Gormo

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by Gormo 2mo ago
I have a speculative theory that core of the "woke right" did not originate from pre-existing conservative politics, but in fact emerged from segments of the political left finding themselves marginalized by the mainstream left-
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by Gormo 2mo ago
More fundamentally, you'de be filtering out people's views on policy based on their engagement with the horse-race side of politics . That's not a particularly well-aligned criterion, regardless of the reasons why someone
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Sounds like it will work with DGX Spark, though.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> I think there's still space for another harness that's 1/ open-source, 2/ written in a fast compiled language (Rust, Go, etc.) and scriptable in a simple (aka non-JS) scripting language (Lua, etc.), 3/ less opi
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by Gormo 3mo ago
Humans are generally bad at predicting patterns in long-term and large-scale systems, especially those that emerge from their own micro-level choices and intentions. Large institutions tend to distill complexity into singular, centralize
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by Gormo 3mo ago
I don't think "nerdy" is the right term here. MCA was a deliberate attempt by IBM to reassert walled-garden control over the PC architecture. The fact that Compaq would have had to license it from them in the first place ma
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by Gormo 3mo ago
Regulations are principally a vehicle for these very sort of intrusive behaviors, given that their main effects are to create barriers to entry that entrench established business models and block competition, create a nexus of effectively l
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by Gormo 3mo ago
Why wouldn't there end up being a separation between prompt and context, though? Why can't we set up LLM engines to have one input stream for instructions and another input stream for data? We've got lots of effective appro
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by Gormo 3mo ago
There are no objective measures of design quality. Every aspect of interface design can only be measured in the extent to which it facilitates the user's access to the functionality of the software, so the only metrics that apply ar
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by Gormo 3mo ago
That's sad news. I've been a fan of Ubiquiti for a long time, and the main selling point has been that they're fully self-managed on-prem infrastructure, with cloud services being an optional afterthought. Seeing them succu
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by Gormo 3mo ago
> There have been real improvements in this space, such as passkeys Passkeys are not an improvement. The way they're being implemented entrenches middlemen into auth flows in a way that reduces users' security in a broader
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by Gormo 3mo ago
> It means more electricity, more compute, more money spent. And it means more middlemen mediating people's access to their own tools.
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by Gormo 3mo ago
Security is also increasingly being used as a pretext for usurpation of end-user control over their own devices, which the situation in this very article seems to be a case of. The industry, and society at large, are today overrun with fidu
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by Gormo 3mo ago
If keyboards did have keys for ASCII delimiters, people would start using them for a variety of purposes, and they'd start showing up in data streams, leading to the same issues we face with the typable delimiter characters we currentl
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by Gormo 3mo ago
> While I do use old.reddit and genuinely think it's better UI-wise, in the general case users tend to be resistant to any UI change because it breaks their habits and muscle memory. It's funny how often people say "it&#x2
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by Gormo 3mo ago
> By design there is no separation between control & data channels in LLMs. No? MCP integrations are certainly different channels than the prompt stream input by the user. They're usually interface layers that connect to tradi
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by Gormo 3mo ago
> After your post I reviewed the first page of your comment history and I was pretty sure I knew where you would stand on this issue. Yes, that seems reasonable. I try to root my positions in a baseline understanding of reality and a co
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by Gormo 3mo ago
Well, it's not so much a "rhetorical fishing expedition" as much as I just initially gave you the benefit of the doubt, and didn't assume you were aiming to divert the thread into a platform for inane propaganda. Sadly,
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by Gormo 3mo ago
It's not possible for any of these to be "basic human rights", regardless of what rhetoric may be employed by states seeking to assert centralized political control over their provision. Goods and services that must be acti
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by Gormo 3mo ago
It's not a coincidence that the three sectors you mention are the three most heavily regulated and subject to political intervention in the US, all with schizophrenic policy frameworks that simultaneously restrict supply and subsidize
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by Gormo 3mo ago
Until what problem goes away? What are you talking about?
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by Gormo 3mo ago
In fact, there is no relationship whatsoever between these considerations.
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by Gormo 3mo ago
Apart from the fish being visible inside the pelican's mouth.
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by Gormo 3mo ago
Culture does not exist in a vacuum -- it's downstream of fundamental human motivations that are manifest in all times and places. And using "culture" as a general concept to dismiss concerns about specific behavior, without a
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by Gormo 3mo ago
How does releasing open weight models to FOSS communities help capture market share for subscription-based cloud services?
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by Gormo 4mo ago
> Chinese models first of all can be hosted on your own hardware, I'd argue they are way more transparent than US companies, by well releasing stuff. US-based companies release open-source models too. Gemma and Granite, for example
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by Gormo 4mo ago
What about the formatting seems indicative of AI generation? It just looks like normal long-form writing to me.
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by Gormo 4mo ago
"Welcome to our ool. Notice that there is no 'P' in it. Please keep it that way."
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by Gormo 4mo ago
Maybe the ice cream was just that good , and GAP was lucky to be able to sell their polo shirts to ice cream enthusiasts who'd otherwise have bought them at Old Navy.
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by Gormo 4mo ago
> Wrong answer. The ice cream and chocolate store was in competition with every other store in the mall. Time or money spent at the GAP can't be time or money spent here. Was the interviewer a macroeconomics grad student working his

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