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833karma·798submissions·October 29, 2025
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> (...) your anonymized chats, they will be public as paid training data. If they are PII then under GDPR they are obligated to delete the data. If not then they will be liable to pay fines up to $…
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> Yes we have heard this before, React is only 30kb! Not quite. You might be surprised to know, but the whole JOSE standard, and JWT in particular, specify a very limited set of fields. Whenever an…
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> They’re spending Monopoly money. They also seem to be desperate to buy their way into a monopoly, even though the company itself has a long track record of failing to deliver anything noteworthy.…
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> I don't know about good, I use a lot of local models and they're still pretty painful to run locally You are somehow assuming cloud-based models are not painful. I can tell you my past …
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> Fair enough, but those optimizations are basically free. People think stateless tokens are free but they really are not. Strawman. The only requirement for a JWT is posting the JSON Web Key set w…
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> All the signature and encryption stuff in JWTs is complex. While common JWT libraries have now mostly got their stuff together, this has not always been the case. This is a red herring. Applied c…
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> Necessary qualifier: for browser-based user sessions. True. Still the article can't really make any case, other than pointing misuses and throwing a few baseless assertions. In fact, it surp…
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> Credit card is a largely fixed risk of financial loss, (...) This belief is deeply misguided. Do you understand that credit card transactions are used to provide access to your personal informati…
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> The current pricing isn't sustainable, and if you try to wring out the maximum amount of profit, you're gonna have competition spring up. I don't understand what you mean by "…
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> 1. What's the bottleneck in ramping up RAM production? Is it the availability of silicon itself? Or the factories are at capacity? For a RAM manufacturer, the incentive is to ramp up product…
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> I was signing up for Hetzner years ago and it asked me to upload my passport to use their service. I don't really understand what bothers you so much about providing a photo of a "passp…
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> The whole 'charity' persona he put on afterwards is just PR. Indeed. Even in the middle ages rich people leaned heavily on charity to whitewash their legacy. I mean, the Catholic church…
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> Whenever something gets subsidized by the government it inevitably becomes dominated by exploitive petty politics. Your US-blend of anti-state brainwashing is showing. There is nothing inherently…
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> Then the ideologues and political commissars showed up I think you're seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses. In some FLOSS circles the discussions were dominated by ideologues, to the…
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> This seems to be an administration that is dead set on antagonizing every single part of the world. Either enemy or ally. Let's not forget the Trump administration threatened two separate NA…
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> I am saying this probably is "silly behavior by a government" and it is a milestone that points towards what the future may look like. Why can't it be both? Here is why it's u…
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> By building pain into the system. If your hands dealt with injury directly without sending pain signals up to your brain, you'd never change the behaviour that led to that harm or reconsider…
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> "Diminishing returns", so are you claiming unironically that GPT4.1 can achieve anything Fable 5 can? I see you felt compelled to use the weasel word "anything" to put togethe…
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> IMO comparing different models is like comparing songs or paintings or modern art. I don't think this is that subjective or vague. There are a couple of crisp metrics that can be used to eva…
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> Clone simonw/micropython-wasm from GitHub and research how this could use a full Python as opposed to MicroPython I might be missing something important but that doesn't seem to be an i…
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> And that’s pretty much where you are wrong. Take any long running open source project and (...) I think you are demonstrating a clear lack of insight and experience in software development settin…
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> The compounding speed. Your devs might reach a point where they have to rewrite and refactor, in a decade. I think that this is exactly why this scaremongering breaks down. If you believe the com…
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> But Kubernetes, being a former Google project (...) You are confusing Kubernetes, the software project with Kubernetes, the container orchestration system. There are many Kubernetes distributions…
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> I’m saying that in my experience across multiple models, the follow up prompts don’t fix prior underlying issues. They usually patch on top instead, unless you give them significant and time cons…
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> The problem is that this approach is not sustainable. Errors compound. The cost to fix one issue might seem small at first, but over a stretch of time all these "oopsies" become archite…
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> I haven’t used Fable/Mythos yet, but my experience with recent version of Opus, GPT 5.5 and recent Chinese models is that promoting again isn’t guaranteed to fix the underlying issues, nor i…
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> Does AI make incredibly inefficient code most of the time? Yup. But it does it at lightspeed with minimal effort. This hits the nail in the head. Detractors often hang on to examples of coding as…
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> You’re really citing a mess in a Ruby code base caused by lack of typing as evidence for why void * is problematic in C/C++? If you read GP's post you'll understand it exemplifies …
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> ...Can you give a concrete example? I've been programming literally since the 80s and that doesn't ring true at all for me. Even this week I stumbled upon legacy code that started off w…