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New comment by horsebridge in "Our position on open-weights models"

horsebridge — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:52:07 +0000

> "We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations" I'd prefer if there was a crack down on industrial-scale scraping. Maybe even reimbursement for the problems it has caused (some nasty AWS bills, tons of man-hours spent on preventing new nasty AWS bills, etc).

New comment by horsebridge in "The Strike Is Coming"

horsebridge — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:32:56 +0000

With such a wide set of goals, this won't go far. They are limiting themselves to people that agree with all of that.

New comment by horsebridge in "Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge"

horsebridge — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:43:44 +0000

Stock images only have okay pricing (per image) if you use some sort of decently sized subscription. Anyone that only needs a few images are unfortunately screwed.

New comment by horsebridge in "After USA Ban: Google Kicks Kaspersky Out of Play Store"

horsebridge — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:46:27 +0000

Got any suggestions for this situation (invasion of Ukraine)?

New comment by horsebridge in "ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping"

horsebridge — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:22:41 +0000

Anybody running a site with data that is useful for AI will learn how horrible bytedance is.

New comment by horsebridge in "AMD GPU Inference"

horsebridge — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:57:51 +0000

I don't really have any problem with ROCm these days, although I only use system packages. It used to be quite wonky though, and I've totally given up on custom ROCm installs.

New comment by horsebridge in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"

horsebridge — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:14:50 +0000

I'm part of a smaller shop. GCP didn't even bother responding to us when we tried to contact sales, which is why we're at AWS.

New comment by horsebridge in "No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda"

horsebridge — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:48:56 +0000

I don't really agree about that "frobnicate" deal. If you messed up when you added a parameter to "frobnicate", you'll get "Hi, you broke frobnicate, please fix it. It's causing issues.".

You break it, you fix it, including the troubleshooting.

New comment by horsebridge in "Airtable acquires Airplane"

horsebridge — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:54:48 +0000

Well, it has been an Incredible Journey.

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

New comment by horsebridge in "Falsehoods programmers believe about email"

horsebridge — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:54:50 +0000

Lists like these would be better with some more explanations for the less obvious bullet points. For instance, when/why would an email have multiple From addresses?

New comment by horsebridge in "Paper Airplane Designs (2013)"

horsebridge — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:14:44 +0000

Was it this [1] program?

[1] https://archive.org/details/thegpa