play store?

Crestwave · 2 months ago
They're distributed through the stores, but not built on top of them, as is evidenced by the fact that you can distribute the same app on both platforms.

Android also supports third party stores/standalone installers and iOS is fighting an ongoing legal battle due to its lack of a permanent equivalent.

Crestwave commented on It's true, “we” don't care about accessibility on Linux   tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
NewJazz · 2 months ago
Couldn't read past the first line. There are plenty of actually disabled and visually impaired people who have written about the shortcomings of accessibility tools on Linux.
Crestwave · 2 months ago
They specifically highlight and praise those posts in the closing paragraphs.
Crestwave commented on I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search   bloggeroo.dev/articles/20... · Posted by u/josecodea
dalmo3 · 3 months ago
You don't think the author built a concrete, working solution?
Crestwave · 3 months ago
They explicitly asked for a minimal, terminal-inspired email client for their Email Backend Engineer role. OP built a ton of infrastructure, created a generic web app that has no semblance of terminal inspiration as far as I can tell, and outsourced the backend to third party APIs.

Concrete and working? Technically, yes. This would have been an excellent submission for a different assignment and role. But it doesn't seem to suit the specifications for this one.

Crestwave commented on I'd rather read the prompt   claytonwramsey.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey
doright · 4 months ago
This only came to light after the study had already been running for a few months. That proves that we can no longer tell for certain unless it's literal GPT-speak the author was too lazy to edit themselves.

Teachers will lament the rise of AI-generated answers, but they will only ever complain about the blatantly obvious responses that are 100% copy-pasted. This is only an emerging phenomenon, and the next wave of prompters will learn from the mistakes of the past. From now on, unless you can proctor a room full of students writing their answers with nothing but pencil and paper, there will be no way to know for certain how much was AI and how much was original/rewritten.

Crestwave · 4 months ago
> This only came to light after the study had already been running for a few months. That proves that we can no longer tell for certain unless it's literal GPT-speak the author was too lazy to edit themselves.

Rule 3 of the subreddit quite literally bars people from accusing posts of being AI-generated. I have only visited it a few times in recent times, but I noticed quite a few GPT-speak posts with comments calling it out getting removed and punished.

Crestwave commented on ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser   flausch.social/@piegames/... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
abcanddbutnote · 4 months ago
One line of javascript solved that "problem" a while ago. The answer is in the DOM.
Crestwave · 4 months ago
This isn't just referring to GeoGuessr the game, but locating photographs in general. The source post sums it up very reasonably and concisely:

> PSA: When posting any outdoors photos, update your threat model from "someone skilled and dedicated could theoretically locate this" to "any stalker can do this for 20€/mo"

Crestwave commented on Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility   lwn.net/Articles/1014979/... · Posted by u/voxadam
trod1234 · 4 months ago
Can someone provide a brief clarification about build reproducibility in general?

The stated aim is that when you compile the same source, environment, and instructions the end result is bit identical.

There is, however; hardware specific optimizations that will naturally negate this stated aim, and I don't see how there's any way to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

I understand why having a reproducible build is needed on a lot of fronts, but the stated requirements don't seem to be in line with the realities.

At its most basic, there is hardware, where the hardware may advertise features it doesn't have, or doesn't perform the same instructions in the same way, and other nuances that break determinism as a property, and that naturally taints the entire stack since computers rely heavily on emergent design.

This is often hidden in layers of abstraction and/or may be separated into pieces that are architecture dependent vs independent (freestanding), but it remains there.

Most if not all of the beneficial properties of reproducible builds rely on the environment being limited to a deterministic scope, and the reality is manufacturers ensure these things remain in a stochastic scope.

Crestwave · 4 months ago
> hardware specific optimizations that will naturally negate this stated aim

Distro packages are compiled on their build server and distributed to users with all kinds of systems; therefore, by nature, it should not use optimizations specific to the builder's hardware.

On source-based distros like Gentoo, yes, users adding optimization flags would get a different output. But there is still value in having the same hardware/compilation flags result in the same output.

Crestwave commented on Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe   torrentfreak.com/authors-... · Posted by u/miki123211
bawolff · 7 months ago
If you need the logs, doesn't that prove the point that the AI is not a derrivative work?

Like if you can't figure out which works were used to create the AI just by looking, its hard to argue that they "copied" the work. Copyright is not a general prohibition on using the copyrighted work only the creativity contained within.

Crestwave · 7 months ago
They have already proven that copyrighted data was used for training but got struck down in court. The reason why they're asking for the torrent logs is because Meta torrenting the pirated data means they probably seeded and thus distributed it, which has a much greater impact legally than just downloading.
Crestwave commented on Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe   torrentfreak.com/authors-... · Posted by u/miki123211
_Algernon_ · 7 months ago
I asked chatgpt about a design pattern the other day and it plagiarized a paragraph verbatim without attribution even from a textbook Im also reading (Design Patterns)

It isn't difficult to show copyright infringement in these models. The assumption should be that copyright infringement has occured until proven otherwise.

Just the fact that they are indiscriminately web scraping proves that. Just because it is publicly and (monetarily) freely available doesn't mean it isnt copyrighted.

Crestwave · 7 months ago
This is why the "AI learns from materials just like a human does so it's not copyright infringement" argument always bothered me. A person won't recite full pages of word-for-word copies [1] from their head when you ask them something.

When I first tried Copilot, I asked it to write a simple algorithm like FizzBuzz and it ripped off a random repo verbatim, complete with Korean comments and typos. Image models will also happily generate near-identical [2] copies (usually with some added noise) of copyrighted images with the right prompt.

[1] https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/12/20/lmmem/

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/06/uh_oh_attackers_can_e...

u/Crestwave

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