Quarrel

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by Quarrel 9d ago
and I thought I was old.. My Dad worked for Honeywell in the 70s, in Australia. tbh, I just google'd them and they're still in the Nasdaq-100, 100k employees .. damn. I'm not sure of when I last heard of them. I still think o
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by Quarrel 26d ago
What are they? Are there papers on this?
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by Quarrel 27d ago
I was amazed equatorial / tropical glaciers are much of a thing. A sad search later: "projected to vanish entirely in late 2026 or 2027" They're at 4600m in elevation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by Quarrel 1mo ago
FWIW, I quite enjoyed this write up of it, and the state of AI investment at the moment. It doesn't entirely dwell on the blowup, but I found it worth the read: https://xcancel.com/porterstansb/status/20836062
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by Quarrel 2mo ago
It would be about as bad, although nothing, AFAIK, actually systematically sends it as telemetry. This GDID is essentially a similar concept though, but not as hardware tied, but is reported in telemetry.
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by Quarrel 2mo ago
FWIW, YogaDNS stops these bypasses if you tick a settings box ("Block plain DNS over TCP from System Resolver"). Or use similar DNS forcing techniques against port 53. Windows falls back to the normal resolver in that case.
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by Quarrel 2mo ago
Indeed, I think this is the correct take. If they'd done their VPN/dirty work in a linux VM/container, with the VPN running in that, they'd have been fine. Clean-them would have had their GDID on their normal ISP IP or e
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
They took the slavery / serf distinction seriously in the Slavic world. While the distinctions might have mattered in the 1800s, by any modern-slavery standard the serfs were slaves, as you rightly say. Whatever we might now think with
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
FWIW I think Acemoglu writes very well & I loved his book "Why Nations Fail" for introducing lots of interesting ideas to me, while also helping me understand my own (non-failed) society better.
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
conductor.build is Mac only ..
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
and, as the articles points out, it is literally out of copyright. For profit journals need to die.
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
The earliest Roman records of Slavs are of the Veneti, who lived in roughly western Ukraine, Belarus, south-east Poland. Very much in Europe. Then, like now, they were the people east of the German speakers.
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
TFA: npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/report.html" --password "your-password" --json npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/report.html" --no-password --json # remove
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
Ah, thanks, yeah, I just looked it up. I had no idea.
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
Mistral have moved to actually trying to make money, and been relatively successful; at least if we lived in a normal world. They've got a heap of contractors working to help industry adopt LLMs. It is just classic consulting work, and
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
Everytime I see people talking about the length of their coastlines ... Look at how long this edge of my fractal is, Ma!
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
err? afaik Bellard never had any beef with Burger Becky. Both are legendary programmers, but somewhat different eras. I have no idea what you're suggesting.
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
I basically was ready to come on and make a snarky comment like this. "I wrote one in the '90s!". and then I saw the examples, and the feature set. I particularly like the blender-to-Luz export. It seems great. Good luck to O
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
how are you sourcing your proxies? the vast majority seems to be pretty unethical, and many of those that aren't overtly so, seem to not always be nice. There are decent reasons people want to KYC residential proxy users ...
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by Quarrel 3mo ago
Of course it can. They can license the code for use under almost any terms they like, including restricting how you use the code. The GPL imposes conditions on your use of the code / program, as does the MIT License. If you don't
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
> The Chinese models are censored (too?). This is MUCH less of an issue if they're providing the weights though. They can still be fine-tuned & ablated.
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
Which is quite the contrast to Mercedes new axial flux electric motor, which goes all in on rare earths- the design relies on the highest end high-grade permanent magnets. Still, presumably Mercedes ambitions are for few motors than BMW or
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
I'm a Terence Tao fan, but yes, OpenAI should at the very least just be telling him to go crazy with the latest models on our dime.
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
I liked this article because it helped me understand the javacript engine flow better than I had. The rust flow is so much more natural to me.
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
I moved to the UK in 2016. The public sector, simple, no frills, accessible, no flashy graphics, websites were a massive eye-opener. They just worked. They had a job. They did it. I wasn't going to buy more from them because of it, and
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
Damnit. No WFH option.
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
> 3. AI Companies will be profitable but many of the current crop will never return money to investors. I largely agree with you, but the huge investments currently being made will be very hard to get a return on. Token costs will come d
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
Thanks very much for this- I had not seen it. It does not paint a pretty picture, and I did not know this context. Perhap the tridge I knew is also of the past, but I hope not.
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
But DID anything change? Of course I know that some people can just becoming psychotic out of nowhere. But why would I assume it?
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by Quarrel 4mo ago
wtf is this comment section? The author of these commits were tridge & claude. What does tridge have to do to convince the open source community that he might be a legit programmer & have a clue? Samba? Whats that? Rsync? Never hear

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