KaiserPro

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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
> It is more cost efficient Depends. Getting a grid connection, and all the equipment to connect and step down with negotiating prices is not always fun. Especially as there is a limited amount of power on the grid. its not a free lunch
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
Why would you want to use HTTPX2 over say requests?
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
because its over QUIC, which is different enough to be a pain. Not that there is anything wrong with QUIC, at least its built by someone who knows what they are doing, unlike HTTP2
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
> Stripe is reportedly valued at $159B But that value is not tested or backed by the wider market. Market cap of paypal is. Also having just spaffed "$8bn" on openrouter, I would be surprised that they have enough resources to
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
and how much would that cost vs the chance of it working?
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
> America defaults to free I mean does it? even if you do freedom as in freedom of speech it seems somewhat diminished. > there was a good chance of losing now that is a good question. When a large multi-national corp offers you ~4% o
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
Very much this. My kid's nursery gave out books from Dolly. It was a little ceremony, my kid loved it. We still have them. But I was really surprised, I thought it was joke, why would Dolly care about my Kid's reading? but she rea
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
> Well Sam Altman finally has built a moat against Chinese open weight AI Hes got a press release. The issue is, baking something to silicon requires discipline and about 2 years. This isn't something you can just change your mind o
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
Can you help an old man understand? This sounds like a kafka-like streaming system, but backed onto s3-objects? Doesn't this mean that write performance is going to be bad?
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by KaiserPro 1mo ago
My wife bought a kobo as it allows her to use the local libraries ebook collection, rather than spending hundreds of pounds at amazon for the kindle. It was starting to die and had screenglitches. After a bit of debug, it turns out that hac
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> if your cat bites someone no one is responsible. I had to double take there. Its because of the dangerous dogs act. However there appears to be a nuance that if your cat is know to be a bitey little shit, and you let it out to into a s
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
You are. Unless its a company, then your company is, and then you are to your company. However that assumes a) common law and b) the company you work for isn't worth >20billion.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> If you look into what happened the details corroborated by hugging face make it seem extremely unlike to be deliberate or a "marketing ploy". I should clarify There is a reason why we didn't have a artifact readthrough c
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
These are all valid questions but: > Depends on how many more accidents worse-gripping tires cause The US has an unusually high number of road deaths: https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/media/releases/2016
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
for reliability, sure, for fraud, also. But making sure that tourists don't pay a 3% charge, and/or can't do p2p? naaa. thats deliberate. tourists are rich, generally, and can be a rich source of money laundering options.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Sadly I'm not privy to the internal workings, they are due to report in the new year (got knows how much this is going to cost) I have a steer that people, process and services are all in scope, but again thats vague-as-a-service™
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
I wish. My company is "AI native" in the sense that even though we are not a tech company we are using it heavily to build a bunch of tech that makes us more efficient. Think building better SaaS products around our actual process
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
I used to work at a "frontier lab" before they were called such thing. We had three levels of lab isolation, one was basically a thin proxy to the internet. You were in a DMZ and that was about it. The next level was semi isolated
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Yes, but also no. A longer argument can be put here: https://www.secretbatcave.co.uk/software/we-need-to-talk-abo... Its perfectly possible that AR glasses could be _more_ privacy preserving than mobile phones. THe pro
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Technically quite a big difference. I'm not sure what part of meta delevoped that, I can't find those names in linkedin. I vaguely recognise one name but can't be sure about it. In meta, there are a number of research teams,
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Ok I get that, but 9 million people a year is less than 0.1% of the population. so they wouldn’t even show up in p99 stats.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
I've used github for ~12 years, and it was fine for single repos, but it sucked _hard_ for any kind of organisation. It also sucked really hard for CI. I joined a company that was using hosted gitlab. I really liked it, apart from it h
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
I mean this sounds like an edgecase, which is good tradeoff for the ~billion of people who this system is designed for. Essentially UPI was there to stop the industrial fraud and money laundering that was going on india. I have not actually
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
I mean I get your point, but sadly LLMs are a tool by which humans communicate. In the same way that handwriting conveys more information about the writer than type, typing ones own thoughts conveys more information about the writer than pr
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> Neither can I recall there has ever been a moveable type press, Ah my friend, you are about to fall down a rabbit hole into standardisation of spelling, and the sometimes deadly debates about how to translate latin into the vernacular.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Essentially yes. Flac takes a raw .wav and effectively zips it up to shave off a certain amount of space. (there are nuances, I think the compression scheme is designed for streaming.) mp3 is perceptual, so throws away the stuff that humans
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> affects their own word choice. exactly. in the same way that printed books affected word choice, so did the radio.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
wait what? but proof reading is a linter, not a writer. the proof reader will say "I think this is clumsy can you try x,y & z"
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> People get angry about DRM schemes Yes but thats a thing that degrades something in a catastrophic way, as in I can use the thing one day, and not the next. A different randomisation system on something that is a text generator which
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
I mean this is the thing that really comes off hard. If you want precision and clarity of your writing, then you need to hand write it. Just like when you are optimising, its common to drop to a lower level language because the compiler d

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