I love to see this competition between companies trying to get the best LLM, and also, the fact that they’re trying to make them useful as tools, focusing on math, science, coding, and so on
Readit NewsDaveMcMartin commented on Tesla sales drop 35% in San Diego County fox5sandiego.com/news/bus... · Posted by u/doener
I wish Musk had stayed out of politics. I still think his companies have done more good than harm.
TBH, while I feel like this is the way, I’m noticing more and more politicians using this as a way to simply gather more votes with a "cause US bad" angle.
Companies are eager to get your money, so they'll try to get an "EU made" label and use it as marketing as hard as they can, even if 90% of their operation happens outside the EU.
And the way they talk, it seems like decoupling from the US is something trivial done overnight. No, it is not, it’s a kind of a slow process in some areas, and pragmatic decisions must be made along the way.
EU is still surprisingly naive and open for business.
After TikTok getting banned(postponed for now) in US for national security reasons, and after US cutting military support and intelligence in Ukraine I was expecting for things to start rolling by now.
They already start doing things on the military side of things with restricting the military equipment purchases to EU only with exceptions granted on the basis that foreign supplier should NOT have a way to shut down equipment use(be it a Killswitch, political pressure or supply chain control).
If USA decides to side with Russia on the invasion of Europe or maybe just annexing Greenland, they can shut down EU telecommunications or air propaganda messaging over Apple/Google devices or platforms and other social media platforms.
What worked for Russia and China was to restrict their markets and guarantee opportunities for homegrown alternatives.
I still expect for EU and pretty much all the world to end up doing this. I'm not enjoying it, I don't want things to go this way but no way that EU can afford giving full communications control to a hostile country.
Tough times ahead, this DMA stuff was the right approach last year. Sometime in the next 4 year a private company will be used to do something acutely military or political to EU like they did in Ukraine and enough people will panic and a similar response will be generated.
IMHO Apple will be served better if they play ball and make themselves useless for public warfare purposes and ensure continued access to EU market even if it means potential losses on services revenue. This will give them opportunity to say that you can just use EU services and keep buying the iPhones.
I’m not enjoying this either. I get that it’s necessary for the EU, but I’m still in favor of free trade.
Good.
Apple fanboys, no need to worry!
If you’re in the US, all these features will be geoblocked, so you can enjoy your walled garden as much as you like. If you’re in the EU, just stick to Apple products and avoid any alternatives.
We use OVH at my company too. They are pretty good and affordable.
My only complaint is that one day, they had an electrical problem on their datacenter and we were down for an entire day. We lost dozens of clients that day.
But this was 6 years ago, so a lot must have changed since then. And yes, I know we should have had a plan for when such things happen, but we didn't have one. Nowadays we have a different architecture with more than one cloud provider for redundancy, and it's cheaper than having everything on AWS.
The iPad is in a kind of gray landscape because it is not phone and it is not a Mac but they are treated special like the iPhone so they can put any greed-based limitations they want instead of it becaming a general computer.
DaveMcMartin commented on I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts nickcraux.com/blog/cursor... · Posted by u/striat
For those of you who, like me, use Neovim, you can achieve "cursor at home" by using a plugin like Avante.nvim or CodeCompanion. You can configure it to suit your preferences.
Just sharing this because I think some might find it useful.
DaveMcMartin commented on Go European: Discover European products and services goeuropean.org/... · Posted by u/doener
It’s genuinely sad to see the world splintering into waves of nationalistic protectionism.
Not long ago, we had something promising, a slow but steady crawl toward a united global community. Progress was gradual, sure, but it was real. Countries could specialize and trade freely: I’d buy your chips, you’d buy my steel, and we’d both come out ahead. It worked.
Now, though, it’s all about "national sovereignty" and "independence" as if going it alone could ever match the strength of interdependence.
The trust we built feels shattered and TBH it’s hard to imagine it being rebuilt anytime soon, if ever.
In the example, it shows syncing returning a promise. Is there no way to track the progress of the sync?