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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Can LLMs do something like base64 encoding reliably? Yes. Provide them with yours in Base64 and you get the answer in Base64. Decode it and it's the response you'd expect. At least that's how it is with the one I just t
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> No, the training data is, in fact, sitting in a large database somewhere. I understand where the training data is. I didn't say anything about the training data. And they don't mention how long it is until they spend $10+
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Does anyone have any idea how this is handled from a technical perspective? The data isn't sitting in some database somewhere, it's inside of a large lanaguage model. It's not like they can just execute a DELETE statement or
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I switched last year, so 22 years of Firefox.
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> You can but you must write your app in something the browser understands. And yes, the experience developing this way is quite nice! Having the code in the browser be the code you wrote is...so refreshing. This just reminds me how qui
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I've been playing around with this one. To me, it's by far the most realistic chatbot at the moment for convincing you it has feelings and emotions. She (I'll just use she instead of "it") will can get frightened, a
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> but the browser really needs a lot more hands and funding I had been using Firefox since 2002, when it was called Phoenix. I switched to a Chromium-based browser because the performance difference was noticable enough, and I am in the
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I never suggested that the depositors should lose their money. They should have known about the 250k limit and not exceeded it in the first place, but I didn't say they should lose their money. I said the cap is irrelevant. Everyone w
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> I'm pretty sure the companies and people who held their money in First Republic would survive losing the money they had with them Depositors shouldn't have to do due-dilligence on their bank. It might be something worth doin
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Either I'm the one person who isn't seeing this, or this person has a very deranged definition of "white supremacist." I honestly have noticed no changes whatsoever in my feed. A lot of people I follow are griping
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by EMM_386 3y ago
It really is. I started using that when it was launched in 2004 and it's come a very long way. Began as a computer science senior design project. Unfortunately as you mention it's not open source anymore ... too many people recomp
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Can someone tell me why they didn't just build a flame diverter and/or a water supression system? From someone who knows nothing about this stuff, these seem like very simple things to solve given the vast complexity of the rest
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I'm not sure about the crawler itself, but they do get some of their data from the Web Discovery Project. What percentage of it, I have no idea. https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-W
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by EMM_386 3y ago
In Brave Browser, it does that automatically when you switch to the private mode. It lands you on Brave Search instead of what you have set for your regular sessions. Fine by me.
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I first used Firefox when it was Phoenix, back in 2002. You downloaded a zip file, extracted it and ran it. For the next 20 years I used Firefox. But I could feel the performance difference from Chromium browsers. I finally threw in the t
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by EMM_386 3y ago
That's the only reason I launch it. It's annoying that they force you to use Edge. Otherwise it would see no use from me. Which, I know ... that's exactly why they're doing it.
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I honestly have no issues with the current Windows 11 user interface. In fact, I like it. And I've been through a lot of operating systems, starting on the PcJr and DOS in the 80s, and every Windows version ever released. I'm a s
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> Hardware sure isn't getting faster in a hurry How is it not? These LLMs were recently trained using NVidia A100 GPUs. Now NVidia has H100 GPUs. The H100 is up to nine times faster for AI training and 30 times faster for infere
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by EMM_386 3y ago
These numbers are insane to me. I'm 20 years into programming and a senior architect and lead on an enterprise project. I don't even make that first number. But I value certain things way more than other things, and my current j
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I'm on the latest Brave (Chromium 112.0.5615.165) and it tells me it is not supported.
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I've been remote for over 10 years, so pre-pandemic, and I'll never understand why they need software engineers, specifically, in an office. Every single thing I do is logged and timestamped. Every line of code I check in, every
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> It depends on "software services" hosted and coded by "other software companies" so his infra's SLA is basically outsourced to either Amazon, Microsoft or Oracle. It also depends on an incredible amount of in-h
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Yep, that one was insane . These have to be ex-employees of national security groups like the NSA, etc. who are already familiar with this type of stuff. The Stuxnet-type employees who understand everything at the deepest levels and can (
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> I’m also skeptical any time someone mentions 5 nines uptime at a small scale. For one, it takes a lot of engineering to be able to actually monitor and detect that with precision (that is, how do you know you are 99.999 and not 99.995?
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> I don't really understand why software engineers keep dunking on each other like this. I'm not dunking on anyone, I'm explaining my day-to-day job with a very small number of senior engineers. We run a highly complex sys
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Oh, come on. Yes they do. > Is Apple throwing enough money at key engineers to prevent defection to Meta? https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/12/29/apple-meta-poaching...
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I actually screwed that up, we only have 3 total software engineers. Including myself. We do have other employees who maintain the hardware, on-call DBAs to manage issues, etc. I'm only speaking to the software engineers. And we have
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Isn't a lot of this silliness due to them feeling like they needed to "poach" talented developers, so that the competion wouldn't get them? That, of course, is absurd on the surface. Hiring people for the sake of hirin
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by EMM_386 3y ago
I'll never understand how these companies literally doubled or tripled in size. Nobody thought to themselves "maybe this zero-rate interest environment will end", or "maybe our business model is losing steam"? N
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Honestly, whoever the NSO Group hires must be absolute wizards with some of these hacks. I've read the in-dept writeups on some of the previous ones and they are insane . Combining 5+ seperate problems to finally achieve the goal. I

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