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- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 3 days ago:
My only advice is that you stick to one model and give it some time. You need to “learn” your model. I will probably never go back. I had huge issues with getting good results from Google and my subjective experience is that this is far better. However, I do still use conventional search engines as a compliment. It’s not all or nothing.
- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 3 days ago:
This is the one I use: docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/agents/
Just tell the modell to do web searches in the system prompt.
All providers should have something similar. With a user friendly UI.
If you code your own agent and utilize an API or run a model locally, you can of course do even more. There are many tools if you want to do RAG on your own local data.
- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 3 days ago:
Because it’s useful. Have you tried? But the LLM has to be able to use conventional search engines as well. I tell my LLM agent to prioritize certain kinds of websites and present a compressed answer with references. Usually works way better than a standard Google search (which only produce AI generated junk results anyway).
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 5 weeks ago:
Russia. MS-13 is nothing in comparison. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if Russia supports MS-13 as part of their hybrid warfare. That’s how they work.
Understand that Russia has largely been able to put US to its knees through hybrid methods that utilize and enhance the negative effects of american arrogance, neoliberal dogmatism and the war on drugs. Trump is the final stage before the empire comes down. It’s probably too late to turn the ship around by now. China + EU is already the facto world leaders and the US is doing everything to destroy itself and there is no real political anf economical self-awareness among people with power.
The US should have started to decrease inequality, stop the war on drugs and enforced (sane) tariffs and migration policies 15 years ago. The EU has the same problems, but there isn’t the same level of inequality and political extremism and fundamentalism, which makes me believe that the EU will survive as a western democracy and relevant world player, but the US will not.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe give Doom Emacs a try? Anyway, I thing we can put IDE/Editor the subjective quality bucket.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
Ok, I agree about music apps and Google Maps.
Isn’t Intellij largely open source? What does premium offer over the community edition? More content and support? Anyway, I find this one subjective. I would argue that Emacs, VS Code and Neovim are at least as good (much better if you work with many different programming languages and/or require extra control).
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
Seems you don’t know how to configure your editor/IDE. There is nothing in a “Jetbrains IDE” which you cannot also get in Neovim, Emacs or VS Code. Using only FOSS plugins. Or what functionality are you thinking of?
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
The facto standard is not an objective quality.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I mean the best big tech “products” are FOSS as well. But I guess it depends on which definition of FOSS that you use.
Usually, nowadays, proprietary software is built on 95% FOSS and then you maybe have a thin layer with your own stuff (which will become FOSS in a year or two when there’s someting better that can replace your own hack). The rest is content and marketing.
Proprietary software which doesn’t have an objectively better FOSS counterpart (that I can come up with right now):
- Nvidia GPU stack. But ROCm and IPEX-LLM will probably catch up in a year or two (both are mainly FOSS).
- Some videogames that still use their proprietary engines. Though they are certainly not good because of their in-house engine, rather the opposite. I.e. they are good because of content, not software.
Many people bring up proprietary CAD and graphics software. Though I suspect that’s a more subjective opinion. My experience is that proprietary CAD apps and the Adobe suite are buggy as hell. My experience is that the people who use these softwares have learned how to cope with the legacy crap and they refuse to learn new and better ways.
I had to integrate Photoshop into a project a few years ago. The whole software just smelled huge legacy bad quality code base. Buggy as hell. But good marketing and/or user lockin I guess.
I don’t consider anything from Apple to be good in an objective way. Unless you count social status symbols as an objective quality. I do consider price to be an objective quality though.
The only good things that has come out of Microsoft are open source. VS Code, dotnet core and Lean. Same goes for Google.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
A more relevant question: What proprietary software is better than its FOSS counterpart?
Because I can’t come up with any.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 5 weeks ago:
Because the political right doesn’t actually like functional markets.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
I don’t drive a BMW, so yes.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 1 month ago:
I believe in meds and I believe in science. Especially the science of complex systems. I don’t believe in political philosophy branded as science. The reproducability metric of social sciences and political economy is so bad that the complete field should move into humanities and philosophy (which isn’t bad, but it isn’t science). Aspiring sciences.
