MrThoughtful

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by MrThoughtful 2y ago
I dislike the bundling of hardware and software alltogether. In the world of laptops, we have a wonderful situation. I can select the hardware that I like, then wipe the whole disk and install the software I like. Which in my case is a Linu
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by MrThoughtful 2y ago
Hmm... 1.98 pounds for a 12.5 inch tablet. I was hoping for something more lightweight. The is new iPads are 1.3 pounds at 13 inch.
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by MrThoughtful 2y ago
I have not seen any reports about plain Debian running on the PineTab. Only Mobian, which is not what I am looking for.
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by MrThoughtful 2y ago
Talking about open hardware: Is there a tablet out there which runs Debian or Ubuntu? I don't mean it has to come with Linux in the first place. I can wipe Windows or whatever it comes with and install Debian myself. When I google arou
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Ask HN: Is there still a usecase for rdiff-backup in the times of Git?
2 points by MrThoughtful 2y ago|1 comments
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by MrThoughtful 2y ago
In the end this whole debate will come down to the question if a new law should be introduced. Something like "learnright", similar to todays "copyright". "learnright" would give the exclusive right to learn fr
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by MrThoughtful 2y ago
How hard would it be to create a "raw" model on a corpus like Hacker News or Wikipedia? With "raw", I mean that it is simply trained to predict the next token and nothing else. Would be fun to play with such a model.
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by MrThoughtful 2y ago
Do you really have to "disable" it to get rid of it? I can't remember when I dabbled with a swap partition for the last time. Now that I saw this post, I ran "swapon -s" on my laptop and on my servers. It comes back
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
What on earth is this about? "I was recommended ... Liber3 ..., which uses ENS domain names ... running on ENS and IPFS ... they appear to be using Glitter ... a ... service built with Tendermint." This sounds like a signal from o
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
I thought the finance industry is highly regulated? Can a company really "hold any funds in your account for up to 180 days" just willy-nilly? And what does this mean: Fun bonus, they hold $80,000 I won't get back. H
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
So many questions ... They publish the code to train on your own music, but not the weights of their model? So you cannot just upload this thing to some EC2 instance and start creating your own music, correct? Is this the same as https:&#x
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
I have an AWS account. Is there a type of EC2 instance I can fire up and run this thing on?
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
An LLM remembers like a human. Mostly concepts, but some things it remembers verbatim. Why is it a problem if a LLM tells you what it knows? Are LLMs trained on secret data?
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
Looks like mg noticed us: https://twitter.com/marekgibney/status/1730500804920955269
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
I think software was vastly underrated in 2007. Google also more than 10xed since then. Amazon is up 50x or so. Not sure what the other popular software companies were in 2007. Would be interesting to look at their performance. The type of
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Microsoft Is Dead (2007)(paulgraham.com)
4 points by MrThoughtful 3y ago|3 comments
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
It is hard to say how many users federeated systems have. Bluesky is an interesting exception as so far there is only one server (bsky.app). According to Similarweb, bsky.app has 5 times more users than truthsocial.com
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
Restaurants are great places of adventure where very different types of people come together. Please don't harm these oasis of diversity by telling people what to do :) It would make the world such a boring place. I think visiting rest
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
What makes you visit a Michelin star restaurant? When the first startup I founded took off, I tried some of the more expensive restaurants in my town. I kinda liked the experience. But after a short while, it tapered off and I do not get an
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
That could very well be. On the other hand, I feel like others are missing out on those moments where one of my friends calls and says "Hey I'm in this and that part of the city and I'm hungry. What do you do?". And I&#x
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
Are there others like me, who never reserve a table at a restaurant? I find it much more fun to meet friends at a restaurant without a reservation. Less obligation to follow through. If one of us has a last minute idea to do something els
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
This article has no information about the deal at all. Was it upvoted 14 times because others hoped for someone to read it and post the terms of the deal in a comment? If so: Here is the answer. The terms are not in the article :) So, as fa
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
How many of the general public wouldn't just choose Google if shown a list to choose a search engine? I start each of my searches with such a list: https://www.gnod.com/search/ And I rarely c
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
The "context window" is the number of inputs the neural net has, right? Aka the size of the input layer? If so, why call it "context window" and not just "input size" or "number of inputs"?
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
Great! I guess it is for the "best lesser known websites"? Because Google is certainly one of the best websites on the web, but I have the feeling it would be out of scope. My top 10 favorite lesser known websites: https:/&#
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
If I understand it correctly, this is postprocessing software? Why is it called "camera" and tied to the iPhone? Shouldn't this be a website where you upload a photo, adjust it, and then download it again?
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
the blog post you’re reading right now was probably loaded over HTTP/3! This made me curious. In the Firefox console, when I enable "raw" for the request headers, I see: GET /2023/09/25&#x2F
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
Errors out on both, Firefox and Chromium here: Firefox: "Your browser does not support WebGPU" Chromium: Hangs on "Loading" and the console is spilled with errors. The first one being "panicked at 'Failed to fi
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
Musk made Twitter feel like those encyclopedias before Wikipedia came around. I would have to become a member of a club to be able to read what people write. Even as a member of that club, I would have to pay to be able to write more than 2
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by MrThoughtful 3y ago
What LLMs do for me is that they make me a pro in every programming language. "How do I do x in language y" always gives me the knowledge I need. Within seconds, I can continue coding. After more than 10 years of coding fulltime,

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