> what purpose does an open source OS have against a proprietary one
A phone running just the FOSS parts of Android is not super viable for the average person.
Readit NewsRebelgecko commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
who is contracting to those WITCH companies?
Not sure, sorry!
Rebelgecko commented on Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft with 'Macrohard' pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-... · Posted by u/12_throw_away
I love that he thought of the same joke all of us did when we were 14.
But what exactly is this new company going to be making?
IIRC it was also the name of Microsoft's StarCraft team at one point
Rebelgecko commented on From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/laurex
What would a public insurance option involve? Do you mean insurance that's provided at-cost without a company profiting?
Insurance companies are already required to spend at least 80% (or 85%) of the premiums they collect on paying out claims. If they spend less, they are required to give rebates / premium refunds to policy holders.
It wouldn't be crazy to increase that percentage even more, since it's effectively a cap on the profit margin insurers are allowed to earn on premiums.
If a company's profits are capped at x% of the money they spend, aren't they incentivized to support higher medical costs?
Game Informer is doing the same. I got the most recent copy and it was just a breath of fresh air. Articles written for their content, not to fill some quota or drive clicks. It was a month late (mostly stuff about SGF) but it didn’t matter. I got to read what these passionate writers thought of the games and demos there and that was a great read, even if it wasn’t “news”.
You might like Edge magazine. I've gotten a handful of copies over the years and have been consistently impressed by the quality.
Rebelgecko commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
And I happen to know a different company that regrets their decision to do something similar:
https://tech.co/news/klarna-reverses-ai-overhaul
Is my anecdotal evidence any better than yours?
I would argue yes, because you provided a source and a verifiable company name
Rebelgecko commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
It's good for the price of things to increase when demand increases. We don't want outages instead of price increases, and we don't want costs to increase independent of demand.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I pay more for water because demand is decreasing but the water company's fixed costs continue to grow.
Perhaps this is a difference in terminology, but in no way do you need a LLM for fuzzy search. Semantic search, fuzzy keyword search, and text to speech have existed for years and predate the technology for an LLM. In your use-case, do you really need a chatbot to "ask the video" about this, wouldn't a "search in video" function that does the same thing be better?
Yeah, I was using the term "fuzzy" a bit loosely/incorrectly. I want to be able to say "where's the joke about British people?" even if the transcript only uses related but distinct terms like "Scotsman". I know you can get close to that with Transformers sans LLM, but LLMs are kinda like regex where they're often a non optimal but adequate way to solve a problem quickly.
Rebelgecko commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
Do you have examples of these? they'd be easy targets to be sued for breaking the labor laws.
The WITCH companies are commonly held up as examples
I suppose an immediate counterpoint is that the US Consumer seems unwilling to clamor for high-quality products. :/