All the top “open source” models have been created by Chinese and US private companies.

And they aren’t giving anything away because of the love in their hearts.

The hard thing will be to tell if they are actually afraid.

No worries, immigrants aren’t lining up to settle in Poland.

But maybe they want polish people to return to their homeland from the UK?

Because they didn’t load absolutely anything.

I guess most people here are too young to remember that even drivers were loaded at a per program basis, e.g. you would need to configure each game you played to use specific video and audio hardware. Nowadays that doesn’t happen.

A dishwasher also “boots up” instantly, and they come with WiFi now! The point is that they are not comparable.

Modern phones shouldn't need the same level of bloat as modern computers, so your Linux argument fails there as well.

I see. You haven’t any working understanding of computers or logics. That explains a lot.

People like you are so detached from the actual complexity of modern interfaces like USB, you don’t even know that there was a time we couldn’t even plug in a mouse without having to restart the whole computer, or that there were six different video interfaces incompatible with each other, etc.

This fake ass “things were faster before” is laughable. Yeah, go ahead and display a 32-bit color image in DOS while playing a sound file. Oh, it doesn’t have a complex compositor and a window manager? It cannot handle multitasking? It doesn’t even load your sound card drivers outside of an application? No shit.

Sounds to me that you haven’t been to either Europe or the US or both.

It’s easy to “boot up instantly” when not even the OS is loaded.

Modern BIOS load also instantly. Care to explain what you can do with that?

Computers in the 80s took so long to load anything, I could go out, get some coffee, and come back before they finished, e.g. any Spectrum or Commodore would take 20 minutes to load stuff from the tape drive. Wyse network terminals would leave you hanging for ten minutes and then fail netbooting because some shit with the token ring network.

So, no, they didn’t “instantly boot”.

That sounds too American to me.

That never happened. There was never a time when worker rights were won at no cost for workers themselves.

Families were against child labor laws because they would be losing important streams of revenue. As a result, it took several decades to finally regulate the practice. In the meantime, children were exploited and died, wages were kept low because supply of children workers was always high, and mining and industrial companies thrived up to the peak of the gilded age and the subsequent Great Depression.

By that definition, pretty much everyone is part of some problem, which makes the statement a tautology, like saying that all men are human, or all the fish need water to survive.

So, good job on contributing nothing.

What the fuck kind of analogy is that.

Children died in the mines by the hundreds. Those who got out had their lifespans slashed by decades because of the harmful stuff they inhaled on a daily basis. And your argument is that there wasn’t anything better than that?

This is the dumbest possible take on this matter.

Like, customers are stupid enough to both ignore that they need to add 20% on top of the bill, and still tip? What?!

Sure, let’s compare a single user, 16 bit, text only OS, with Windows.

Apple, Commodore all booted into their OS instantly. Disk drives worked, no BIOS needed.

Again, apples and oranges.

I/O drivers were stored as part of the ROM in both Apple and Commodore. That’s your ancient equivalent to BIOS and kernel. But they loaded essentially nothing, and didn’t need to handle a myriad of different devices and interfaces. The whole thing took a few kilobytes of storage, and obviously, wouldn’t handle anything that wasn’t very specifically supported.

A modern Linux kernel would also boot in a couple seconds if we were to strip every single driver from it but the handful needed to handle a monitor, an input device, storage, etc. The moment you plugged in a mouse, it wouldn’t work, and without an UI or even an interpreter, it would be useless. And I can assure you, it is way faster to load zsh in a modern computer, than any BASIC interpreter on an Apple II.

Tipping is culture now.

The US is definitely not stronger than any of the favorites in this tournament. It would take an inordinate amount of luck and possibly briberies to achieve that.

Models aren’t retrained from zero. They can be fine tuned or they could even have added a routine to handle specific cases like this.

For example, Claude used to have a routine that would call external tools embedded in the app to parse structured data and transform it. Not sure about how it does it now.

We’re talking about irrational behaviour by customers

No, we are not. The article is about foreigners in the US not tipping, which is not irrational behaviour, at all.

Why do you think entire industries routinely use hidden fees that dramatically raise the final price above the advertised price?

Because some governments, especially the US government, would rather punish their citizens than the companies scamming them.

Regardless, anyone in the US who is economically conscious enough to choose to eat out or not depending on prices, would inevitably take tipping into consideration, and anyone who isn't, wouldn't. The alternative would be people who cannot afford eating out not tipping, equally screwing over service workers, so your point is moot.

The irony of calling me “toxic” when you block anyone calling you out.

You really think one cannot be scammed if they agree to a price beforehand? Regardless of surge pricing, or the fact that, in many cities, Uber is more expensive than regular cabs?

The other is service quality - never heard of a cab you can call with an app where it shows you how far it is and how long you have. At least where I live, you have to call for one and just hope they show up.

Again, sorry that you live in a country where cabs suck ass and aren’t properly regulated I guess.