I mean it isn’t a secret that huge amounts of resources has been poured into neoliberal think tanks since the 70s. It’s an ideology which justifies the rich getting richer. Such stuff always get at lot of funding. It’s inherent.
I don’t think I’m the one who’s in lack of critical thinking here Mr 420.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 1 month ago:
Tariffs will be super hard on american economy. There is no universe where current tariffs and migration policy wont mean stagflation from hell. But that’s a price that might be worth/necessary paying. However, if american blue collar are able to organize, there is a possibility that blue collar salaries will keep up with inflation and that implies economic power is transferred to the working clas (supply and demand will be on the side of blue collar at least). Transfer of economic (and political) power is very much needed if the US democracy shall survive (or return from the dead).
But it’s all a big gamble for sure. Chaos and feudalism/fascism is probably the most likely outcome. Everything is so complex that it’s impossible to know for sure. Hopefully evolution has empowered us with enough accurate intuitions.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 1 month ago:
Take them meds bro.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 1 month ago:
I believe the tarrifs are good. Though for other reasons than Trump. The current (previous) situation is super unstable and unsustainable. It basically require a global US monopoly of violence (which was the case for about 30 years). Trade imbalance implies war (as stated by Keynes).
However, the arguments of the Trump administration are completely false and uneducated.
We’ve all been drenched in neoliberal propaganda for about 50 years (disguised as science), so it’s not weird people are unable to think outside of the box on this matter.
Also, super valid question. Don’t get the down votes.
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- Comment on Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release 2 months ago:
Just buy a Steam Deck instead.
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 3 months ago:
Steel Division 2 and Hearts of Iron 4.
- Comment on Got any must-play games for strategy fans? 4 months ago:
RTS: Zero-K RTT: Steel Division 2 and Warno TBS: Dominions 6. Songs of Conquest if you want a modern casual HOMM3 clone. TBT: Battle Brothers and Field of Glory 2 Grand Strategy: Basically everything from Paradox. Victoria 3 is my current favorite.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 4 months ago:
As a millennial, I’m probably not alone when I write Red Alert, Atlantis, Diablo and Fallout 2 on a computer without internet connection. Also endless demos from PC Gamer CDs.
The more unusual game I want to add is Warlords 3. Got it as a Christmas gift from my cousins boyfriend (he was maybe 20 years older than me). Probably because he wanted someone he could play shared screen PvP with. Spent a lot of time with that game.
Also playing Tibia on a 33k dial up connection was special. A very laggy and expensive experience. Always afraid that mom would just turn off the connection because she had to make a phone call. And the true horror I felt when I encountered another player or a new monster deep within an unexplored dungeon. I didn’t like WoW when it came out. Probably because of emotional bluntedness that free PvP in combination with gear + xp loss causes.
And I’m still chasing the dragon.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 4 months ago:
That must have been really awesome. ❤️
- Comment on what unbiased media sources do you use? 4 months ago:
I don’t think unbiased media exist. But some are at least less biased. And you want some bias towards scientific reasoning, honesty and meritocracy. Otherwise you introduce too much noise (which is one reason why being absolute about free speech leads to less free speech, and also the reason electronic warfare is something prioritized by weak political and military state actors). Less noise usually correlate with what people perceive as left leaning or liberal bias. Also, I think it’s OK with biased media as long as one is open and explicit about it.
In Sweden I use Omni which is a commercial news aggregator, which I find relatively unbiased or balanced. Public service is pretty good as well.
For American news, I usually go for NPR first. Don’t know if they are super unbiased, but at least they are not full on crazy.
I’ve tried Ground News, but I feel it’s a bit too focused on politics of the English speaking sphere.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 4 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s sexist but it sure as hell is annoying. Don’t tell people to smile if you don’t have a very good reason.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 4 months ago:
Ah! LOL!
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 months ago:
WH40K: Chaos Gate
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 4 months ago:
Just quit.
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- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 4 months ago:
Total war: Warhammer 3? Baldurs Gate 3? Maybe those are available on console as well…