MatthiasPortzel

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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
Upvoting not for the surprising fact that North Dakota has great gigabit fiber.
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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
I occasionally use ChatGTP and I strongly object to the court forcing the collection of my data, in a lawsuit I am not named in, due merely to the possibility of copyright infringement. If I’m interested in petitioning the court to keep my
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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
Yep. I heard someone at Microsoft venting about management constantly pleading with them to use AI so that they could tell investors their employees love AI, while senior (7+ year) team members were being “randomly” fired.
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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
> Does rollback introduce any performance overhead that would skew my results? I would expect it to be the other way around—since the transactions are rolled back and not committed, they would have significantly less performance impact.
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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
> The remedy order should also prevent Google from entering into exclusive agreements to access AI training data… Google, for example, bought exclusive access to Reddit's data. No one else can train on Reddit unless you have more
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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
This requirement is the result of EU regulation.
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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
> someone who doesn’t know or care how a system works shouldn’t be prescribing what to do to make it secure The part that’s not said outloud is that a lot of “computer security” people aren’t concerned with understanding the system. If t
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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
Yes, this is only a replacement for the Homebrew CLI. It doesn’t have its own package repository and moreover it doesn’t have the ability to build packages (yet)—it’s just downloading and installing the binaries built by Homebrew.
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by MatthiasPortzel 1y ago
> I want Weird to be my digital ‘soul pod’. It’s the digitized me; the source from which all of my other digital being springs forth. I recommend working on your elevator pitch, because while strangely eloquent, that is utterly incompreh
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
It's crazy that this post seems to have stumbled across an equivalent to the Copy-and-Patch technique[0] used to create a Lua interpreter faster than LuaJit[1] [0]: https://sillycross.github.io/2023/05/12&#x2F
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
The claim is that these models are training on data which include the problems and explanations. The fact that the first model trained after the public release of the questions (and crowdsourced answers) performs best is not a counter examp
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
I am firm believer in the right to free speech and the importance of expressing ideas that are contrary to the general cultural attitude. That’s why I turn on the Show Dead setting on HN, and I love that HN has that feature. Save your upvot
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
`binding.irb` and `show_source` have been magical in my Ruby debugging experience. `binding.irb` to trigger a breakpoint, and `show_source` will find the source code for a method name, even in generated code somehow.
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
Slightly unrelated, but I once used Apple’s built-in OCR feature LiveText to copy a short string out of an image. It appeared to work, but I later realized it had copied “M” as U+041C (Cyrillic Capital Letter Em), causing a regex to fail to
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
Apple debuted dedicated machine learning hardware in 2017 with the Neural Engine on iPhones. While I don’t think they predicted the LLM explosion in particular, they knew machine learning was important and they have been allowing that to in
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
> I really struggle to understand what legal team believes this language is necessary in downloaded software. Exactly. Even if nothing is changing at Mozilla, their legal team has invented a new interpretation of copyright law. That’s
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
> I still won't run my own ad-blocker for this reason. I maintained an extension for a public website for a couple years. (It did things like, for example, adding information that was available in the API to the page, for power user
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
Also worth pointing out, Qt versions are supported for 6 months before EOL, unless you purchase enterprise support.
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
These two comments stand out to me as inappropriate (directed at OBS). > keeping up with runtime updates is one of the most basic expectations of a maintainer, and I suspect it's a sign there may be other problems as well. > I wo
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
Why not just ignore the bots? I have a Linode VPS, cheapest tier, and I get 1TB of network transfer a month. The bots that you're concerned about use a tiny fraction of that (<1%). I'm not behind a CDN and I've never put e
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
> Stashes are more like commits — they even appear in the reflog! But they also aren't real commits either, in the sense that you can't check them out, or rebase them, or manipulate them directly. They are real commits, you can
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The Tower of Terror: A Bug Mystery (2019)(medium.com)
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
I'm a pretty big fan of Zig--I've been following it and writing it on-and-off for a couple of years. I think that comptime has a couple of use-cases where it is very cool. Generics, initializing complex data-structures at compile-
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
Cookie Clicker has received updates almost continuously for the last decade. I don’t have the commitment to ascend but I understand there’s quite a bit of content to be unlocked there even after you’ve maxed out your first “run.”
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
Andrew’s point is that marking the memory as volatile should prevent this optimization. (i.e. the compiler isn’t allowed to split a 16-bit volatile write into two 8-but writes.) This is idiomatic because volatile is intended for MMIO. There
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
I agree with the initial two bullet points. The git data structures are good, the git CLI is bad. However, the issue with these attempts to create a user-friendly wrapper over the git data-structures, is that that’s what the git CLI already
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
It can also be a result of the XY problem. Person wants to do Y, they imagine a software that does part of the hardest parts of Y (call that part X), and they commission software that does X. They then commission a ton of other small parts
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
They acted on these words, updating their HTTP server to serve just \n. => https://sqlite.org/althttpd/info/8d917cb10df3ad28 Send bare \n instead of \r\n for all HTTP reply headers. While browser aren't ef
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
Cloudflare isn't even that big. They're 1/100th the size of Google or MS. They're not even the biggest CDN—Akamai has twice the revenue, but it depends on what you measure. Cloudflare gets brought up disproportionately o
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by MatthiasPortzel 2y ago
Why the title change?

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