Sure some developers have strong opinions about this…and if you are selling to developers those opinions matter (most commonly, a job interview ).
But apps are gonna be shit for other reasons and the attraction of native-or-not is that fixing those reasons are much harder. Even when you choose to use theory to make GUI choice to add to complexity of development).
Or to put it another way, the simplest thing that might work means you stay working instead of thinking (thinking != working). Good luck.
I'm curious how would you defend against this in court?
If by “you” you mean Google or OpenAI or Microsoft, etc., you use your much much deeper pockets to pay lawyers to act in your interests.
All authors, publishers, etc. are outgunned. Firepower is what resolves civil cases in one party’s favor and a day in court is easily a decade or more away.
Deep pockets are not a get out of jail free card. If a case escalates to the SCOTUS there will be many firms that submit amicus curiae outlining their position on the matter and how it threatens their rights. Those people, arguably, represent more money and influence than Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, etc. So if we accept the premise that all legal matters are decided on a basis of pure politics as mediated by money, then ultimately every court battle is a battle to assert that your actions don't actually affect the interests of interested parties and that you'll fight them if they try to assert otherwise, and on that count it is reasonable to surmise that there are more interested parties with deeper pockets than any firm or firms fielding LLMs that might be caught up in a lawsuit over this.
Ultimately, if an author can demonstrate protectable expression has been incorporated into an AI's training set and is emitted by said AI, no matter how small, they've got a case of copyright infringement. That being the case, LLM-based companies are going to suffer death by a thousand paper cuts.
We just got through talking about how the players involved have deep pockets, and have a vested interest in seeing their way prevail... so cheap doesn't matter, likely is malleable, which leaves only "fast" which I do not contest.
Yeah, people don't want to admit it but 90% of US law is based on who can spend the most money on lawyers and drain their oppositions coffers first, in both civil and criminal cases.
Meh, just use a random number generator or dice. The "AI" is either just an inefficient frontend for an RNG, or it's using criteria that you don't know about and/or don't fully understand.
This. I've had my email for years. Admittedly my engagement on HN is chaotic and somewhat rare but in all those years, I think I've had half a dozen one-off emails.
Maybe that shows the actual benefit (or lack thereof) DM would have?
I mean "one-off" suggests that what you received might not have delivered significant value -- what I get is usually please-use-my-product marketing encouraged only by my non-negative commenting.
I think number 3 needs to say exceptional job. A good job will not result in tons of money. A good job will let you potentially retire some day, but not be rich. You need a top 10% job.
Web surfing and watching Netflix? They are all pretty much equivalent.
Running Linux? I don’t think the M chips are well supported, and last I looked it appeared the M3 and 4 are not supported at all…though, I did not look at Arch.
Equivalent in price, aesthetics, or brand identity?
For Gaming? Programming? Training LLM’s? Editing Video?
Mostly compiling Rust. It is a quite battery draining process. Also the main reason I want to avoid a mac is to be able to run Linux. Battery life is not a deal breaker but it'll be really nice to take my laptop to places without a bulky charger and not having to worry about usage.
> “Web surfing and watching Netflix? They are all pretty much equivalent.”
Not really. Many laptops still come with 1080 hd screens and $1 speakers. You would want an upgraded screen, ideally oled along with multiple speaker drivers.
Thinkpads have had similar layouts for decades. The keyboard mechanisms have of course changed, but the Emacs friendly dual ctrl and alt symmetric about the space bar have remained.
Also being the most Linux friendly laptop also means they have very long update lifespans and being well built tend not to break…though there are plenty of repair parts and spares.
It has value has a vote with your wallet for sustainable, repairable products.
The author of the fine article’s strategy of used Thinkpads is more sustainable because reuse is among the most sustainable practices and there is an abundance of Thinkpad repair parts and spares machines.
Of course, Thinkpads are not terribly upgradable. But upgrading is often the opposite of sustainable…in many cases CPU’s, etc. are fast-fashionesque.
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