CoastalCoder

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by CoastalCoder 5mo ago
It's kid slang for "original", apparently.
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by CoastalCoder 5mo ago
I'm already deeply concerned about the way LLM usage will affect society. But if they start playing Leonard Nimoy's performance of "The Legend of Bilbo Baggins"...
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by CoastalCoder 5mo ago
IANAL, but wouldn't this LLM behavior be more akin to a human re-publishing an entire book to some third party, in exchange for money?
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by CoastalCoder 5mo ago
You may have a valid technical point. If you find a friendlier way to phrase it, you may find more people willing to discuss it.
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by CoastalCoder 5mo ago
That may have been a bad reaction. Ask your doctor is KDE is right for you!
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
Really makes one appreciate that concept of A.C.I.D. database transactions.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
I'd usually say Pop_OS! But my recent upgrade to Pop version 24.04 has been a bit of a step back in terms of desktop experience. I suspect it's growing pains from (switching to Wayland) + (non-System76 hardware) + (laptop with nVi
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
Is there any reason to believe that the same carpet-pull won't occur with those brands? I thought the whole trick was arbitrage on the delayed awareness of reduced quality.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
Absolutely for things like (pseudo) random-number streams. Some tests can be at the mercy of details that are hard to control, e.g. thread scheduling, thermal-based CPU throttling, or memory pressure from other activity on the system
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
> Always include some randomness in test values. If this isn't a joke, I'd be very interested in the reasoning behind that statement, and whether or not there are some qualifications on when it applies.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
What would you consider more appropriate? I'm not willing to start another actual civil war over Trump's presidency. I figured an apology was at least an improvement over not apologizing.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
I fear it's going to take more than just one other president. Now we've all see what one bad POTUS can do to the world, and I don't know if/how/why the world would trulyove past that. It reminds me of the Twilight
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
My dear friends to the north: I just want to repeat how sorry many of us are for this.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
I had the same thought. But can we really rule out it being part of such a strategy?
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
Yeah, but there was a spoof on that (in Family Guy?). It was a tie in to the movie "I Know what you Did last Summer", IIRC.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
Sometimes this happens when the original comment being replied to is subsequently edited.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
It seems obvious to me that the only real solution is to penalize the payment of ransoms. For the same reasons one doesn't negotiate with terrorists. Is there some reason to believe that this isn't the best approach? And if n
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
> The fact that humanity sent people back to the moon barely even registered. Are you sure that people would have cared much even in better times? Although I'm just as subject to the fatigue as everyone else, this just isn't a
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
Related, I've been surprised that we haven't had more violence against corporations and/or their leadership in the vein of Luigi Mangione. E.g., suppose that 1,000,000 persons believe that a corporation's evil acts destr
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
> But it's impossible to have a buffet overflow in rust I dunno, I can only listen to Margaritaville so many times in a row.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
> Never ever build in '-03 -march=native' by default. This is always a red flag and a sign of immaturity. Perhaps you can see how there are some assumptions baked into that statement.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
I wonder. Is it possible that we're not actually that resilient, but instead it will just take tens of years for the damage to fully manifest?
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
I'd like to suggest calling him SECDEF, not SECWAR. IMHO the country should not capitulate to Trump's power grabs, even if Congress refuses to perform their oversight duties.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
> How did it get that we live in a world where you can't trust a client to enforce its own documented behavior? My guess a combo of economic incentives and weak legal protections. I realize that answer applies to so many issues as t
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
Out of curiosity, why do you see this as a worthwhile endeavor? My personal perspective is that the resources are better used for other purposes, but it's possible that I just haven't encountered some compelling reason yet.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
For the first time in quite a while, I've started reading a challenging, non-computer book ("The New Testament in its World"). I'm trying to decide if my attention span has atrophied, or if I'm just more aware now o
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
> Women candidates What I meant was Biden and then Harris. I'm not a politico, but IMHO Harris didn't have enough time to clarify her positions, and to address the points raised by her opposition. Also, I wonder if the way she
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
Thanks. FWIW I wasn't trying to imply that we should have sympathy for him. My only point was that so much of this suffering, both for himself and others, could be avoided but for his choices and flaws.
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
I'm guessing that one reason we got Trump is that the Democrats presented two poor alternatives in a row. It was clear that Biden was mentally slipping. Even if you were a fan of his general politics, 4 additional years of mental decl
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by CoastalCoder 6mo ago
My working theory is that Trump is best understood as an epically tragic character. So desperate to be valued and liked, that he desperately grabs at anything and everything to get the acclaim that, under normal circumstances, would signify

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