great, so pretty soon it will be prevented or illegal to even finetune models above a certain cap threshold - dog forbid you... UNalign it (-:
Readit Newsdragochat commented on Open source can't coordinate? matklad.github.io/2025/05... · Posted by u/LorenDB
> The underlying force there is the absence of one unified baseline set of APIs for writing desktop programs.
It's called the Common Desktop Environment.
nah, we all know the "real-life CDE" is called either OpenGL (see ImGui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui, egui https://github.com/emilk/egui etc) or... HTML/CSS/JS (see Electron, Tauri etc)
dragochat commented on Open source can't coordinate? matklad.github.io/2025/05... · Posted by u/LorenDB
"The reason why we have Linux, and BSDs, and XNU is that they all provide the same baseline API, which was defined from the outside [by POSIX]. The coordination problem was pre-solved, and what remained is just filling-in the implementation."
But that is not at all how Posix operates or has operated. Posix standardises common denominators between existing implementations. The fact that we now have strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) in Posix 2024, is not because Posix designed and stipulated them. Rather, they appeared in OpenBSD in 1998, were found useful by other *nix-es over time, spread, and were finally taken aboard by Posix that standardised what was already out there and being used! This to me is the very opposite of the point the author is trying to make!
exactly, you can't standardize on a solution before any good one exists in the first place
dragochat commented on MicroExplorer: Lisp-machine and Mac hybrid – it existed [pdf] bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/micr... · Posted by u/dragochat
would really want to hear stories from ppl who actually used one of these
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dragochat commented on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests cnn.com/2025/06/09/politi... · Posted by u/sapphicsnail
Nah, Everything has beginning and end and USA and others are very much near their end. You can't build anything new without destroying old. It is painful to live in "interesting times", but it is part of natural processes when corruption eats away society that is falling apart only this time it is very global.
The signs are there, that this is global situation before WW1 or WW2 - status quo has to change, balance of power has to change - USA does not want to start to implement any of those changes and those who are way smarter than me think that USA should stay away from epicenter of anything and join for the spoils only part.
> Everything has beginning and end
Most things of real interest do not tbh. The point should be to learn how to play infinite games. Sure, there's hard-to-impossible prices to pay, and/or to force others into paying. But what if it can be made to work, won't any price be worth it for that... ?
The epicenter is where the fun is at, even if the price might be sacrificing things of value for your average population and some unquantifiable measure of fluff like national-identity or whatever people imagine it's real nowadays.
I'm an unashamed globalist, but would rather have a "world village" with the US (despite that US being maybe quite different from what most gen-pop wants) at its heart :P Imagine all the people...
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dragochat commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
This is why UX teams should be data-driven. Do user research and A/B testing to hone your UI.
uhm, maybe no... data-drive in UX means sliding towards the lowest common denominator, optimizing at first for the dumbest user, then later giving in to dark patterns and quasi-scamming
there's room for creativity in UX, lots, just not at the "how does the texture of a button feel and flow" - need to move HIGHER level, towards eg thinking of experience minimizing cognitive load, increasing synergy and augmentation ppotential etc etc ...the ceiling is waaaay higher than most UX ppl think
Are we really going to need all those giant AI data centers?
We'll always find uses for more intelligence if it keeps getting more and more general (I don't like the term AGI bc. I think the "G" there is quantity not a quality, and humans are very low on generality too compared to what could be mathematically and physically possible for intelligence in our universe).
...we won't stop until the planet is papered with compute hardware UNLES we accelerate space development too (that's why SPACE is CRUCIAL!) and go grind the asteroid belt into thousands of datacenters too, then on and on.
There's a whole yummy lightcone that awaits to be eaten :P