paulddraper

It’s hard to download or upload data on an airgapped machine.

Some might say that a smart phone and a smart TV have a lot of similarities.

DNS and SNI are usually not encrypted.

Having tested K3, Qwen 3.8 max preview, Fable and Sol for the past few days, the Chinese models really are slow and token-inefficient.

Those are all frontier-competitive models.

Not close to frontier.

But yes, it’s cheap.

Probably few, but irrelevant as the ruling was it was not a derivative work.

Agreed. That said, I think months wins out as “closer to.”

The obvious counterpoint: Apple captured the majority of the US smartphone market.

Yeah makes sense to me

Yes Team is max 150 users (except maybe grandfathered accounts).

The solution is to use individual Max plans, but then you miss Enterprise management features.

If you click on the title, it will tell you more.

Gleam has had many dozens of front page posts here.

Tangled is a niche GitHub alternative, but has also had previous history.

Open weights are no longer a compromise. They are where the work happens.

They require owning the layers above it — the harness, the memory, the permission model — while those layers are still open.

Open isn't a vendor choice. It's a sovereignty choice.

Their marketing depends on people believing the models are meaningfully different, as people have sweatily argued on this forum.

They are noticeably different. Benchmarks, anecdotes, all say the same thing.

Now, is a ~6 month lead actually worth 1 gajillion dollars? Maybe not.

Peanuts

Well AWS never had bugs before.

They never used K8s for this.

They did reference it as an example for how a non-specialized solution would fall over.

Modal’s original sandbox architecture has similar issues. Like Kubernetes, we rely on strong consistency throughout our backend, so creating and scheduling sandboxes requires global coordination, and O(sandboxes) writes to Postgres, which we cannot trivially shard.

It's quite natural to start doing (2) in a consumer facing business, isn't it?

Absolutely.

But also don't break my stuff.

Okay, then a $50,000 music video.

The idea is to reduce production cost and therefore more plentiful/accessible.

Agreed, that’s disturbingly incorrect.

If anything, compilers are perfect models of trees and well formed programs.

You mean Shell doesn't sell sea shells? [1]

[1] Actually it originally did in 1833. It doesn't today. But that’s still the name.

Hm, I see your point, about it needing to be more restrictive.

Open can have many meanings. Publicly accessible is one of those.

What does OpenText mean? [1]

They do a lot of classified work for the US government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenText

Extremely silly.

Take, for example, OpenText. [1]

Nothing about it is free, or open source code, or in any other sense publicly accessible. [2]

I don't know if they operate in the EU, but I presume any application for a trademark would be rejected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenText

[2] It's "Open" as it turns paper documents into more easily accessible digital formats. But not public in any way.

my actual app is pretty much garbage

The app review process is explicitly meant to keep out garbage apps.

Sounds like it worked as designed?

something that could have been a (smaller, faster, more universally-accessible)

Full circle.

I remember when people were complaining that native was smaller, faster, and had richer accessibility integration.

Optimizing for the last microsecond

I don't see that anywhere. I see "Fast where it counts."

Well it’s both of those things.

Power is exercised according to desire.

It's just the money.

Money is a materialization of human desire.

literally raping the planet

Explanation needed.

Most of that list is done in session.

This was just everyone leaving on a Friday, sort of a work day, sort of not.